Hey man, I hope you received your LP's today and are indeed in seventh heaven.... at the moment i am just listening to them as well, cranked up at an insane volume with my front door open, so the rest of the world may enjoy it a little as well, or hate it, whatever turns them on. Most of the people in my neighborhood are into Dutch schlager music, I hear it decibelwise everyday, since this is one of the more antisocial neighborhoods round here......since I am not a cultural barbarian but indeed a bit antisocial as well playing TSRTS is my way in contributing some culture to the people around here. It's cool to have the mighty Zep in your living room, love thy neighbor, give em a Whole Lotta Love.

Which TSRTS soundtrack, the 1976 video, or the double album, or the recent 4lp version, or the 2DVD version?

I wish I could see your face when you first plat that albums while listening to it in a headphone, the sound is so amazing on that records. Enjoy em!

Lol, thanks....heheh

Of course this immensely talented artist should not be forgotten here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skU-jBFzXl0 And YEAH I like his music!

It's been a long time, that Zep rocked the O2. Every now and zen I see wristbands and ticket stubs of the event for sale, makes me wonder whatever you did to those after the event. Did you frame them, or sell them, or did you decide to wear the wristband forever? (Personally I still want to frame them up together with my guest pass and some newspaper articles of the show that I picked up on the way back to Holland then.....Still have to do that since I moved to another house and got them somewhere in boxes)

Always wanted to know what ya got on your desk.....but what the hell is a knick knack?

Aloo Matar Ingredients Serves 4 4 large potatoes or the equivalent in new potatoes 1 onion Some peas, fresh or frozen. However much you like. 1 tsp ground coriander 1tsp ground cumin 1tsp ground tumeric 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper 1/2 tsp sugar As much chilli as you like, powdered, dried or fresh 1tsp garam masala A knob of butter (or oil if you’re vegan) A pinch of salt and pepper The Cooking Chop up the onion really finely, as finely as you can bear with tears streaming down your face. If possible, it should be almost chopped to a paste although don’t worry if it’s not. Melt the butter in a non-stick saucepan on a low-to-medium heat and when it starts to foam, add the onion. Stir it occasionally as you get on with the other stuff, but not too much, it’s nice when it catches a bit. Now cut up the potatoes into roughly equal-sized chunks. If you’re using new potatoes just halve them. Mix together the coriander, cumin, cayenne, sugar, chilli, salt and pepper (but not the garam masala). When the onions are golden brown, almost burnt, add the potatoes and the spice mix, give it a good stir so the onions and potato are coated and let it cook for a minute. Then pour in some cold water, enough to almost cover the potatoes. Bring the whole thing up to the boil and let it bubble away for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally and tasting often - if you feel it needs more salt then add it. As the potato softens and the liquid reduces a bit, smoosh a couple of the potatoes into the liquid to thicken it. If it gets a bit dry, add more water. If it’s too watery, smoosh some more of the potato into it and turn up the heat and reduce the liquid some more. Use the mighty power of your brain. After 15 minutes, check if the potatoes are almost-but-not-completely cooked. If they are, add the peas (if they’re not, cook them some more until they are, obviously). Once the peas are cooked (about 5 minutes), sprinkle over the garam masala, stir it around for another minute and serve it up with basmati rice and dhal (lentils), if you like.

Hi High, Lucyinthesky I read your post while I dropped by......... With a bit of re-translation I figured everything out (there are certain english words even I don't know, haha) It worked out fine, a tad slow since I had some absinthe before and it tasted GREAT....Muchos gracias... Cool to see that some people appreciate vegetarian food here. I learned to love it while beeing in India, where I got ill from eating something I bought in the streets. The doctor gave me the biggest anal pills I had ever seen in my life and told me to stick to vegetarian food (and to stick those pills up my ass, but that's another story). Their vegetarian cuisine is so fantastic that one doesn't miss or even have the need to eat meat! To translate the dutch writewrite: yeah the words you could read were correct. Roughly translated it says: It doesn't matter a shit what's written here since there ain't nobody around here who can read this anyway, lol, chances are small

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Thanks for the inspiration Ninelives and Jimmyray... Vielen Dank Lucyinthesky ich geh das gleich ausprobieren.....yep mitten in der Nacht... (And to add a third language....Het maakt geen ruk uit wat hier staat want er is toch geen hond die dit kan lezen, lol, de kans is klein)

Greetings from Middle Earth, Reswati and Juniper

This is going to be a long and meaningful debate.....possibly the best we ever had here. (takes some more wine) (cheers everybody)

I still wonder why people consider Zep to be Satinistic Look for instance at this guys: (Far more Satinistic, even played the right way around.....it's a SIGN dammit) And of course this Satinic Witch....please call the Churchfashionpolice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCDTBGbNvXs

Velvet pants indeed rule, I love my black velvet pants, they make my ass feel soft like a young god's ass.

Tobacco, ashtray, webcam, a telebanking gizmo, a red led light, a white led light, some disks with computer programmes, a cigarette lighter, a screwdriver paper,a cell phone and an empty coffemug

Here is an excellent review of stairway by a really amazing person who I guess has listened too many things backwards and made a lot of money with it too. Too bad that he is a bit misinformed from time to time, as far as I know there are no live performances of STH from 1976 and as far as I know Robert wrote the lyrics, and not Jimmy. Anyway, have a good laugh.........(forgive this man for eating too much acid) Excerpt from: Reverse Speech: Voices From The Unconscious If there were a "Top 40" of backmasked songs, "Stairway to Heaven," by Led Zeppelin would have to be at the top of the chart. It has been quoted, misquoted, and dissected for years by religious fundamentalists as being one of the most occultic or satanic songs ever to have been released. I disagree strongly based on my research into the background of this song. According to Stephen Davis, author of the Zeppelin saga, Hammer of the Gods, the controversy began in 1982, when a prominent Baptist used his radio pulpit to preach that "Stairway to Heaven" carried subliminal backward messages. Then, in April 1982, the California State Assembly played a backward tape of the song in a public session. Some members of the committee claimed they heard the words, "I live for Satan." Led Zeppelin were duly denounced as agents of Satan who were luring millions of teenagers into damnation as unwitting disciples of the Antichrist. Eddie Kramer, the producer and engineer who worked on four Led Zeppelin albums, says that these charges are "totally and utterly ridiculous. Why would they want to spend so much studio time doing something so dumb?" "Stairway to Heaven" was written in one afternoon by Jimmy Page, lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin and an Aleister Crowley devotee. The song has been reported to employ a technique of encoded words and double meanings similar to those used in Black Spirituals in which some songs were used as maps and other lyrics served to alert plantation slaves of an impending break for freedom. Until approximately 1985, Page owned and lived in Crowley's former house, "Boleskine," a sprawling farmhouse on the shores of Loch Ness, sometimes called the "Toolhouse" Boleskine was originally purchased in 1900, by Crowley, for almost twice its value, because it met certain requirements of the Books of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage. These requirements included windows and a door that opened to the north toward a secluded structure that was to serve as an oratory. It's commonly assumed that a small outbuilding to the far right was the oratory. Crowley stated in his diary that "shadowy shapes" used to escape the oratory and enter the house. It's been reported that during subsequent rituals these "shadowy shapes" were unleashed with dire effects on visitors, staff, and a few hapless visitors from nearby Foyers. According to Davis, Jimmy Page was quoted in Roadrunner magazine discussing further cases of madness and mayhem including the story that Boleskine was once the site of "a church that burned to the ground with the congregation in it." 13 This brief, historical background gives tremendous insights into the profoundly significant metaphors contained in both the forward and reversed lyrics of "Stairway to Heaven." Sung forward, the song is basically a story of a woman who's searching for the meaning of life and the path to heaven. In the forward lyrics she sees signs on the wall but cautions that words can have more than one meaning. The bird that sings from the tree tells of thoughts that are misgiven. The thoughts carry images of "smoke" (perhaps fog) in the trees and the voices of those who stand apparently watching from among the trees. This is apparently the same group that is rewarded for their long-standing with the dawn of a new day and the forest's echo of laughter. There's great significance to the lyrics when they're viewed from the perspective of Reverse Speech. When we consider the complementary nature of the song, it appears to be partially a song of hope for all those who according to the legends once suffered at Boleskine. The lyrics also seem to be a message from the unconscious mind that details its own communicative style. In the process of writing the song the way he did, Jimmy Page unknowingly established the complementary criteria for reversals to occur that speak of their own existence. "Words have two meanings," and "thoughts are misgiven," appear at the start of the song. Note the complementarity with the last reversal on the song. As soon as the song is reversed, it says quite clearly, "Pl-a-a-a-a-a-y backward. Hear words sung." This is not an intentionally backmasked message, but rather a genuine speech reversal. It almost seems as though the unconscious mind is calling out and saying, "Hey, listen to me. I can communicate." The lyrics also form a reversal that says: There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan. Jimmy Page may have unconsciously used the words tool shed to refer to the small outbuilding that was the oratory (Boleskine itself was the Toolhouse). The reported "shadowy figures" may be those who have stood for so long in the smoke, but are promised the dawning of a new day. The last stanza declares not only that there are two paths that can be taken, but also that it is not too late to change roads. This last stanza contains the reversal It's my sweet Satan, the one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is fake. Their are references to "path," "forest," and "hedgerow" all of which are descriptive of the setting of the Boleskine mansion. The word Satan itself may be a metaphor for the suffering and pain that occurred in and around Boleskine. The parallels of these images and the legends that surround Boleskine are compelling. Other reversals that some people have quoted in this song as a basis for their claims, include: "There's no escaping it / I will sing 'cause I live with Satan / They gotta live for Satan." These reversals are so vague and imprecise, however (validity 1-2), that only the very bold would use them as the basis for an argument. Finally, a reversal appears on a live version of the song sung in 1976, that says: Forgive me Lord, forgive me Lord, forgive me Lord. How could this be considered satanic? Who's asking for forgiveness and why? Since when does the nature of Satan, metaphoric or otherwise, include forgiveness? Is the song a stairway to heaven, a stairway to hell, or something totally different? Stephen Davis wrote a description that may be accurate regardless of how you choose to answer these questions. He said: "It expressed an ineffable yearning for spiritual transformation deep in the heart of the generation for which it was intended."

Ereh eussi sith ssucsid ot eno krad eht yb neddiborf si ti. Noruas liah. Noruas liah. Rodrom fo drol noruas liah. Ssa tibboh ruoy kcik lliw ew.

Hence his real name Farrokh Bulsara.

Tell your friend in answer to the question that we all love his big Zeppelin and his heavy balloons.

Why certain people listen songs backwards.... well, they have nothing better to do......since they have dull lives. Listen to Jimmy's Lucifer Rising instead (the right way around, since backwards music sucks) http://www.myspace.com/fraterzardoz and yeah, Bigdan, you are right....in the future....one post after this one.

Here is a Jeff concert which I had never seen before posted by the same youtuber. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXbt3jCf3Q...434&index=0 this is the first song, the rest are on his youtube page...to the right if you click the link.....ya'll figure this out.....just too lazy to post all the links.

Here's a very rare Jeff clip I discovered yesterday, Enjoy! Jeff as a street musician: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U3mJwwayWI...re=channel_page

The coloured ones are reprints from the presence, the original albums were all black vinyl.