28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzU8o_ScBkk

Hmmm, according to my date planner, I've seen 32 movies over the summer...no time or sense describing them all, I suppose. Besides, just when I've seen one another is coming up ahead. Lately, I've been immersed in a flood of Gallic culture. Cinefamily has been showing some very cool artifacts from the French Pop explosion of the Sixties, and last nigth I was at the Serge Gainsbourg Tribute Concert at the Hollywood Bowl(which I will have to post about in the concert thread in Other Bands/Music section...it was a stunning show!). This week, there are two more cool French documentaries that Cinefamily is showing. Tonight is: An Evening With Jean-Claude Vannier in person...Live Q&A with French pop's greatest arranger! 8/29 - 8PM $12/free for members Co-presented by Finders Keepers Records/B-Music Vanniers string and choral arrangements have a total sense of OTHERNESS and are indeed unlike anyone elses. Tim Gane, Stereolab If youve ever in your life heard French pop music from the last four decades that moved you, then youve been touched by the genius of Jean-Claude Vannier. JCVs not only responsible for arrangements for virtually every Gallic pop star of note (from Gainsbourg to Francoise Hardy, Michel Polnareff, Brigitte Fontaine, Jane Birkin and Gilbert Becaud, to name but a handful), but also for several startling and wholly unique albums under his own name, and countless French film and television soundtracks to boot! Jean-Claudes done it all, has collaborated with all, knows everyone in the whole of French music and (can you believe it?) will be with us live on the Cinefamily stage, for an in-depth Q&A moderated by Andy Votel of Finders Keepers Records that takes us on a guided tour of his impeccable career. Youll also see clips from films Jean-Claude has scored, his early-70s work with fashion maven Yves St. Laurent, and youll hear some exclusive tracks from Jean-Claudes two new LPs on Finders Keepers. No tried-and-true music fan can go without missing this one-of-a-kind special night! Make sure to see Jean-Claude Vannier, appearing with Beck, Sean Lennon, Mike Patton, and more at the Hollywood Bowl on the Serge Gainsbourg Tribute, Sunday, August 28! Go to http://hollywoodbowl.com/serge for tickets and information. Watch Jean Claude Vanniers LEnfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes accompanying the 1971 Yves Saint-Laurent fashion line! Then, from August 30 to September 2, the Cinefamily is having multiple screenings of a French Television documentary on Serge Gainsbourg never screened in Los Angeles, and possibly the U.S. before: Gainsbourg And His Girls An essential doc look at the seductive provocateur! 8/30 - 7:30PM & 10:00PM 8/31 - 10:45PM 9/1 - 7:30PM & 10:00PM 9/2 - 10:00PM $10/free for members The Captain had Tennille, Buckingham had Nicks and Gainsbourg had Birkin, Bardot, Deneuve, Karina, Hardy, Gall, Greco, Adjani, Faithfull, Paradis, Barbara, Bambou, Dalida, etc. The CD collection of people who have sung the songs of Serge over the years could comprise a whopping 4-disc set of 98 tracks, with easily over 90% of them by women. Gainsbourgs been called a scoundrel, pervert and misogynist, yet female singers in France felt it a seminal moment in their career to sing a song penned by the rogue. For the breezy, hip-shaking feature documentary Gainsbourg And His Girls, filmmakers Didier Varrod and Pascal Forner raided the archives of INA (Institute Nationale Audio-Visuel), where pretty much all of nationally-owned French TV from the early 60s and onwards is held. And boy, was nationally-owned French TV ever cool! Comprised entirely of luxurious file footage, the interviews of Serge throughout his career in display are substantive, and at times conducted by other artists like Françoise Hardy or Jane Birkin. This is an essential deep look at the artist who most Americans only know of through his sly, seductive provocateur mask. Join us for the L.A. premiere of this fantastic new documentary! Dirs. Didier Varrod & Pascal Forneri, 2010, digital presentation, 105 min. Watch Cinefamilys trailer for Gainsbourg And His Girls! http://vimeo.com/27930561 Well, apparently vimeo won't let their clips show up so if you don't want to click over to their site, here is the original French trailer for the documentary that I found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORsYZo967o

Waking up this morning and after catching up on the hurricane Irene thread, finding out that nobody from the Zep forum seems to have been hurt or suffered any major damage. I am not normally a praying man, but I did a lot of this this past weekend.

I am glad you found a cover band...but it doesn't belong in this thread. Let's try to keep the purity of this thread without ruining the flow with unnecessary and irrelevant items. A post about a cover band belongs somewhere else...try a search for a thread about Led Zeppelin cover bands; there must be one. Or start a thread in the Other bands/music section. Deborah works so hard to keep this thread accurate and going that I hate to see it derailed by gobbledygook.

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With all the focus on Hurricane Irene, I thought I would post some disaster-themed clips.

30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whAsuAyaDu4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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.