Danny Gatton and Vince Gill - quite a pairing

good article but I noticed it says Zep played there in 1979.

I used to buy the models to sell in my dad's store. I learned that from my older brother. We all built alot of models too. We had some strange traditions too with models. One was we would pour glue on battleship models and light them on fire in our neighbor's pool to make battle scenes. Man did we get in trouble when he got caught! Just so you know, the neighbor kid was my older brother's best friend and chief instigator in this crazy activity. One time my brother was getting frustrated with a model and he threw it against the wall in our basement where we all built models. The next few times anyone got frustrated with a decal or something he would say "you should just wall it" He drew a big X on the wall and soon on a regular basis models were being demolished against that wall. It was a stone wall - very old house. We also built balsa wood model airplanes in middle school shop class, covering the wings with that thin paper and then coating it with "dope" and yes it really was called "dope". My favorite models were WWII fighter planes.

I will gladly defend the 1977 tour and explain it from my point of view any time. Only time I saw them. Just missed 1975 MSG because parents said I was too young (15 going on 16) to go to the City with my older brother and his friends. Sure the tour had its low points but so much of it was just amazing and over the top.

Thanks for posting this. I had not heard this particular compilation/mix before. That is kick ass! Celebration Day 1971 - always one of my favorite Zeppelin live moments.

Listen to Jones in The Song Remains the Same. Four years to the day before the Kingdome show.

What a great idea for a thread. I was nine, almost 10. We watched so many launches and missions in the 60s I don't recall the specific launch, but I do clearly recall watching live when Armstrong stepped out and on to the moon. I also remember getting a free lunar landing module model every day at the local Texaco station. My brothers, friends and I spent lots of time building those models and acting out the whole series of steps in the mission from when the LEM left the orbiting ship with Michael Collins to take Armstrong and Aldrin down to the moon. It was a very big deal that summer. My parents were really into it, maybe just because we were so into it, but they made sure we were awake to watch the first steps on the moon.

From the 1958 recording The Scene Changes. The whole album is excellent.

Here is a sampling http://starship.jpn.ph/zeppelin/beauty/disp/boot.jsp?R_idx=947

That sounds fantastic! Thanks for all these remasters you are doing.

The things you can find on YouTube

I love the original version with vocals, but this instrumental version is much heavier and quite different. Howe and Squire are really rocking this one and so locked in together. It was such a revelation to hear this so many years after the original.

Have you heard the DADGAD remaster of the show?

The first time I saw them in the late 70s Rick did this wailing solo spot where he just went crazy. After one blistering run he stopped and said "That was a thousand times better than FRED NUGENT!!" (He really did call him Fred Nugent - the crowd went ape.) Then he continued wailing and stopped - looked out at the audience and said "Almost as good as - - - JIMMY PAGE!!" and the crowd went berserk.

A friend of mine recently reminded me how great this show is and he encouraged me to listen to it again. Wow.

I think alot of it has to do with someone's perspective and what else they listen to. This guy was into 1940s and 1950s blues and R n B. So he liked alot of great music. He got me to listen to Little Walter, who at the time I had not heard before. Little Walter was amazing. Around the same time a younger guy I worked with (who was into 80s alternative rock bands like Eleventh Dream Day etc) listened to a Zep compilation tape I made him and said Plant sounded like someone was strangling a cat. I recall I had put For Your Life as the first track on the cassette because I thought it might appeal to his taste. I had also put Hots On and Wearing and Tearing near the beginning of the mix tape.

Last year I put this together using only officially released tracks. For the later years it was easy since there were few choices to make. I tried to choose only one version of each song, using only officially released tracks, to see what a chronological live album might look like. In some sense, the DVD is a chronological live album, but I wanted to consider tracks from the BBC, HTWWW, and TSRTS also. I wanted to choose a version close to the studio release of each song, though there some very difficult choices, especially since Heartbreaker is not on the Royal Albert Hall part of the DVD and in the bootlegs it is cut off. CD 1 Danish TV - DVD Communication Breakdown 2:46 HMMT 12:20 15:06 min Royal Albert Hall - DVD - my favorite sounding official live release I Can't Quit You Baby 6:56 Dazed and Confused 15:33 Moby Dick 15:21 What Is and What Should Never Be 4:39 WLL 6:24 Bring It On Home 7:44 56:38 min CD 1 total 71:44 min CD 2 BBC 1971 - 2016 remaster Since I've Been Loving You 6:56 Going to CA 3:54 - could have gone with HTWWW That's the Way 5:43 - could have gone with HTWWW Stairway 8:49 Thank You 6:37 32 min HTWWW - 2018 remaster Immigrant Song 3:42 Heartbreaker 7:25 - would have gone with Royal Albert Hall if it were released and complete Black Dog 5:41 Over the Hills and Far Away 5:08 Bron Y Aur Stomp 4:55 Rock and Roll 3:56 The Ocean 4:21 35:08 min CD 2 total 67:08 min CD 3 TSRTS Celebration Day original 1976 release 3:49 No Quarter original 1976 release 12:30 The Song Remains the Same 5:39 original 1976 release The Rain Song 8:20 2018 remaster 30:18 min Earl's Court - DVD In My Time of Dying 11:14 Trampled Underfoot 8:14 19:28 min Knebworth - DVD Nobody's Fault But Mine 5:45 In the Evening 7:56 Achilles Last Stand 9:03 30) Kashmir 8:50 This is the running order I imagine. Ending with Kashmir I think is fitting. 31:36 min 77 minutes. if cut NFBM or ITE would fit on one CD (would not want to cut either one), or could add some more tracks to fill out a fourth CD?

We often play this tune at my weekly bluegrass jam but not quite like this.

4/27/77 is also good rendition of the solo in the middle of the song. In Sick Again, as in Celebration Day, the more interesting part is the outro solo which extends way beyond the studio version. In Sick Again Jimmy would conjure up an abstract haze of intensity in the outro. That is where he really shines in Sick Again live, beyond the great riffing and rhythm work.

Nice camera work - not so many fast cuts. Gary Rossington playing his slide solo with a cigarette in his pick hand is a nice 70s touch. Just a few months before the plane crash that effectively ended one of the best American bands of the 70s.

Ah, 1975. Back when we all thought this was a Skynryd song. I like this version without the horns. I also of course like the studio version with the horns. The boys really made this song their own. Damn they were good. and of course the original is equally if not more brilliant