Just gave this bad boy another listen today and have to agree with that - top tier versions of those songs. Instrumentally, they are FIRED UP here. That OTH solo is killer, and SRTS ... Jesus lol. Robert really doesn't sound good to my ears until halfway through Kashmir, but then he sounds mostly great (but still with squeaks, crackles and pops throughout the night so maybe I should say "for 75" lol). No Quarter is one of my fav versions ever. I also love Jimmy's solo on STH. It wanders a bit, but the vibe of the song is sounding right, if that makes any sense at all. Robert sounds perfect for most of the song and of course atrocious on the outro haha. And wooooweeee are they fired up on WLL!! Robert sounds fantastic on the Crunge. So - my revised assessment is a hot night for the band, def one of the best of the tour, with Robert sounding very uneven as per usual in 75.

That is one nice thing about the good ol days with music ... you got to share, which in itself was kind of cool. One of my fav memories is hearing a lot of Zep songs for the first time from a mix tape a friend made for me when I was a junior in high school. I had heard the fourth album on lunch break in the art room and was all over it lol. But instead of taping me the fourth album, he went home and made a mix starting with SRTS and NQ, followed by a bunch of songs from LZ II and then random songs from other bands (I think he felt the element of surprise superseded my wanting to own the fourth album haha). Anyway, the very first time I heard SRTS and NQ, I was 15, stoned out of my mind in the bedroom with headphones on, incense burning (which fooled no one, room just smelled like weed and incense, shocker) and my eyes closed. I still remember the visuals my brain came up with for both of those songs as I listened for the first time. There's a kind of magic to being surprised with music - and especially with a well-made mix tape. Cue John Cusack monologue from High Fidelity here 😛

I think I still have about 3 or 4 cases of cassette Zep boots from the late 80s, mostly Maxxell MX 90. Back then, I never paid for boots - just plugged into the underground network and traded tapes for tapes (through the mail). I never had good boots to trade with others, I just sent people blank tapes as a form of payment.

That's really interesting and very cool that your professor brought Lolita into the mix - what a great way to be introduced to that book. And yeah, very telling that only the ladies got it. Now I wanna re-read it yet again lol.

Ohh that's a good catch regarding Humbert! Nabokov writing about borderline personality disorder before it had a name (technically, they're stuck at age 3 but close enough).

Well .. haha ... I think you know. I mean, its a classic scene and sticks in your head when you're 13! 😛

That's my concern as well. They had that nice long break after 3-5-75 Dallas show ... that's what gives me hope it could be great, specifically with Robert's voice. I hope one day we get to find out.

Yeah, I agree with all that. BUT - the people I know with long covid are all under the age of 40, all normal healthy people with no underlying issues. I suspect long covid is being under-reported. It's really hard to know what's what, I can only go on my personal experiences and studies I've read from legit sources. I steer clear of biased news as much as humanly possible and just try and separate the wheat from the chaff as much as I can with new developments. To each their own, I respect different people's beliefs. Like you say, there's a ton of disinformation out there. I personally am just gonna try my damnedest to not catch it for as long as I can. Prudence and all that.

In terms of central banks being cornered .. yep, I'm with you. In terms of them theoretically using the virus to help achieve their own ends .. I agree they're not above that (or anything, really). I'm just bringing this down to a more human, boots on the ground level. I know long covid is real because I've seen it in my daily life. And all the studies I've read seem pretty legit (with the 1 out of 5 thing). I hope I'm wrong, I really do. But just doing the math on it, if this thing mutates to something "mild" that still fucks up 1 out of 5 people - or even 1 out of 10 - in a way that severely limits their being able to enjoy life .. that to me feels like a problem. Again, I hope I'm wrong. If this thing mutated to something insignificant that didn't mess up anyone long term, that would be a massive relief. I just don't know how realistic that is. It's a brand new thing, a man-made weapon that's running amok. Regardless of sinister banks and govs, I really hope the people wearing white coats science the shit out of this sooner vs later.

Agreed that most people don't understand grammar (average IQ for a human being is 99 points, just being real here), but I'm not sure "colour" vs "color" is considered correct grammar here in the states. It's a moving target here in the states with tweaks here and there over the decades, but I wouldn't say the good folks over at Merriam-Webster are dullards or philistines. The language changes, we change, it's part of life. You could even say it's very American. It's why no writes a thread title on here that goes: "Dost Thou Enjoy the longer No Quarters of '77?" Having said that, I agree that proper language is indeed a dying art. Nabokov's "Lolita" gets shit on for the unsavory plot, but the writing itself is what makes it a masterpiece. Dude was in love with the English language and basically wrote a love letter to it, all the while dragging us through the twisted mind of Humbert Humbert .. tricking us into relating to a guy who is essentially pure evil (or do we trick ourselves?). But I digress. I almost tried to be clever and tie Lolita to Zep/Page/Maddox but nah.

Yes! It can be so tricky to judge when boots have crap quality because I have a tendency to err on the side of thinking it sounds better. My imagination "fills in the blanks" with the weak sound fidelity, and then sometimes a better quality recording comes out - or more likely gets remastered - and the spell is broken. A good example of this is the 10/2/72 show which I loved as a kid in high school, then heard a much better sound quality recording of it this year that changed that opinion. Also, my headphones are good but not super expensive "best of the best" good so that makes a difference too I'm sure. Totally agree about Page and Plant at that show. Plant does sound off here and there, but when he's on .. wow, he sounds killer.

I had to google BTS, that's how out of the loop I am 😂 I was trying to come up with something clever to add, but the only modern band I'm aware of that might by cringy is 21Pilots (my ex loved them lol).

Hella cringy!!! 🤣 But we are all Zep fans here, and that's what counts. Just being on this site on a regular basis (yep, including myself 100%) is cringy. But hey, I own it. I get teased about it now and again from people who know I'm on this thing lol.

Always loved that, second best part of the movie!

You know what ... that's a good point, Strider. My apologies, Boogie Woogit. Doubting Strider doesn't make you a troll. He actually made a good point about your Brit English, I've spotted that myself in a couple of your posts. 😂 I figured it was just some bizarre thing you did for whatever reason and didn't give it much thought beyond that. And yeah parenting was different in the 70s, I can attest to that personally as someone born in 1970. My mom would take me and my brother to social functions after church on Sundays and the grown-ups did NOT hold back. She also took us to R-rated movies and foreign films every week which created my love for that medium. Things were looser back then. Which personally, I'm grateful for. If my mom was a helicopter parent, I would have turned out way less happier and self-sufficient.

A lot has made me happy recently. Had a wonderful birthday on Thanksgiving day and holiday weekend in general. My gf and I went to a BnB on the coast, saw some deer right outside our window and also when we went for a walk just 20 feet away from us. We ate some amazing food, and the weather was perfect (70 degrees on the coast in late November, the one nice thing about global warming). Came back home Saturday and got to watch my Dolphins win their fourth straight game the next day. As mentioned above by Electrophile, the Get Back documentary absolutely feels like a gift - been watching that in the evenings this week. I'm really, really glad that was made. Dude has made something substantial and incredibly fascinating that will make people happy for decades to come. This will sound corny but fuck it ... I'm glad to be listening to Led Zep again. I was seriously burnt out on them for years and years. I just started listening again in 2021, discovered many shows that are killer ... it's like reuniting with an old best friend. I'm listening to the band every day now, and I have for the past few months. I'm enjoying this while it lasts.

This track is like driving through the hills on a sunny day. The Zeppiest the good Captain ever got:

This shit is getting surreal, particularly with what's happening in Austria. Some people think Europe is a little ahead of us (the US), and we're next with strict lockdowns. I personally can't see it happening here, but then I've seen a lot of stuff happen since covid hit that I would never have imagined.

I like the part where someone is asking Ringo if he likes all the Hare Krishna stuff, referring to the visitors, and he's like nope, lol. Peter Jackson def kept that in there for a reason. And yeah, Allen Klein was absolutely a wolf. Predators are good at smelling blood and all that. Imagine him trying to creep in there when the four of them were tighter as friends and a unit back in 1964? No f-ing way, they'd veto that shit right quick.

Where there are forums, there are trolls. He will fuck off soon enough.

Lots of great answers here, and I agree it's a rabbit hole. He was so integral to their sound, you could list any song he played on really. I definitely second "Cashmere". Such a cozy and warm song .. feels good on the skin .. makes me wanna sit in an old leather chair and drink hot chocolate. 😛 The thing with Bonham was he played just like Page - in that his playing came from "somewhere else". I wish I had a better way of describing it. For instance, you could get a guy to study his playing and recordings for 10 years, have the exact same gear, play the tracks exactly the same way ... and still not sound even remotely the same. Because he just isn't John Bonham. That's the coolest thing to me, where musicians are concerned - you can mimic but never truly replicate what they create. A lot of first gut answers I'd give for this question have already been listed so instead I think I'll add "Candy Store Rock", a fav of mine off Presence. The drumming on that just brings the whole thing to life. I'm listening to it right now with headphones ... absolutely incredible. (And Plant and Pagey sound amazing also.)

My first tin-foil hat theory was: this thing is absolutely a bio-weapon created in a lab. I thought it was a no-brainer. This was back in Feb 2020. My second tin-foil hat theory: this omnicron variant - or one similar to it - will be the one that really gets us (here in the states). If a new version of the virus (like perhaps the omnicron) is shown to be relatively mild, not sending many to the hospital, not that much deaths, etc - the media will jump all over it. People who were already on the fence will now be officially "done" tripping about the virus. Mask-wearing will be even more hard to enforce and become even more politically unpalatable. People are over this thing and want normalcy and will jump at any chance to get it. On the surface, this all may sound positive. BUT - what if it the virus mutates into something much more transmissible, more benign on the surface ... but stays with you longer? Something like 1 in 5 people end up with long covid, from the studies I've read. If even 10% of the US population ended up with long covid, by let's say 2023, it would be disastrous. Imagine having chronic fatigue. Parosmia sounds harmless enough, but it actually can create eating disorders and over time depression (I know someone who has it, it's a nightmare). Or having an issue walking up a flight of stairs. So, yeah I'm venting here obviously but it seems to me unless the scientists can figure out how to stop long covid - that's the thing that will really get us, either with this new variant or the one after that or the one after that. Good luck getting hundreds of millions of people to keep taking booster shots for a virus that may in fact keep getting milder (on the surface). History tells us we don't really learn or grow unless there's pain involved. So, I think that's where this is all headed. Less fear = less precaution, which then = more opportunity for the most effective version of the virus to live in hosts. Fast forward to a time when 10% of the country is dealing with long covid, and THEN you get change. I don't know what that change will look like, but I optimistically hope that it means the scientists figure this shit out for real.

Unpopular opinion here: I think the lads absolutely had a problem with Yoko being in there 24/7 - in the beginning, at least. Would any of them ever admit it publicly or privately to John? Of course not!! Not hip, not cool, not supportive of their brother Beatle. But yeah, I think they thought it was weird and disruptive, and eventually got used to it and thought "who cares, eff it" and that was that. Paul actually hints at this when he talks about them not having a "dad" anymore keeping the group focused and that the group probably needed that, and if they did the "dad" would say: 'all right lads, into the studio you go, no girls, sorry!' I think at the time of filming Paul had clearly already made his peace with the whole situation, as I'm sure the other guys did, but I also sense that ideally he would not have wanted her or any girls around unless it was just a quick visit. Just a hunch. By the time of filming, they were all well-resigned to the new dynamic and by then went with it themselves - so the studio recordings had become a "come one, come all" kind of thing. Lots of psychic bolstering/support from visitors going on from all sides. The documentary is fascinating because you can sense stuff going on under the surface the whole time. We the viewers are not privy to the private band meetings that happened off camera but it's pretty obvious the writing was on the wall. There's a heaviness there, even when they're playing around. Deep down, even though they've decided to stay together, they know things have really changed. Yoko didn't instigate that, but I do think she was a reflection of it, if that makes any sense. A convenient scapegoat, for sure.

That's one of my fav parts of the doc so far (halfway through it). Paul's under pressure, and it looks like he just kinda wills "Get Back" into existence. The other guys hear that he's got something - you can see it on their faces. They all start working on it ... fantastic editing by Peter Jackson putting that section (and the whole film for that matter) together, it feels magic. I had a huge smile on my face watching that part. Paul could very well have had some song parts of "Get Back" worked out before he started on it in the studio, but the way Peter put it together makes it feel so spontaneous. Reality ... or reality tv?? I'm sure Paul will clear it up soon enough lol. He's gonna get asked about that a lot, I predict.