Watching Trailer Park Boys with the wife and kids and eating pizza!

A friend asked if I would smoke some food for them, naturally I said "Sure!". Her son just delivered a cod, two chickens, three racks of ribs, nine turkey drumsticks and A 20 POUND BRISKET! I started the fire and trimmed the brisket, I figure a 24 hour smoke and abouit a two-three hour rest. Food should be ready for dinner tomorrow (I'll cook the pork, poultry and fish tomorrow...)

I've always wondered why RP didn't get "warmed up' before the show.

I've heard the studio stuff so much, few surprises remain. Live stuff, however, just keeps revealing Led Zeppelin's secrets to me...

The biggest difference is, indeed, in the song writing. VH songs are straight ahead rockers, Page writes much more complex songs.

About time! The court ruled “We have never extended copyright protection to just a few notes,” the court held. “Instead we have held that ‘a four-note sequence common in the music field’ is not the copyrightable expression in a song.”

The biggest difference here is the reason for the recordings. That informed the way they were recorded. Most of the Led Zeppelin "soundboard" tapes were so-called "reference" tapes, recorded without effects, just for the band to refer to. They do not represent what was being played through the PA system and certainly not what the audience experienced. When I saw LZ, there was PLENTY of bass! Much of the bass you hear at a show comes from the room reinforcing the lowest frequencies. On the other hand, Betty Cantor was making a cassette recording of the show to try to capture the sound of the show. While still not "exactly what the audience heard" much closer than a Zeppelin "reference" tape. As far as Page cutting the bass for records, I doubt that. Recording bass was a lot harder in the "old days". Notice how much bass is on recordings from the past 15 years or so? Even when the studio stuff was remastered for hi rez, there just wasn't enough low bass on the original recordings to turn up. I'm sure Page got as much as he could...

The Sept. 12, 1981 show was really great! Shakedown>Greatest Story opener, a sweet Bird Song and a China>Rider to end it! Second set starts with the afore mentioned Scarlet>Fire and features a Estimated>Eyes where Jerry goes off! We even got a SECOND ENCORE, the Dead did not do that... Someone had just released a strong batch of LSD into the Bay Area, I've been to many 70's shows with a lot of people tripping but this was different. The set break was silent! No one could talk, everyone just sat there grinning! By the second set, the stage looked like a floating video screen surrounded by lightning, if we reached out our hands, lightning jumped from our fingers to the "screen"! Yeah, we were pretty high...

Onetime I took this woman to a Dead show (Sept. 12, 1981) and we had such a good time, we've been dancing ever since! Happy 39th Melanie!

I went to this epic show! Walked outside around 7:30 AM and there was Bill Graham helping to load out. I walked up to him, shook his hand and said something I'd been wanting to say for years, "Thanks Bill!"...

Jerry and Phil "lead" the band most often so Phil is always mixed well. Dead Heads were allowed to record shows so many of them had very sophisticated recording rigs, some featuring more than just two mics and even simple mixers. Zeppelin fans had to sneak their stuff in and hope Peter Grant didn't spot them, the Dead let "family members" plug their decks right into the soundboard! Look for good audience recordings, much of the bass you hear at a show is from the room its self... PS check the Scarlet>Fire from Sept. 12, 1981! Even though you know it's coming, they sneak right into Fire without you catching it!

Great show! Just finished listening again! My first Zeppelin bootleg in about 1977, still a favorite!

Great (and often neglected) point about the quality of your playback system! A crappy stereo makes everything sound crappy but a really good system can reveal flaws in the original sources.

RIP Mr. Charlie Daniels... https://variety.com/2020/music/news/charlie-daniels-dead-dies-country-1234698989/

Interesting topic! They start out as pretty contemporary, White Album and Cream are both pretty heavy, but then they quickly outstrip the competition...

OK then, how about a live Page and Plant from the '98 tour? Jimmy was playing pretty great at that point. And even fewer people collect Page and Plant bootlegs than Zeppelin boots...

Aw, man...

Right on! Well Seasoned! Carefully Aged! Some things get better with age; wine, cheese, while some things (and people) just get old; like fish or pizza...

Not Eddie Haskell, the smart ass, wise-cracking eternal teenager?!?! I feel old...

It's been always Zeppelin, Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead! (And Jimi but he somehow didn't make the list...) I like live recordings and bands that can stretch out their material and improvise as a unit...

Daughter's been doing a lot of Middle Eastern cooking, she made hummus, baba ganoush, lamb meatballs in a pomegranate sauce, and homemade pita bread! Yum!

I'm feeling really sorry for all the bartenders when we all go back to the bars! We've spent three months pouring ourselves quadruples, "I know how this should taste!"...

RIP Mort Drucker... https://comicbook.com/comics/2020/04/09/mort-drucker-mad-magazine-artist-dead-age-91/?fbclid=IwAR0ljOqV5efHX35DJbmLvBj5WwC0XVEaGbkYIM7zNjC9BrlJHfEBzzD1RjM

Clearly, God is a Warriors fan...