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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?
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"Leader of the Midlands Flower People" - It Was a Publicity Stunt!
Robert Plant outside Magistrates Court in Wednesbury, England on August 10th 1967
"One day we were trying to figure out how to get him some publicity, and I had just bought a bunch of velvet material for curtains. He had a court date coming up in a couple of days' time, and I thought 'Why don't we just dress him up in an outrageous costume, and we'll get all his friends to hold banners and circle the court on the day?'. So we made this velvet King John outfit, and the magistrate refused to hear the case, and it made the national news".
"We helped him get his first publicity, and the rest is history".
Interview with Tony Noons, Robert Plant's booking agent in the '60s
Originally published in Houston Press, July 17th 2003
Note: Robert's reckless driving charge was reportedly dropped on account of insufficient evidence
thanks steve. i've seen this pic many times and always wondered what it was all about
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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.
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nice post. i've never seen that clip before.
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Cause, quote Toyah, and thread title 'it's a mystery'
if i were being cruel i'd point out that toyah actually declared that "itttthhh a mytthhery"
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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?
er? i did try to enable a smiley on my last post, but it didnt work. i was joking..
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Anyone got his dental records?
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?
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if we're getting into jimmy's past medical operations; didnt he have some work done on his knee as well? any others?
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