You're welcome, Otto - and thanks for the information. One of my friends from a long time ago emailed me that photo and asked if I recognized or remembered it. I told her that I didn't but I would post it on the Led Zeppelin forum. When we talked about it, we thought either '74 or '75 - but after the U.S. tour. Thanks to both of you. You posted at the exact same time. Great minds thinking alike?

Who is the couple in white in the middle of this photo and where and when was it taken? Thanks.

OK, Jere. Thanks for that information, yahyoubetcha. You were fortunate to get those tickets for that small venue. Two years ago we tried but weren't successful - we'd still love to see Jeff again and a small venue would be especially nice.

I know what you mean - it's almost more painful because it was so close. In the case of Duane Allman, I seem to remember that they had played Fillmore East in the spring of '71 ( I remember older kids talking about the concert at school). I went to my first concert (LZ at MSG) in early September '71 and Duane was tragically killed, several weeks later, in October. :'(

It was damn good. I remember not wanting to go to the ARMS concerts because I wanted to remember Jimmy as he was during the Zep years but my husband convinced me to go by saying something like, "We may never see these guys play together again...." So far, he's been proven right. Eagle, there were may greats who I missed seeing: Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin. All of them died only a year or two before I started attending concerts.

I remember her! What an interesting article - although the line I put in bold made me rather sad. I've always tried to live my life in such a way that the best memories of my life were the most recent ones - for some people, though, that's impossible to do.

Thanks for posting that article, Bong-Man. It was interesting to read. I am a huge admirer of Joni and her music. Many of her songs used to strike me as so bleak and so sad - I could only take those songs in small doses. Until I read this article, I didn't know that her early life had been like that but I can see now where some of the darkness in certain songs may have come from.

I love Caravanseri. Abraxas has long been one of my very favorite albums. The RS interview with Carlos Santana:

Most of his musical creations - and some of our favorites - are instrumental. Rod Stewart used to sing with Jeff as a member of the Jeff Beck Group. I've also heard Clapton and Carmine Appice doing vocals with Jeff but there were, at different times, other musicians, male and female (sorry, I don't remember their names) singing vocals.

I just asked my husband about this and he said that he doesn't remember anything about Jeff doing heroin in the way that Jimmy or Eric did.

He is great live! So much energy! You're right, he has aged really well. He is only a few months younger than Jimmy so he is 64! I don't think that Jeff did the hard drugs in the same way that Jimmy and Eric did.

My husband and I have been fans of Jeff Beck since the late 60's and we both saw him in concert several times during the 70's, both before and after we met. His music and musicianship are phenomenal. My husband is a huge, passionate fan. Not only had he seen Jeff in concert many more times than me, he knows every album and track - in the way that I know Zep's albums. The night that we saw Beck, Page, and Clapton on stage together at the ARMS concert was incredible - it was diminished only by how unwell Jimmy was during that period of time. Antoher highlight was seeing Jeff and SRV in concert together - that was probably a year or so after the ARMS concert. We tried to get concerts to see Jeff when he played at a small venue in LA about two years ago but we were unsuccessful. It seems that he rarely comes to the U.S. which is very unfortunate. My husband would really love to see him play live again, at least one more time, and it seems that will require a trip to England.

That sounds promising. My husband has been an unwavering Doors fan for all of those 40+ years. He wouldn't go to see the Oliver Stone film but I'm sure he'll feel differently about this new documentary. Ray Manzarek is a very interesting person. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6353302

Same here. Supposedly that's when we get to have all the fun without the stress!

I'm sorry to read that and hope he makes a full recovery. I just read in another thread that Joe Perry recently underwent knee replacement surgery. Amen to that.

Thanks. You're right: what more could you want? When it comes to our kids, we've done the best we could (and I don't mean materially - it's all things that can't be bought). It sounds like you and Mrs. Ally have done a fine job too.

Two hot, sunny, beautiful days. Our two oldest children spending the weekend here with their friends from college. The sound of them laughing and jumping into the pool. Knowing that our home is a place where they feel they are safe, comfortable, and always welcome.

My husband and I were living back east in the late 70's - we weren't married yet and I was still in school but I brought him out to LA a few times and introduced him to the town. That included taking him to the places I frequented when I was younger. I think we saw Muddy Waters at the Roxy in 1980 (by then we were living back in LA full-time).

Danelectro59, I went to the English Disco during the '70s (and also to Gazzarri’s, Rainbow, Roxy, Whiskey, Troubador, etc.). I haven't seen the documentary so I can't comment on it. I know that not everyone likes/liked that era, but I personally loved the Hollywood/LA scene of the 1970's - I found it very exciting - an interesting place to be filled with fascinating people. It's sometimes difficult for me to describe what the scene was like in those years to someone who wasn't there (and someone who isn't familiar with Hollywood) because it was such a different time and place - and people and events that seem outrageous to us now, were just the way things were on the scene back then. I've always considered myself very fortunate to have experienced that when I was young.

They seem to tour on a regular basis so I'm confident there will be a next time.

Great photos and review! I am so glad that you were able to attend the Rush concert. After reading the reviews of the recent concert that they had near here, I still regret that we didn't decide to attend.

If a good seat is purchased for a sold-out show through a professional ticket agency/broker/scalper it probably comes close to that figure - something like 50 to 100 times what we used to pay to see these same artists.

Thanks for the interesting articles. I've always loved Neil Young - both as a musician and as someone who hasn't been reluctant to take a stand for what he believes in. This is one of my favorite recent articles about Neil Young: "Vintage Neil Young, Still Working for the Muse" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/mus...e.html?ex=13513

I've seen three of the groups on your list several times and, back in the 70's, always paid less than $10 for a good seat. I remember those days - an album and a concert ticket were around the same price. I used to earn enough money from one long night of babysitting to pay for the album, the concert ticket, and subway fare to get to the concert. Amen to that. I think "Ticketbastard" didn't come along until right around the end of my Zep concert days. The lone scalpers standing in the parking lots never bothered me - if the show was sold out, sometimes that was the only way we could get tickets - most of those lone scalpers didn't try to extort us. It seems that, when the agencies and corporations came along, prices got out of hand.