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mickey g

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  1. Cool...I was at the June14 Nassau Coliseum show. Had seats about 20 rows back, dead center on the floor & really don't remember much from the show. Me & a buddy slept out on the steps going under the Coliseum the night before tix went on sale. We got 10 tix; center ice, about 25-30 rows off the floor if you were at a hockey game. The next day, my Mom asked me where I was all night. I told her & she said she worked with someone that worked at the Coliseum box office at night. A day or so later, she gives me two tix on the floor. Too bad for my buddy, I had just started dating this chick & what better to impress a hippie chick in 1972 than floor seats to a Zeppelin concert ! Thanks, man ! ! !
  2. The greatest concert, ever, in the history of concerts...
  3. Okay, I will 😁 I had seen the Free open for Blind Faith at MSG, & ELP recently headline at the Fillmore East. On the way to the Free show I was telling a buddy, who was lead vocal in a band, how Paul Rogers would swing the mike cord around stage like Roger Daltrey. On the way to ELP, was telling the gang how Keith Emerson will jump on top of his organ & rock it across the stage...Neither of which happened at the Carnegie Hall shows. LOL ETA: It may have been the knife thing with Keith Emerson, where he jabs the Bowie knives into the organ keys. Memory is foggy đŸ˜”
  4. They missed a couple, drowan: The Free - January 25, 1971 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - May 26, 1971 ...pretty good shows, too. 😁
  5. We were still teenagers, first LZ concert, sat so close to them, thought Jimmy Page was God, and got stoned AF on a pin joint...pretty much the best concert ever for this boy.
  6. Yeah, this is like Holy Grail nice. Thanks 71 ! I just spent like 15 minutes trying to stop the action at a spot between 2 & 3 seconds when a flash goes off & you can see the crowd behind Jimmy. A buddy & I were sitting in the 2nd row behind the stage on his side. All the faces were pretty blurry & everybody & their brother had long hair, so...anyway, I've been waiting 50 years for something like this to surface. Thanks again !
  7. Hopefully, Ozzie will insist that Clapton use a Gibson with humbuckers & a Marshall...
  8. Oh, that's great Steve ! I went to that show with my younger sister. I remember her saying that it sounded better than LZ at MSG. I told her "yeah, well it's twenty something years later & there's like twice as many guys on stage now" Anyway, it was an awesome show & am looking forward to you posting it. Your work is outstanding !
  9. Good job, man ! Me & a buddy did an all nighter at Nassau Coliseum for the 1972 shows. Didn't get any of the cool swag you got, but we did score pretty decent seats !
  10. Was reading that Les Paul Forum thread & someone said he then brought it to a luthier & when he got it back & played it, the same thing happened, he was so dissatisfied with how it played.
  11. Thanks, man. I wonder where that axe is these days ? ETA: https://www.lespaulforum.com/index.php?threads/jeff-becks-yardbird-burst.177135/
  12. Don't recall seeing Jimmy ever playing this LP. I assume it was one of Jeff Beck's ? h/t Michael Lazarus Scott
  13. Not really. My younger sister was/is deep into all of that mystic stuff. I used to get detailed explanations of everything Jimmy from her; what all the symbols on the Dragon Suit meant, the rotating triangle during the bow section of Dazed & tons of other stuff I've forgotten about. I mean, it all was very interesting at the time, but I didn't know shit about LZ when LZ 1 came out other than Jimmy Page was in the Yardbirds. Being a Cream fan, it was the heaviness of the music & originality of Plants voice that drew me.
  14. I was in a couple CD clubs back in the 90s & remember purchasing this one. The only song I really remember is Dancing Days by STP.
  15. Hi Steve. I was just listening to a Youtube 9/19/1970 evening show that I was at & popped over here to share it on this 50th Anny, & decided to give your efforts a listen. WOW. I mean, I used to think that 9/19/70 show was fairly listenable, but after hearing yours, it sounds like it was recorded on a dictation recorder...which I've done; Bowie at MSG in 1974. If you're still sending the link, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks, man.
  16. Same show as I was listening & seeing 50 years ago to the minute. Sat two rows behind the stage, between Page's amps & Bonzo's gong. Best. Concert. Ever.
  17. Jimmy Page from Guitar World June 2014: A debate has raged for many years on what electric guitars were used on the first album. It’s hard for people to believe, but I just used my Fender Telecaster for the entire album, except for one track. Somebody was trying to sell me a Gibson Flying V at the time. I don’t what made them think I could afford it, because I clearly couldn’t, but I asked them if I could just try it out. I brought it into Olympic and used it on “You Shook Me.” With those big humbuckers, it was so powerful you can hear it breaking up the amp in the middle of the song. I could’ve tidied it up, but I really liked hearing the amp really struggle to get the sound out. It’s really fighting through the electronics to get out of that speaker. I’m not sure what happened to the guitar. It might’ve found its way to Keith Richards or something, but I really don’t know.
  18. Not really. After thinking about it, I seem to recall thinking that Side 1 had two "heavy" songs & two "acoustic" songs. My thinking this at the time revolves around the many rumors in the months before LZIII was released, that Led Zeppelin was going "acoustic". So, that's how I gauged LZIV. Nowadays, I'd have a hard time choosing between the Stairway solo & the studio Dazed & Confused solo as my favorite. I guess it would depend on my mood at the time.
  19. It's been almost 50 years, but I remember when HHWCID was released. My friend worked in Record World at the time & I think he also got a hold of a copy Live on Blueberry Hill around the same time. I had an 8-track recorder at the time & he hated the "bassy" tone of prerecorded 8-tracks, so he'd buy the LPs, 45s import EPs etc & have me record them. Anyway, I remember LZII as being the hardest to get a hold of at the time. I guess they just didn't expect the rush to purchase it & didn't produce accordingly for initial release. LZIII, everyone expected it to be "acoustic" because of all the rumors flying around all Summer 1970. When LZIV came out, my buddy rushed over to record it during his lunch break from the store. We played Black Dog & R'n'R & nodded our heads in appreciation. As soon as we heard the first few notes of The Battle of Evermore, I looked at my friend & he just said "Uh oh !" thinking "here we go with the acoustic shit again" Can't say as I remember what our reaction was to Stairway's intro. LOL.
  20. You are welcome, annie !
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