What, you mean playing those? I can't play either one (yet, anyway), but I do love both songs.

Jonny The Bends These Are My Twisted Words - I figured this out on guitar recently and just can't stop playing it, it's just so cool and weird, I love it

That's correct, Elf and ELO. Well, although just an okay recording, and it does have some cuts, there's enough there that proves it indeed WAS an excellent night for DP MK III

For over forty years I've been searching for a bootleg of Deep Purple at the Long Beach Arena from November of '74. I was at this show and always considered it to be one of the best shows I've ever seen. Well, I finally found it. I downloaded it last night, I will listen when I get home. I'm sure it will be anti-climactic, right? Still...I haven't had this giddy feeling of FINDING something in a long time. I still remember when I found Led Zeppelin LA '71, same thing, just YES! VICTORY! haha The search was always part of the fun. I do hope it lives up to my memories. Hopefully it's not an awful recording. We'll see. I will report back with my review. Another thing I want to find is Jaco Pastorius at the Beverly theater 1983. I've heard there is a recording, I just haven't seen it. This one is kind of the opposite - "was it really as BAD as I remember?"

Awesome!! Still wanna hear that '71 Hawaii show, despite the poor review

The fuck up on Moby Dick is startling....Is Bonzo getting pranked by the band here? He does the whole drum intro (post solo) and they don't come in. Reminds me of that time they left Plant hanging on IMTOD, also a '75 show. Mistakes? Maybe. But It got me thinking they might pull stuff like this on each other just for fun

Happy Birthday Bonzo!

Gonzaga University, opening for Vanilla Fudge, December '68.

Well, they played all originals at the UFO show. They played there quite a bit, so these could be two different gigs or "pt. 1 and pt. 2" of the same gig. I'd have to listen, so many of these have wrong info on them.

That's not the UFO show, there's no recording of that one (that I'm aware of). This is earlier, but same place (Golden West Ballroom)

Indeed I was! What a show, one of my all time faves. Here's a few pics

I was at that one too. Tommy Castro opened up. So basically, every concert I went to, Strider was there lurking somewhere, haha. Maybe sitting right in front of me, who knows 😄

For me it WAS the Universal Amphitheater. Perfect size, perfect sound, not too far away....saw so many great shows there, Prince, Bowie, Radiohead, Jeff Beck, Stevie Wonder, Sting, The Tubes, Ozzy, etc., etc...but ALAS. They tore it down to build Harry Potter land! Still pisses me off

No way, are you kidding? Before the pandemic you were going to a show almost every day it seemed like. You've seen more shows in the last five years than I've seen in my life probably!

good stuff Eric! Tony Franklin! yeah

James Gadson on drums! Fuggetaboutit!

Well, Robert does play guitar nowadays a bit, I just don't think he had the chops to play the required stuff back then. But, yeah, it would've helped for sure

Yeah, "the era of the virtuoso is over" or something like that you know, I was watching the '71 Japan footage, and you see Robert and Jonesy practically rolling their eyes waiting for Jimmy to wrap up his unaccompanied 'Heartbreaker' guitar solo. Then I started to realize what Plant had to go through, and just how indulgent Jimmy was, long guitar solos in almost every song, with Robert standing around... not that we don't all love it, but, you know, from Roberts point of view, yeah, I'm sure it could be a bit much some times

fantastic!

those are all great!

What about the t-shirt? I have one on order....

Right after that, as they go into For What it's Worth, listen to the bass, JPJ is killing it

Southampton, for sure. Which version? Don't know

very cool! the guy really moved around a lot too. Funny when Bonzo runs back to his drums just in time on Black Country Woman

That's a cool pic, where's that from, is he sitting in with Bad Co.?