Thank You. No. It was a long time ago. Mogadishu. I had a bad day and some real bad times to follow. I'll never be "better" just not worse. I do appreciate your well wishes. Thank you.

I'm going through 1969 trying to gather definitive editions of some shows that are lacking . So precious few Soundboards from that year but I'm in April and that Fillmore/Winterland run is just incredible. 4/25 & 4/26 are giving me fits. Scouring the net for the best tapes of those two. 

HMMT from 4/26 is 23:00 minutes long. It has a rare bow solo and an uncommon medley. If I could find that I would just add it to EV's offering. So far I found a decent one that runs 19 +. I'm having fun though. I stumbled across a source for 69-70 boots  from an obscure site. I will send you the link.

If not for anything it has a great FLAC version of Divinity that is easily the best I've heard aside from the disc itself.

I will have your package out soon. It's loaded with great tapes many of them where my "go to" until I got te actual boot. I just have so much , too much. It's become work managing my collection.

BTW, are you a Stones , Bowie, Sabbath , Dio or Ozzy fan? That's the second largest portion of my boot collection and I have a bunch of extra's from those artists.

I will send the link at some point today and thanks again for your concern.

Jim

Hey bud, now worries, much love to a fellow Zep head for the pain/suffering. Power on mate, just power on - and I hope all is well as can be and you continue to own it - and not it owns you.

Thanks for the gear. Amazing generosity, I really, really appreciate it. If you ever get to Brissie, Oz, I owe you a beer or 3!!!

Not really into any other band anything like Zep. I'm a bit dissapointing probably in musical taste. Mainstream for the most part, brought up by "Classic Rock" radio and mums rather eclectic - and I think freakin awesome, record collection (Boz Scaggs, Wings, Lipps Inc (Funky Town), Michael Jackson, Neil Diamond (Hot August night - BEST live album EVER until I heard Zep - as a Kid of 8 I'd listen to it at full volume, loved it, fond memories), Little River Band, Johnny Cash, Leo Sayer, stuff "like that" (not sure what 'like that' is - lol.). Apart from that I actually like some of the one hit wonder 80's gear. Apart from the Chillies, not much today gets my interest. Just usual old Rock or Classic rock on the radio, but most is filler.

Once I got into Zep as a stoned teenager, I was goooone. Hook line and sinker! Been obsessing ever since. Nothing comes close. Live, they just SPEAK - like a freakin language. I swear at times most of the time actually) Jimmy's sequences are like words. Like a proper complex language that conveys things clearer than english. I have always thought that and still to this day wonder at the amazement of that and how that affects me and the thought of that. The clarity with which he could "speak" emotion and its completely understandable what he is saying, like somehow I know a language that I never knew I knew. (And to think I rarely even smoke now! LOL)

How he did that show after show, tour after tour is why he is THE BEST.

Anyway, I ramble...

Thanks again friend. Appreciate it.

Cheers!