Yeah, I went back and listened to it and its definitely "Keep A Knockin'." The reason I thought it was "Rip It Up" is I remember reading an interview with Page a long long time ago and he was talking about "Rock And Roll" and said something to the effect of "Then Bonham started playing around with the 'Rip It Up' thing..." But I guess I remembered it wrong, he must have said "Keep A Knockin." For the life of me I've always remembered it as "Rip it Up." Magic Sam, that's probably the same intereview you're remembering, about Bonham improvising around a LR song.

Just purchased Amazing Journey with the extra 79' show in Chicago. Hmmm...s'ok. 80% of the live footage can be seen in The Kids Are Alright, I was expecting so much more than that, but the interviews were nice. I was most impressed however with the footage of "The High Numbers" from '64. Abso-fucking-lutley AMAZING! Unbelievable that that's what they sounded like in '64. If I were in a band currently I would KILL to get that sound! Moon was not human, from another planet. Its just mind-blowing to me that that footage is from '64. And that whole short film is just great, with those *mostly* deadpan mods, that whole party, reminds of the party scene from the Quadrophenia film. I Love The Who. One thing that Amazing Journey does is show that hands down they were probably the best live band of their time, their frenetic chaotic energy is just unmatched by anyone, imo. I've always maintained that if you reeled in the energy of The Who live (with Moon) and focused it you'd have Led Zeppelin. And consequently if you unbound the energy of Zep live and let it spin off in four directions you have The Who. Love 'em both dearly.

Just to interject a relatively meaningless fact here... If I'm not mistaken, and its been quite a few years since I've listened to Little Richard with any regularity, but I think the opening drum to "Rock And Roll" is actually lifted from Richard's "Rip It Up" and not "Keep A-Knocking." That was a great dissection, Sam.

HA! I've been saying this for years! That's classic, Magic Sam. You mind if I use that for my sig line? Provided I give you fair credit, of course.

Three years ago, with my son Nick. My hair's grown out long again since then, I'm back to my rocker look these days. About to cut it all off again.

Head is genius. At one point they were toying with the idea of making a sequel, with the tagline "From the people who gave you Head." Loved them way back when. When I was a kid in the mid 70s I would actually try and snyc up the songs on my record player with the ones on the show while they were playing. Drove my dad NUTS! Fave songs would be "Can You Dig It?" "The Porpoise Song" "Your Auntie Grizelda" "Pleasant Valley Sunday" "Mary Mary" "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" "Sometime In The Morning"