June 21, 1977 LA Forum, natch! "Listen to This, Eddie" Genuine Masters edition.

Wimbledon! So far I've watched Serena, Andy Roddick, Federer, and Hewitt win their matches...Sharapova is playing now. Great thing about being on the West coast is that you get to have breakfast with your Wimbledon. Coverage on ESPN2 starts at 4am and goes past noon. A nice leisurely morning watching tennis before heading out to the LA Film Festival.

Hahaha! It's funny you mentioned that. Yes, I was tripping...and as I wrote, I had a vision during Stairway's guitar solo of Jimmy floating into the sky and transforming into dozens of doves. For a long time, I thought that was just part of the trip. Then when that photo of Plant with the dove in one hand, beer in the other was published and turned into a poster, I realized the DOVES WERE REAL! But no, I don't have a specific memory of Plant holding the dove...sorry.

You're right. My threads suck. And for a long time I considered changing my user-name to Thread Killer, because as soon as I posted to a topic the thread would die. Scroll through the board and see all the threads where my post is the last one...it's like I had the plague, hehe. And just last week I posted what has to be the WORST thread ever on this board. My Bloomsday thread got ZERO replies and I think less than 20 views total. That sucks. So yes, I bow to your thread mastery. Back to Clapton...I think this was my first exposure to Cream...at least in a visual sense, as I had heard my dad play their records. I love the interview bits with Clapton as he describes his "woman tone".

I'll try to dig one up. For the longest time, I had no pictures of my childhood. After recently reconnecting with some old family relatives, I've managed to acquire a few photos from my youth. I don't have a scanner but I'll improvise. Anyway, glad to have you back safe from your trip, and happy to keep you company during the long flight.

She moved with her family and I lost touch...can't even remember her last name. And the school we went to no longer exists.

Awesome TypeO! I remember Bahne boards, though I never rode one. I was a Hobie kid in the early going. I'm old enough to remember the cheap boards with metal roller-skate wheels you could get at Sears. My first skateboard was a late-60's Hobie Super Surfer, a wood board with clay wheels mounted on ADAPTABLE trucks...I remember thinking how cool it was that you got a wrench with the board so you could adjust the trucks and tighten or loosen your turning radius. When you're a boy, anything that comes with its own tool automatically classifies as AWESOME! Alas, even the improvement from steel to clay wheels didn't eliminate the tendency of skateboards to stop on a dime when hitting a pebble on the sidewalk or street, hurling the rider off the board. After one too many scraped and gashed knees, elbows and hands, I put away the board and stuck to riding waves. Then, when poly-urethane wheels hit, it revolutionized what you could do on a board, and I got back into skateboarding bigtime. My parents got me a cheap fiberglass board from Sears before I upgraded to a Hobie Surf-Flex with either Track Force or Bennett trucks. Orange County was a skaters paradise of asphalt, concrete and swimming pools and the skate mags were full of the exploits of Jay Adams, Tony Alva and the Dogtown boys. Jay Adams was my first skateboarding icon...I had his poster up on my bedroom walls and in my school locker, along with Led Zeppelin, Gerry Lopez, J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Rigg and Susan Dey. As the 70's turned into the 80's, I rode various boards...Hobie, Sims...I had a Tony Alva model, then a Hosoi board when Christian Hosoi blew up the scene. I was in the Army from 81-85, and my first post was Ft. Hood, Texas. Since I was gonna be land-locked, I left my surfboard behind but brought my skateboard to tool around the base. Killeen(which is the base town) didn't provide many skate opportunities, but Austin did. Then, when I was stationed at Nürnberg for the remainder of my service, I brought all my boards...skate-, surf-, and snow-. I introduced a lot of German and European kids to skateboarding during my time there. And I was the only person with a snowboard as far as I could tell...what a pain that was. Try going up on a snowboard using a T-bar lift, which was the only type of lift they had at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. You haven't lived until you've skateboarded down cobblestone streets. But my biggest shock came in 1984. I went to the Scorpions/Joan Jett concert at Stuttgart. Right next to the concert arena was this homemade skate-ramp that these kids had built. I couldn't believe my eyes! As we were heaing into the venue, I begged off, telling my buddies I was gonna hit the ramp and I'd catch up with them later. I went to the ramp, borrowed some kid's board and had such a blast I nearly missed the start of the concert. From that point on, I always made sure to bring my board to Stuttgart. As the 80's wore on and turned into the 90's, I became more and more immersed into the rock n roll party life and I started keeping vampire hours. I boarded less and less. I've tried to get my nieces and godson interested in skateboarding, but they're more interested in video games. TypeO, you and I disagree widely on politics, but you're a brother of the board, so you're ok with me. Z

In the words of John McEnroe, "You CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!" First of all, you've NEVER heard of Derek Trucks? That disqualifies you from the discussion immediately. Anybody with a modicum of interest in blues-rock guitar knows who Derek Trucks is. Second, Jimi Hendrix had more acolytes than SRV...Robin Trower, Frank Marino, Ted Nugent, Mick Ronson, Hilel Slovack, John Frusciante for starters. Lastly, if you're too ignorant to know the history behind the "Clapton is God" phrase, then once again, that disqualifies you from being able to objectively discuss Clapton. I don't need to list 100 players...just one will suffice: Jimmy Page. Yep, it was Clapton himself that inspired Jimmy (and hundreds more) to switch to the Les Paul/Marshall combination. Here's another name...Eddie Van Halen. And I'm not even a Clapton fan. But your ignorance is alarming.

As far as I'm concerned, EVERYDAY is Skateboarding day. But then, I grew up in Southern California. You should've seen me in Germany during the early-80's, ripping around the burgs on my skateboard. Oh, the looks on the local's faces.

Jungleland is one of my faves, if not THE favourite, and possibly Clarence Clemons' finest solo...but you had already posted the song. So that's why I went with two other songs from the same great show in Pasaic, NJ 1978. In fact, 1978 is the year for me when he truly became The Boss. I first saw Bruce in 1973 when he opened for Blood, Sweat & Tears at the Santa Monica Civic. This was pre-Max Weinberg, Miami Steve and Roy Bittan. I can't say they knocked me out. I had no idea who he was and hadn't bought any of his records. All I remember was this scruffy, rock n roll gypsy looking dude with a big sax player in his band. And I remember the scruffy dude liked to tell lots of stories between songs. They also played a lot longer than opening acts usually did...more than an hour for sure. But IMO they weren't better than B,S & T that night. My next Bruce show was in 1974, just before my birthday...again at the Santa Monica Civic. This time he was opening for Dr. John and again it wasn't sold out. In fact, it wasn't even close to being sold out, maybe 2/3 full. But THIS time, Bruce stole the show and definitely made an impression on me. The 3 songs I remember most vividly from that night are Spirit in the Night, Jungleland, and Rosalita. After my birthday, I went out and bought the only two albums Bruce had released by then, "Greetings from Asbury Park" and "The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle". Then came "Born to Run" in 1975, and now Springsteen was a name and his band had a name...the E Street Band. This was also the classic line-up with Bruce, Clarence, Miami Steve, Gary, Danny, Roy and Mighty Max. I saw them at the Roxy that October...BEFORE he appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek simultaneously. The show was good and the band was hot, and you could definitely get a sense of the band's chemistry, especially the by-play between Bruce and Clarence. But there were some ragged moments and sometimes Bruce's stage patter came off a little too disjointed and nervous. But the show was still good enough to where I immediately put him down as someone whose concerts were worth checking out no matter what. Then came 1978, and the Darkness tour...I saw him at the Forum and the Roxy and both shows were PHENOMENAL! Visually, Bruce and the band were much more striking and the setlist was KILLER! The nerves were gone, and Bruce seemed more in control of his persona and the crowd in 78. He truly was THE BOSS. In 78, Bruce became one of those acts you would see at the drop of a hat, and as often as you could. It was during the 1978 tour, in Phoenix, that the most famous Bruce Springsteen clip was filmed. It's "Rosalita", and it was shown on ABC's "History of Rock and Roll" TV special in the late-70's. It has all the aspects of a Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band concert: passion, energy, fire, joie de vivre, band chemistry, spirituality and sex. It's a barnburner of a performance and the ending is chaotic delirium. Watch and enjoy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFdcHo7Z7w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN!!! A true musical legend...one that I've been fortunate to have seen many times over the years. Those shows at the Roxy were MAGIC! As was the Pet Sounds at the Hollywood Bowl and Smile at Walt Disney Hall. And like Brian, I often feel I just wasn't made for these times.

Thanks for posting Jahfin...I read that same article in the WSJ over the weekend and was going to post it in the Stupid People or Politically Correct thread, but you beat me to the punch. I've had a look at some of the textbooks my nieces and godson use, and it is comical how inept and inadequate they are. I sometimes fear this country, nay world, has gone forever down the rabbit-hole and shows no signs of climbing out.

These next clips are no-brainers...classic musical moments in every sense of the word! And anyone who posts clips from the execrable Burton-Depp remake is going to get a spanking. And finally, the cast of Jersey Shore...

bouillon, on 18 June 2011 -07:03 AM, said: JARI KURRI. http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=P200104#photo

Naah, clichéd, plagiarized and haphazard is what I'm going for.

Man, somehow I missed this thread...not once, but TWICE...first on the old electric-magic board, and then again on this board. So I have to THANK YOU TWICE KNEBBY! Once for starting and contributing so magnificently to this thread. And twice for bumping this thread up today so that I could finally read it.

First off, let me just say to Sam and Steve and Howard's family that I offer and send you my deepest, sincerest condolences. This goes beyond Zeppelin, for more than losing a fellow Zephead, you have lost a friend, a family member. You've lost a good man and my heart goes out to you in this time of pain and suffering. I spent all day yesterday still saddened by the news of Clarence Clemons passing, and busy with Father's Day activities, so I didn't even find out about Mr. Mylett's death until just now. For a long-time Led Zeppelin fan, it is a heavy blow...it almost is like losing a friend or family member. And Zeppelin fans of all ages should mourn one of the original "Keepers of the Flame", a man who lit the torch for Zeppelin in the darkest of times. For though it may not seem like it in these times of multiple Led Zeppelin book releases( there have been at least 5 in the last 2 years), there was a time when Led Zeppelin was persona non grata in the publishing world. And if there was to be a Mount Rushmore for the 4 men most responsible for keeping Led Zeppelin fans fed during this famine, the 4 faces on that mountain would have to be Ritchie Yorke, Paul Kendall, Dave Lewis and Howard Mylett. It was these 4 men who wrote the first, groundbreaking books on Led Zeppelin, years before it became fashionable or profitable. They did the early, hard work, the dirty work needed in the days pre-internet when you had to go far and wide to find verifiable information. They did the leg-work. Consider it wasn't until 1973, nearly 5 years into their existence, that the first Led Zeppelin bio was published...Ritchie Yorke's. In Oasis' first couple years it seemed like there were 5 books in the first year alone. Those were the dark ages us oldtimers lived in, when we were starved for any scrap of information. After Yorke's biography came Howard Mylett's "Led Zeppelin" in 1976, published in the UK, so it could be hard to find sometimes in the U.S. And for a long time THAT was it. Yorke and Mylett were the only two Zeppelin books until Bonham's death and the cessation of the band brought about a wave of books, chief among them Mylett's "In the Light", Paul Kendall's "LED ZEPPELIN: A Visual Documentary", and Paul Kendall and Dave Lewis' "LZ: In Their Own Words". Dave Lewis also had his Tight but Loose fan letter, as did Hugh Jones with Proximity. In 1983 or 84, Mylett added the first Jimmy Page-centric book to the Zeppelin Canon, "Jimmy Page: Tangents Within A Framework". Later, in 1985, the overwhelming success of "Hammer of the Gods" opened the floodgates and it became easier to sell publishers on the idea of a Led Zeppelin book. Too easy in some cases...a deluge of Zeppelin books ensued, some good, some terrible. And it continues to this day. But it should never be forgotten that it was Howard Mylett, Ritchie Yorke, Paul Kendall and Dave Lewis who were there first, when it was least fashionable. And it is their books that are the FOUNDATION of any fan's Led Zeppelin library. Goodbye Howard Mylett. Thank you. May you Rest in Peace. May you forever be "In the Light".

Had to post two of my favourite Bruce songs that were played back-to-back at this New Jersey concert in 1978. Play on, Big Man, play on... Racing in the Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NltljcANCFs&feature=youtube_gdata_player Thunder Road Rest in Peace, Clarence Clemons. Thanks for the music...thanks for the memories.

Okay, it's after midnight...NOW it is June 19 where Evster lives, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVSTER!!! May you have a ROCKIN' DAY with Angi! As for where and what Evster has been, I don't know how much info he wants to share, so I defer to Aquamarine who knows him best. We're all pulling for you Ev...hope you come back to the board one day. Birthday cheers to you...HIP-HIP HOORAY! HIP-HIP HOORAY! HIP-HIP HOORAY!

OH NO! He died? I heard he had a stroke and I saw Bruce's statement the other day. I was hoping he'd pull through. Damn shame and a HUGE loss. Like you, MSG, the Boss and the E Street Band had a big part in my life, especially 1975-1985. One of the BEST DAMNED LIVE BANDS EVER! Clarence, the BIG MAN, will be missed. R.I.P.

It's actually on June 19, Pacific Standard Time...so you're a tad early. But that's cool you remembered.

Barbara Stanwyck and Rita Hayworth are two beautiful ladies who possess more talent and sex appeal and allure than all the blank no-talents of today like Megan Fox, Blake Lively and Jessica Alba put together. First clip is of Barbara Stanwyck and John Bonham's idol Gene Krupa doing "Drum Boogie" from Howard Hawks 1941 comedy classic, "Ball of Fire", also starring Gary Cooper. Watch the WHOLE clip...just when you think the song is over, Barbara and Gene come back for an amazing finish with Krupa playing matchsticks! The second clip should need no introduction, as it is one of the all-time classic moments in film history...Rita Hayworth "Put the Blame on Mame" from the classic 1946 film noir "Gilda", directed by Charles Vidor and starring Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth. ENJOY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGbaTocCFc

ASTONISHING! LOVE the crowd and stage shots BEFORE the show. Yes, the '77 staging was very clean compared to the early 70's. And notice how Jimmy's white satin suit doesn't have the poppies and dragons yet. Hey, and look at that guy taking photos from the front of the stage in the picture above....anybody have any idea WHO THAT GUY IS? A pro? Amateur? Just think of the photos he got that night!

WOW! All of the women here are so beautiful...there has to be more lovely lasses here than on any other band's message board! To all the women of the LZ board, this song's for you... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRCWcQVSJI&feature=related