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  1. You'd think that John Bonham bringing in a new "tech" in 1975 / 1977 would be a big deal?  LMAO   The stories seem to change through the years. I've read LA 77 and 1975 somewhere else. 100% of the tales of him supposedly being involved with Bonzo are only from Jeff himself. Never been any corroborating evidence and as mentioned, Jason has asked around the Zep circles, yet nobody ever heard of him. 

    Here's something posted on the site:

    1975-road-crew-magazine.jpg.6b07c5333a56

     

  2. On 7/16/2020 at 7:53 PM, sixpense said:

    Page 284 Roland Guitar Synthesizer (GR-500) - May 78 Clearwater Castle Rehearsals - Riff became Who's to Blame and also used on Carouselambra

    Page 299 Roland G-808 (1979 Model-Natural Finish) Used on Death Wish

    Pge 320 Roland G-707 (1984 Model) Nickname of 'Dalek's Handbag' Used on Prison Blues 

    Would have been interesting to see Jimmy use one of these guitars live in The Firm or Outrider.

  3. From Chris Welch's excellent peter Grant book "The Man Who Led Zeppelin":

    PG: "Some people were trying to videotape the Bath Festival and they’d already been told beforehand they couldn’t, so I had no qualms about throwing a bucket of water on to the tape machine which blew the whole lot up. Whoosh! It made a horrible smell and then it melted."

  4. 28 minutes ago, SilverVishnu said:

    Some good info on Bath 1970 below. The festival itself had 2 screens either side of the stage. Were these used for the Zeppelin performance? I've never read anything that confirms they were.

    http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/bathvideo.html

    So there are 3 possible sources of video. The black and white footage shown on the screens, the colour footage shot of the whole festival (or parts of it) and the 20-30 minute colour footage shot by Peter Whitehead contracted by the band, which is under exposed but still usable. 

    http://www.tightbutloose.co.uk/tbl-news/a-memory-frozen-forever-berlin-1980-3-lp-reviewed-led-zeppelin-over-europe-1980-it-was-40-years-ago-lz-news-bath-1970-peoples-front-of-lz-latest-book-reviews-the-new-bob-dylan-album-on-the-playe/

    So Peter Whitehead owned the footage he shot and has seen it. I was just starting a search for his contact details but it appears he died last year. 

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Whitehead_(filmmaker)

    So it appears the only real chance of Peter's footage being released is via the upcoming (hopefully) documentary or by whoever inherited the footage. I am willing to investigate this further, does anyone have any information that could help?

    The only pro Zep footage is the Peter Whitehead film, which was the only one the band authorized that day. The video screens and all other film & video cameras were ordered turned off by Peter Grant.

  5. 7 hours ago, Christopher Lees said:

    He must be using some kind of overdrive pedal because even if I crank my Marshal up (1977) there is almost no overdrive at all, let alone enough to make WLL sound right. Did the EchoPlex really add that much drive?

    #1) Your Marshall is not the same as JP's. His were custom modified. #2) Your tubes could be worn out.  I have a similar amp to Jimmy's at the time which used KT88 tubes and it has lots of overdrive. Sounds very similar to his when it's cranked up.

  6. 11 hours ago, Nutrocker said:

    I just reposted Tempe over at the Traders Den, having found my old discs cleaning the house...and got a reply from the TAPER of the show, who was able to solve a couple of mysteries, regarding the mediocre partial recording of the gig: the original tapes ran slow because they were "old batteries" and it was a "shitty tape deck". He also mentioned that he only had one 90 minute tape that had already been used a few times, which explains that beautiful tape bleed of "Jumping Jack Flash" and "All Right Now" we hear during "Stairway To Heaven". The taper didn't mention why he missed the first set on the recording, though.

    thanks for the post on TD.

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