Wish I'd Been There: Zep: 1/9/1970 - Smoking show and I'd be able to relive it on DVD, too. Reading Festival 1980: Rory Gallagher, Di'Anno-era Maiden and a bunch of other NWOBHM bands. Relive: Page and Plant, Boston 7/13/98 - Best concert I've ever been to.

Sorry about your brother. I don't think anyone here is going to be able to help you get approval from the band for the company that's doing your seats to put the Zep symbols on them. However, it is possible to get the symbols on stickers from a number of sellers on eBay, which you could put on the inside front passenger window of your wrangler. That may not be what you were hoping for, but you'll see them whenever you're in the vehicle next to the seat where you're brother would be sitting if he were still here. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about:

You can try contacting an auction house. Bonham's is well known and does rock music auctions. Here's the page where you submit info and images of your items for them to evaluate. https://sell.bonhams.com/ Or you can just list them on eBay and let the market tell you what they're worth. That is probably going to be the quickest way to sell your Dad's things, because auction houses have sales on set days and if you miss one of them you may have to wait months for the next one.

Thanks. I just sent you a message with the link.

The Distortionists Ghost Forest

I bought a top of the line backpack leaf blower. We had a large pile of very wet leaves that were all matted together after spending the winter under a heavy snowpack and it moved them like they were completely dry. It actually made blowing leaves fun.

I'm glad you're enjoying it. One of my goals with these remasters is to modernize their sound, by which I mean I want them to sound like they were recorded five days ago, not 50 years ago. It doesn't always work (e.g. the remaster of the 8/31/69 show I'm working on still sounds like it was recorded in the late 60's, regardless of what I do to it), but when it works, it adds an immediacy to the show that I really enjoy.

Looks like the author has only written one other rock biography, which was about Warren Zevon. It has good reviews on Amazon, so hopefully this one will turn out well. Has anyone heard if Jason Bonham or anyone else associated with the band was interviewed for the book? The Blabbermouth page doesn't mention anything about who the author talked to.

You can tell the site to stop showing you posts from specific people by hovering over their picture and choosing "Ignore User". You can specify the types of things you want to ignore (posts, messages, etc.) It works well, although you will see a post that was originally blocked if someone else replies to it and quotes the blocked post in their response.

I'm considering buying this. Hopefully it comes in a large shipping container, because I'm going to have to live in that box when my wife kicks me out after she finds out how much I spent on a gong 😃

"Evenings with Led Zeppelin" is the definitive book on their live career. For those of you who missed the first edition of this amazing book, a second edition is going to be released on September 23rd. It's currently available for pre-order on Amazon. I talked to Mike Tremaglio, one of the authors and a long time friend, about it recently and he said there will be 48 new pages and most of the existing pages have been updated. Even if you already have the first edition, this new one sounds like it will be worth picking up, and if you weren't able to get the first one, definitely make sure you get the second edition. https://www.amazon.com/Evenings-Led-Zeppelin-Complete-Chronicle/dp/1913172392

Thanks. I'm glad you're enjoying it.

For those of you who missed the first edition of this amazing book, a second edition is going to be released on September 23rd. It's currently available for pre-order on Amazon. I talked to Mike Tremaglio, one of the authors and a long time friend, about it recently and he said there will be 48 new pages and most of the existing pages have been updated. Even if you already have the first edition, this new one sounds like it will be worth picking up, and if you weren't able to get the first one, definitely make sure you get the second edition. https://www.amazon.com/Evenings-Led-Zeppelin-Complete-Chronicle/dp/1913172392

And did silver Sharpies even exist back then? That looks to be what was used for the JPJ signature.

Anybody else notice Jimmy seeming to lose the plot around the 10:00 minute mark of In My Time of Dying? I brought that up in another thread and a guitar player said it was because Bonzo got out of synch and Jimmy was slow playing his way through his part until they could meet up again.

Here's the next installment in The Stereo Project. Send me a message if you want the link for the full show.

Spackling, sanding, and more general prep to paint the kitchen cabinets in our new house. While I was doing it, I was distracted a couple of times by the sound of branches hitting our roof. At first I figured it was just windy, but after it kept happening I went outside to see what was going on. Turns out there were two porcupines in a tree near the house. It was hard to tell what they were at first, but eventually I could see the outlines of their quills. I've seen them on the ground before but didn't realize they climb trees. Checked the web and apparently they're abundant in the area near our new house and they eat twigs. We don't have any pets so I'm not worried about them being in the yard, but it was a strange introduction to the wildlife in the neighborhood. I expected bears and moose and assorted smaller animals, but porcupines in trees never crossed my mind.

Very cool. Thanks to everyone involved in tracking this down and sharing it.

We got our second round of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday afternoon. We were able to get it at a location only a few miles from our house instead of having to make the 120 mile round trip we did for the first one. So far, no side effects except for a sore arm, although even that's less noticeable than it was after the first one. It will be interesting to see how long it will be until we need a booster. I'm guessing that will be an annual thing, at least for a few years.

Try the Musician's Corner section of this site: https://forums.ledzeppelin.com/forum/17-musician39s-corner/

The RoyalAlbertHall.com site has an article about Zep's show there: https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2017/january/9-january-1970-led-zeppelin-delivers-one-of-the-greatest-shows-of-their-career-at-the-royal-albert-hall/ And these quotes from Germaine Greer to me summarize how extraordinary the band's performance was that night: "The sound came up to me with a force that pummeled me breathless. No other band ever managed to make a sound like that. It was certainly loud, but it was also driving, pushing along with incredible energy....For 10 years, rock and roll had been working towards something that would combine the extraordinary capacities of electronic instruments with the anarchic energy of youth, and there in the Albert Hall on January 9, 1970, I found it." Here's a link to her full review of the show: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3669830/Germaine-Greer-The-night-Led-Zeppelin-blew-my-mind.html

Favorite - Page/Plant in Boston, July 13, 1998. I was fortunate enough to see Jimmy and Robert seven times. Not only was this the best of those concerts, it's the best of all of the hundred or so concerts I've been to. The entire crowd was floating two feet off the ground as we left the arena. Just a magic night. Runner Up - Page/Plant in London, November 6, 1998. I was in the front row for this show. Dreams do come true. Steve Jones took the photo below. I was standing a little to his right.

A really well done mashup of Motorhead and James Brown:

I experimented for an hour or so and was able to raise the level of Robert's voice. However, I had to do so much processing to it so the software could capture his vocals that they sound somewhat unnatural. Here's a sample of Killing Floor so you can hear what I'm talking about: