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Thanks MSG! I have to admit I haven't exactly been keeping up with Jimmy's On This Day posts. Good thing people are archiving it for slackers such as myself.

It was late last night when I started listening to the May 21, 1977 Houston Summit show, so I only made it through the first disc before going to sleep. Finished listening to the show earlier today. Wondering if a general consensus has formed about this gig? To my ears, it seems an average to above-average 1977 performance, but not near the peaks reached in Los Angeles. One of my quirks about the 1977 tour is that I prefer to have Over the Hills and Far Away in the setlist than In My Time of Dying. Not that there's anything wrong with IMTOD, but it's just that Jimmy's solo in OTHAFA was so GONZO during the 77 tour, it was often the highlight of the night, along with NQ, Kashmir, TYG, Going to California, and Achilles. Of course, if the setlist included BOTH OTHAFA and IMTOD, all the better for the audience. Anyway, this Houston performance has a pretty good Kashmir, Achilles and No Quarter. But Ten Years Gone, TSRTS, Sick Again and SIBLY are average, or in the case of Sick Again and TYG, below average. Jimmy stumbles thru the TYG solo, ruining the flow. The typical dry 1977 soundboard sound doesn't help...I'd love to hear a good audience tape of this show; it might improve my feelings about the performance. Interesting things I noticed during the show: 1. Page plays a bit of Swan Song/Midnight Moonlight during White Summer. This White Summer/BMS is actually one of the better ones...for one thing, it's brief. Only 6 minutes, not 10 like some others that drag on. 2. Bonham is alternately off and on fire in this show. He misses his cue in Sick Again and isn't particularly inspired during No Quarter, but then is energetic and a beast during IMTOD and Achilles. His fills in Achilles get so crazed I'm amazed Jimmy doesn't get thrown off by them. 3. After SIBLY, Bonham can be heard yelling for them to play OTHAFA, but his request gets ignored. Too bad. 4. Plant half coughs/name-checks Arsenal at one point, then mentions Manchester United defeated Liverpool in the FA Cup 2-1. He goes on to tell the Houstonians that if they haven't heard of soccer, they will. In five years soccer will be everything. 5. Plant notices that the Summit is a new building and that this is the first time the band have played there. 6. The band does two encores, certainly a rarity in 1977. After the usual Rock and Roll, the band comes back to finish the night with Trampled Underfoot, a welcome treat preferable to the lousy Whole Lotta Love/Black Dog/Communication Breakdown that usually was performed. Does anyone know what the first concert at the Houston Summit was? Now that I'm finished with Houston 77, I'm going back 40 years to 1971: August 21 & 22 at the LA Forum and September 14 at Berkeley Community Center. I'm in the middle of a large bootleg project and I'm making sure the discs I send out have no flaws.

May 21, 1977 Houston Summit. "The Dragon Snake" soundboard from EVSD.

Okay, am I the only one INTRIGUED by these two dates? I've been to the Casino Ballroom on Catalina Island, so the fact Jimmy and the Yardbirds played there is fascinating. It's not a common stop for rock and roll bands on tour, that's for sure. Do any photos or recordings exist of this gig? Was this during the time Jimmy and Jeff Beck were playing guitar, or was Jimmy still on bass at this point? Then there's the 1969 gig...Led Zeppelin at Pirates World! I would kill for a photo of that marquee! Pirates World sounds like those tourist-trap theme-restaurants we have out here in Orange County, like Medieval Times. Where the hell is Dania? Again, have any photos or recordings surfaced of this gig? This would've been the perfect night for Jimmy to wear his white puffy shirt.

^^^ Thanks Steve. Do you remember if you saw the 1st or 2nd Day on the Green show Led Zeppelin played in Oakland in 1977? Do you remember how the opening acts were? I think Judas Priest was on the bill but I've never heard anyone describe how their set was and what they played.

Deb, 40 years ago I was in pain because I wasn't allowed to go to either of the Led Zeppelin shows at the Forum, Aug. 21 & 22, 1971. By this time, Led Zeppelin had released three albums, and they had supplanted both the Beatles and Rolling Stones as my favourite band. But I was too young and my parents said I would have to wait until I turned 10 the next year before they would take me to a rock concert. So that August weekend in 1971, I didn't do anything except sit and sulk in my bedroom thinking how much fun I was missing at the LA Forum those two nights. I still get a twinge in my heart when I listen to the bootlegs of the shows and realize how CLOSE I was to being able to go...if only I had been born a year earlier! Damn!

Going on a hike and got the August 22, 1971 LA Forum show on the headphones. 40 years ago I was sulking/crying in my bedroom because I was not allowed to go to either the August 21 or 22 concerts at the Forum. Too young I was told. Had to wait another year. As Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison had all died recently...hell, Jim had only just died the previous month...all year I prayed that nobody from Led Zeppelin would die, or that the band would break up. How cool is this opening number...what a surprise it must have been to the audience!!!

Oh great...it wasn't enough you derailed the other thread, now you have to poison this one, too, with your paranoia. I responded to you and silvermedalist once and for all in the other thread today, but since you persist in spreading lies, I'll respond here as well. There is no mention of me being drunk or high on quaaludes anywhere in my reviews of the 1973 shows...I didn't take a quaalude until 1975, so stop it already. Just like silvermedalist, you clearly didn't read any of my posts...or if you did, you would stop with this nonsense. I was not a druggie or a drinker at 10 and 11...not even close. I happen to think plagiarism is serious too, which is why I do not like being called one when it is not the case. Again, it sounds like you're verging on twilight zone territory with yuor paranoia, but "my memories" are my own and nobody elses. As for Trudy, whether I remember her last name or don't, is irrelevant...I'm sure not going to reveal it here so mouth-breathers like you and silvermedalist can hound her facebook page. Now you two sound like Donald Trump, who claims he can remember his 1st grade class. I couldn't recognise any more than 4 or 5 of my high school class now, let alone my 1st grade class. My dad was married and divorced three times. We moved 6 times before I was even in high school. Schools, classmates, teachers all changed on a whirlwind basis. The only constant in my life was Led Zeppelin.

Hi Deborah...in case you didn't see my post in the happy birthday In Through the Out Door thread, I've confirmed that ITTOD was not released August 15 in America. Somewhere on the 20th thru 22nd is the time...most likely the 22. I'll send you the proof as soon as I receive word from a couple more sources I am waiting to hear from, so you can adjust your timeline accordingly.

Finding out the West Memphis Three were freed.

September 19, 1970 Madison Square Garden (evening show). I have several versions of this show: "Requiem"; EVSD's 4-disc set of both the afternoon and evening shows, and another I recently picked up: Boogie Mama's "One More For Road", which I am listening to for the first time. Hard to say how it compares with the other two releases I have...with the average tape quality of the source, it can only sound so good anyway. What makes the show enjoyable and worth listening to is the sheer power and intensity of the performance. The band is white hot...September 1970 being one of Led Zeppelin's high points in their touring history...and the audience feeds back that intensity to the band. By Whole Lotta Love, the pandemonium is palpable. An ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL show to have in one's collection, whatever the format.

Bumping this thread because it deserves to be on the first page automatically...maybe Sam could think about pinning it along with Deb's thread. Lawd knows there aren't many finer and more integral women to this board than Deb and Knebby. I just have to get down on my knees again in supplication to your effort Knebby in bringing forth all this vast treasure trove of knowledge, insider perspective and great photos. It's so nice to be able to place the names with a face. I bow down to you...and if there's any special task I can perform for you while I'm down in this position, I'm at your service. Of course, it would be rude of me not to acknowledge the contributions of others: HotPlant, Steve, MSG, Sam, and PlanetPage...a salute of gratitude to all of you. But as this thread is Knebby's baby; she doing the hard work of excavating it from the old site, it is she that gets to use me at her whim, should she ever desire. Now that everybody's rolling their eyes, stop for a moment as I do have some entourage info to contribute. Something flashed in my mind when reading Knebby's post about Magnet...I just wasn't sure what it was. Well, I recently picked up another copy of Paul Kendall's seminal book "LED ZEPPELIN A Visual Documentary by Paul Kendall". Published in 1982, this was the first great overview of Led Zeppelin. Ritchie Yorke's bio was incomplete and had minimal black and white photos, and Howard Mylett's books were hard to find in the U.S. Paul's book, on the other hand, was LOADED with great photos as well as having a chronological text, and was readily available in America. Anyway, not having looked at the book in years(my other two copies are in storage), I thumbed thru my latest copy and there it was...the reason Magnet's name seemed so familiar. In the chapter dealing with 1975, there's an entry for January 29, Greensboro, North Carolina that mentions rioting between fans and the police. It quotes an account from Melody Maker, which I now quote for you: "Melody Maker: Although the majority of the rioting fans had disappeared by the end of the show, the group were forced to make the quickest getaway within seconds after leaving the stage. Zeppelin manager Peter Grant took the wheel of one of the limousines - much to the surprise of the official driver - while the other was driven by Magnet, a British roadie employed by Deep Purple, who had come along to the concert as an old friend of the band. Heading the procession was a police car which cleared the way for the two limousines, sirens blasting at speeds of up to 70mph in a heavily built-up area. The three cars drove over red lights and on the opposite side of the road in a scene that resembled a Steve McQueen movie car chase. The squealing tyres almost drowned out the police siren. Grant, an expert driver, who had offered to buy both limousines from the car company, said afterwards 'I didn't care what happened so long as I got the boys out OK. That car I was driving was out of tune, otherwise I'd have driven faster still'."

Thanks Steve for posting that Guns n Roses McDonald's clip...I needed a laugh like that...hilarious. Brad, I think you're overreacting to Electrophile's post. I watched both clips she posted...TWICE! I don't get why you're upset...the first clip isn't mocking religion, it is mocking Sarah Palin's way of wrapping herself in a cloak of gee-whiz patriotism and religious fervor. As a public figure, Sarah is fair game for satire. "White like Jesus" in the context of the clip is hilarious. Lighten up. The second clip was just flatout funny...and I didn't see any religious connotations in that clip at all. Frankly, I'm getting a little sick of people harrassing Electrophile. Is she perfect? No. Nor do I agree with everything she says, but I'll defend to the death her right to say them. Does she come on strong sometimes? Maybe, but no more so than you or I or anybody else, with the exception of Deborah J, who is the picture of restraint. In fact, I wonder if part of the animosity directed towards her is because she's a woman speaking her mind. If she were a guy, I doubt anyone would take such offense. Not that she needs me to come to her aid, as Electro is strong enough to handle herself...but good grief, lay off her! *No religious fundamentalists were harmed in the making of this post.

Just as I didn't abandon Led Zeppelin when they came out with Led Zep III or the eclectic Houses of the Holy, I've never been bothered by whatever direction Wilco has chosen. A good band, after a time, begins to achieve its own aura, so that whatever far-flung influences they use, or sounds they experiment with, it all comes out "sounding" like the band. No matter what, Led Zeppelin SOUNDED like Led Zeppelin, whether they were filtering folk, arabic or country music. Pink Floyd always sounded like Pink Floyd. I feel the same way about Wilco, whether it's the early alt-country albums, or the later, more noisy ones...it's all Wilco to me. A band should progress, in my opinion. Your tastes and influences change and expand as you grow older, and a good band's music refects that journey. Otherwise you just become stale and stagnant like AC/DC, a 60 year old man running around in a cheesy schoolboy's outfit. One benefit I have, is that this is primarily the only band's website I visit and post on the message boards. So I am spared at having to hear what some anorak has to say about Wilco, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, or any other band that's still active. I know what I like and don't need to have my opinion validated by a group of trainspotters usually engaged in a battle with each other to prove their coolness and fan-cred.

Awesome...TOTALLY AWESOME! NOW I really can't wait for the new record...sounds like they've decided to unleash Nels! You can have your Black Sabbath, Def Leppard and all the tired classic-rock geezers trading on nostalgia...I'll take something fresh over something stale any day.