A "complete" Crowley collection would be impossible, manuscripts and paste-ups of entire books diasappeared during the Author's life. Hundreds of pages of his "Confessions" remain unpublished. Hundreds of pages of letters and diaries likewise unpublished, many in private hands. My "incomplete" collection has cost me several thousand dollars and 31 years to amass. Some important material remains unpublished, believe it or not, while other important books are currently out of print.

It was much the same for me. Back... oh, I dunno, as early as '76 maybe, when I scored my first fake ID in Times Square, at age 15, I used to take the bus or train into the MTA Terminal from my Aunt & Uncle's house in Roselle, N.J. There were several bootleg shops in the vicinity of Washington Square that I found by hanging out in the park and talking to other kids. At that point, I wasn't so into Zeppelin bootlegs; I was more interested in Pink Floyd (Floyd's Of London) and the Beatles (Rennaisance Minstrels & Cum Back!); but as I started trading tapes, I began to get exposed to a lot more Zeppelin, and by 1980 or so they were my favorite band... I remember NYC back in the bad old days. I never thought they'd clean up Times Square the way they have. I liked it better back then. I do remember scoring my first bootleg CD at one of the aforementioned Washington Square shops, it was in 1987 or 88..."Travelling Riverside Blues" with photos lifted from Led Zeppelin III, and the silver disc read "The Danish Pageboys." It was a collection of BBC Radio tracks.