^ ^ ^ Thanks Dave for posting this- nice to relive a moment from the show the other night! I am soooo glad I finally got to see JBLZE- it really is an awesome show! Jason picked a great group of guys to do this with. I loved everything about it, from the old home movie footage (the one where little Jason is wiggling his butt to the music while his mom & dad were watching was too funny), to the "duet" on Moby Dick, and the performance of the band as a whole was excellent as well. Thank you Jason, for putting together this wonderful tribute to your Dad!

Great race from Animal Kingdom, he was much the best today. And what great luck for John Velazquez, as he would have been on the sidelines since he is Uncle Mo's rider- but happened to pick up the mount on Animal Kingdom after his rider Robbie Albarado was injured on Wednesday. Congrats to them & trainer Graham Motion as well!

It's too bad Uncle Mo was scratched but I'm glad his connections did it out of concern for the well being of the horse. Hopefully they will find out what's wrong with him & we'll see him compete later this year in the Travers & Breeders Cup. Right now I'm leaning towards Midnight Interlude (but who knows I might change my mind before the race).

Could be Lynn Collins, who Jimmy dated when he was in the Yardbirds.

Silvermedalist- with the Derby now only a month away, who do you think are the top contenders? I just watched the Wood Memorial to see Uncle Mo, but he finished 3rd. My feeling is (even though it cost him his first defeat) that once the jockey realized that the other 2 horses were coming up fast. ne gave him the whip a couple of times but really didn't push him, so Uncle Mo wouldn't "use" himself up & recover enough to be at his peak on Derby Day- what do you think?

If I remember it was on a Monday night & my work schedule makes it hard to get into the city on weeknights, so I'm happy to get a show close to me. It will be interesting to see if Jason made any changes (setlist, maybe adding different footage of John) to this year's shows. (BTW Super Dave, congrats on reaching 3000 posts! )

I missed it last year and am very happy that Jason is doing more shows this year! (I'm going to the May 10th show )

JBLZE, May 10 (don't remember the name of the venue because it's changed several times in the last few years, but it's in Westbury, Long Island)

I hope JBLZE will come back to NY this year. I couldn't make it to the one last November & I would really love to see it!

I've seen Joe a few times- he really is amazing! (even got to say hello to him after a show, really nice guy too!) Did he play anything from his upcoming new album Dust Bowl?

I wonder what was on the original tape that Jimmy didn't like & wanted changed?

Great review Deborah & and definitely a night to remember! I wasn't able to make the show here in NY so I hope that a DVD will eventually be released.

I still have to go with Zenyatta- yeah most of her wins have been in California against other F&M's but she did win a little known race called the Breeders Cup Classic last year so until there's a horse that can beat her, she deserves the respect. Go Zenyatta!!! Also, stories like this are good for the sport- seems like every time horse racing starts to get popular again something bad happens.

My book arrived today but since my hubby bought it for me as a Christmas gift I can't read it until then . (and he wants to read it before he gives it to me )

Hastings? Where is that? Is that a new track? LOL I remember when I first got into horse racing, the New York tracks (Aqueduct & Belmont) would close down for the winter and channel 9 would show racing from Hialeah. And there wasn't any racing on Sunday either.

Seems like they always have it there or at Santa Anita these days.

When is the Breeders Cup this year? I don't follow horse racing like I used to but I still like to watch the Triple Crown races & Breeders Cup. A long time ago (late 70's) I read an article where they were training an American horse for the Prix d' Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp (France) and the trainer said that to get the horse used to the direction & conditions they galloped him clockwise on a grassy meadow (the turf in Europe is usually softer than on American tracks).

I don't think this is a tv show, I think it's a radio show that's on every Friday night that you can listen to over the Internet (there'a list of stations that carry it on the link from the post).

I love this pic, Jimmy wearing my fave outfit of his (hope it's in the book!) I agree w/ you aen that it's probably from after '73 because of the hair. I have always wondered why in TSRTS he is wearing the jacket only for Rock & Roll and Black Dog (and Celebration Day on the DVD extras) and for the rest of the show he has the other jacket. If he only wore that jacket for one of the MSG shows does that mean that most of the movie footage was taken from the other 2 nights? As for wearing it after '73, I believe some of the footage for Rock & Roll was redone in '74 at Shepperton Studios (watch the hair) so he would have worn it then. I've also wondered what was on the lapel & now that I can see it close up one thing looks like a naked plastic doll. He's not wearing the necklace (the one that looks like a Capricorn figure not the scarab) here either.

So how did you do Silvermedalist? I see the Pick 6 paid over $550K.

Actually it happened recently, in 2006- Barbaro, the Derby winner was injured at the start of the Preakness and never raced again, and the winner of that race, Bernardini, didn't run in the Belmont. In the past, the 3 year old champion was mainly determined by their showing in the Triple Crown races and the Travers Stakes. But ever since the start of the Breeders Cup, more trainers are making the decision to skip some of those races (unless of course a Triple Crown is at stake) to point them towards the Breeders Cup races in the fall instead. Running a horse hard 3 times in 5 weeks can and has taken a toll on many promising 3 year olds who are nowhere to be found on the last Saturday in October.

also found my notes from the show- he played from 8:50- 10:55 PM setlist: (not sure if this is exactly in order) Who's To Blame Prelude Wanna Make Love Writes of Winter Over the Hills and Far Away Emerald Eyes Tear Down the Walls Midnight Moonlight White Summer/Black Mountain Side Prison Blues In My Time of Dying Custard Pie The Chase/Dazed & Confused City Sirens/Bonzo's Montreaux (?) Someone to Love Blues Anthem Wasting My Time Train Kept A- Rolling (encore) Stairway to Heaven (encore)

While cleaning out stuff in the closet I came across this review of the show on 10/28/88 at the Nassau Coliseum: (from Newsday, by Stephen Williams) Page Stealing From Himself Nobody rips off Led Zeppelin, like Led Zeppelin. But sometimes the parts do not equal the sum. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have gone their separate ways for eight years now. Yet in solo performance, each has shown that he is inexorably rooted- shackled, perhaps- to the monster band that made him famous. Page, the guitar man's guitar man, is probably more of an anachronism. Emerging from purple haze onto the stage at the Coliseum, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, the fuzzy-haired axeman took a gracious bow before kicking into some liquid Gibson riffs. The ghost of Zeppelin certainly haunts Page, but before he had taken the time to present a new profile, up jumped "Over the Hills and Far Away", and Page had pushed the crowd's first Led Zep button. It's a given that no one can play those swaggering licks the way that Page can. He originated and refined a guitar style that dozens of imitators have tried to exploit, most unsuccessfully. So why shouldn't Page himself capitalize on Zep's lasting aura? No reason, but the disappointment lies in that Page has got nothing new to say. With his back arched in a classic macho rock posture and his face dripping sweat like a leaky faucet, Page can quite adequately cover his historical highlights, as far back as his Yardbird days about 20 years ago. But as he rattled through a two-hour set that thrashed and thundered, Page rarely transcended the cliches that he created. Dogged by the sloppy, showboat drumming of Jason Bonham and the inadequate vocals of John Miles, Page got bogged down in the ball and chain of his own past. Even the selections from "Outrider", Page's first solo album released earlier this year, turned into a kind of rock chopped liver. One of the most embarrassing moments was Page's play-the-electric-guitar-with-the-violin trick, a device that didn't work in the 60's. And his material from his days with The Firm- which at least boasted a fine singer in Paul Rodgers- are best deleted. There were moments of brilliant, virtuoso musicianship, though a languid, bluesy instrumental solo early in the set: an exotic, pyramiding run through an Eastern-flavored number, an an oozing slide-guitar version of Zep's "In My Time of Dying". Page never hurried himself- despite a bout with the flu earlier in the week, Page had apparently shaken off any ill effects. His humble, nearly deferential manner won over the softies in the Coliseum crowd (what there was of it- the hall was half-empty) and the Zeppelin material electrified the hard-core contingent. The rest of us waited to hear and see some flashes of a guitar player that wasn't just aother Jimmy Page clone. He never arrived.

Steve Miller at the Hilton in Atlantic City June 12.

Cool- they used Doors music in an episode a couple of weeks ago.... it was about a murder at a circus & many of the characters looked like ones on the Strange Days album.