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One for you Robert Plant fans
Orlando
...tks for this..keep it coming!!!
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i worked on this today at work
, it's not finished yettks. Diana-loura...that's just so beatiful so far...one of my and I am sure all of us here, fav. pic's of our beloved Page...keep us posted...
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Thanks to the Webmaster for extending life of this mystery thread and Freedom of Expression. There is no other purpose/reason, but to make sincere/factual contribution to Led Zeppelin Timeline.......
...Here is The Original Article from which Las Vegas mystery concert Fanviews extend...
Sunday, September 09, 2001
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
COLUMN: Mike Weatherford
Readers remember The Doors
Jim, be careful how you undulate on that ice! Hey Kurt, can you sign my dressing room?
Last Sunday I claimed Madonna was the last active music star who hadn't played Las Vegas, and asked readers to share memories of rare shows by icons now in rock 'n' roll heaven.
There were plenty of responses, many centering on The Doors playing the Ice Palace skating rink in Commercial Center.
Review-Journal alumna and Preferred Public Relations President Michele Tell referred me to her uncle, Mike Tell, who promoted the concert.
He couldn't confirm the date, listed on some Web sites as Nov. 1, 1969. But he remembers that because Jim Morrison had been arrested for lewd behavior in Miami, both performer and promoter were threatened with arrest.
"There were more security guards and policemen around that stage than you've ever seen," Tell recalls. Morrison was "so intimidated that when he sang, he didn't move."
Michele Tell met Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek a few years ago. He remembered the show for a different reason: "Because they just put flat boards down on the ice, it was freezing," he told her.
What's striking now is how rock concerts were treated by local authorities as a suspicious enterprise, miles removed from the "legitimacy" of the Strip, which was focused on Eddie Fisher and Phil Harris the night of The Doors' visit.
Jon Jacobsen writes that Janis Joplin was "one that got away" in 1969.
"The city and Sheriff Ralph Lamb would not give the promoter a concert permit, saying that the city would be invaded by the Hell's Angels and the youth of Las Vegas corrupted."
Readers Dan Kempf and Sherrill Denley are convinced Led Zeppelin also played the Ice Palace, though a scholarly Web site lists no date.
"Led Zepplins," as the Las Vegas Sun called the band, canceled an April 1970 concert after Robert Plant collapsed onstage in Phoenix the night before.
Some high school students had planned to protest the $6 ticket price.
Do you think any of them paid $75 to see Plant and Jimmy Page at the MGM in 1998?
In the modern era, Nirvana was the rare group not to play here after its landmark "Nevermind" album.
But Craig Alan Boyle, who managed Calamity Jayne's on Boulder Highway, remembers the band opening for Sonic Youth on Aug. 16, 1990. "They were booed offstage by the restless crowd," Boyle recalls. "I personally was in the dressing room watching Kurt Cobain throw a fit
following his set. Before their performance, Kurt and the rest of the band signed the walls of the dressing room.
"Unfortunately," he reports, "new owners not realizing the historic significance, painted the walls in the mid-'90s."
Mike Weatherford's entertainment column appears Tuesdays and Sundays.
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Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
Richard Cole with Richard Trubo
Originally Published: New York:HarperCollins Publishers, 1992
Excerpt - Page 95 - Summer 1969 Tour
....The Zeppelin wives joined us for a few days during that tour, including some of the shows in Las Vegas and other West Coast cities......On this particular tour, I figured that by pulling a few strings, I could get us some front-row seats to Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel.....That afternoon, I had called Bill Miller, the entertainment director at the International,....My name is Richard Cole, "I told him." That night, we had front-row tables. It was the first time any of us have seen Elvis performed......
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Maureen Plant is present during the Seattle Pop Festival...... July 26, 1969
Robert Plant watched with his wife Maureen during the Doors' set, eventually weighing in on it during an interview with Ritchie Yorke for the New Musical Express.
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Promoter in question, Michael Tell's family/siblings influence extends highly into Caesar's Palace in the year of 1969...for hospitality services...
.......for now...
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Delinha,
......and he remains passion of every generation, everywhere, timeless.......
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Thanks to all for the kind comments
Here is one from 2003 of my son and I
Here is what he looks like now. I finally got him to let me post more recent ones!
By the way I wished he would grow his hair a little longer...and his favorite band is Pink Floyd!!!
...Deborah, beautiful family, so much to be proud of the handsome and friendly looking young man beside you.... hard work,enjoyable, has paid off
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say.
Julie Christie
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you may notice I am prone to examine even the finest details of a particular event or era. I am also
extremely hesitant to write anything which has not been substantiated as fact beyond all reasonable doubt.
"They're all inaccurate you know" - Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin books
"Heroes are in books - old books" - Robert Plant
...noted, very well on my part...your top priority...
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FOREVER MY DEAR FRIENDS!!!!
looking really good, Ms. Debarres......!!!
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This is a great thread, so to get back to why we enjoy it...better than another one of me...this is my son when he was two and a half. he's now 29!! He is also my best friend
...Deborah,...thank you for sharing photo of your beloved son...I am sure he is much loved by the ladies...for his mom is his best friend...a trait recognized by the opposites...
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Getting through The Song Remains the Same
By MATT ASHARE | December 4, 2007
The Portland Phoenix
Unfortunately, It's (there is) one very good reason not to spend your money on the version of Mothership set.......(it's a classic now)
End of Story...
http://thephoenix.co...ge=2#TOPCONTENT
...custom van paint jobs of wizards wielding mysterious lights at the top of a hill...
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Jimmy is a sweet old man.
...sweet..and "Young at Heart"...as he says, and I believe HIM
Very HOT!!!!!!
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Led Zeppelin and Philosophy
All Will Be Revealed
Edited by Scott Calef
Foreword by Dave Lewis
Volume 44 in the Popular Culture and Philosophy® series
Available for Purchase Here: http://www.opencourt...ed_zeppelin.htm
...very interesting/unique........most certainly worth it for me...
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...Yes, it does, This Vegas fanview is INCORRECT/FACTS ARE DISTORTED, in numerous places...
Michael has been non-respondent...
...Back to Hobbstweedle...
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...My ever efficient Apprentice, usually punctual, bit late today....
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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Noora...your Name?.......Noor...the light that shines through the Apprentice's Window......
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Here's a picture of me in France. It was taken a few months ago
...Noora, Your picture, most certainly, lives up to your name...
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....Hello, Dazedjeffy,...really very nice to see you in picture here...
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A terrific addition to the archive! Thanks so much!
...the date of the article.......
Email from Washinton State University - with thanks to Gabriella
I did locate the following article from the April 16-22nd issue: (1970)
one last piece of info - according to the Underground Press Collection Listings, the Las Vegas Free Press published Vol. 1, No. 1-44 from Jan 1 - Dec 23rd 1970. There is no publication lull indicated by these dates for the year 1970. In 1971 the publication did not publish any January issues, but resumed publication for the following dates/periods in 1971:
Feb. 17
March 10
May 12 - June 16
July 14-Sept 29
That's all the info I have on their publication run.
The article does mention teens liking Zeppelin....(Mike Tell Formed "Teenage Attractions" earlier in 1966.......
....more later....
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Las Vegas Free Press, Underground Newspaper, Published from Jan 1, 1970 - November 24, 1971, Publisher(and concert promoter Jay Tell, one of few in Las Vegas, all competing for the same market, same $$)
We were first to expose Las Vegas Sun publisher Hank Greenspun and Howard Hughes' CEO Robert Maheu, who fleeced the billionaire of $20 million cash, which became a major story for many years.The notorious Howard Hughes proxy battle would determine control of an empire. Bobby and I were in court when Federal Judge Roger Foley entered my paper into evidence, saying, from the bench, "The Las Vegas Free Press is the only newspaper in the nation to get the story straight."
http://www.allbutforgottenoldies.net/memoirs/bobby-darin/jay-tell-tribute.html
...Many Many thanks to Gabriella at Washington State University for her kindness to provide this rare Underground article painstakingly...
.."nearly all teens who complain are quick to admit the "Zeppelin" is a fantastic group"
...I will post as I receive...
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...how about hot....
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Outstanding! Slowly but surely additional recollections are coming to the fore thanks to your further pursuit.
..no need to thank SAJ...for the love of Zep, for all of us, the fans...I am sure it will happen soon...
..as you can probably judge from the school term...the concert probably happened in the "heart of summer" as most fanviews seems to indicate...IMO, also, Mid-Aug. is bit closer to back to school dates (Aug. 26)....just a thought...
IMO, also, Zep "probably" tried to see Elvis/July 31...but the likes of Sinatara, etc...2000+ celebrity guest list...no room at the International Hilton...so maybe they had to stay at the Caesar's Palace...
Just thoughts...nothing confirmed...
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...this is what I have got so far...
Very sincere thanks to Mr. Geroge Thoma Apfel - Las Vegas Radio History...
There were a number of memorable concerts at the Ice Palace-- IIRC the Doors, Zeppelin, and the Turtles did shows there.
Relevant excerpts from Emails I received From G.T. Apfel...
I even remember KENO doing a promotion where they gave away "Steel Wool" blacklight posters. You could get them at The Lollipop Shop in Parkway Plaza at Sahara & Maryland Parkway.
“Steel Wool” was a rock group, they may have been local to Las Vegas – I don’t think there is anything online about them.
The “Lollipop Shop” was a head shop—they sold incense, music, and a variety of items for those who enjoy smoking weed.
**Radio Station Broadcaster/Announcer in '69 was Mr. Jeff Colson -Unfortunately he has passed on, as I found it...it would have been fascinating to speak to him
Also, very thankful to Mr. Steve Miller of Original Teen Beat Club of Las Vegas (co-promoter of Grateful Dead/Ice Palace March 29, 1969)
His emails...
By the summer of 1969, I was no longer in the concert business. I do recall the Led Zeppelin concert taking place, but little about it comes to mind.
Ice palace...
It was a large room located on the side of a dilapidated shopping center on Sahara Ave. The ice was covered by boards, and there were bleacher type seats against three walls with folding chairs placed on the boarded up ice. A stage was erected at the far end of the room. There was also a restaurant on the second level with large windows so diners could look down on the skaters. I do not know if the restaurant was still open at the time of the rock concerts as I did not attend. I know nothing about tickets, but surmise that anyone who paid cash at the door was welcome.
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- The Underground Band of Vegas...
The Weeds / The Lollipop Shoppe
FC: We started in Vegas but in October '66 moved to Portland. Originally we'd planned to migrate to San Fransisco but were broke and things we'd lined up fell through.
60s: What kind of things?
FC: A disc jockey in Las Vegas lined us up to play the opener for The Yardbirds first tour at the Filmore. It's the reason why we left Las Vegas. We thought if we went to San Francisco and played with The Yardbirds we could get a deal with someone there and just start happening. When we got to the Filmore they said it was bullshit, we were never on the bill and told us to split. We were so disgusted and dissapppointed we headed for Vancouver but ran out of gas and money in Portland. That's why we ended up there.
http://home.unet.nl/kesteloo/lollipop.html
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Majority of the concert attendees remember Summer'69 - Here is the school term confirmation from Clark County School District...
August 25, 1969 - June 8, 1969.
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...as I am sure there are other fans searching, this is what I have come up with so far. Highly likely the information will come from "Underground" scene. From my further readings on arrival of Howard Hughes in Vegas in '66, the Rock Concert/Scene was not promoted heavily in Las Vegas. The Culture of the 60's in Vegas is exceptional as compared to other Cities in U.S. at that time. This fact is also explained by Mr. Dick Lepre, (promoter of Grateful Dead) previously in this thread
...Still in contact with UNLV/search, I will obtain any transcript made available to me...I will post soon, it does take time to research...
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I remembered reading that is the real reason Jimmy agreed for Zep to do the French TV show, was so he could meet her.
She was John Lennon's favorite too, as well as this lady...Juliette Greco
...tks for this fact ladies...I didn't know this.......
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Hit Parader October/November 2009 (USA)
Contains republished interviews and pinups with Page, Plant and Jones (nine pages)
...tks...will look for it at Chapters in Canada most likely.....
, it's not finished yet
She was John Lennon's favorite too, as well as this lady...
Led Zeppelin or Related on YouTube
in Led Zeppelin Master Forum
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...got any since I been loving you?...or Song Remain The Same...
Tks...