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[Midnight Toker]

My evening had been this (my copy, just sharing the youtube of it)



recorded in the first month or 2 of my life in March / April 1968

What a great sounding set that is!! And so very needed considering that the original surreptitiously released, and quickly recalled (yet still bootlegged en masse) was a fly by night production....complete with dubbed in bullfighting arena crowd noise!!


This set is just so so SO very good compared to what was previously available from that legendary Anderson Theater show!! (btw, one of LTG'd members attended that show!! (lucky %&*^!!!)

 

[Guildedagain]

I fairly agree with the #1 spot.

 

[Guildedagain]

After listening to a bit of Zeppelin over the last few days, I can hear a lot of it in my head, which is good.

Last night, I got up in the middle of the night, the kitty hadn't come in from her evening let out, and this gives me anxiety. So, I got a nightrobe on, and a big torch light, went out looking around the yard, calling for her, and she eventually appeared, and reluctantly followed me back to the house.

I sat on the bed for a while, hearing No Quarter in my head, and eventually gave in, grabbed a guitar, the S-50 that I had out yesterday with a broken high E string - needs a restring, maybe today, haven't restrung a guitar in way too long - and I played No Quarter, followed up by a healthy dose of Whole Lotta Love riffing, followed up by The Lemon Song, and I felt better, ready for sleep again.

All played so softly wife's snoring never changed a bit, but at least I got the Led out ;[]

 

[adorshki]

My evening had been this (my copy, just sharing the youtube of it)



recorded in the first month or 2 of my life in March / April 1968

'at one's maggers.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I fairly agree with the #1 spot.

The Who at 13? That's an outrage.

 

[James Hart]

The Who at 13? That's an outrage.

The Who and Black Sabbath both need in the top 10

 

[Midnight Toker]

The Who and Black Sabbath both need in the top 10

Agree, but to be honest, both sort of did themselves a disservice by becoming somewhat caricatures of themselves. Despite all the crazy huge payday figures offered to Zep’s members to do a reunion tour, the lone holdout Robert Plant was absolutely right in refusing to water down their legacy by only being able to do very safe tuned down over-rehearsed repetitious covers of their youth. Honestly, only John Paul Jones would have been up to the task of performing at Zep’s peak level.

 

[Guildedagain]

That's the beauty of "dying before you get old", like Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, etc, they will be forever young.

Look at AC/DC, watching Malcolm get that bad was hard.

Mitch Mitchell on his last tour is another good/bad example.

 

[Guildedagain]

lone holdout Robert Plant

I couldn't believe it when - our - small town maverick Myles Kennedy was "offered the gig". I knew Miles when he was a stringy haired 16 year old teaching guitar at Rock City Music, and while he made it big, it just seemed so wrong, was quite relieved it didn't happen.

 

[walrus]

Kudos to Robert Plant, who much like Paul McCartney, developed his own unique solo sound and had a very successful solo career. Given the bands they left, that couldn't have been that easy.

 

[Guildedagain]

What I saw with Plant, was how much bandmates want to sound like Zeppelin, not necessarily a bad thing, but a bit predictable.

He has had an amazing career.

 

[James Hart]

What I saw with Plant, was how much bandmates want to sound like Zeppelin, not necessarily a bad thing, but a bit predictable.

He has had an amazing career.

I love Jimmy Page, but prefer Robert's voice with Robbie Blunt on guitar. He has some of my favorite tones and phrasings.

 

[Guildedagain]

I'll have to check that out.

 

[James Hart]

This was the first one I heard back in 1982 when it dropped as a single on rock radio.


This one is probably in my top 25 songs of all time... Robbie's tone just kills here to me!


Robbie Blunt played on and co-wrote most of the first 3 Plant solo releases.


Phil Collins was the drummer on the first 2, Cozy Powell on a couple tracks like the last one I added.

Maybe it resonates with me because I was starting High School when his solo career took off, Bonzo died after I started playing bass, but I was only 12!

 

[adorshki]

I fairly agree with the #1 spot.

Clash and Oasis and no Yardbirds? Sacrilege. Besides which Blur outclassed Oasis so bad it's pitiful.
And none of those wannabes had to put up with Mickie Most either.

Speaking of Mr. Most (whose machinations were on a par with Hendrix/Animals manager Mike Jeffery), and in the grand tradition of the forum veer to a topic of tangential relevance to the OP, it should be remembered that Most also managed Donovan and used Page and Jones extensively as session men for his records from '65-66, even brought in Jeff Beck for Donovan's Atlantis album.

And JP Jones did the arranging and added the celeste touch at the end of Herman Hermits' "No Milk Today". (!) (Most-produced)

But perhaps my favorite from the era is:


Wonder if that's "the Tele"?

One can just imagine Page vs. Most while making Little Games.

 

[adorshki]

Phil Collins was the drummer on the first 2, Cozy Powell on a couple tracks like the last one I added.

Maybe it resonates with me because I was starting High School when his solo career took off, Bonzo died after I started playing bass, but I was only 12!

Cozy was with Jeff Beck Group for Rough and Ready and The Jeff Beck Group (the "Orange" or "Going Down" album, '72)

 

[James Hart]

Cozy was with Jeff Beck Group for Rough and Ready and The Jeff Beck Group (the "Orange" or "Going Down" album, '72)

Yes, he has played on a bit of my music collection. He was also on a mostly unknown album with Glenn Tipton on guitar and vocals... and John Entwistle on bass. It was released as a tribute after Cozy and John passed and was left over tracks from when they both contributed to Glenn's solo album in the 90s.

 

[Midnight Toker]

This was the first one I heard back in 1982 when it dropped as a single on rock radio.


This one is probably in my top 25 songs of all time... Robbie's tone just kills here to me!


Robbie Blunt played on and co-wrote most of the first 3 Plant solo releases.


Phil Collins was the drummer on the first 2, Cozy Powell on a couple tracks like the last one I added.

Maybe it resonates with me because I was starting High School when his solo career took off, Bonzo died after I started playing bass, but I was only 12!

I still clearly remember in late 81, the rumor mill was in full force of Zep coming back w/ Cozy, as he and Plant were spotted together in a small town in Wales near Rockfield Studios.

 

[Guildedagain]

Getting the Led out again, today it's Dazed and Confused. I can never get enough of playing this.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Rare footage of Led Zeppelin performing at the Fillmore East in 1969 was released online - Led Zeppelin News

Rare footage of Led Zeppelin performing at the Fillmore East in New York on January 31, 1969 was released online by LedZepFilm. The footage was shot by Jim Murdock who recalls attending the evening’s late...

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A few snippets of never before seen Jan 69 Fillmore East footage was put online recently.