Once upon a time, in the 1980's, I used to get awakened in the middle of the night by a guy (in his 20's) in the apartment directly above me, throwing his girlfriend hard down to the floor. There was probably alcohol involved, and, the wrong kind of drugs. I saw him once, and he kind of had a wild stare, and exuded an attitude like, "Nobody tells me what to do". (Like one of the "crazies" in Death Wish II). Within a few weeks, that guy, at a different apartment complex, dove off the 2nd story to reach the pool below. He did not make the pool, and, I never heard any loud noises above me in my apartment complex again.

Watching and listening to this 4K video filmed in and around The Grand Canyon on Arizona was especially wonderful.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43300521 The Kanepi municipality in southeast Estonia was created last July through the merger of three previously separate districts ;and as a result of the local government shake-up, residents were given the chance to vote on a new symbol to represent the district, state broadcaster ERR says. The overwhelmingly popular choice among the people of Kanepi was a design based on the cannabis leaf. According to ERR, "kanep" is the Estonian word for cannabis.

If you get a Zeppelin tattoo, then can wear them all of the time, even in the shower!! I don't have any tats... just not my thing. Speaking of Led Zeppelin clothing.... the shirt/smock, whatever you call it, that Robert wore on the '75 Tour looked a lot, in it's style, like the "shirt" my 16 year old girlfriend wore to the Dallas show in 1973. We were sitting 3rd row back, and for the CB encore we went and stood at the front center of the floor, and no one else was standing there. I know Robert got a good look at my girlfriend and her attire. I think that Robert was inspired by what he saw my girlfriend wearing that night. Here's a "Jimmy" themed sweater I have:

I saw JT in the 90's with Barre and it was Excellent. It's the best I'd seen Tull since the original TAAB Tour. I saw the TAAB/TAAB Pt.2 Tour but I just wasn't blown over. Won't be going to see any Tull 50th shows.... just going to remember what an awesome experience it was to see TAAB in the 70's, when Ian and the band were at the Zenith...

I saw a Beautiful Full Moon Rising this evening... The sky was clear because the recent rains washed out the air pollution...

We called these 7 inchers 45s back in the day....

Seen at the Supermarket Newsstand today: Music Spotlight ~ Special Collector's Edition Pink Floyd 45th Anniversary Celebration The Complete Story of THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Plus ~ Roger Waters & David Gilmour on the making of their Greatest Albums

Grant was slacking off !!!

The great thing about seeing Zeppelin in 70's, even if you were in the nosebleed seats, you got the awesomeness of the sound. I learned early on, to stuff tissue in my ears, which made it possible to hear the notes better, particularly if you were sitting close to the stage getting the direct blast of the stage monitors. To contrast, when I saw P&P I was shocked, that sitting in balcony in the back of Reunion Arena in Dallas, that the sound pressure level in the hall was actually *less* than what I experienced when I listened to "Led Zeppelin" favorites at home. After experiencing "Kashmir" at 1977 volume levels, the 90's "Kashmir" experience was quite underwhelming. When bootleggers re-mix concerts, no matter how loud the bass input is, to mimic what it was like at a Led Zeppelin concert, the guitar --always-- has to ride above the rest. Always. What I do know, is that anyone that got to experience a Led Zeppelin concert in-the-flesh, got more than any film or recording can portray. So, while all I have to go on from the EC and Knebworth shows are tapes and video.... I know that "being there" was so much more satisfying. The highlight of the Dallas 1975 show was D&C. And TU and TSRTS were also awesome. The final Dallas encore with "Heartbreaker," was the Cherry on Top!! As to Robert singing in a lower register --- I couldn't give a Flying Fuck !!!! I never was about "that high pitch of Robert sends me to the moon and I've got have it forever!!!" Thanks for your details about how you got tickets, and how you go to the show. Someday, I might indulge, and write about the details of my Zep going experiences. There was no one tell back then. No internet. No fourm. No FB. No Twitter. Probably a good thing for LZ and their offstage lives!

BINGO !! I ran across this OnStage Magazine article from 2013 today (while looking for something else Zep related). The Real Reason for Robert Plant’s Tears During “Stairway to Heaven” By Chris LeDrew on June 24, 2013 ARTICLE VIEWS: 16,488,334 http://onstagemagazine.com/the-real-reason-for-robert-plants-tears-during-stairway-to-heaven/

Yeah... It'll be on the Ellen show ! And both Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose will be unavailable to do interviews this time. (They both did interviews around the 2007 O2 and 2012 Kennedy Center Honors.)

Nor in the future will Robert Plant be a member of a performing or recording "Led Zeppelin." He's done being the "Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin" regarding live performances and recording. And that's Okay. His choice to make. He's not signed a Lifetime "contract" with Led Zeppelin. There will be no Led Zeppelin Reunion gig(s). The O2 concert was Robert's Swan Song as a performing and recording member of Led Zeppelin. And without the unique voice of Robert Plant....There can be no "Led Zeppelin." All some can now hope for is the best version of a Led Zeppelin show, vis a vis the "Australian Pink Floyd." But still.... no Robert Plant, unless advanced technology can someday allow anyone to appear to sing like the Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

Some artists have included buildups on their live recordings. Grand Funk Railroad did. I remember the great build up to Footstompin' Music from the 1975 Caught In The Act LP. I say LP, because in the weird world of CD releases, they lengthened a few songs, but... to do that, they cut short the lead up to "Footstompin' Music" to keep the release on one CD !! From Wiki: The 2003 re-mastered version of this release has a total time of 79:08, and was squeezed down to one disc. The 2:47 "Introduction" is gone, but "T.N.U.C" and "Gimme Shelter" are lengthened. Audience interaction and applause is shortened throughout to compensate. The crowd roar lead up to the 1977 Tampa Stadium show is legendary. (That show stopped short because of torrential rain. I guess the band didn't have a "wireless" option for their outdoor gigs in 1977... tsk tsk). I remember well what happened in Houston in 1977 when the house lights went down. Most everyone on the floor, except for maybe the first 5 rows or so, stood... on their chairs... Quite a forest... for me to easily run through!!! Which is exactly what I did, after jumping down to the floor from the lodge seating area. I easily made my way all the way to the 3rd row back from the stage, in the center section, to an isle seat that hadn't been taken by it's rightful owner yet... A group of about 4 rich young groupies were sitting in front of me. For whatever reason, one of the young things was holding up sideways, toward the stage, the center fold of a Men's Magazine, Playboy perhaps. The guitar sound coming off the stage monitors was beyond intense. There's a feeling I get When I look to the west And my spirit is crying for leaving In my thoughts I have seen Rings of smoke through the trees And the voices of those who standing looking

Come on guys... I said that tongue-in-cheek. April 1st was the first date of their rescheduled NA Tour. They were rusty, Page not having picked up a guitar for month. So it was "like" a dress rehearsal. It was a very "average" performance --- for Led Zeppelin.... Plant even jokingly said at one point... "Welcome to our rehearsal!" Cameras... No, at the April 1st gig, there no cameras... Just Neal Preston snapping photos, for the '77 Tour Book that would be printed a little later. When the band all came out front for the acoustic set, and started Battle of Evermore, the volume for Jimmy's guitar wasn't loud enough. I yelled out from my 10th row seat "LOUDER"... and then once again, "LOUDER." I then saw Robert look to his right, and motion with his right hand, index finger pointed up, to raise Jimmy's volume. And Jimmy's guitar volume was raised. I believe the band rehearsed in England before the expected start of the '77 tour, originally due to being on Feb. 27th in Ft. Worth. I saw the rescheduled Ft. Worth and Houston shows, and they were no rehearsals. They were both excellent shows to be at!!

I attended a live dress rehearsal once.... in Dallas, on April 1st, 1977.

LFZ !!!! A future release, sometime in the next 10 years!! Hope so.

I never had the original release of this, but I'm quite happy with the sound mix on the re-mastered priest...live! recorded mostly in 1986 in Dallas and Atlanta (I wasn't at that show in Dallas. I saw them on their previous tour). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest...Live!

Which '75 shows did you you see in person? Otherwise, your opinion is useless. I was at several of the '75 shows, and my opinion is the opposite of yours.

I think Satan was the source of the trouble. He was jealous of something ... But no sympathy for him. Recording and filming may have been planned for the end of Summer dates. Some one did not want the absolute greatness of Led Zeppelin in 1975 to be documented for the world to see and have that standard of excellence to live under...

I saw a beautiful moon rise today around 330PM. It looked so big, I though it was a full moon, but that's not until a couple of days from now...

The 6-22-77, the soloing itself is fine... but... there's this "in the groove" thing, that I like better with the '73 MSG/TSRTS version. I just didn't catch that in '77 performance. Blame Jonesy ?? I don't know...

Sweet Temptation

All three are collaborating... so maybe $1000 for the signed limited edition Deluxe version. Other books published by this company have both a (limited) Deluxe Edition $950, and, a Master Edition for $49. A softback edition would do for me. There's an "art" to the sizing and presentation of any picture used in a book. We'll se how "art" worthy this presentation is...

Over --all-- other versions of SIBLY, TSTRS is the one I enjoy listening to the most, because of the purity of the audio, and Jimmy's soloing. That's what makes that version so heavenly and mesmerizing to me. The audience 'noise' on most boots distracts me. The intro is stunning. I'm a Page fan first and foremost, so I can easily overlook this not being Robert's best ever live performance, with regard to vocal range, etc.. A good/very good overall performance, though, from my point of view. But as some have already stated, Robert never exceeded his vocal range on the studio performance of SIBLY in a live setting. I much prefer Jimmy's live performances to the studio one. I am shocked that they wouldn't find a way to release the TSRTS as a three album set, to give their public this SIBLY on record. There had already been 3 and 4 disc live sets successfully released by other bands. So whomever nixed the 3 album set, you were wrong! But hey, it only took 30 years to correct the error... Best performance of any song on record??? I'll have to go with the O2 "Kashmir". I know there's no Bonzo, but, it takes me back to the 1977 US Tour, where, imo, "Kashmir" was the show stopper, better than any other Zeppelin song I ever experienced in person.