[Led Zeppelin or Related on YouTube]

Led Zeppelin-Full Concert-5-7-1980-Munich-GERMANY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YWGsWhUDaU&feature=share&list=PLBE5FD707C94FD966

[Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes]

Chicago Sun-Times, June 26, 2000

Chicago Tribune, June 26, 2000

Chicago Tribune, June 27, 2000

All scans courtesy Steve A. Jones Archive

Thanks for posting those two reviews.

I have probably been to over 100 concerts at St. Louis' (actually in Maryland Heights, MO) Riverport Amphitheater during the 1990's standing on the lawn. This company I worked for always got about 10 free tickets to most of the concerts at Riverport. I was friends with the lady who got them in the mail and she would always let me have two lawn tickets if I wanted them. Anyway, out of all those concerts I saw there, I do not seem to really recall it ever raining.

Me and my friends go to Chicago to see Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes and, as I recalled earlier and the reviews above mentioned, it rained so hard that I took shelter under the pavilion with just one of my friends. The other two did not want to try and sneek in as they thought we would get busted but it was easy to slip past the security. Anyway, I remember it was still cold and wet under the roof but I did enjoy the show more than I would have standing on the lawn under a torrential downpour. Like the review said, "Upon Us All, a Little Rain Must Fall". However, in this case it was alot of rain.

[Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes]

I was at the show in Tinley Park. Me and 3 other friends drove to Chicago from St. Louis to see this concert and to spend a couple of days there. I remember it began to rain so hard during the concert that me and one of my friends went from the lawn and snuck into the pavilion and got to about the 12th row. I was a little bit buzzed but I remember that I was so happy when Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes played "In the Light" and "Hots on for Nowhere" because I knew that these two song were never played live by Led Zeppelin.

I also went to the Led Zeppelin convention in Cleveland in 2000 and had tickets to the Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes concert that was supposed to happen in Cleveland until it turned out that Jimmy was having back problems and the show was cancelled which absolutely sucked although I still had a very good time at the Led Zeppelin convention and met alot of fellow fan(antical) Led Zeppelin fans. I met Hugh Jones, the publisher of "Proximaty", a Led Zeppelin fanzine and bought some burned bootleg cds from him. I also met and talked to Rick Barret, a huge and well-known collector of anything Led Zeppelin. I also met a few people that I had traded bootlegs with over the years that when the great ZOSO fanzine had been around.

Those were Good Times.

[Happy Birthday John Paul Jones!]

Happy Birthday, Mr. John Baldwin!!! Your work will always be Appreciated and Loved by Your Millions of Fans from all over the World.

First and foremost by Me:

Communication Breakdown

Whole Lotta Love

Since I've Been Loving You

Black Dog

No Quarter

In the Light... the list of Your Musical Accomplishments is Endless... I Believe You Deserve More Recognition than You are Afforded. I LOVE YOU MAN!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

[What The Famous Say About Led Zeppelin]

"Being a hopeless Motown funk brothers addict, I naturally levitated toward the primal soul music of my black heroes from the very beginnings in the mid 1950s. As a guitar wrangler from the Joe Pedorsik Capitol School of Music on Grand River in Detroit, Led Zeppelin's music struck what I believe to be a much deeper chord in me, as I immediately identified the Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Mose Allison, et al touch in the licks and delivery. Though somewhat embarrassing that, instead of an American band, it took a combo of white limeys to accurately grasp, appreciate, and interpret the moving music of these black masters, I nonetheless worshipped the Bonham/Jones rhythm section as it propelled the thick, nasty sex tones of Page's Les Paul and Plant's black-cat-moan vocals. This reintroduction of black American soul and blues music enflamed the American rock band explosion. God bless them."

- Ted Nugent

I have the book where this Ted Nugent quote is from.

Personally, I do not give an eff what ted nugent has to say or about his opinions about Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin. Most of his past quotes concerning Jimmy and/or Led Zeppelin have always been negative or full of sarcasm. This coming from someone who has claimed that he has never done or taken a drug(s) ever in his life. Also, coming from a man who was so naive back in the mid to late 1970's that his managers and accountants embezzled (supposedly) millions of dollars from him.

Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and are recipients of the very Prestigious Kennedy Center Honors Awards (among a dozen more accolades). What has become of the very arrogant and outlandish sweaty teddy? He will never be in the ranks or ever come close to the populartiy, influence, etc... Of Led Zeppelin or Jimmy Page.

[Led Zeppelin in movies.]

This is a good topic.

As much as I would like to post a picture of this, I don't think it is possible. However, in the movie "Stanley and Iris" featuring Robert DeNiro and Jane Fonda, there is a scene when Bobby DeNiro approaches a kid in the streets and the kid is wearing a Led Zeppelin T-Shirt. I guess you have to see the scene in which I am refering too. Regardless, it is there to see. If anyone has ever seen this under-rated movie, then you will know what I am talking about.

[Steven Tyler was rejected from Led Zeppelin reunion]

I realize that this will never happen, but I think that Chris Robinson (from the Black Crowes) would be a very decent fit with Jimmy, Jonesy and Jason. I saw Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes in Chicago in 2000 and it was an awesome show. Plus I have a two dvd's of JP with BC at the Roseland Ballroom, New York (10/13/1999) and at Jones Beach (7/10/2000) also in New York. Great shows and this is why I think that Chris Robinson would do the Lads (and Us, the fans) Justice. It seems that Chris Robinson knows most of, if not all, the lyrics to the songs that he sang with Jimmy Page and the Led Zeppelin songs he sang.

As much as I Love Steven Tyler, I can only really see him as the singer of Aerosmith. And as much as I Love Aerosmith, I cannot fathom anyone else as their singer other than Steven Tyler.