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Nutrocker

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  1. "If You Leave Me Now" is sort of the song that killed Chicago IMO...Kath hated it, and grudgingly played bass on the live versions (like the horn section he wasn't even in the studio when Cetera cut the track with a lot of help from Jim Guercio). What pissed the rest of the band off about the song was how Cetera and Guercio more or less cut it on their own with minimal input from the others...Walt Parazaider made it sound like the first time he ever heard the song was on the radio, he didn't even know it was his band, let alone a track from the new album...ultimately "If You Leave Me Now" -though a good song, not a good Chicago song IMO- was the tune that pigeonholed them into becoming the ballad band they remained for the next fifteen years. I mean, I get it: while most of the rest of the band by the mid seventies were getting increasingly fucked up on drugs and alcohol -particularly Terry Kath and Robert Lamm, who up to that point were the singing/songwriting backbone of the group- Peter Cetera kept his shit together for the most part while Kath and Lamm started sliding down, and started taking a more dominant role (VII was probably the big turning point), for which you really can't blame him, but it all started going to his head just a little too much...my interest in Chicago depends wholly on the involvement of Kath and Lamm (my two favourite members; Robert Lamm is one of my favourite singers of all time as well) I agree they really should have packed it in after Kath died, and in retrospect at least a couple of members of the group agreed (Lamm chief among them)...but they had to pay for those drug habits and ex wives etc somehow...so together they stayed, and morphed into a completely different band. Oh, it was tough in my house: my wife liked the 80's Chicago stuff and couldn't relate to the Kath era material at all, whereas I was the total opposite😂
  2. The new DOD transfer for Pontiac is indeed an upgrade and a half, just like their upgrade of MSG 6/8/77 last year- the fresh transfers remove about seventeen layers of dust off those recordings.
  3. I was born in '68...my aunt and uncle were going to take me along for Seattle 7/17/77 but my folks put the kibosh on it. The missus and I planned on seeing Page/Plant in Vancouver in '98 but work and shit got in the way...
  4. I helped liberate this show a few weeks back...killer performance from the 1974 tour (seventh album, which is my favourite), taped from the stage by the band's crew:
  5. Better than 3/25/75 would have been, certainly.
  6. It is, but unfortunately neither of the 4/10/77 audience recordings are very good (or complete). Oh well, maybe some day...
  7. The West Coast March '75 "No Quarters" where Jones and Bonham send the jam off in a jazz direction are the best for '75 IMO, especially March 19 and 25th. You have to hear the 6/11/77 "No Quarter", absolutely killer version. There is NO bad version of "No Quarter".
  8. I so wanted Dave to do a book on the '77 tour along the lines of his book on the 1980 tour...I reckon this is as close as we're gonna get on that score, probably. Me want. IMO those huge "Stories Behind The Songs" books -I've read the Zeppelin, Stones, Floyd and Beatles ones- are by and large terrible, okay to pass the time, I suppose, but not the most accurate tomes out there to say the least. No question, the Hoskyns Zep book is the one yet to be topped (I will always give a shout out to Keith Shadwick's book as well). Let's see how this upcoming Bob Spitz Zeppelin bio turns out, his Beatles book was excellent, probably the best all round straight biography on the group I've read (and I've probably read 'em all). I will imagine he'll give Zep the same treatment.
  9. That March 25/75 "No Quarter" kicks ass, arguably the best of the 'jazzy' versions- JPJ switches back to the Rhodes from the Grand piano halfway through Page's solo and lays down some Herbie Hancockesque shit for sure. The Earls Court NQ's IMO are boring compared to those late March jazz excursions...
  10. Was it as good for you as it was for me?😄😄😄
  11. Cheers, Walter. You may recall a period a couple years back when I was more or less incommunicado within the community, that's when I was dealing with the missus. As for finally busting Zepster/AA, like I say, after all these years I feel vindicated now, feels pretty good!😄 And FWIW I don't buy a goddamn word about the shit AA is supposedly hoarding. Christ, he used to accuse me of hoarding Freezer's Baton Rouge '77 recording, now all of sudden he has it? I think not.
  12. I'm sure AA/Zepster would look at it as falling on the sword rather than shooting himself in the foot...either way, after thirteen years of trying to get the bastard to come clean and out himself, I feel vindicated now.
  13. What a sad, pathetic little man you are, AA. Absolutely NO justice in this world when cancer can take my wife yet an immoral, unethical shitbag like YOU still roams the Earth. At least I've gotten you to come clean and finally ADMIT yer nothing but a bootlegging shill.
  14. I really don't think AA/Zepster gives a fuck about ethics. He's been working with bootleg companies for years, decades, probably. It's just what he does, ain't gonna stop, all we can do is ignore the bootlegging bastard.
  15. I am quite sure Sam knows who you really are as well, AA. Like I said, yer not fooling ANYBODY.
  16. It ain't slander if it's true, AA- everybody here at .com, Royal Orleans and Dogs Of Doom KNOWS that "Zepster1979" and "Argenteum Astrum" are one and the motherfucking same! How long do you plan on keeping up this pathetic facade, AA? Does making money off of Led Zeppelin recordings really mean that much to you? Is it yer only source of income? Remember, pal, you've been on my personal shitlist for thirteen years for how you fucked up Freezer's Baton Rouge '77 tape coming out- if I live to be 100 I will never let you live that down. Give it up, yer alias isn't fooling ANYBODY. No matter what alias you post under, AA, yer name has been mud within the Zeppelin community for over a decade. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
  17. Or something like Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans tour, where EVERY song was an epic (the four Oceans pieces themselves are 20 mins each)...short attention spans need not apply!
  18. Here's a fine version that came out in the last couple of years, matrixing the 'best' audience sources, plus the added bonus of the three soundboard tracks and a few selections from an alternate audience source: https://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/led-zeppelin/led-zeppelin-pleeease-lord-fourth-night-at-the-garden-graf-zeppelin-lzsc-611a-b-c-d/ 6/11/77...best "No Quarter" of the entire fucking tour, in my not so 'umble opinion...
  19. A few months back a fresh master transfer was made of the classic cut-in-between-songs 4/28/77 recording, overseen by Andy Winston (of Winston Remasters fame) himself. There is also an alternate source recording of the show that finally surfaced among the general public a year or so back (it was being hoarded up till then); the alternate is almost as good as the main source and is more complete (i.e. not cut between songs, has the ending of "No Quarter" etc). There's also a matrix version that uses the alternate to patch the main source...can't go wrong with any of those ones!
  20. I imagine the Noise Solos were kind of a "You had to be there" kind of thing (as eyewitnesses like Strider have said). Something definitely gets lost in translation when listening back on an audience tape fourty odd years after the fact. And yeah, "Star Wars" must have been huge in '77, Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson both started liberally throwing in "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters" quotes in some of their keyboard solos in that period.
  21. $42 bucks, eh? That's about what I paid per ticket for Pink Floyd in '94...26 years on you could probably stick a "1" in front of that 42.
  22. Strider was actually there, man, one of the lucky ones around these parts who doesn't just have to relive the tour vicariously through old recordings 43 years after the fact!
  23. It's what happens when you actually put in a little bit of legwork and digging, instead of just sitting round the forum discussing the merits of the LA '77 shows for the umpteenth time or arguing about what fucking blouse Plant was wearing on a given night😆 Stuff like this old film footage or audience tapes still popping up after all these years are what collectors like myself thrive on.
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