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My friend had this painted on a t-shirt by an artist back in the early 70s, think it cost him $30. A lot of wood back then, but he wanted it !
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2-14-75 Nassau Coliseum. .......Great show & recording...........2 blocks from where I lived. Too bad I was visiting friends out in L.A. at the time......luckily, l caught them at the Forum 3-25-75
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First of all, even if it was a show where multiple sources exist...like the Blueberry Hill show...I would welcome the existence of a fresh source. So jabe, I am crossing my fingers along with you, in hopes that your tapes are still in good shape and salvageable.
In fact, along with the fact that you discovered them after 20 years, here is the most REMARKABLE part of the story to me, and I can't believe nobody else has commented on this: the fact that you have the show on 8-track cartridges!!!
All my memories of 8-tracks from the 70s are of people playing them in their cars and vans: factory recorded Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Foghat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. I don't recall anybody having a home 8-track player...my family certainly didn't. We had a phonograph, cassette and reel-to-reel.
And I certainly don't remember anybody recording to 8-track! If you were making a copy of an album for someone, you recorded LP to cassette, or reel-to-reel to cassette. I didn't even know they had blank 8-tracks to use for recording! I don't remember seeing any at Licorice Pizza or Tower Records or Wallich's Music City.
In a way, jabe, you might have a one-of-a-kind collectable...not just because of the new source of a Zeppelin concert, which is valuable in and of itself. But also because it is on a format that has recently become desired by a specific subset of collectors: 8-Track enthusiasts.
A Led Zeppelin concert recorded on 8-track cartridges has got to be rarer than rare!!!
Posted 07 November 2011 - 05:07 PM
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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. AfterBlack Dog & Rock and Roll,we both nodded at each other & said YEAH ! Then, after the first few notes ofThe 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 ofStairway to Heaven......As far as it being calledZoso, 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 meI 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.
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Maybe because they were expecting Led Zeptlin to play instead ?
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I was swimming outside the Edgewater hotel in Seattle.
Ahhhh.....Seattle !
After a decade of spandex, synthesizers & funny haircuts, Seattle finally brought back some sanity to the rock world. Well, mine at least.
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Singer Bowl Amphitheater w NYS Pavillion behind it. l know Hendrix played here.
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Please pardon my primitive cut & paste skills !
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I know the site lists
them playing at The Singer Bowl, but a few friends that were there said that they actually played at the old New York Pavillion at the 1964-65 NY Worlds Fair. -
For whatever reason, Nugent is one jealous and vindictive bastard when it comes to Jimmy Page.
Back in the early 70s, I was reading a Circus or Creem interview with Ted Nugent. What l remember from it was that he called Jimi Hendrix an asshole & said he was a better guitarist than him also. He may have been alluding to Hendrix' overdose as far as the asshole comment, but for him to think he was a better guitar player ? As the saying goes....Jimi Hendrix would blow Ted Nugent away "with his amp on standby"
BTW, I'm not one of those who thinks Hendrix was the greatest ever to play guitar, there's a million who are technically better, but when you put the package together, he's hard to top in the Rock world.
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One day in the Summer of '69, we were riding around in the neighborhood weed dealer's car, sampling his wares (it was black hash that day) and he pops in this 8-track tape that I never heard. Song after song, it just kept getting better. Finally, when I was able to speak, l asked the dude "who the hell are these guys ? " He says "ever hear of The Yardbirds ? It's the guitar player's new band, Led Zeppelin". WOW, l thought, even the name is awesome ! What l clearly remember being the "hook" was the guitar solo in How Many More Times echoing over & over in my head. It was the coolest, heaviest & most spaced out thing I ever heard, and it still may be. Soon after, l got my first car (66 Mustang) had an 8-track installed in the glove compartment and bought LZ I as my 1st tape.
them playing at The Singer Bowl, but a few friends that were there said that they actually played at the old New York Pavillion at the 1964-65 NY Worlds Fair.
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Pearl Jam, October 18th in Brooklyn !