The sample sounds great, Steve! I'd definitely like to receive a link, Sir!

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.

Just ignore the Troll, and enjoy the fine compilation that "ZepHead315" put together like I'm doing.

Nicely done. I enjoyed it!

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).

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

Led Zeppelin plays first, & only, Iowa show in Iowa City 50 years ago today https://www.press-citizen.com/story/entertainment/2019/01/15/led-zeppelin-plays-first-only-iowa-show-iowa-city-50-years-ago/2579105002/ vv

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.

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

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.

It's not a very good article, however, the comments about the 2007 reunion are interesting: https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1036362/led-zeppelin-drugs-sex-rocknroll-stairway-to-heaven

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.

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.

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.

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.

No one really wants to be exposed to the bickering and arguing, it's ruining this thread. Please take it elsewhere. Thank you!

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.

We'll certainly take to the streets and protest if such sacrilege occurs! 😉

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.