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Thanks go to youtube poster Mark Zep for this full concert.
Yes thanks. Never saw the full concert. Just the few songs on the "MTV" version years ago.
I always thought this show especially was some of JImmys best playing post-Zep. Hard to believe just a year prior was the mess that was Jimmy's playing on the ARMS tour.
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Make that three. I really liked Jimmy's work with the B-Bender, he completely re-invented his playing style and approach to guitar in general with The Firm. Too bad he did not progress further with the B-Bender because he was doing things with that guitar I have never heard done in that fashion before or since.
I think Jimmy was on top of it on the video of the Firm live in 84. His B-bender stuff there on Closer was incredible.
But if you really want to be blown away get the Byrds Live at the Fillmore and listen to Clarence White. Jaw dropping. After all he did invent it. Never was a Byrds fan but Clarence is one of the greatest musicians ever.
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I bought the first three and decided to not buy the others. I wasn't blown away either. A slightly different mix isn't exactly what I was expecting after all the hype and one unreleased track here and there.
Now a complete Earls Court or Knebworth show? Sign me up.
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Good old Richfield. Saw several shows there including the Firm in '86 - the show where Jimmy was "sick" and still in Chicago (I think) so they postponed it a day. Since it was Mothers Day weekend they announced you can bring your Mom and she gets in free, I guess that was a consolation prize for the postponement. I think they had a special section for them or something like that.
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I recall seeing the same description that it was taken at their first rehearsal. It was in a book or mag which I am never motivated enough to dig through to find.
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.. "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
MLK was entitled to his opinion.
It wasn't "returning hate for hate".
It was returning justice for crimes committed, and in that I rejoice.
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Nice clip.
Reminds me of how great a singer Rodgers is.
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I've seen the second pic you posted, Steve, labeled in several books as being the first ever picture of the band, at their initial rehearsal when they played Train Kept a-Rolling, the photographer having just happened across them and taken a pic. All that could be completely wrong, as I don't have the books immediately to hand, but that's what my increasingly-faulty memory says, anyway.
It was it one of the special mags I think after the O2 as that also Aqua.
I'm too lazy to dig it out due to a lack of interest.
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Record lows for July around here.
Global warming is killing us......
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It's been awhile since I've broke them out, but listening to the Jan. and May Boston '69 shows, after the very first listen, I immediately thought it was more than likely one of the May shows if a 4-hour marathon occured. You can listen to the excitement build in the crowd as the show goes on. There's one moment (during Bonzo's solo maybe? can't recall precisely) that you can almost hear an actual "gasp" go through the crowd....in all my years of listening to boots from all sorts of bands, I don't ever recall hearing something like that in a crowd.
Makes me want to throw it in and give it another listen.
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Hope he finally laundered them!
Backstage witnesses have attested they were FILTHY!
Funny quote from Jimmy (maybe around the time of HTWWW) when the interviewer asked him if he could still wear the suits and Jimmy said something along the lines of he couldn't even "get a leg in them" now.
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That photo wasn't taken that day. That is not how Robert looked in 1978.
*edit* - this pic below is from the date you talk about Steve. Completely different.
Guess we'll have to reopen that Mystery then.
BTW yes, anyone with a clue would know right off that is NOT Plant/Page from 1978.
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It's funny, if Eddie attended the 5/31/73 show at The Forum Jimmy was performing with a sprained finger, sustained the day before. I'll have to check if he was there for any of
the June 21-23, 25-27 1977 gigs at the Forum. May have been touring with Van Halen
and missed those. Earlier in the thread someone wondered aloud who cares if Eddie met
Bonzo so I'll note in advance some may care not the Led Zeppelin concerts he attended.
Are you going to conduct an interview with him?
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StringBender - a tribute to one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time, my man Clarence White.
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Their first studio session for 'Led Zeppelin' was held Sept 27th 1968 at Abbey Road Studios. They recorded 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You' & 'You Shook Me'. Their second
session was October 10 1968...two takes of 'Tribute to Bert Burns', among others.
The album sessions were completed by the end of the month, and Jimmy paid the
studio's billing for 30 hours.
I don't have the Grant book in front of me at the moment either, but it would seem
to me he would have taken the 'Led Zeppelin' album masters with him to secure the
deal with Atlantic. Live album recordings were generally frowned upon at the time,
not to mention the hassle of having to capture the live environment. Why bother
with all that when you have the album you intend to release already in the can.
Here is one quote from Welch's book on Grant:
"...on December 19 their manager was enroute to America clutching the tapes for the first Led Zeppelin album together with the completed artwork and some live recordings from gigs." (p.67)
For some reason I'm thinking of another quote directly from Grant though that made me scratch my head because it didn't seem to be referring to their first album sessions. Guess it's not too crazy to think that Jimmy has recordings from their early shows. No doubt in my mind he would. Also no doubt that WE will never hear them either...unfortunately.
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I have always wondered if Jimmy would've recorded their first rehearsal. Imagine hearing the first notes Zep ever played together. My sneaking suspicion is yes, of course he did - why wouldn't he want to hear back later what they sounded like.
I recall in the Peter Grant book (too tired to dig it out now) his mentioning that he or Jimmy took live tapes of the band for them to listen to when they landed their record deal. It was either recordings of their first gigs or possibly rehearsals.....sidenote: obviously this was long before Gonzaga 12/68 so apparently Jimmy has earlier recordings then we do!
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I'm getting ready to read the Help menu for the new board features.
The Firm Thread
in Pre / Post-Zeppelin Forum
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I have not forgotten and I'm well aware of the rest of the tour. Compare his playing on ARMS with that on the Firm Hammersmith video. No comparison.
Just letting you know.