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  1. According to this: "copies of Led III contained the phrase The "Do what thou wilt/so mote be it" was a famous quote from a hero of Page, Aleister Crowley. It was only inscribed in the run-off areas of early pressings of the album."

    http://en.allexperts.com/q/Led-Zeppelin-501/2010/8/LZ-matrix.htm

    Sadly, my original LP is long gone. I vaguely recall it had some bizarre thing written on the run off and I'll bet that was it.

  2. I'm flabbergasted. Wow, if this is true, That's real low. Grand Funk, as they were called then, did not have fantastic guitar work or anything but they still had a sound that was powerful. First time I heard "Sin's a good man brother" i was blown away by the power of the bass.

    As much as I love Zeppelin, I would have booed too. It just doesn't look right and it says something quite unsettling.

    Mel Schacter was a remarkable bass player, very very melodic. He doesn't get the credit today that he deserves.

  3. http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-211803-p-4.html

    Somebody posted about a recollection by Mark Farner of Grand Fund Railroad...........I don't know if this is the specific instance but truth be told, if I was in that audience I'd have booed too.

    'Here's Mark Farner's account below. Peter Grant did pretty much the same thing at the Bath Festival in 1970 (on a band called The Flock) so that Zep could go on as the sun was setting.

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    What happened -- that story arose from an incident. We opened for Led Zeppelin at Olympia in Detroit. And the crowd was going nuts. We just broke into "Inside Looking Out" and the whole audience just (cheered) and at that point, Led Zeppelin's manager, Peter Grant, jerked the power on us. He shut the whole PA system down ... So then Terry (Knight, Grand Funk Railroad's manager at the time) comes out, they turn a microphone on, he says ... "Grand Funk is going to have to leave the stage." And the audience went boo. And Zeppelin waited an hour and a half before they went on, after we went off ... We were supposed to be on for a tour, but that was the only night we got to open for them ...

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