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Christopher Lees

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  • Birthday 01/25/1974

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  1. It would take longer to hand off a guitar than to drop the D.
  2. The notable thing about the St. Louis show from 2-16-75 is it's by far Plant's best night in all of 75.
  3. One of those things you don't know until you play in a band and experience it yourself on stage. I've had this happen and it's very frustrating. Unless you play in a band, you would think it's just sloppy playing, bad timing or just being human and less than perfect, but if you play gigs, you KNOW what not hearing the monitors can do and you can sense it in recordings. Another thing about not having a good monitor mix is that it can really make it hard to play on an inspired level, because it sounds like crap on stage and you hate it, so it's hard to get into it. The best you can do is rely on being well-rehearsed and go through the motions, but there's something missing.
  4. I used to wonder why this part was so hard for Jimmy to play, and also why he didn't do the big bend at the end. Furthermore, instead of pulling off at the 20th fret (high C), he pulls off at the 19th fret (B). Now I know why. A few years ago I picked up a double neck to use in my tribute band, and I never noticed this until I played it, but the neck is short. The body of the guitar doesn't allow you to reach that far up the neck. A normal electric body allows you to easily reach the 22nd fret, but with the double neck, the 19th is the cut off, but even that's not easy. I have to cram my hand in there to get that lick to work - and I don't do the big bend on the end either. No thanks (lols). By the way, that double neck took me a long time to get used to, and it's still unwieldy. The 12 string neck is pretty easy to play, but the 6 string one is very difficult for me during the intro of Stairway. It's hard for me to fret the chords because the weight of the guitar is strange. It's like there is a small child hanging on to the neck with his feet off the ground. I have to hold the neck up (sorta) while playing and it requires some concentration. It's a beautiful guitar and looks really fun to play, but I only ever play it at shows, and when I'm done with it, believe me, I'm happy to put it back on the stand!
  5. Guys, the simple reason I think Jimmy didn't want to play on the album and doesn't play much, in general, is that he's a very old man. Yes, Clapton and the rest are old too, but people age differently. Jimmy's almost 80. Anyone still hoping to see Jimmy go on tour soon is nuts. Time to let it go. My gut tells me he's not in the studio (lols), not recording at home, not getting his chops together (what for?) or anything like that. He seems to be adrift, just as he has been since the demise of Zeppelin in 1980. With a few exceptions, Jimmy hasn't really known what to do with his time. He's a bit eccentric, so he probably spends a crazy amount of time entertaining himself with oddities. If he did put out some new material, it would probably be something like Walking into Clarksdale - only less exciting.
  6. You're the only one who keeps saying everything is "creepy" - The rest of us are as enthusiastic and excited as can be.
  7. Ana, I've known you almost all my life because of you being featured during Since I've Been Loving You. Amazing to finally have this mystery solved after all these years - and you have the hoodie to prove it! Welcome to the forum. I bet you have a story to tell about that concert.
  8. Well said! I've purchased all the cassettes more times than I can remember, and then when CDs came out I purchased them as well, not to mention the VCR tapes of TSRTS and then the CDs of that, and then the later stuff. I've purchased all the Zeppelin material over and over and over and over again. Now I have them on Spotify (sheesh) - how many times do I have to pay for the (same) rights to listen to the tunes? And about the bootlegs, I'm right there with you. I used to spend good money on those, and that was back when I barely had two nickels to rub together. Of course, it was very exciting when it dawned on me on day back about 1998, that perhaps there might be someone who knows something about Zeppelin bootlegs on the World Wide Web! I started tape trading and then CD trading. I loved when a record convention would come to a nearby city, and sometimes not so nearby, and I would make a journey out of it, a mission. I'd get there and look carefully over everything I could find, picking up a few Zep cassettes and listen to them on the ride home. Those were good times. But now, with the amazing work this community does with the remastering, I just wait until they do their magic and listen on YouTube or get the FLAC.
  9. Any update on this? That was one of the best parts of the website.
  10. That's a pretty good list. Honolulu 1970 is, perhaps, Plant's best vocal ever.
  11. Why is it mostly these acoustic players that seemed to have influenced Page so much? Who was the bigger influence, Graham or Jansch?
  12. Finally, someone else appreciates 2-14-75 as much as I do. I purchased The Diagrams of Led Zeppelin's version of this boot back about 2001 or so. It was a very good audience recording with only one drawback, which was some overloading and distortion caused by the bass and especially the bass pedals. Having said that, I'll take that incredibly ambient recording over the much-improved remastered recordings that have come out over the last 10 years or so. They're amazing, but something is missing for me. The Rain Song on TDOLZ's version is my all time favorite. It feels like I'm there. The rawness of the audience recording makes NQ an amazing listening experience. It's not the same with the "perfect" recordings. Plant's plantations are great on this show as well. My favorite solos are Dazed, NQ and Stairway. This was the first 75 show that I listened to that finally seemed to measure up to the great 73 shows. Dazed is monstrous! The feedback during the NQ solo is the kind of controlled chaos that made Zeppelin so great and it's accentuated on TDOLZ recording. What a great and special show that is.
  13. Excellent post. I did a deep study of Crowley a few years ago, just to see if he ever actually did anything in his life, and to see what all the fuss is about. I learned a lot about him and I discovered that he was a disgusting, filthy pig of a man, who did detestable things. He was a complete loser, a pig, a rich, spoiled, lazy sloth, and all around just a very low quality person. The world is better off without him. To me, he is remarkable only in that he was such a scum bag. Why Jimmy was so fascinated with such a person is beyond me, but it does not speak well of Jimmy, frankly. I mean, we're all grown men here now, right? We aren't fanboys who have to excuse everything Jimmy does, so I'm just being candid about my take on this. By the way, if anyone wants to gain a bit of context regarding Crowley and the era he grew up in, I suggest looking closely into both Madame Blavatsky and Manly P. Hall. Oh, and let's not overlook the interesting tidbit about the connection (possible connection) between Crowley and George Bush! - Just google it.
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