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13! Just in case you're getting the impression Wilco is all sad songs and such, here's a little something different...

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15! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjdrXJmZ2w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Nothing gets past your eagle-eyes, I see. 16! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFlADLgv2A&feature=youtube_gdata_player

17! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0JYKOTUdd0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Beautiful...just beautiful! alias, if that Stones concert was in France, then there were probably a fair share of GI's there. Any rock concert in Europe draws a contingent of American servicemen. Just remembered another band that drew mixed crowds...War.

Exactly. This is one of the main attributes that set Led Zeppelin apart from their leadened peers. They could segue from the most dissonant avant-garde noise to a funky jam with effortless ease, as if it was in their blood. From experience, I can tell you that Led Zeppelin drew a fair amount of bruthas and sistas to their concerts...more than other white hard rock/heavy metal bands of the time. Only Santana and the Rolling Stones drew a similar multicultural crowd . You can't fake the funk...you either got IT or you don't. Led Zeppelin most definitely HAD IT!

Sorry I'm a little later today than I expected... 18!

Got my first "Hate Mail" sent to my PM box. Friggin' hilarious. I guess you haven't really arrived on a message board until you get your first hate mail. Doesn't deserve a response or a mention of who it was...because he's already been BANNED again after only 4 posts.

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Most of you already read how I got into Led Zeppelin, so no need to rehash that old story. No, what I am enjoying most about this thread and find fascinating is reading the experiences of those of you too young to experience the band first hand, or those who caught the band in mid-career mode. Old timers like The Rover and myself...well, since we got on board from the beginning, we had no choice in approaching the band. There was Led Zeppelin and then there was Led Zeppelin II. Then the long wait for Led Zeppelin III. Another wait for Led Zeppelin IV. An even longer wait for Houses of the Holy. And so on. What was out was all there was available, save for the occasional bootleg if you were lucky to have an outlet that sold them in your town. So, if you didn't like whatever the latest Led Zeppelin release was, you had to satisfy yourself with their previous albums and wait and hope the next one would be better. I remember liking Houses of the Holy alright when it came out, but it sort of paled in some respects following Led Zep IV. Then after seeing the 1973 concerts, the recorded versions of the Holy songs sounded anemic in comparison. So the wait between Houses and Physical Graffiti was excruciating. Of course, if you were lucky, the band toured your town and you could sate your Zeppelin lust by going to a show. But it was a long 10 or so years for you to experience the entire Zeppelin catalogue, from Led Zeppelin to In Through the Out Door. Contrast that to today, where a kid who gets turned on to Led Zeppelin can acquire the entire recorded output of the band within minutes and has access to hundreds of bootleg concerts...shows that were mere whispered rumours back in the 70s. I find it intriguing that a person's first entree to Zeppelin could be Kashmir...or even stranger, ITTOD! And if you try an album and don't like it, you can try another one immediately, either one from before or one after. There's no waiting around for the next release. I wonder what would have happened if I didn't hear of Led Zeppelin until high school...or until the 80s? Would I have been as big a fan as I became. Led Zeppelin was the key, the door that led me down the road to so many other bands. I heard Zep before there was an Aerosmith, a Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and the like. So what is it like to experience the reverse...to not hear Zeppelin until AFTER hearing all those late-70s- early 80s hard rock/metal bands? And what is it like to hear Led Zeppelin not among its natural peers of the time such as the Who, the Stones, Deep Purple, Yes, Black Sabbath, etc., but among the new wave and hair metal bands of the 80s or the techno, hip-hop and indie-rock of the 90s? Like I said, The Rover and I had to live 10 years of our lives between hearing Led Zeppelin and ITTOD. Now you can listen to those first 9 albums in 10 hours all at once. Is the impact of the band's music even stronger when listened to in such a concentrated burst?

20! Dewey, THIS is what you get to look forward to seeing when you finally see Wilco in concert...Nels is EPIC in this song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPAbjNT7nQY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Oh, I'm sure it'll be interesting. Of course the problem is that "interesting" and "good" don't always go hand-in-hand. Just have to wait-and-see. At least it won't be as bad as VH III.

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If he loves rave music, try showing/playing him the Theremin parts of any Whole Lotta Love from 1973 and 1975, especially ones that include a funky jam along with it...like in 1975 where they would do a little "Sex Machine" or "Licking Stick". If you want epic, nothing much more EPIC than watching Jimmy in his black dragon suit work the theremin on the Earl's Court video; either the May 24 or 25 will do for impressing your cousin. What's making me happy today? Slept in til 9. Went on a little hike. Having Strawberry waffles while watching US Open tennis. Later, will visit Vroman's special "Tent Sale"...books 75% off...and see what they have; always looking for cool art/photography books. Still stoked after scoring big time at the record swap meet yesterday...added 10 Zeppelin boots to my collection.

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