To the contrary. I was a senior in high school when it was released. I wasn't disappointed by it then nor am I disappointed in it now. I love the record from start to finish and consider it one of Zeppelin's finest moments.

I don't think of In Through the Out Door as a "bum" album or of Zeppelin being a diminished version of their former selves at this point of their career. It wasn't until I started visiting this site that I learned that so many fans think so poorly of it. My original opinion of it still stands, I like it and feel like it shows them exploring and breaking some new ground at that stage of their career. I also don't think of Coda as proper album, I think of it as exactly what it was and was intended to be, a collection of previously unreleased material.

I've never really bought into the "true fan" concept, at least not the way it's presented in this thread. If someone doesn't like a song or criticizes something Zeppelin (or any band or artist) has done, that's perfectly fine. To "bash" their work implies something else entirely, like maliciousness. It's only natural that we are going to have differing opinions on what are our favorites and least favorites are. To constructively criticize their music shows a real passion for it. Those folks are more what I would think of as "true" fans, not the ones that think Zeppelin can do no wrong.

Yes, I have. I purchased it not long after it first came out. It was a travesty that the original CD version of it omitted two songs due to space limitations. So, not only did the expanded version add those two songs back to the running order but also a whole other disc of previously unreleased stuff. Sadly, the liner notes let me know just how much cutting and splicing went on which is something I never knew. It hasn't affected my appreciation of the album but it gave me an education about what goes on behind the scenes of so many of our favorite live recordings.

Believe it not, I have never owned the original Budokan record. This a CD/DVD combo of night one of the two nights they performed there. The original album was culled from both nights so my Budokan collection is still not complete.

Yep, it's amazing the amount of music we miss out on. I imagine there's some people out there that still haven't heard the Allman's Live at Fillmore East, or even worse, Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus, definitely one of my all time favorite live records.

I haven't actually heard any of it yet but I've read nothing but good things about this record: Andrew Bird – "Shake It and Break It" Paolo Nutini – "Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea" Tom Waits – "Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing" Yim Yames – "Louisiana Fairytale" Del McCoury – "After You've Gone" Ani DiFranco – "Freight Train" Pete Seeger & Tao Rodriguez-Seeger – "Blue Skies (Comin My Way)" Jason Isbell – "Nobody Knows You" Brandi Carlile – "Old Rugged Cross" Richie Havens – "Trouble in Mind" Merle Haggard – "Basin Street Blues" Blind Boys of Alabama – "There is a Light" Dr. John – "Winin' Boy" Louis Armstrong – "Rockin' Chair" Amy LaVere – "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" Steve Earle – "Tain't Nobody's Business" Cory Chisel – "Some Cold Rainy Day" Buddy Miller – "I Ain't Got Nobody" Angelique Kidjo with Terence Blanchard – "La Vie En Rose" Bonus Tracks (Deluxe CD) Anita Briem – "C'est Si Bon" Paolo Nutini – "Pencil Full of Lead" Yim Yames – "St. James Infirmary" Tom Waits – "Corine Dies On The Battlefield" Pete Seeger & Tao Rodriguez-Seeger – "Sailin' Up Sailin' Down" Pete Seeger & Tao Rodriguez-Seeger – "We Shall Overcome"

Spyra Gyra were there the next day. I caught part of their set as well. That also made for a near perfect day in the park on a Sunday.

It was free and a nice night for music in the park so it was very hard to turn down.

I still need to pick up that Live At Leeds set. Believe it or not, I've never heard it.

I have some friends that totally dismiss The Doors and refer to Morrison as a drunken, rambling lout. While that may very well be true, I still enjoy listening to their music and believe they had a profound impact on rock n' roll. On the other hand, Ray Manzarek has a way of getting on my very last nerve.

I have it etched in my memory and hadn't seen it in 23 years. I remembered Letterman making a big deal about the electrified mandolin so it was very nice to refresh my memory.

Me either. It's worth noting that this thread was started by someone who's never returned to actually participate in it.

"Unpacking" video for the new box set which is due to arrive on June 20th:

From Yahoo Sports: How U2′s Bono hitched a ride with Oilers’ Gilbert Brule By Greg Wyshynski On Tuesday, Gilbert Brule of the Edmonton Oilers and his girlfriend went out to walk their German shepherd. They ended up taking in an Irish singer. As strange and surreal as it seems, this is the story about how one NHL player picked up Bono on the side of the road, and ended up backstage at a U2 show. According to writer Ben Gelinas of the Edmonton Journal, Brule and Kelsey Nichols were driving in West Vancouver when Brule was convinced he had seen Bono hitchhiking. Nichols had her doubts, but Brule persuaded her to turn the car around and … well, it was Bono and his assistant, looking to hitch a ride because they had gone for a walk on a Beautiful Day, had been caught in the rain and were stuck in a moment they couldn't get out of. (We promise those are the only U2 song puns here.) From the Edmonton Journal: On the drive to Horseshoe Bay, Bono and his assistant sat in the back with the couple's dog. The four chatted about Brule's hockey career, about Dublin and Bono's apparent love for Vancouver. Bono mentioned that his band was playing a show in Edmonton on Wednesday and asked if they'd like to go. So Brule and Nichols sold their tickets for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals, bought plane tickets (three, so Brule's mom could come too) and flew back to Edmonton, where Brule is a forward for the Oilers. Bono got them backstage passes to say thanks for the ride. On Nichols's pass, he wrote: "Thanks for the ride." On Brule's pass, he wrote: "My hero Gilbert." Oh, it doesn't stop there, as Bono included the random act of kindness in his stage banter on Wednesday night. David Staples of the Journal said that Bono told the crowd: "I like ice hockey because people who like ice hockey pick up hitchhikers." He also said he wanted to be Gilbert Brule, while Adam Clayton is Grant Fuhr, Larry Mullen Jr. is Mark Messier and The Edge is Wayne Gretzky. Watch it here as Bono tells the tale (starts at the 52-second mark): As Bono discovered, hockey players move in Mysterious Brules. (OK, now we're done.) Go and read Ben Gelinas' fantastic tale of Brule and Bono, the greatest rock-and-roll-meets-hockey story ever told. Or at least the greatest one until Taylor Hall gives Chris Martin a piggyback ride to a Coldplay show.

Vintage performance of "Copperhead Road" from Letterman when the album was first released in the late 80s:

http://youtu.be/-9qvvhIKfy4 http://youtu.be/aK4De8XrFq8 http://youtu.be/AH2n2ptSAZU

Just the U.S. as far as I know. These are the only dates so far. I believe there's supposed to be more in the Fall.

If you love that, be sure to check out one of Dan Baird's latest bands, The Yayhoos. Dylan even thought enough of them to play one of their tunes ("Bottle and a Bible") on his Theme Time Radio Hour program on XM.

I prefer Gmail to Yahoo. I've never once been shut out of my account (not that it hasn't happened to others) and I don't get nearly the amount of spam with Gmail that I do with Yahoo. Plus, Gmail must be doing something right since Yahoo is doing all they can to keep up with the sort of changes Gmail originally implemented.

Pete Townshend Announces 'Quadrophenia' Box Set Singer doesn't address the future of the Who, but recently said he's contemplating retirement The Who perform in Manchester, England, 1973. Dave Ellis/Redferns/Getty Images By ANDY GREENE Pete Townshend has posted a rare blog entry to announce a new Quadrophenia box set that's coming out in October. He used to blog all the time, but he got so angry about journalists taking quotes out of context he largely abandoned the practice. With that in mind, here's the complete text of his statement. To read the entire article click here.

Buffalo Springfield Launch First Tour in 43 Years Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Neil Young play on June 1st, 2011 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA. Photograph by Jay Blakesberg for RollingStone.com "Thank you, we're Buffalo Springfield," Neil Young announced early in the band's June 1st show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, the opening date of the Springfield's first tour since the spring of 1968. "We're from the past," Young added drily. They were not – he could have added without fear of contradiction – stuck in it. For nearly two hours, in a performance comprised almost entirely of songs from nearly half a century ago, Buffalo Springfield's surviving members and original vocal-songwriting front line – Young and singer-guitarists Stephen Stills and Richie Furay – played like a band genuinely reborn: thrilled to be on stage again, determined not to let their songs or legacy down. There was jubilant fraternity in the close-harmony singing, especially by Young and Furay in the soft vocal rain at the end of "On the Way Home" and their gleaming Morse-code flourishes behind Stills' grainy tenor in "Rock and Roll Woman." There was also nerve. After a 14-song set that veered from "Hot Dusty Roads" and "Everybody's Wrong," a pair of gritty Stills numbers from deep inside the 1966 debut LP, Buffalo Springfield, to Furay's great lost ballad "Sad Memory" from 1967's Buffalo Springfield Again, Young opened the encore by leading the group through "Broken Arrow," his epic frontier daydream at the end of Again. A complex studio creation, it was recorded by Young as a solo piece, with session men, and never performed live in the Springfield's first lifetime. Tonight, the song featured Stills at the piano, Furay flying next to Young in the chorus harmonies and its original honky-tonk country coda. This was more than exciting resurrection – it was a kind of justice, the way the Springfield would have played and recorded Young's suite if they hadn't been so busy falling apart at the time. To read the rest of the article click here.

I'm not saying it's the case with you but I wonder why so many seem to think it's a proper album and should be expected to flow like one when in reality, it's a collection of rare, previously unreleased recordings. That would explain it's lack of cohesiveness.

Order info for the live album the Truckers cut at Jack White's Third Man Records studio is now up on the Third Man Records site. Date: 2011-1-30 Venue: Third Man Records City: Nashville State/Country: TN 1. Used To Be A Cop 2. Get Downtown 3. Go-Go Boots 4. Dancing Ricky 5. Pulaski, Tennessee 6. Take Time To Know Her 7. Everybody Needs Love 8. Love Like This 9. Mercy Buckets