Another one from Texas...welcome to the board, Cindy! Saw you visited my profile, and as I didn't recognize your name, thought I'd do a little checking myself and that is when I saw you were a new member. Well, if you like Led Zeppelin, I'm sure we'll cross paths on the board soon. Hope you enjoy your time here.

Thanks for posting this...never was a big Cliff Richard fan, but the link between Jet Harris and Jimmy and JPJ is undeniable and not to be forgotten. And 71 is a reasonably long life...R.I.P. Jet.

Oh don't be so dramatic...and stop your weeping; this ain't the Miami Heat locker-room. I see...so then I must have HALLUCINATED Sonic Youth, The Swans, Big Black, Black Flag, X, Alley Cats, Cramps, Blasters, Gun Club, Southern Death Cult, Social Distortion, Descendents, Dead Kennedys, Flesh Eaters, Divine Horsemen, Circle Jerks, Fear, Flipper, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Melvins, Dinosaur Jr., Green River/Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, Mekons, Feelies, XTC, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock/The Soft Boys, The Cure, Jesus & the Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, The Mighty Lemon Drops, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Yo La Tengo, Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Thelonious Monster, 45 Grave, Fishbone, Busboys, Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, Tex & the Horseheads, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Opal, Kendra Smith, Bangles, Bad Brains, Steel Pulse, Public Enemy, Afrika Bambaataa, Beastie Boys, N.W.A., Run-DMC, Eric B. & Rakim, Steve Earle, Pogues, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Bauhaus, Crowded House, Kate Bush, Joan Jett, Go-Go's, Madonna, Prince, Husker Du, Replacements, House of Freaks, Violent Femmes, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan, Echo & the Bunnymen, U2, The Teardrop Explodes, Psychedelic Furs, Talk Talk, Human League, Yazoo, Depeche Mode, New Order, Nurse with Wound, The Smiths, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Iron Maiden, Guns 'n' Roses, Accept, Ministry, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sade, Peter Gabriel, Pere Ubu, the Fall, Cabaret Voltaire, Au Pairs, Altered Images, Pet Shop Boys, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Cameo, Klaus Nomi, Wall of Voodoo, the db's, Concrete Blond, Mary's Danish, Southern Culture on the Skids, Chesterfield Kings, Oingo Boingo, Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Annie Lennox/Eurhythmics...and probably many more that I'm forgetting. Not to mention Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, who both released records in the 80's.

Whew...(breaths sigh of relief)...that is good news.

Doesn't something have to actually go away before you can miss 'em? I swear it sometimes seems like the 80's and 90's have never left. It used to be there was a lag time before nostalgia kicked in...like how it wasn't until the early 70's(helped by American Graffiti) that there was a 50's revival. Or the 1979-81 boom in all things Doors and 60's counterculture, which in turn led to the Paisley Underground. But, now with the internet and the 24/7 news cycle and the shortening of attention spans, there seems to be a current of nostalgia running all the time. I also love how people reduce whole decades to simplified cliche. Like one poster above who equated the 80's with light frothy John Hughes movies and the 90's with dark violent QT films. Well, the 80's had their share of dark twisted films...does the name David Lynch ring a bell? Blue Velvet? Wild at Heart? Elephant Man? And I'm pretty sure the 90's had their fair share of light frothy teenage movies.

Any news? Hope this is a "no news is good news" situation...

I enjoy both the 21 and 22(love the Walk Don't Run intro) Forum shows but IMO they pale in comparison to later shows like Orlando and Toronto mainly because the ending of Celebration Day wasn't as developed early on in the 1971 tour as it was say in September and October. Celebration Day SLAYS during the latter stages of the 71 tour.

Okay, so I usually am the first to complain about whatever stupid poll Rolling Stone or NME runs about "greatest this or that", but I realize that there are many here, especially the younger generations, who do love to show their love for Led Zeppelin by voting in whatever poll is happening at the moment. Well, kiddos, that moment now happens to be at the sports network, ESPN, where one of their radio hosts, Colin Cowherd, has made up a Rock Bracket much in the manner of the NCAA Basketball brackets. It appears the voting has been going on for some time as they are in the 3rd round already. Led Zeppelin has made it past Nickelback(WTF!) and the Allman Brothers and are now doing battle with Metallica. Queen is duking it out with the Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam is trying to upset the Beatles(as if) and it's the Mods(The Who) vs. the Psychedelic Freaks(Pink Floyd) along with several other battles...AC/DC vs. Nirvana; Guns n Roses vs. Van Halen. Here's the link to the bracket(you will notice some curious omissions...Nickelback, 311 and Creed, but NO Radiohead, Yes or CCR?)where you can vote and see the results of the earlier rounds: ESPN's Herd Rock Brackets I should think Led Zeppelin wouldn't need much help in defeating Metallica but you never know about sports audiences...the demographic probably skews towards that Metallica/G n R/AC/DC crowd. So if you like participating in these things...get out and vote. Vote early and often. I gotta think Led Zeppelin makes the semi-finals at least.

It wasn't just the acid he contributed to society that made him a pioneer...as the man who designed the Dead's sound system he deserves to be recognized as the man who had a lot to do with the improvements in concert sound systems during the '70's. Goodbye Bear. R.I.P.

This is welcome news. I have the EVSD 4-cd set Firecrackers Explosion which contains both nights at the Forum: August 21 & 22, 1971. If the latest is an upgrade from that, I would be happy indeed. Now, if only there was an upgrade(possibly a soundbaord?) of the Sept. 19, 1970 evening show at Madison Square Garden!

Another good one is "Ain't It Hard: Sunset Strip Sound of Viva", a single cd/vinyl set of rockers from Snuff Garrett's Viva label based in L.A. Bands include The Second Helping(which features a young Kenny Loggins), Leathercoated Minds, The Sound Sandwich, Gypsy Trips, and others. Here are a few songs from the comp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqfLv5FYy8c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNGbnG1j1fY

Love the 60's garage-rock bands...thanks for starting this thread Swede. Of course, the Lenny Kaye-compiled NUGGETS double-vinyl set that came out in the early-70's and later in an expanded cd box set is a classic of the genre and a MUST-HAVE in any record collection. And just about everyone from the Kingsmen to the Sonics to the Standells to the Count Five to 13th Floor Elevators have gotten their due with remastered cds and such. But there are still dozens and dozens of 60's garage-rock bands out there waiting to be discovered, bands who recorded maybe just one or two singles for obscure regional labels and then vanished. Well, if you've worn your copy of Nuggets to the bone and are looking for more, there's a little label called SUNDAZED that is doing a pretty good job of scouring the country looking for hidden nuggets, and they've put out several good garage-rock compilations that I highly recommend. One is called "2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage And Psychedelia From USA And Destination Records", a 2-cd set focusing on the Chicago garage-rock scene via the USA and Destination Records labels, with excellent mastering work by Bob Irwin. Featuring bands like The Lost Agency, Daughters of Eve, The Flock, The Foggy Notions, Park Avenue Playground, and The Buckinghams among others, it's a killer sampler to add to your garage-rock collection. Oh, and it is also available on vinyl for the truly retro-experience. Here's the first two songs from the set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lURSPIsdf4

DAMN! There are far too many R.I.P.'s having to be said recently. Joe Morello was a damn fine drummer and a major part of one of the finest and swingingest and INFLUENTIAL jazz quartets ever: The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Dave Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on bass and Joe Morello on drums. You cannot overstate what an impact the "Time Out" album made, with tracks like "Blue Rondo a la Turk", "Three to Get Ready" and of course, the immortal "Take Five" with Joe's great solo. Look him up, google him, search youtube...whatever you kids do today...but if you've never heard the man, you need to get hip to one of the great drummers of the time. Alas, another good one bites the dust. Rest in Peace Mr. Morello.

I can't drink at the moment, but this definitely calls for a toast...well done! Good sleuthing on your part!

C'mon Ev...pull through...fight...you have the hammer of the gods within you!

That would be great if that really happened, but if my memory is correct, I do not recall seeing more than one mic on Bonham's kick drum at the 1977 LA Forum gigs I went to, and presumedly one of the signs that a show was multi-tracked is the presence of two or more mics on the kick-drum. Agree with the others about wanting a SBD of the June 22, 1977 Forum gig above the other 1977 Forum shows. Among the Zeppelin treats I bought during my latest swap meet visit was "Second Night At the Forum" put out by the Scorpio label...even though it's not as good an audience recording as Millard's, it's still a good show and much better than Luis Rey lets on in his books. In fact, the OTHAFA guitar solo sounds closer to the fuzzed-out-spaceyness that I remember than even the Mike Millard recordings, which come across a little too clean for some reason. I don't get the hype about the Landover SBDs...I got the May 26, 77 "Bringing the House Down" and after listening to it once have had no desire to ever listen to it again. So, my wish list for Soundboards remains: Anything 1968-1973, especially the "BEARD ERA". Early 1975, when they were doing Wanton Song, Levee and HMMT. The marathon Seattle 75 show and March 12, 75, the second, and BEST of the Long Beach(if not the whole Southern California swing) shows. June 22, 1977 LA Forum. The 1979 Copenhagen warm-ups.

Poor Evster. Hope everything turns out okay...will send positive vibes his way. Someone mentioned he's in LA, so if someone can pm me what hospital he's at, I could pop in to cheer him up.

"8/4/1967 "The Last Time"/"Under My Thumb" Rolling Stones, The Track 604006" Are you sure about this? I'm not questioning the tracks, but the date seems to be off. I thought it was 1965 that the Stones recorded Last Time? Or was this one of those Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestral versions? I also seem to recall the Who recording versions of Last Time & Under My Thumb in 1967 in support of Mick & Keef's drug charges. Might it be The Who's versions that Pagey played on? Anyway, besides all that, the above list is quite impressive...and I've only got about 2/3 of it...still tons for me to get a hold of.

Wonder if he'll make another visit to one of those Japanese Zeppelin bootleg shops for another haul of goodies?

And the wheel(of destruction) rolls on. Fillmore East...Winterland...Boston Garden...The Fabulous Forum...lots of historic venues are disappearing. And now Cobo Hall. As if Detroit hasn't suffered enough. As a devoted reader of Creem from the magazine's inception 'til its demise in the 80's, I knew about Cobo and the importance of the place as a music venue. I'm glad to see Susan Whitall is still writing, as she wrote one of the all-time classic Zeppelin articles in Creem back in 1979...one that SHOULD have been anthologized in that Creem book a few years ago, but wasn't.

Are you talking about cds or dvds?

Appreciate the replies everyone. Thanks. Just curious...what version do you mostly listen to: studio or live? And if live, what particular live version is your favourite?

Awwww, feather in the wind: KEEP HOPE ALIVE! Yeah, it's been frustrating lately...but I refuse to give up hope that Pagey has at least one more trick up his sleeve. And as for the guy who said...no, I'm not even going to dignify his lame-ass comment by responding.