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  1. ♫ Alles Gute zum Geburtstag ♫

  2. Happy Birthday in Heaven, Dzldoc.

  3. Beautiful photos. Turning points in the history of rock. Thank you for the additional info (including the press release on your timeline) for the photo you've unearthed, Sam. Now I can finally put a time (late November) to the blurb about the signing deal that I had clipped from RS but had marked only as "1968." http://www.ledzeppel...ovember-23-1968
  4. Thank you, aen! Someone told me that when Jimmy faced "the ocean" and crossed his arms across his chest it was like an embrace of them, an acknowledgement, a thanks. I don't know if that's true or not but it was a lovely gesture. One of my favorite post-concert photos...for me, there is a poignancy to this one: From everything I knew, saw, and heard about Jimmy I don't believe he ever would have taken advantage of a young fan who was just there to see him, to meet him, to say hello and wasn't looking for anything else. I honestly don't believe he was that kind of person (and I do realize that there were many musicians - and entourage members - who did take advantage of any situation that presented itself). I don't have any firsthand knowledge of the 1977 tour but talking to people who do have firsthand knowledge even then they don't believe he would ever have forced himself on an innocent or unsuspecting fan.
  5. These are all so lovely, aen! Jimmy was incredibly beautiful and playing brilliantly in 1975. Do you know if the second photo is from one of TSRTS premieres? Jimmy looked great then too...he seemed so very healthy and happy. Is the ring that he's showing to the camera in the third photo the one designed as an ouroboros? Was this taken around the time of his meeting with Burroughs (early February 1975) or a year or so later? Sorry for all the questions. The last photo reminds me of a sweet memory that a woman just shared about meeting Jimmy at one of the 1977 MSG concerts. She was a young teen then and she was able to get back to where the band was and was able to meet and speak with Jimmy. She said that he was so nice to her, a young fan. Jimmy was her idol and she said he did not disappoint. Even though the meeting was very brief, Jimmy left her with a beautiful impression and a wonderful memory.
  6. ♫ Happy Birthday! ♫

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      Thanks Thea. I frequent these parts less often since FB. Miss yous.

  7. I still feel lucky to have been there for that special moment in time, PlanetPage....ridiculously so - just hearing Mike talk about it make my heart flutter. I've never taken for granted how fortunate I was...
  8. Thanks for this video. Oh, I love to hear him talk about that LZ concert! I think my link may be gone now because the NYT might not allow embedding of its videos. I edited it to put a direct link rather than embedding. http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/03/12/nyregion/1247467333943/in-limbo-until-a-startling-reunion.html?WT.mc_id=NY-SM-E-VM-SM-VID-ILU-031610-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click
  9. You're welcome, PlanetPage...and thanks again for this interesting thread. I found the video of Mike Quashie very touching and warm too. It was so lovely to hear about Mike's chance meeting and reunion with his dancer. Thanks for the article about Jimmy donating a guitar for Mike - I think that was a wonderful thing for him to do...Jimmy has made other similar generous gestures but as he's very quiet about them, we rarely hear about them.
  10. Thank you for starting this thread, PlanetPage. Here is a story about Mike Quashie, the "King of Limbo" and fire dancer who performed at LZ's 1973 MSG show. I remember hearing that Jimmy came forth, decades later, and donated an autographed guitar to help defray some of the cost of Mike's medical care during his later years. http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/03/12/nyregion/1247467333943/in-limbo-until-a-startling-reunion.html?WT.mc_id=NY-SM-E-VM-SM-VID-ILU-031610-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click
  11. I don't think it's the woman in the video with Jimmy...I remember her as being petite whereas Janine and the other woman I was thinking of who worked with the band were tall like the woman in this photo...both blondes, though.
  12. I don't think it's Cameron...to my eyes this man looks a bit old to be Cameron (who was still a young teen in 1975).
  13. "Inspiration, move me brightly" My husband and I are spending more and more time in the Bay Area so I'm looking forward to visiting this when it opens: Terrapin Crossroads http://insidescoopsf...-in-san-rafael/ http://terrapincrossroads.net/home/
  14. After or on the way to one of TSRTS premieres/parties?
  15. I also think it's 1977 because Bonzo is wearing one of the tour robes from that year in this photo...so I'm thinking that this must have been taken after one of the shows. The woman looks familiar to me but I'm not sure of her name.
  16. Hi Ledy, although I don't know of any older photos of Jimmy with his mother, I have seen some recent (past year or so?) family photos of Jimmy and his mother but for privacy reasons I can't post them. I think his mother is beautiful - she looks very much like Jimmy (even down to the "smiling eyes") and appears to be very distinguished. Something about her appearance made me think that she raised Jimmy very well as far as manners and class. There is another old photo somewhere online of Scarlet and Jimmy's father (her grandfather) at Christmas, when she was a little girl. If the Lynn Collins you mention here is the same one who Steven Tyler talks about in his autobiography he describes her as a gorgeous blonde and talks about how she left him for Jimmy. The young woman in your photo is lovely but her hair looks dark so I'm not sure if she's the same Lynn Collins. I can pull out Tyler's book and scan the passage if you're interested in reading it. I don't remember a photo, though.
  17. Very nice interview! Most of my friends have purchased this book already and all the reviews I've heard from them have been great. They especially like the way that George has brought different perspectives and balance to the discussion of some of the more "controversial" myths surrounding the band. I've been telling my husband about this book since last year and I know that it will be one of my Christmas gifts from him - I look forward to reading it.
  18. I didn't feel right having it up here after what I said. I'll PM you a copy.
  19. I don't know anything about the outfits, the hotel, the exact dates and times, but I do know that these photos are from the LA ARMS concerts days, late 1983, early December. I'm sorry if I offended or offend anyone here by suggesting that was a woman in the photo but I'm bad with faces (thought it might have been a female musician)...and I've always thought that Michael Des B. was a somewhat effeminate-looking man. Even now, knowing it's him in that photo, I still see a girlish sort of face.
  20. Same night(s) - after one of the LA ARMS concerts - I'm guessing backstage, before the club-hopping. Is this another photo by Steve Granitz? Who is the woman between Phil and Jimmy?
  21. I can't tell if it's from the same night, late 1983 (I think) but I had posted some photos here before that my friend took of Jimmy in a club from that same era, in a similar condition. I took the photos down from here out of respect for Jimmy. My friends and I have seen photos of Jimmy when he was in even a worse state but none of us will post them here now. In your first photo he wasn't being kicked out in the photo you posted - those were his minders, helping him out. As far as the second photo, that's the toll that substance abuse takes on someone (and we never would have dreamed it would ever come to that with him)...thankfully he survived and looks great today.
  22. When this photo first started circulating, the woman was identified by someone as Fabienne Shine. I have no idea if it is her - I am not good at recognizing faces and to me this woman doesn't resemble the Fabienne Shine from the old photo with Johnny Thunders or the Fabienne Shine of more recent years. It's definitely not Connie Hamzy. http://www.helioschr...einterview.html
  23. Yes, I saw that as well as a poster of the event, a letter Warren Beatty sent to prospective supporters on behalf of McGovern, and some photos of various celebrities with Beatty and McGovern, but nothing more about Robert or Jimmy. For those of us who attended the LZ concert out on L.I. that night, it seems so surreal to imagine now that shortly before taking the stage and opening with a blistering version of IS at the Coliseum, the guys were sitting sedately at the Garden, listening to Simon and Garfunkel.
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