Ricky Lays Down Ricky Gervais rehearses for Deep Purple MK III reunion Made by me just for a laugh

Way out West

The YPVS in the background... I had one of them! ooh in fact I found a pic of it... nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeoooooowwwwwwwscreeeeeeeeechh

Really!? I was about 2 people back from the front on the right! I was whistling and shouting a bit, sorry about that, I got quite excited especially as i was surrounded by scantily clad groupies, I went with my ex housemate, who wasn't really into the band and had only heard them through me (I had a ticket going as my ex pulled out last minute) he said after "that bloke's got a good voice int he" Spent the night under newspaper outside the swimming pool. one of the best nights of my life.. Heres the whole concert double click for playlist Do you remember that geezer who was taking photos right at the front? telling the bouncers to get out the way! (which they did) he must have some good shots, ive never seen any pics

Ahhh Gareth Hale, Norman Pace, that's where i'm getting mixed up, thanx

Is this Gareth Hale as in Hale & Pace the comedy duo on the piano?

I'm sure he was there for most of them, but was he able to see all the shows, I tend to think of Peter out back somewhere taking care of the bootleggers and arguing with promoters. I think it may be a soundman, lighting engineer or roadie perhaps, Richard Cole perhaps, but in his own admission i doubt he'd remember them

Excluding the band members, who has seen the most LZ concerts?

How many do you want? here's 3

Most excellent

more please, this guy is wicked

Don't forget Chris Morris http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/jan/21/chris-morris-four-lions-sundance

Chris Morris's Four Lions: exclusive clip from the 'jihadist comedy' http://www.guardian....-lions-sundance

Wheaton (Not sure if it's been discussed or not or wether it's worth discussing but here goes anyway) Heavy, Wheaton A Faithful Few Insist They Saw Led Zeppelin Play a Local Gig in 1969, but the Details Are Hazy By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 9, 2009 Somestories sound preposterous, if delightfully so -- like the one aboutthe night Led Zeppelin played the Wheaton Youth Center. Robert Plant doing a whole lotta lovin' on Georgia Avenue? Jimmy Page climbing a stairway to suburbia? Noticket stubs, posters, pictures or news clippings of the gig are knownto exist. Yet some people passionately insist they saw the performance.Zeppelin-in-Wheaton is Washington's own rock-and-roll Loch NessMonster. Could it possibly be real? Yes. No way. Depends whom you ask. Toappreciate the monumental improbability, you had to be there Saturdayafternoon, amid the motley crowd of graying Zeppelinheads -- with theirT-shirts, ticket stubs and precious original LPs -- gathered for anearnest experiment in the nature of truth, myth, memory and dreams. It was a reunion -- a reunion of people who attended an event that may not have occurred. Apparenteyewitness testimony was recorded for posterity. Skeptics were listenedto. In the absence of physical evidence, any totemic link to the fabledshow was deemed potentially worthy. Then veteran local musicians tookthe stage and everybody totally rocked out. "They weredefinitely here," said Anne Marie Pemberton, a computer systemsengineer who was 17, she said, when she saw the show. She paced the gymfloor Saturday, marking specific spots, occasionally wielding an airguitar. "Page was over here. John Paul Jones was over there.Plant the showman was right here. And right behind was John Bonham withhis hellacious drum set." Tom McAleer, a liquor salesman whogrew up near the center, carried a grocery bag containing the batteredwhite Chuck Taylor high-tops he says he was wearing that night 40 yearsago when he and a friend sneaked in to see Led Zeppelin. "My girlfriendgives me a hard time because I save everything," he said. ButSharon Ward Ellis, the former director of the youth center, who canrecall telling Iggy Pop to stop smearing peanut butter on his chestduring his Wheaton concert, has no recollection of Led Zeppelin. Andformer teen center fan Ruth Lynn Youngwirth brought her scrapbookdocumenting scores of concerts from 1967 to 1972. Curiously, the logdoes not include the Wheaton Zeppelin show. "If Led Zeppelin was here, I don't remember," Youngwirth said. Hmm. Wayup Georgia, next to the public library and the townhouses, the WheatonCommunity Center, as it's called now, is one of those bright, smileyconcrete-block havens built by society to keep the kids out of trouble.It's got a trippy, wavy roof to remind you it dates from the 1960s. Thenas now, the space was operated by the Montgomery County Department ofRecreation. Today the main floor is a basketball court. Back then, kidsroller-skated on that floor. Today there are DJ classes, teen dances,art lessons and computer labs. But once upon a time, the rec departmentfound itself in the unlikely role of rock concert co-promoter, and theWheaton Youth Center was almost unbelievably cool. Iggy Pop,Alice Cooper, Dr. John, Rod Stewart, Rare Earth, Bob Seger and localboy Nils Lofgren with his national act Grin: They played Wheaton. But Led Zeppelin? Theshow supposedly took place the evening of Jan. 20, 1969, the day ofRichard Nixon's first inauguration. Zeppelin was on its first U.S.tour. The band's first album had just been released. Hardly anybody hadever heard of the group, though Jimmy Page was sort of famous forhaving been in the Yardbirds. Zeppelin-in-Wheaton is a weirdsubcultural enigma on the blurry frontier between the absurd and thesublime -- which means it's a perfect assignment for Jeff Krulik, thelocal filmmaker whose body of work roams this frontier, going back tohis cult classic, "Heavy Metal Parking Lot," the documentary aboutbig-haired heavy metal fanatics shot with John Heyn in the parking lotof the old Capital Centre in Landover before a Judas Priest concert in1986. Krulik put out the call: If you attended the maybe mythic show, come to a reunion at the Wheaton Community Center. Healso invited anyone connected to the regional teen center scene of thetime. The centers were vital venues for youth culture and music as the1960s burned out. The modern rock concert industry had yet to be born,there was no Ticketmaster or Live Nation, and a ticket to a Zeppelinshow at Merriweather Post Pavilion (where the band definitely did playin May 1969) cost $5.75 -- while a ticket for a show at Wheaton cost adollar or two. More than a hundred people showed up Saturday --a bigger crowd than the 50 or 60 who are said to have attended theZeppelin show. About a half-dozen at the reunion said they had attendedthe concert. The rest were fans who had seen other shows in Wheaton, orthey were musicians who had played in bands on the teen center circuit. Inthe end, it wasn't just a reunion of a storied Zeppelin show. It was areunion of people who had even more in common -- having been young atthe same time, when music was the crucial soundtrack to importantdreams. Krulik ran around the gym like a madman with a camera,doing interviews. The working title for his documentary-in-progress,about the birth of the local concert scene, is "Led Zeppelin PlayedHere." "Please talk me out of ideas like this!" he hollered in passing, clearly delighted with the chaos. BrianKnapp, a leading collector of Zeppelin memorabilia, from Alexandria,sidled around the room in faux snakeskin boots, showing off an album ofartifacts, hoping to acquire more. He showed Pemberton a Polaroid ofPage playing a Fender Telecaster with a psychedelic paint job. "I saw that guitar!" said Pemberton, who thinks Page may have played it at Wheaton. SubsequentLed Zeppelin performances are well documented, including the band'sappearance at the Laurel Pop Festival in July 1969. The Post sent CarlBernstein to review the show. He was unimpressed with Zeppelin: "Mildlyinteresting, if not musically original," he said, and he lamented thatthe popularity and success of Zeppelin and other British power groups"make it unpleasant to contemplate where rock is going." TheWheaton show has remained mysterious. Despite the clear recollectionsof several who say they were there, it is puzzling that so many otherswho were regulars at the Wheaton center never heard of the show at thetime. Those who did say they were there seemed to possess aspecial aura. They were avatars from the creation, that brief momentbefore Zeppelin was Zeppelin. Imagine being one of the privileged 50 or60 in the room that inauguration night! Those who were not there beggedto be transported back. "They did a great version of 'Train Kept A-Rollin',' " said Tom Grooms, public affairs director and DJ with WJZW. "Ijust remember it was noisy and I didn't understand what it was allabout," said Marc Elrich, the Montgomery County Council member whoplayed guitar and sang in a band called Franklin Park Zoo. "Ithink they were wondering where everyone was," said Pemberton. "Youjust sort of walked in. They were setting up. Next thing you know, bam,'Good Times Bad Times' and whoa!" Do surviving members ofZeppelin remember the show? Messages sent through their representativesyielded no response. The band's former touring manager, Richard Cole,does not recall the Wheaton show now, according to Sam Rapallo, thewebmaster of the authoritative Web site ledzeppelin.com. However, the site does list the Wheaton show in the chronology of all the band's gigs. Aha! Thesource for that reference, Rapallo said by e-mail, is the book "CapitolRock," an encyclopedic record of the local music scene by MarkOpsasnick. Opsasnick was at the reunion. He got the story from BarryRichards, the ambitious young DJ and promoter who brought numerous actsto Wheaton. Reached by telephone in Los Angeles, Richards saidZeppelin really did play Wheaton. It was a last-minute gig to fill anoff night for the band between dates in Detroit and Pittsburgh.Richards didn't have much time to promote it. Richards said theband's manager, Peter Grant, who died in 1995, was bitterlydisappointed in the turnout, and blamed him for it. "He was [angry]," Richards says. Out in the parking lot, "he got in my face." Richards thought Grant was going to beat him up. Instead, Richards handed over $100 for gas money, and that's how Led Zeppelin left Wheaton -- so the story goes.

Probably the best guitar solo ever, no make that definitely the best guitar solo ever

thanx Ally

which concert please Steve http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PElzvCZDfTo

ahhhhhhhhhh I see now, never noticed til you mentioned it, maybe the Zep symbols are from an ancient playstation!? Cross (batsu) = "no good" The meaning of this symbol is more or less the same as in the West. It is sometimes drawn twice to indicate a severe problem .Triangle (sankaku) = "weak" OR "average" The meaning of this symbol depends on the context. If only 3 symbols are used (Ο, Δ and ×), then this symbol means "average", but if the double circle (niju maru) symbol also appears, then this symbol means "below average "Circle (maru) = "good" OR "satisfactory" This symbol is also context-sensitive. If the double circle symbol also appears, then this symbol means "satisfactory", otherwise it means "good". Japanese teachers normally draw circles instead of ticks when marking correct answers in students' test papers .Double circle (niju maru) = "excellent" This symbol is sometimes called a bullseye. It represents the ideal condition. Here's an example of these symbols in use, as spotted on a Japanesefilm review website. A translation of each rating category is shown onthe right, with the Playstation symbols converted into star ratings.