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I saw "Physical Graffiti" perform many times in the late '80s / early '90s in the Boston area and in and around New England. The band frequently performed at a defunct Rock club called "The Channel". We caught most of the gigs they played at the Channel as well as a few other venues. The most memorable one was around the time of the Led Zeppelin box set in 1990, when they performed "Traveling Riverside Blues" and "When the Levee Breaks", as well as "Achilles Last Stand". I remember that gig well as I wrote a review of the show for a local paper. The original lineup was a great set of musicians, and probably the best Zeppelin tribute band I've ever seen. The guitarist, I think, used the stage name "Rex Kactis", a word play on the word "cactus". I never got the joke. Anyway, I last remember seeing the band perform sometime around 1995, then lost track of them due to the closure of a lot of the venues that the band performed at in the mid-1990s. I have some great memories of their shows. It would be good to find out what happened to them.
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Just ignore the Troll, and enjoy the fine compilation that "ZepHead315" put together like I'm doing.
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20 hours ago, Spesh531 said:
I've finished my pick for UK/Scandinavia 1969.
This is a showcase of the Danish shows March 15 – 17. I've ordered the setlist in a way that was typical to this tour. I was able to cheat a little bit since the Danmarks concert was already on the DVD, so this was a quickie.
More info about which gig was used for each song, etc. is in the video description.
Nicely done. I enjoyed it!
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Very cool. Thanks for positing the article. It's nice to see pictures and a good article about Zeppelin's second American tour (which isn't very well documented).
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On 2/12/2019 at 3:59 PM, Ed A said:
Yes the production mirrored tele is USA and the dragon is MIM, which accounts for the price difference... I personally dont mind that the dragon is MIM, I have and have had a couple MIM roadworns that are silly good quality in terms of the lightweight wood and harder and thinner nitro that is not always seen on many USA models... but after hearing that the dragon is a sticker and not screen printed has me thinking of cancelling my pre order as well...
Part of the appeal of the Dragon Telecaster is the fact that is supposed to be a reproduction of Jimmy's "painted" telecaster. If the production run is featuring a "sticker" of the Dragon design, then fuck it, I'll buy the "Mirror" version, instead. It's really the sound of the guitar I'm after, but nevertheless I really don't want a guitar with a sticker embossed on it either.
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This is turning out to be an underwhelming and somewhat peculiar celebration, first snowboards, and now - sneakers. How about some NEW and unreleased music to mark the occasion instead!
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Before Led Zeppelin took flight Jimmy Page rocked Alabama
- https://www.al.com/life/2019/02/before-led-zeppelin-took-fight-jimmy-page-rocked-alabama.html
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Jimmy Page seems to have been at his performance peak during the second American tour in 1969, and at times during the tours in 1970. I never really cared for their live performances after that.
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We've got a recreation of the guitar, and the amplifier. The only thing missing now is a recreation of Jimmy's fabled Tonebender pedal.
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Led Zeppelin plays first, & only, Iowa show in Iowa City 50 years ago today
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23 hours ago, gibsonfan159 said:
I know that guitar played a huge role in the development of the band, but I was never a big fan of the tone. Fender pickups always get too fuzzy through heavy overdrive and that sound was way too limited to the psychedelic 60s. Maybe that's why he switched over.
I've always liked Page's tone that he had with the Telecaster and Tonebender, particularly during the early Zeppelin period. I always thought that the acquisition of the Les Paul from Joe Walsh led Page to step away from the heavy overdriven sound of the 2nd American tour to a gradually cleaner tone.
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Guitarist:
1- Jimi Hendrix
2-Harvey Mandel
3-Randy California
4-Jimmy Page
5-David Gilmour
Drummers:
1-John Bonham
2-Mitch Mitchell
3-Keith Moon
4-Stuart Copeland
5-Ginger Baker
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On 10/27/2018 at 4:30 PM, SteveAJones said:
It's not a very good article, on that we agree. It's obviously written by a millennial snowflake whose knowledge of Led Zeppelin is limited to what he had cut and pasted after thirty minutes of online searching. Then, Mick Wall? Still flogging that book I see. It's an absurd gesture on his part to parrot inaccurate press reports about a reunion as if it's historical fact.
I thought that Wall's claim that Plant was turned off from considering further shows with the band as a result of Page requiring privacy backstage at the O2 arena was kind of ridiculous. I recently read somewhere that Plant refused to participate in a meet & greet with fans at one of his recent 2018 shows, so it kind of sounds a bit hypercritical on Plant's part to have condemned Page.
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It's not a very good article, however, the comments about the 2007 reunion are interesting:
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13 hours ago, The Rover said:
The O2 was very much a Led Zeppelin Reunion. Robert sang the Led Zeppelin songs in the vocal style that he sung them when Led Zeppelin was touring and recording from 1968-1980. Which was a break from every other tour that Robert Plant has been a part of post 1980.
And that includes the Page & Plant Tours... those were very much *not* Led Zeppelin tours. Robert was singing the Led Zeppelin songs with a different vocal style, as he does today... many different vocal styles that Robert uses today, but one he *does not*, and that's the 1968-1980 style, and he does that very intentionally.
In terms of Plant's vocal used for the 2007 reunion, a number of songs were performed in a lower key because of Plant's diminished vocal range. To say that Plant sang the songs performed that night in the vocal style he had when Zeppelin was touring / recording in the late '60s and 1970s isn't accurate. In my opinion, although the 3 original members were on stage that night in 2007, the show had a different vibe / feel to it, and all though it was great to see the first full performance of the band (minus John Bonham) in 27 years, the show was oddly unsatisfying and something definitely was missing from it. Nevertheless, I think it was a good show overall.
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On 9/29/2018 at 5:18 AM, Strider said:
Such a bogus decision...and just in time to cast a pall over the 50th anniversary. Most media outlets will take the lazy angle that Led Zeppelin stole all of their songs, reinforced by all the bullshit on the internet by people with an axe to grind.
Now everyone has to be dragged back to court and time and money wasted. The first jury was able to render the correct verdict. Given the decline in intelligence and musical intelligence in particular in the jury pool, the odds of getting a good jury two times in a row are slim.
The fact that Led Zeppelin's music has to be judged by a bunch of peons is about as ridiculous as the Senate sitting in judgement over Kavanaugh's sex life. We all know Senate and House Pages are some of the most sexually harrassed people on the planet.
You sound like someone with an axe to grind. So let us hear it...what is your take on the subject?
Being a fan of the band's music doesn't mean that I have to feel some sense of blind devotion towards the band. And that's about as much as I'm going to say about the situation.
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6 hours ago, Strider said:
Randy California is spinning in his grave. He knew the score...that's why he didn't bother with a lawsuit. These bozos besmirching Randy's name today will just keep appealing and appealing until they find a dopey jury that buys their bullshit.
It's well known that Randy California didn't pursue the lawsuit because of the legal cost. He wasn't sitting on a pile of money like Zeppelin and company. Randy California stated in a number of interviews that he was well aware that the song was borrowed from Taurus. That's the reason that he's spinning in his grave over this.
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I doubt anyone on a Led Zeppelin forum is likely to be objective about the lawsuit. Judging from the posts here, there's really no point in discussing the lawsuit against the band, because it seems that Zeppelin can do no wrong.
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7 minutes ago, Michael B said:
You are nothing but a twit................Oh, I just said that it is not listed on some book I read. I never said that it didn't happen. I hope you go back to your meds. I know exactly what you wrote, but you are not even man enough to admit it. Next.
No one really wants to be exposed to the bickering and arguing, it's ruining this thread. Please take it elsewhere. Thank you!
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The track on the MacLeans Toothpaste advert sounds like a variation of "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by the Beck/Page version of the band, although it doesn't sound like either of them are playing on the track IMO.
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19 hours ago, thozil said:
The MacLean's Toothpaste ad is completely new to me. I wonder what era of the Yardbirds it's from? The toothpaste was available in the US.
This is the original vinyl: (https://www.popsike.com/MACLEANS-TOOTHPASTE-66-RADIO-JINGLES-LP-THE-YARDBIRDS/120063677723.html )...my guess is 66, maybe Jeff Beck, but could also be session musicians with just Keith Relf.
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2 hours ago, Strider said:
If Jimmy releases anything from early 1969 and doesn't include "As Long As I Have You" there will be riots.
We'll certainly take to the streets and protest if such sacrilege occurs! 😉
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There are lots of stories regarding the equipment used for the first America tour. I read that Page/Jones secured an artist endorsement & deal with Rickenbacker, presumably for the company to provide them with amplifiers in exchange for their endorsement. The common story that I've heard is that they left the equipment behind in America at the end of the tour in February 1969, yet, there's the story that Page replaced the speaker cones in a number of Fender amps he had in Pangbourne with the Rickenbacker ones and sold the Fender amps when he returned to England at the tours conclusion. We know from photos taken during the sessions for Led Zeppelin II that he kept several of the Rickenback amps, and possibly still used them during the second American tour in April/May 1969. And I believe that he stills own several of them, as I recall seeing them in the "It Might Be Loud" documentary, yet there's the story that he left some of the equipment behind in California at the end of the first American tour.
Perhaps Steve Jones or another forum member can shed some light on all of this.
1970.03.21 Remastered Soundboard
in Led Zeppelin Live
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The sample sounds great, Steve! I'd definitely like to receive a link, Sir!