Steve, can you clear your PM box please. Trying to send you a PM but it says you cannot accept any new messages. Thanks!

Was the photo from the concert, do you know? The show was on 2 March, so if a photo was w/ the 1 March article it couldn't have been the Wichita show. I'm sure they wrote a review which was probably in Monday's paper, the 4th of March. Show was Saturday. I drove there w/ some friends and we were on the highway after the show and I never did see a review.

You were there? How cool. This is the first time I've ever met anyone else who was at that show.

I don't have any video, though I do have a tape of The Firm in the studio working on this and other tracks. I saw The Firm twice, 14 May 1986 and 2 March 1985. The 1985 show was their second US show, I think Dallas was first, but could be wrong. I also believe they played this at the '85 show. The 1985 show was in Wichita, the 1986 show was in Kansas City.

Uh... not really. As Les Paul passed away 12 August 2009 the only way he and Jimmy could jam again would be on the proverbial stairway... I'd prefer Jimmy hang with us down here awhile longer...

Great to see someone appreciating this fine album. The first side has some really good tracks and is the more rock side, and side two is just sweet! Hummingbird is exceptional, Emerald Eyes is wonderful, the bloozy Prison Blues is right on target and the finale, Blues Anthem is personal favorite. I really liked the live version of Blues Anthem - a mini acoustic set, if you will. The tour for Outrider was a phenomenal show and I feel sorry for anyone who missed it. John Miles was great on the tour as the voice but he also added some keyboards and I felt he did a great job covering Plant/Rodgers. Outrider was a fine effort and a wonderful tour!

Having not listened to this album in quite some time, I found myself in a particularly nostalgic mood tonight and decided to revisit this offering from Coverdale and Page. Led Snake? Yes... and no. I find it odd that critics would attack Page for being... Jimmy Page. What's he supposed to do? Play, or write, like someone else? I loved this album when it came out and now, some 16 years after its release, I feel it holds up quite well. Pride & Joy just sucks you in with its acoustic guitars and dulcimers and the radio-friendly way that David sings it. Shake My Tree comes off sounding like something Robert Johnson would have written had he been privy to a Les Paul and a Marshall stack. Over Now is full of massive guitars... some are distorted and angry, others are light and airy, yet it all comes together. Easy Does It is another in the Jimmy Page Guitar Army catalog that just reverberates through your speakers while David sings of ever lasting and true love. Absolution Blues is still a fun, kicking song and shows that nobody can write riffs the way Jimmy Page does. Take Me For A Little While is another epic in the Zeppelin mold and Page's playing, and writing, are on full display in all their glory here. A fantastic album and such a shame that they played just seven shows in Japan to support this effort.

Mean Business is one of those albums that takes a bit of time to grow on you. Fortune Hunter is a great, up-tempo opener and Cadillac just sounds all sleazy and bloozy. All The Kings Horses is a Rodgers song and one I could do w/ out. Live In Peace is a good number, allowing Jimmy to rip away while Rodgers sends an important message. Tear Down The Walls is maybe the best track and just rocks with trademark Page riffing. Dreaming is a very underrated song which, if memory serves, was written by Tony Franklin. Free To Live and Spirit Of Love are... meh... not the best representation of this band. So basically, you get some really good stuff w/ Fortune Hunter, Cadillac, Live In Peace, Tear Down The Walls and Dreaming. Those five tracks standout and are quite good.

Thought some people might find this of interest... on iTunes they have had the debut album by The Firm minus Midnight Moonlight. This omission has caused some very heated comments on The Firm's iTunes page... people want this song. Well, I just went to iTunes and they now have Midnight Moonlight. So you can now D/L the entire first Firm album for $8.91 They still don't have Mean Business... and I hope they add it someday. I loaned my two Firm CD's to a "friend." Bastard never returned them and then moved away! PS - You can purchase Midnight Moonlight individually too... they are not making you buy the whole album for this song.

5 is very difficult... For some reason this thread sparked a memory from the summer of 1982... when the local rock station DJ was going off because he had the "new Robert Plant solo album in my hands and at 4:00 o'clock I'm going to play you not one, but TWO tracks from it." At four he told us the album was titled Pictures At Eleven and proceeded to play Burning Down One Side and Moonlight In Samosa... It was during Samosa that I knew Robert would be just fine on his own. It was a bittersweet moment... you know the guy is going to do well on his own... but you also are acknowledging the fact that Zeppelin really are over... Sorry... got a bit off on a different tangent... anyway... five songs from solo Plant that never fail to move me... no order in particular... Big Log... just perfect Moonlight In Samosa... ummm, just perfect... again... Come Into My Life... 1993 and still perfect... The Greatest Gift... do you sense a trend here? Great Spirit... ah yes... Great Spirit come... Great Spirit come...

Robert Plant and Rainer Ptacek - Great Spirit | Dark Moon | 21 Years | Whole Lotta Love

Very cool to see so many Hendrix fans here. One album I'd like to suggest is from Dagger Records, the 'official' bootleg offshoot on JimiHendrix.com The album is Morning Symphony Ideas. Absolutely essential listening, in my humble opinion. The last song, which is only 1:08 long, is another snippet of Jimi on acoustic.

I voted Presence... because that Black Obelisk represented Zeppelin's presence being everywhere. In fact, it's still that way today.

Barb... Big Love... HBO...

So Miss Honeydripper and Barb Henrickson are the same person... Who knew?

Well put Electrophile. Zeppelin and Floyd are on opposite ends of the musical spectrum, but I am one of the those who loves and appreciates both. I absolutely love their early era, 1969-71, and I have a ton of live recordings from that time and their musicality is the draw for me. Songs like Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Cymbaline, If, Green Is The Colour, Fat Old Sun, Echoes, Embryo and Careful With That Axe Eugene are stellar moments always. Once they achieved world wide success with Dark Side they were still able to write amazing music, as evidenced by Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, The Final Cut and Division Bell. I find it sad that after all these years one gets the feeling that Roger Waters regrets leaving the band. How much further could they have gone had they remained intact? The lyrical genius of Waters, combined with the musical brilliance of Gilmour and Richard Wright allowed that band to scale heights few others could claim. Their music is on an extremely deep level... it really requires the listener to think... and to me, that is a very cool thing.