oldviolin wrote:

i adore that song. in the song comments on RP, i read some really interesting stuff about the title, etc. IIRC. i'd have to go back to double check myself, but i seem to remember that. very interesting. was/is one of my very favorites by him solo.

 black321 wrote:

I thought it was about hot moments and motor oil. 
He couldn't call it Long Log or Large Log. Just doesn't sound right. Extensive Log? Great Log? I can't say. 
Maybe Flight Log. Both heavy and light. Like subtle archetypes. 
That guitar tone is like a golden ribbon. I bought this album new...

 oldviolin wrote:

Song title and video, which was directed by Storm Thorgerson, had little to do with each other.
Big log was written in the winter when logs had run out, and only thing left was a large tree/big log, which they couldnt cut but fed into the fire. 
Great song/video...loved that clean guitar tone Robbie Blunt had in those early Plant albums. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Yes I'm Vaguebooking but today's his birthday too! Not Jimmie Rodgers, but the guy who's in the jailhouse now. 

 Steely_D wrote:

yes, in a micro-dosing kind-of-way