#12
mickey g
Posted 07 November 2011 - 05:07 PM
Member Members 26 posts Gender:Male Location:Long Island
A friend of mine worked in Record World in Roosevelt Field Mall, meaning l got a lot of records for free. When LZ IV came out, he brought it over my house to record on my 8-track tape contraption to play in our cars. After Black Dog & Rock and Roll, we both nodded at each other & said YEAH ! Then, after the first few notes of The Battle of Evermore, we both looked at each other and my friend said "Uh oh !" The reason being, at the time, there were always these rumors of LZ "going acoustic". So, it stood to reason that, to us heavy metal (at the time) fans, anything by Zep without crunching guitar, would be received with less than enthusiasm. Funny, but I don't recall our reaction to the first notes of Stairway to Heaven......As far as it being called Zoso, I never actually heard it called that. It was always LZ IV. I've read it in print a million times, but never heard anyone call it that. I actually for years thought the symbol was "Zofo", or that's the way it looked to me
I dunno Strider, I must've made hundreds of 8 tracks for me & my friends...and it started when the above mentioned friend got a hold of "Blueberry Hill". I know I made quite a few copies of that. I used to tack on "HHWCID" at the end for a special treat as filler. Sadly, all of my 8 tracks found their way to the town dump when my daughter moved back in & needed space for her shit. A lot of them weren't in playable condition; melted, cracked etc...Actually, the main reason we started recording 8 tracks was that the pre-recorded ones sounded "too bassy" to my friend, so we recorded them with the bass level off & treble cranked to "11". This seemed to satisfy him.