cool. i thought perhaps it may have just been the commenters hazy memory with a bit of added spice for effect

i'll offer an entry from uncut magazine january 2008, that i've just found. in a feature titled "worst gigs ever seen" LED ZEPPELIN MEMORIAL HALL, KANSAS CITY, 1969". "i saw led zeppelin pretty early on. they did a quick stopover in kasas city and played on a local band's equipment (blues garden). during the set change, a guy came on stage, stripped to the waist, wearing a cape and a zorro hat. he opened his cape and began shouting gibberish into a mic, it was john bonham. apparently, the band killed some time in the afternoon at a nearby Shakey's pizzeria, chugging beer and in bonhams case, whisky. he was blackout drunk. their first song was 'whole lotta love'. page did the opening riff and bonham just sat there. it became evident that there was a roadie behind him holding him upright. he would sporadically snap out of his coma and pound out some licks completely unrelated to the song, then slump over. at one point, JPJ hit him in the head with his bass. nothing. page killed time with his violin bow guitar schtik. when they'd met their contractual obligation bonham promptly vomited on the drums and passed out" gary durrett. glendale, california is this likely?

thanks steve. i've seen this pic many times and always wondered what it was all about

my pal and i bought a vinyl boot each from a record fair in about '79. i got BBC 70 and he got a japanese gig (my brain hurts?). a couple of the songs on his album were slow. no worries, my turntable had speed adjustment so we recorded the normal speed songs then sped it up to record the slow songs. great nice job. except my speed became stuck at the faster rate and i had to get my turntable fixed. which cost cost more than the album did. bummer then an acquintance lent us some cassettes which we recorded from. the quality was pretty poor as you might imagine (some of them were probably several generations down) but there were some great times to be had with them. then i bought a knebworth cassette through the ads in the music papers. fucking brilliant.

nice post. i've never seen that clip before.

if i were being cruel i'd point out that toyah actually declared that "itttthhh a mytthhery"

er? i did try to enable a smiley on my last post, but it didnt work. i was joking..

a very fair point kb! can i retract my earlier post? then again your reply does also raise the question of when he got hs teeth fixed?

if we're getting into jimmy's past medical operations; didnt he have some work done on his knee as well? any others?