Heh, probably the same ice cream vendor even!

June 10 '77 in New York right before "No Quarter", right? And then you hear the one girl -the one who sounds like she's been yelling out "Robert Plant!!!!" every thirty seconds up to that point- yell at the vendor, "No! Go away!" Of course, there's also the exchange between the taper and another member of the audience during "Sick Again": "What, is that a microphone?" "Yeah, take it easy, or else I'll pick you up all night long! Alright? Thanks a lot!"

^^^ That's awesome! Doesn't seeing that $8.50 ticket price seem fucking depressing in 2016? I can't be bothered adjusting for inflation etc but that's probably be a $150-$200 seat nowadays...

I love the January '75 shows- probably my overall favourites of the whole tour. Generally speaking, they're short and to the point. Sure, Plant's voice is rough but it's pretty much like that throughout the tour so you sorta get used to it And even with Page's finger outta commission he doesn't come across as any sloppier than usual or anything. And as I've said in other '75 discussions they shoulda kept "How Many More Times" in in place of the (IMO) mothworn "Dazed and Confused" for the duration of the tour, shoulda kept "Wanton Song" in there as well. I also remember reading a post in a discussion years ago -either at RO or the tradersden, I can't remember- of a guy claiming to be hoarding a Rotterdam '75 recording. Could just be typical wannabe big-time-Zeppelin-collector bullshit, but who knows?

Sounds like the February 3 '75 Madison Square Garden show...Artie and his band of idiots manning the recorder. Say what?! On the Seattle audience tape I have after they finish the Boogie Section in "No Quarter" one of the tapers says something like "That was the best part so far," and the other taper chuckles and says "Good thing for us we have it on tape!"

Your eyewitness account generally jibes with the incomplete audience recording (which starts with the acoustic set, missing the first seven songs: The Song Remains The Same, The Rover/Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Over The Hills, Since I've Been Loving you, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone). You can tell just based on the tape that there was a weird vibe on the night. The audience is pretty rowdy, lots of yelling, a few firecrackers, etc. But no booing...Tempe is defintely a "bad" show but certainly not Zeppelin's "worst" IMO. Let's not forget, a couple of years later Bob Dylan would encounter yea confrontation at the same venue for trying to preach at the audience and shove his Slow Train Coming Christian music down their throats... Yes indeed, any pix or even more eyewitness accounts would be cool!

Who could possibly forget "HEARTBREAKER!!!!!!!" repeated ad nauseum (June 21 '77, L.A.) My personal favourite...from April 28 '77 in Cleveland, before "Trampled Under Foot": Audience member/taper#1: "Hey Jimmy! We love you Jimmy!" Audience member/taper#2: "Hey Jimmy! Learn how to play guitar!"

June 11 1977, New York!

ALL Fort McMurray residents have been forced to evacuate. It's a fuckin' mess, one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history. We have friends who live up there, they lost everything except a handful of items and the clothes on their backs. They said the scariest part was the fire grew exponentially on the town in less than an hour- the cops gave people half an hour to pack up and get the hell out. Scary shit indeed. Fucking amazing that there have been no serious injuries or loss of life. That kind of thing could easily happen where I live (we get wildfires cropping up close to town damn near every year) but I live in a town with about 1500 people- not seventy thousand. Where the hell do you put seventy thousand people?

Jesus Christ...somebody up there has fucking got it in for the music industry this year...

Hey, if I could be in the same shape as Mick Jagger when I'm 73, I'd be a happy man!

Which crusty old English hound? That fuckin' lineup is chock full of 'em!

Absolutely, being shut out of the playoffs this year is gonna put a zap on the Canadian NHL teams' heads- they have to pick it up next year, all of them, otherwise the Canadian teams are collectively gonna be treated like a real life Charlestown Chiefs...where are the Hanson Brothers when you need 'em, eh?

Never gonna happen. "Geezerpalooza"...I like that

Yep...and that makes it official: out of the Beatles and their 'inner circle', Paul and Ringo are now the ONLY ones left...

I love it, but I think it'd more accurate if you switched the dialogue around. And you could just as easily date the discussion to, oh, I dunno, 1973, maybe?

Cheers, folks...yep, two more years to the big 5-0 for me (though as Strider pointed out I am actually 12!) The wife and I went to Banff (big Rocky Mountains ski resort on the BC/Alberta border) for a week. It was nice, even did a little sking

^^^ Neil is another artist best appreciated on vinyl...

^^^ That film is from Munich, isn't it? Last performance of "Achilles Last Stand"...

The band probably disregarded -or forgot- about the Copenhagen gigs because they considered them to be live rehearsals, and not necessarily the 'intimate club gigs' us fans consider them to be.

I always liked Tessio more than Clemenza...which reminds me, is the guy who played Clemenza still alive?

"Turn up The Eagles, the neighbours are listening!" - Steely Dan Seriously though, I think '94 in general was the year concert tickets started getting out of hand. I'm not sure what the US/CAD conversion was in 1994 but when we saw Pink Floyd in Edmonton (where I proposed to my wife) tickets were $48. Shitty concert too, as it turned out- best thing about the night was my wife saying yes... Frey was a decent musician and a great songwriter, not necessarily a great person, but then you could say that about a LOT of artists.

Hmm...wasn't expecting that at all, especially considering that since he was sacked Felder could hardly even breathe without being sued by Henley and Frey.

Actually, that was last year. As for Glenn Frey, I admit the only Eagles albums I had any time for were Hotel California and The Long Run (I know, I know)...the rest of their stuff was too derivative of Gram Parsons and the Burritos (among others) IMO. I admit I would have more sympathy for Frey if him and Henley weren't such assholes. Don Felder and Randy Meisner -to name but two- probably can't wait to take a leak on Glenn Frey's grave, and you can't really blame them. But still, fucking hell- how many more people are we gonna lose this year? I got a feeling 2016 is gonna be a bad one...

Any of the "Missing Seven" 1977 shows: Dallas, St Louis, Minneapolis, St Paul, Indianapolis, Baton Rouge, Greensboro