Aquamarine
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Oh well, he should know then! The source of debate has always been about the disappearance of what I had always thought was a scar or birthmark on Robert's lower back, but is apparently a patch of hair--anyway, it's not in the pic. Photoshop strikes again?
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Those are beautiful, glicine!
Should just mention that there's always been considerable doubt that that's Robert in the second of the two scans above.
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Oh, I remember Ms Dunwoody, but not what she looked like--and flight attendants tended to wear uniforms a bit like that at the time. Thanks for posting, anyway.
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Is that the flight attendant whose tales we may be hearing soon?
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Hmm--large fib about the A levels there, not to mention the exaggerated multi-instrumentalism. Combine that with a pic of him looking totally ridiculous, and for a few seconds I was wondering what I ever saw in him! Then I thought--oh yeah . . .
Nice find, mikezep61.
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^^ Page 3.
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^^ Yes, I belatedly thought of that one. (Though I thought it was specifically China they were offering to play, in the cause of peace?)
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For the New Yardbirds fans..this is the complete article from September 12th 1968-
I'm assuming the "lamentable" publicity stunts refers to the "King of the Midlands Flower People" demonstration outside the court, but as it says "stunts," plural, was he involved in anything else?
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Neither Jimmy nor Robert have ever stated that Jimmy "called" Robert prior to seeing him with Obs-Tweedle.
The call might have been after they had met, and Robert's visit to Pangbourne, to actually offer him the spot. It's at that point they'd have presumably talked money details.
The rest sounds like Paul Rodgers' very shaky memory for the specifics--I don't think he was deliberately exaggerating or making anything up, it was just a very long time ago.
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From When Giants Walked the Earth, page 27:
"Paul Rodgers, then fronting Free, recalls seeing Plant perform in the summer of 1968. 'It was just before he joined Zeppelin,' he says. 'Free played up in Birmingham with Alexis Korner at the Railway Tavern, a blues club and Robert got up to jam with Alexis and he was the Robert Plant that we know and love today – full-on hair
and tight jeans and everything, doing that "Hey babe!" [imitates Plant's trademark vocal]. Full on everything, you know? He was giving it large with Alexis who was playing an acoustic guitar, and people didn't quite get it. He really needed Bonham and Page behind him. We were staying at some hotel and afterwards he came back for a cup of tea. He said: "You know, I’m thinking of going down to London. What's it like down there?" I said, "Oh, it’s pretty cool, you know, it's good." He said, "I've had a call from this guy called Jimmy Page, have you heard of him?" I said, "Oh yeah, everyone's talking about him, he's a big session guy down there." He said, "Well, he wants to form a band with me. They've offered me either thirty quid or a percentage." I said, "Take the percentage." Next thing I knew it was Led Zeppelin, right?' Thirteen days after the final Yardbirds show in Luton, Plant packed an overnight bag and bought the cheapest train ticket available that would take him from Birmingham to Reading, and then onto the local stopping service to Pangbourne."
Meg
This doesn't entirely make sense, in that Paul Rodgers must have known that Jimmy was with the Yardbirds, not a "big session guy".
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^^ That interview and several others giving similar information (and in one case, also referring to California) are also on the Korner site mentioned earlier.
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'Hair' opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London on September 27, 1968. Presumably she joined 1 to 3 months prior to that as rehearsals for the US production lasted three months.
I was there, it was awful.
Beside the point, I know. Here's some info from alexis-korner.net--the part about Plant is near the end. No source for the quote, though.
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Say what? Great pic, Glicine.
My thoughts exactly.
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Words fail me! You continue to almost single-handedly reconstruct Robert's pre-Zeppelin performance history.
And for that alone we thank you, quite apart from all this great work you've been doing!
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I've never seen that "singing during an electric outage" story attributed to Zeppelin gigs.
Luckily you've solved that mystery. I think this is my favourite so far..you can imagine the telephone conversation.."Robert who?..Grant?..Prant?..Plank..oh right..Clamp"
Walsall Observer 21/07/1967 (gig is 22/07/1967)
What I also love about this is that the Dynamic Robert's "band of joy" are in lower case letters, as if they're just a cheerful bunch of mates who follow him around.
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That's great that you're still together.
I think you won on the suit but Robert won on the boots, so you're even on that score. Actually snakeskin boots in the UK in 1969 must have been quite something (I'm from there and remember those days!).It occurs to me that it must be your 40th anniversary around now, congratulations!
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Actually I was referring to my suit but RP's ain't great either!! The snakeskin boots made an impression on everyone. The photographer was a big LZ fan and took more pics of Rob than he did of my wife Carol and me!! We are still together BTW.
That's great that you're still together.
I think you won on the suit but Robert won on the boots, so you're even on that score. Actually snakeskin boots in the UK in 1969 must have been quite something (I'm from there and remember those days!). -
Hi, I am "Mr. duCille and can confirm it is me with RP. Wearing the worst made suit in Christendom!!!!
Very nice to meet you, after years of looking at your picture! If you're talking about RP's suit, I've always thought the jacket was several sizes too small.
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No, that's Messrs Plant and du-Cille. I was just posting directly from the emails.
OK, thanks--I was a bit confused by who was saying "my wedding".
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Amazing stuff, dazedjeffy! Thank you!
Clarification, though--are you saying that's you in the pic we've been looking at all these years??? (Or Mr Du-Cille?)
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*breaks cover to pay homage to Blocoboy
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Just stopping by to point out that I started this thread for the purpose of posting pics of Robert. So let's post pics of Robert.
Carry on.
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Errr, Aqua, I think Orangebugger meant the picture posted in #327, not the one with bad teeth.
Oh, OK, sorry.
Back to lurkdom.
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I scanned this pic from an italian 1992 mag, I think the pic is from '73, judging by the hair and teeth.
Btw, I see my sig at the right upper corner of the pic suddenly and conveniently disappeared.
I didn't touch your sig, honest.
But I did express an opinion of the pic as a pic,and I still think it's one of the worst I've seen of him. (Thanks for posting it, however.)
(I'm surprised it took us that long.)
Luckily you've solved that mystery. 
Actually snakeskin boots in the UK in 1969 must have been quite something (I'm from there and remember those days!).
Amazing stuff, dazedjeffy! Thank you!
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I'm sure you guys are right (though it's impossible to tell from the bracelet)--I was just saying that there had always been a lot of argument about it.