Love to get the band members' reaction to the pre-show photos. "Was our audience really THAT young?!?"

Leading to the writing and recording of the fourth album, 1970 was a hectic year for the band; they were shooting to a new level of stardom in the wake of WLL taking off and started playing large arenas regularly in America. It may be Robert dramatizing the band's adventures on the road and using ancient mythology for lyrical effect.

They were skewered for being Zeppelin copycats - and yea you can pick out the Zeppelin tracks that some of these songs remind you of - but Kingdome Come borrowed from many rock acts of the 70s and 80s. It's a tribute to Zeppelin's influence that Kingdome Come incorporated so many aspects of their music. Kinda fun to listen to play Name That Zeppelin Tune!

AKA Bottle Up and Go found in many a Zeppelin medley.

wrong thread, my bad

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Chris Charlesworth's review of Searching For Jimmy Page by Christy Alexander Hallberg. https://justbackdated.blogspot.com/2022/01/searching-for-jimmy-page-novel-by.html?fbclid=IwAR26dP3zyo7uEQjlOxuz7yeBJ86EEsep-tJPISVll2bTbgc9l6Gjb1EZ89c

Generally the maturation period of 1972. The Crunge and Walter's Walk sections are fun to listen to. In 73 Jimmy played a couple bars of 'Crossroads' in New Orleans. A nice surprise!

All I gotta say is your passion and dedication are extraordinary. Never hurts to be reminded there are others who share my level of affinity for the band. Even moreso! Makes me wanna step up my game! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this. Thoroughly impressive!

Hi, Mikey and welcome. Bootleg remasters are live recordings remastered by individuals - not unlike you or me - but who have a particular talent and technical expertise to touch up the original source be it soundboard or audience tape.

My take is that Peter and his team did all they could to fight the release of unauthorized recordings during the band's existence. Following the band's demise, the 80's weren't particularly active but from the late 80's the live shows started to proliferate. By this time, Peter's involvement with the band's affairs had diminished and I think after Jimmy's home was pilfered, he pretty much threw his hands up when so much product flooded the market. I think Jimmy and the group certainly would've preferred otherwise in terms of controlling the material released to the public, but in hindsight I agree with the notion that the 200-odd shows that are out there have enhanced the public's appetite for Zeppelin. They're essentially two different bands - studio and live - equally great in their own right. That being said, I also think the volume - and in many cases high quality - of available unauthorized recordings has diminished Jimmy's motivation to release more material officially. I don't think the level of violation he must've felt - and may feel for as long as he lives - over the release of his life's work out of his control can be underestimated.

Steve A. Jones enters saying "stop it" in 3...2...1...

Must cost an arm and a leg to fuel up a zeppelin! 🙃

Bonzo in all his isolated glory on ITTOD. It's queued to start at about 32.5 mins.

My money's on Mo chose it for him. 😄

Welcome to a lifetime of lunacy!

One more thing about 9/29 Moby Dick perhaps the best version recorded. Martial tempo that would fit in a marching band performance.

Probably Robert signed off on the tracks released on the official DVD but would go no further. Jimmy probably also favored the compilation concept of the DVD rather than a full single show.

Two simple notes: the opening of Good Times Bad Times.

Zeppelin finding unrelated in places? 🙃

Bath 1970. Near as I can tell here is where this stands. Dave Lewis questioned a Professor Chibnall in 2017 about the status of the Peter Whitehead film. "There’s 20 to 30 minutes and a lot of it is backstage. I’ve only seen the footage, I haven’t seen it with sound...when Led Zeppelin played, they played in the dark and there was insufficient stage lighting for (Whitehead's) cameras. So he reckoned that the footage, the live footage, was not usable. It is usable because, I mean, it can be, it can be restored now. So you can raise those lighting levels, you can see more digitally...I think it would be a really good project for 2020." Yes, he said 2020. Seems a ripe journalistic endeavor to follow up with Chibnall.

The songs kinda fall into 2 categories for me. One, if the song was played extensively live - or even intermittently - that almost makes the studio version an afterthought if you've listened to a lot of live shows. For those songs that were never (or hardly) performed live, it's still very hard to rank the very top few but I'm partial to Down By the Seaside.

With just the brown bag is laughable!

I don't skip specific tracks but by 72/73 I'm skipping shows here and there as the set lists within each tour became nearly identical. Mind you, there was a reason for this. As the stage presentation became more extravagant, the lights/sound/effects crews had to know what was coming in order maintain the choreography. It may sound repetitive to us but the idea was they were performing to a different audience each night. Not unlike a stage play or even a stand-up comedian. I've often used the timeline as a reading companion as I'm listening. Contemporary reviews and fan experiences give a window into what it was like to be there. We get to listen to nigh on 200 shows but the feedback from those who were there reminds of the visual and physical - damn there they were loud! - aspects of a Zeppelin show. A bit of context never hurt! 🙂