On the Beach is my favourite Neil Young record.

Positive thoughts being thought, Jessica.

Good thing you were able to restrain your "fist of death".

I don't recall my vinyl being like that. As there were multiple sources(as many as 6 or 9, I think) for this show, you'll have to provide a label and Matrix # for us to help determine if you got a bad copy.

Well done Kimbersays! Not only did you strike gold not once, but TWICE!!!...but you also displayed impeccable cool in your behaviour. Probably a good thing you didn't chase him down the street...did your friends really suggest that? By the way, were those Waitrose shopping bags Jimmy was carrying? What a splendid capper to your London trip, Kimbersays, and you described it very nicely. Your husband and son must have been so jealous. Congratulations on your good luck! That's been my experience and the experience of others I know that have had the good fortune to meet him in public. Maybe it was different for him in the '70s, but he seems to have really become comfortable with who he is and what he represents to the fans. He appears more at ease in public these days, and genuinely moved by how his music has touched our lives and our souls. When discussing the music, his eyes will alight and twinkle.

Happy birthday to our resident sports prognosticator/gambling addict: Rick! Aka LedZeppfan77 aka Newkidintown aka Icantquityoubabe...and my personal favourite incarnation, Yukon Cornelius. A true believer in his beloved(but often awful and tragic) Buffalo Bills and Sabres...for his, and his bank account's sake, I hope they win a championship one day. You can be a rapscallion sometimes...but who among us isn't at times...but I wish you a happy happy day, Rick.

I'm part of some guard...now that I'm 50 I guess you could call me one of the old guard. Been on since 2000(always as 'Strider'), which is a lifetime in internet years. Many of the other discussion groups/message boards I belonged to in 2000 have long since been defunct. Seeing Lakey, Manders, Pilot, ledded and Rorer back is a welcome sight. Now if only nine lives, Aqua and Evster would come back.

I have three versions of Texas Pop...Godfatherecords, Genuine Masters DVD-A, which claims to have both the soundboard and the video soundtrack, and another earlier cd release, the name and label of which escapes me now. While I enjoy popping in the '69 Texas Pop now and then, I have to agree with most others here that it's not my first choice regarding 1969 shows. It is a particular quirk of mine that I only consider concerts that included "As Long As I Have You" in the setlist as candidates for Best of 1969. The ALAIHY jams are my favourite moments of 1969 Led Zeppelin. If only they would have kept it in the set thru the year...at least until the RAH show on Jimmy's birthday. Imagine having ALAIHY on the RAH portion of the DVD! As for the mini-77 debate going on...the difference between the 6 LA Forum shows is marginal for the most part, especially when comparing the first 3 or 4 nights. But in my opinion, any of the 6 Forum shows would outrank an earlier show like 4.28.77, if only for the inclusion of Over the Hills and Far Away in the setlist. OTHAFA is one of the highlights of the 77 tour for me, and any show that doesn't have it suffers in comparison. That's why I can't put 6.25 above 6.21, 6.22, or 6.23. Yes, I said 6.22.77...for years the lost forgotten sheep of the 6 night Forum run. This is the one show I did NOT attend that year, and for a long time I wondered what I had missed. Then Luis Rey's book came out and he slagged the show, so I felt better about not going that night as he made it seem as if it was subpar Zeppelin. Until last year, when I finally scored a boot of the 6.22 show: Scorpio's "Second Night at the Forum". No, the sound quality isn't as good as the Millard tapes, but it's listenable. More importantly, Luis Rey was wrong...this performance is every bit as good as the more famous Eddie and Badgeholder nights, and in some spots better(I really like Achilles, broken string and all...and this night has the longest No Quarter jam ever). Even more important, 6-22 is one of the rare 1977 dates where the band played both IMTOD and OTHAFA...hell, it might be the ONLY time but I'd have to go through the timeline to make sure. And the 6-22 OTHAFA is a BEAST...especially when it comes to the solo! Jimmy's en fuego! All this makes me regret I didn't see the 6-22 show now. As for the 6-25...having just listened to all the 6 Forum shows, I will say that the 6.25 Kashmir is AWESOME, with the best sound balance between the instruments. Some versions have too much guitar and not enough Mellotron and others the reverse. The 6.25 is just right in all facets. This all reminds me, too, that I need to get cracking and write up the 77 Forum shows.

^^^ Ditto what he said. Led Zeppelin never had an official fan club, and by 1986, the band was long defunct anyway. Why have a fan club for a band that doesn't exist? Plus, how would the band be playing "Black Dog" and "Stairway to Heaven" if the recordings were listed as being from 1969-70? No, what you have sounds like yet another of the seemingly thousands of releases of the April 1, 1971 BBC broadcast of the Paris Theatre concert.

Sorry, as a classical music fan I cannot let this slander stand. Mozart came before Beethoven. Mozart died in 1791, whereas Beethoven's first works weren't published until around 1793. Mozart most certainly did not "plagiarize" from Beethoven. From Hayden? Maybe...but not Ludwig van.

Well, you can always just pop in the DVD of one of her earlier tours...I recommend the "Blonde Ambition" or "Ray of Light/Drowned" tours...and sit back with a nice bottle of wine. I prefer a Chianti or red Zinfendel. I feel you, Juliet, as I'm most likely gonna take a pass on this tour as well. I feel doubly bad for you if you have never seen Madonna, as you're obviously a fan. It's a shame most big pop acts price most of their fans out of a chance of getting tickets.

All the pre-concert bits with Jones show him with that Prince Valiant/Little Lord Fauntleroy wig...reading to his children; the scene in the kitchen with Mo where he gets the tour dates..."ah, tour dates-this is tomorrow!". Also, look during "No Quarter"...as the song shifts from actual concert footage to Jones' fantasy, you see him with the wig, starting with him seated at that giant church organ during the keyboard solo part of the song. As for the Shepperton bits, "Black Dog" has a bunch...during the guitar solo you can even see Jones in his wig...also the Bonham closeups are Shepperton. In Dazed and Confused, there's a long dolly shot of Jimmy that ends with the camera zooming into Jimmy's eyeball as the footage then shifts to the guy being chased by concert security...that shot is from the Shepperton reshoot. Stairway has some bits that look like Shepperton as Robert and the lighting keep switching. Whole Lotta Love has some Shepperton footage...as the band comes out of the Boogie Mama section into the "Way down inside" part. I'd have to watch the movie again to find other examples, but the above is what I remember most.

I was flabbergasted and knocked sideways when Electrophile started this thread last year and so many others joined in. Such a surprise. A year later, you all have remembered again, which is really too much. I feel unworthy of the attention, but grateful for the birthday wishes from my Zeppelin family. Yes, it's the big 5-0...but I really don't feel any different than I did at 40 or 30. I'm in the middle of a birthday buying spree at Amoeba Records, before continuing with my birthday plans. So thank you one and all for your birthday greetings. May I be able to do the same for you one day.

Most definitely. I did the same thing, too, read the book by Peter Benchley after seeing the movie. The very definition of a "compulsively readable" book. I was glad the movie cut out the affair between Hooper and Chief Brody's wife, though. Spoken like a true medical professional. No, not a blu-ray...we saw "Jaws" at an actual theatre; the Alex Theatre in Glendale. In fact, as a point of reference, since this thread is titled "I've Been Going...", unless I specifically mention watching a movie on TCM or a dvd, all the movies I post about here are films I went out to see in a movie theatre. The kids loved "Jaws" by the way. And they showed a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon before the film, just like in the old days. It was "Captain Hareblower", with Bugs and Yosemite Sam, or in this case, Pirate Sam duking it out on the high seas. Classic. It just isn't the same watching these on a tv screen or a computer monitor...or god forbid, a cellphone.

That's on my to-do list...I've been hearing nothing but positive words about this and the LCD Soundsystem documentary "Shut Up and Play the Hits". Another day, another classic movie: today I am taking some kids to see "Jaws" on the big screen. None of the kids have seen the film before. Plus, as an added bonus, the people responsible for "Bruce" the mechanical shark will be there to talk about the making of "Jaws" and the difficulties in getting the shark to work. I still remember going with my little sister to a matinee of "Jaws" in 1975 and how she left my arm bruised from gripping it so hard during the movie. Especially when that dead guy pops out from the boat when Richard Dryfuss is trying to get the shark's tooth out. Robert Shaw FTW!!!

Jonesey had cut his hair after the 1973 tour(perhaps in preparation for becoming Choirmaster), so when they reshot some bits he wore a wig. Why he couldn't find a better one than that is a mystery, though. That made the one Cary Grant wore in "I Was a Male War Bride" look sophisticated. Poor Jones. Anyway, if you look at photos of the 1975 U.S. tour, you can see how short his hair was. I actually think this tour was one of his best "looks", stylistically...the short hair, the black shirt and vest. He looked cool...miles better than the goofy hair and mustache and 5-string bass from 1973. 1972 and 1975 were the tours I saw where Jones looked the best.

If Joe Massot was still alive, Jimmy Page could have possibly reached an agreement to allow for a new edit of TSRTS. But Massot died in 2002. But as I mentioned long ago, Jimmy could have avoided this impasse by just giving the project a different name. If he had just titled it "Live at Madison Square Garden" or something catchy, he wouldn't have had to follow the edits of the original film.

Having breakfast at a diner that has the Olympics on the telly. So I am finally getting my first 2012 Olympic exposure. New Zealand vs. Brazil, Women's Soccer. It appears to be live...Brazil just scored to go up 1-0. Erm...now they're showing Ping-Pong. Or, more accurately, NBC is showing commercials interspersed with Ping-Pong.

Just came home from being out with some friends to see the new restored expanded print of Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly". At least 4 or 5 extra scenes that were cut from the original release. It's part of this giant retrospective of Spaghetti Westerns that the American Cinematheque is screening for the next few weeks...including some that have inspired Quentin Tarantino. Not just Leone, but Corbucci, Santi, Parolini, and many others. It's been a fabulous week of great 'guy' films at the Cinematheque: "Dr. Strangelove" Wednesday, "The Deer Hunter" Thursday, "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" tonight. And not a lick of crappy CGI.

^^^ Depends...are you talking about all the permutations of the Cult? Because I was hearing The Southern Death Cult played on the radio here in the early 80s. Next thing I know, there's a band called The Cult and in 1985 "She Sells Sanctuary" is all over the radio. Ha, as many times I have made a fool of myself here, I don't need courage to admit to liking Abba. In fact, I've stated my fondness for Abba long ago on these forums. I'm listening to "The Winner Takes It All" as I write this. Oh, as I'm home now from being out, I found the answer: The Chuck Klosterman Abba essay is in his book "Eating the Dinosaur". It's titled ABBA 1, World 0. Fantastic stuff. Here's a link: http://books.google.com/books/about/Abba_1_World_0.html?id=BxqmfEjuGc8C

Thank you. I'm glad to find I'm not the only one here who is a fan of ABBA. Impeccable pop instincts. Chuck Klosterman wrote a great essay on Abba...it's been published in one of his books. When I get home tonight, I'll find out which one. It's an entertaining read.

Yes! + 1,000,000,000,000!

Ronnie James Dio: Creator of the 'devil horn' metal salute. If he did nothing else he would still warrant Metal God status and immortality just for that act of inspiration. \__/

If violent movies were the cause of violence, shouldn't do-gooder doggerel like "Gandhi" and "Crash" cause an outbreak of universal love and brotherhood? Thank god the theatre I went to didn't overreact...not only did we get the "Man of Steel" and "Looper" trailers, we got to see the trailer to what looks to be one of the highlights of the year: Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained"!!! Hell yeah!!!

Not sure...it appears to be from their Isle of Wight performance. Probably one of the jams they would get into on "Young Man's Blues" or "My Generation". I'd have to watch the concert video again. But I find it laughable that RS would use this clip to represent Pete Townsend. Pete wasn't influential because of his solos, it was his rhythm work, his riffs, composition and his use of feedback and noise.