@SteveAJones: That's no problem... My initial thoughts about the interview stuff; is is possible that some of it may have been pre-recorded? - although I know MTV did a lot of "live" interviews in the early days. The reason I mention this is because the former Glass Pool owner indicated that Robert and crew stayed there - kind of using it as a home base during the BL video shoot. I imagine they were in the area at least a couple of full days to shoot all of the scenes. They may have even shot scenes that they didn't end up using. The more I think about it, they probably didn't even need Robert back at the gas station in Crystal (for the scene where he wakes up in the car at the end). They could have shot that anywhere. The car being towed away, and the woman pulling in at the end were obviously shot in the early evening at the actual gas station location in Crystal. Having made the drive from Vegas to L.A. - it can be done in 3 1/2 hours. I'm not sure if that jibes with the Rockline Interview timeline or not. I agree, Aubrey Powell may very well hold the key to a lot of this... He was there!

Sorry I missed you ZepHead... Thanks for the props on my post. @ SteveAJones... Great information! Would love to hear the interview with Jim Ladd and it's close relevance to the video shoot. You are certainly helping me fill in a lot of missing information. Thank you for that. That is a fascinating interview - considering it happened right smack dab in the middle of the video shoot. Right on about the release date for POM... I must have been thinking about the date that "Big Log" was released as a single maybe later in August? I have a very short video snippet of one of the MTV VJ's interviewing Robert about the song Big Log (I can't recall if it's JJ or Allen Hunter). I taped it off of a show hosted by Martha Quinn called "Classic MTV" in the late 80's (1989 to be exact). You know the 80's are classic when they haven't even ended and they're calling it "Classic MTV"....LOL. Robert had some very interesting perspective about the song. He said something to the effect: "Uhhhh....it's a very wistful song. You know? It sort of rounds the whole album up at the end. Like when the hero or whatever is walking off into the sunset and the credits are rolling.... It has that feel, but yet, it also says a lot about..........me". I visited Calico in 2003 (stayed in the cabins there a few days) so I have quite a bit of photography of the Calico School House. I did the Ghost Town tour at sunset, which included the School House - but you couldn't go in and walk around. I believe due to it's age, it's climate controlled on the inside. It's been restored a couple of times since '83 (in the Big Log video, it appears very run down, at least on the exterior). *I can tell you that many (if not all) of the props and items inside the schoolhouse looked exactly the same as they did in the video (such as the black board, the desks and chairs, and the globe on the desk). It literally looked unchanged - at least 10 years ago when I saw it. I befriended the tour guide. I probably could have gotten in there had I asked. He told me that the apparition of a little girl has been seen there. Ironic, since Robert kind of does this ghost thing with himself in the video while he's walking around in the school house. I had previously driven through Yermo CA on Rte 15 in November 1995 - driving from Vegas to L.A. and I remember seeing this big "C" on the side of a hill behind the town - not uncommon in the SouthWest. It might have even said "Calico" now that I think about it. At the time, I just kind of snickered to myself and had no idea whatsoever that part of "Big Log" was filmed there. I wouldn't have my first PC and dial-up Internet access until about a year later...LOL. ~John

Could very well be Courtney Cox... I'm sure the crew made use of "local" extras along the way - although that red-headed waitress in the bar looks really familiar (deadpan, gun-chewing). Awesome information. That radio interview sounds really interesting. Having been to all of these locations; I can see where shooting may have taken a bit longer as none of them are really close to each other. They're within driving distance - with long stretches of desert highway in between. You say the Calico shoot took place in early-July around the 4th? Makes sense timewise. I was always curious as to exactly "when" the video filming took place since it was obviously before the Principle of Moments was released on August 20th (I believe) - on or around Robert's birthday. I would love to hear what either Aubrey's or Jim's recollection is - even 30 years later. Good stuff!

Well thank you for the wonderful feedback peeps! Not bad for a "Newbie" huh? "Big Log" is probably one of my favorite videos of all time - and the song is certainly in my personal top ten. I get the feeling I'm not alone. I recently watched it as well on YouTube - and was astounded to see 3,000,000+ Views.....That says a lot for a song and video that's 30 years old at this point. Timeless. They just don't put that kind of effort into Music Videos anymore. Storm and Aubrey did a fantastic job with this one - I know their resume is much more vast, but I really liked this one in particular. To me, it also represents the best point in MTV history (the early 80's); when they actually played Music Videos and we got to actually "see" a lot of the bands that we had only heard on the radio. Sorry to get a bit off subject... Thanks Jabe and Kenog! @SteveAJones. Thank you so much! I have toyed with actually doing a homegrown video documentary of the making of "Big Log". I would absolutely be interested in more detailed cast and production information - details that have alluded me all these years...LOL. I have pretty good info on a majority of the locations, but virtually none on the actors (Waitress, Bar Maid, Bar Patron, Man & Woman at the Amargosa, Tow Truck Driver, Woman who breaks down at the end, etc). At least I got to visit these places - and will again in June. I took a bunch of video footage in 2003 and 2004 - as well as still pictures of these places. I'll try and dig them out and share them here. BTW, the mobile home at the "gas station" in Crystal was still there as well. It was obviously in "newer" condition back in '83 and I think it's just a private residence now. Another person that may have information is Randy Maiolo, the son of gas station owner Frank Maiolo. Last I knew, he was still living in nearby Pahrump NV where his Dad was buried. I have to believe that he may have been around if he knew Robert Plant and crew were filming at his dad's gas station. I would be! If he was, he may have some inside scoop about the shoot and locations. In the "bar" sequence, there is a poster on the wall to the right of Robert (as he's leaning against the wall with the string wrapped in his hands) that mentions an old railroad route or system (Badwater and Tonopah perhaps ?). That may hint at the general location or area ... When I visited the Crow Bar and Saloon in Shoshone.... it appears that it may be the same place; the bar is located along the left side. The interior decorating has obviously changed considerably - to be expected over the course of 20 or 30 years. In the Big Log Video however - there is a support pole between the bar and where the pool table was. In the picture from the Crow Bar there isn't - and no visible evidence in the ceiling that there was. I'm not 100% convinced that this is the same place. See below... The same relative size of this bar (coupled with the fact that it is about 25 minutes South of the Amargosa) has me really wondering. It's going to take some local resident that lived there 30 years ago to come forward and say "I remember that little place! It was......" The quest continues... Oh yeah.....and I'm also VERY interested in the origins of "the car" Robert is driving. '57 Chevy maybe? It belongs in a museum as far as I'm concerned! LOL The Crow Bar and Saloon in Shoshone, CA:

First off, I have no information about the "In The Mood" video. Sorry I was however the individual that posted the "Big Log" video filming locations information to the Wikipedia site a number of years back. I did a fair amount of research and actually visited devery one of these sites during my first visit to Vegas in 2003 ~ ironically the 20 year anniversary of Big Log's 1983 release. Going back in June for the 30th! Good god, where did 30 years go? I first learned about the Big Log video from a guy named Geoff Schumacher - he used to be the editor of the Las Vegas Journal. He actually lived in Crystal Nevada and witnessed some of the Gas Station sequences being filmed back in 1983! He recalls Robert saying something to the effect, "It's bloody ****ing hot out here!". Geoff was gracious enough to share this information in one of the articles he published for the Journal. For clarification, the gas station was in Crystal Nevada on Crystal Road. It was long closed down by 2003 when I visited. You can still see the open storage port (where Robert walks up and gets a drink from the refrigerator) and the concrete pads where the filling station was. A couple of other movies made use of the gas station (one was Delusion - 1991, starring Jennifer Rubin). The gas station was owned by Frank Maiolo (who has since passed away). Frank made a cameo in Delusion... If you drive on Rte 160 from Vegas, you reach a town called Pahrump, NV. Stay on Rte 160 past Pahrump for about 20 minutes - Crystal is on the left. There's a big sign - can't miss it, and only ONE road will take you there... I then (by complete accident) discovered that the crew also used the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, CA. This is the scene where the guy is walking the girl past a spanish style colonnade looking building as Robert drives by and the room where Robert spreads feathers everywhere. I confirmed this by comparing the building in the video to pictiures of the building I had found online. I believe some of the desert driving scenes were filmed near there as well. I spoke to Amargosa owner Marta Becket about the Plant video in 2003. She confirmed that Plant and crew had filmed there. She recalled that they showed up one day, asked everyone if they could leave, and proceeded to kind of take over and film the sequences. She did not receive any money for the use of her Opera House and Hotel and she kind of scoffed when I mentioned it! She also recalled them filming something with doves - unused footage maybe? When I visited, the wood paneling that held the famous "11:00" wall clock during the feather sequence could still be seen! Directly across the street of the Opera House is an abandoned gas station where C. Thomas Howell and Rutger Hauer filmed a portion of the movie "The Hitcher" - the part where Hauer throws the keys at him. The Calico School House in Yermo California (off of Rte 15) was used, as was the famous Glass Pool Inn on the south end of the Vegas Strip. I shot video footage of the Glass Pool Inn was it was still in operation in 2003, and I also got footage of them tearing it down in 2004 - about a year later. In a separate online article about the Glass Pool Inn, the owner claimed the Robert and crew stayed there during the video shoot as several of the filiming locations were within driving distance. Parts of the movie Indecent Proposal (Demi Moore, Robert Redford) were filmed there, part of the movie Casino, and a ZZ Top video also made use of the unique pool. Sadly, the little Inn could not compete with the massive hotels that are still being erected on the Strip - although the Glass Pool Inn sign was still there on the Strip when I last visited in 2011. A friend of mine (Sharon Jensen) who lived in Crystal NV, thought that they shot the bar sequence in a small bar in Shoshone, CA. No way to confirm this. It is the ONLY location I have not 100% identified or verified. Uggghh...LOL. When the waitress turns, you can catch a glimpse of slot machines near the window - unknown if slots were legal in California in 1983 or if the bar was somewhere in Nevada. That's the poop on the "Big Log" video. I hope this is helpful to someone. I guess I'm not the only one whose imagination was totally captured by this music video - so much so, I flew from New Hampshire and drove to these locations to see them for myself! It was worth every "hum of the mile". Anyone have any ideas on where the bar location was or might be? The missing jigsaw piece.... There is another "saloon" across from Jim Longstreet's Casino that I may check out during my trip in June. It is up the street from the Amargosa, not far from Death Valley Junction... I'll keep you posted