IMO, Joe Massot and his crew are responsible for what I consider to easily be the best concert footage of Zeppelin ever captured. There are so many obvious examples of this thru out TSRTS film (excluding Shepperton inserts) that speak for themselves. Just watch the first minute of the song TSRTS, or Jimmy ripping through the WLL Boogie section, or JPJ saying "oops" to Bonham's "mistake" during D&C and then helping him through it...or this:

I can't remember what book its from, but I do recall a journalists account of Page & Richards bumping into each other backstage at one of LZ's MSG 1977 shows. They basically glanced at each other in passing and said "oiy"...and that was it. Thats pretty fucking cool!

Very interesting and funny as hell:

Oh yeah!

Page's solo here is pure genius from the first growling note to the last relaxed sustaining note. This whole show is amazing and a current favorite.

Judge Roy Moore's favorite song

Fucking Amazing!

^ Agreed! What I loved about The Ocean as the encore song in '73 is that it wasn't intense or exploratory, just a great way to relieve the pressure/have some quick fun/flash some smiles and call it a night. Never liked RR as an encore to be honest, loved it as an opener when they played it with that slow swagger though. I imagine that the only reason OTHAFA stayed in their setlist was because the band turned that pretty song into dark fucking storm during the solo, otherwise, no way in hell it would have remained in their set past '73. Also willing to bet that Plant tried like hell to drop the song but the band would have none of that shit. And thank god for that

Thinking about why LZ never played 'The Ocean' again after the '73 tour. Also wonder why Dancing Days was never played post '73 as well. They're not very complicated songs to play and they're both uplifting/fun vibes and just fucking rocked live!. Dancing Days is probably the only song LZ ever played twice in the same concert (Seattle '72) because (according to Plant) "we like playing this song so much we're gonna play it again". So, why'd they permanently drop these two songs?

Sounds to me like the outro riff from LZ's Swan Song was the influence for this track's main groove. Starts at 1:06

My current favorite. Its a fair audience recording, but the performance is just stunning. It may not be the best, but its way the fuck up there.

Eric Gales is just mind-blowing man.

STP just got a new lease on life. Check this out and 'crank it up':

Agreed (for the most part). And, yes, that Vancouver '75 NQ is very good, not my favorite but the quality of the playing combined with the quality of the recording is really outstanding.

This is pure fucking genius right here. For anyone who hasn't heard this before or not heard it in a long time please give it a full listen:

Yes, it is. I'm currently jazzing my pants over this:

Interesting bit on bootlegging in the U.K. from 1971

I've always really liked Carouselambra, despite the shit mix. It was obviously a bit of an experiment, which can be risky, buts that a good thing. The song seems to take you on a journey with all the changes in moods and tempo's, very fucking creative for sure. One of the things that bugs me about it though is all the goddamn "Ahh Ahhh's" it just seems to go on and on. And then, they shift into the dreaded "Trucker's Gear Change" and Plant continues with the fucking "Ahh Ahh's". The song does get a bit monotonous but it has amazing movements, urgency and intent throughout, so overall, for me...its a winner.

Carouselambra is about as "indirect" and vague as anything Plant has ever written. To even entertain the thought that Page purposefully created a shitty mix in order to bury Plants lyrics cause' it was about him is far fetched and fanciful at best. The difference between Plant on Presence and ITTOD is that #1) Plants son had died and #2) Plant stopped doing blow. Before that, he was happily rolling down the tracks on the party train despite all of his many colds/flu's/laryngitis "episodes" that marred many of his vocal performances and tours. To think that Plant would be now be admonishing Page in his lyrics for his continued 'proclivities' is laughable really, not to mention hypocritical. Maybe Plant was still butt hurt over being forced to record Presence with a fucked up leg, we know he wasn't happy with his vocal performance. I never understood why a fucked up leg would prevent a singer from doing vocal tracks in a studio, what, your on painkillers? That aint nothing new, your already on 'em all the time, might as well make good use of time and make a fucking record. If the drummer has a fucked up throat I would still expect him to lay down drum tracks. Never quite got that one. You got guys now (Axl/Grohl) that go out on 'tour' with a broken fucking leg, sitting in a fucking chair for christ's sake! Sorry for straying off topic, but I find the Robert good/Jimmy bad narrative a little hard to swallow. Either that, or its correct, and it was one of the ingredient's that made them as great as they were. Either way...it was one a hell of a ride.

Page may have been fucked up during this time, but he wasn't fucking around while laying down those solo's, or any of his tracks for that matter. It all sounds really good and done with purpose, nothing on this record was mailed in. The thing that I've noticed is that while the production value on most songs are excellent, ITE & Carouselambra don't have that crispness the others have, they're a bit muddy. As far as the songwriting goes, I think its impressive they could pull off an album as good as this without Jimmy's usual input. I've always felt that he kind of approached this record with a session player mentality in a way.