I am enjoying reading these stories! I've read a lot of threads on this forum and have enjoyed learning a lot of cool things about LZ's history. I actually thought I knew quite a bit about the band until I found this forum! Anyway, I figured this would be a good thread to make my first post. It's a bit wordy, but I really had fun remembering some of this: I was listening to AM radio until around 1976 I think. I can remember hearing Stairway (probably edited) and D'yer Mak'er on AM radio. I liked the songs but didn't really pay much attention as to who did them (probably didn't even realize it was the same group). At some point I finally knew that Stairway was done by Led Zeppelin, and also assumed that it was the name of a person, not a group. I also remember one time in the mid-70s being at a friend's house and hearing part of a record his older brother was playing that just seemed ass-kicking. This wasn't the 1970s top 40 I was used to hearing; this made you take notice! (Turns out the songs I heard were Black Dog and Rock and Roll). Again though, I really didn't follow up and pursue more about the band, but these songs were forever imprinted in my head after that day. When I made the switch to FM, it was to a couple of stations that really weren't much different than AM top 40, so I still wasn't getting exposed to much LZ. Anyway, by 1977-78, I was in high school and had been turned on to the 'better' FM stations. Around this time, a good friend of mine started talking about Led Zeppelin a lot. He was buying their albums and talking about them and I started hearing them when I was over at his house. I liked what I heard. I also remember a really cool poster in his room of LZ on stage. Didn't know yet who any of them were individually, but I looked at that poster a lot. Somehow it was just kind of mesmerizing. Since I was liking what I was hearing, I thought of those two ass-kicking songs I had heard at someone's house a few years before, found the album they were on, and bought it (IV). Not too long after that, in 1979, the same friend who really got me going on LZ bought me Physical Graffiti for a birthday gift. I remember opening it at home during a surprise party my parents had thrown for my 16th. I put it on right after opening it. That was pretty much it. Later that night the guests had to start insisting that I play something different for a while. They liked the album too, but I guess they didn't want to hear the same record all night! In the next several months I bought all the rest of the released albums. Just ate it up. They had really 'clicked' for me at this point! I was heavily into LZ for only a couple of years before the really bad news hit. I remember clearly, getting all excited knowing that they had a US tour coming up. My big chance was coming. My friends and I were going to go see them no matter what the price. I was really going to see this band! Just after my senior year in high school began (Sept 1980), and the anticipation of seeing LZ was reaching fever pitch, we got the news. I don't have to describe it to any of you. Well, that was a long time ago, and these days I have a lot of music in my collection, but everytime I return to a LZ disc that I haven't played in a little while, I'm almost surprised again at just how much I like it. I think I discover something really cool every time that I hadn't before. OK...you've heard me ramble on enough. (Pun intended).... -Greg