Bootleg LP text question

[PhxHorn]

Back in the late 80s, I was flipping through some bootleg Zeppelin LPs at my local store, and I remember reading the text on one of them. It said something ridiculous like "Jimmy Page knew 4288 chords." It went on for a paragraph or so, but I can't remember anything else, just the absurd number of chords he supposedly knew. Can anyone identify this album, and maybe post the text or a scan of it? I'd be curious to see it again.

I'm also curious where they came up with such a number. There's only a few types of chords; you've got major, minor, dominant, half-diminished, diminished, and suspended, and that's about it. Multiply by twelve for each of the different keys, and you're nowhere near four figures. Even if you consider all the variations in a category, like major triad, major 7th, major 9th, major 6/9, major sharp 11, major sharp 11 add 13, etc, and *then* multiply by 12 for the different keys, you still can't bust a thousand. Was the author of the text just a moron, or was he trying to sell the bootleg to some stoner who knew nothing about music?

[LarryD]

It's probably the same as when John Sebastian of the Loving Spoonful was singing about upteenth million guitar pickers in Nashville. Hyperbolic nonsense for the uninitiated.

[SteveAJones]

Back in the late 80s, I was flipping through some bootleg Zeppelin LPs at my local store, and I remember reading the text on one of them. It said something ridiculous like "Jimmy Page knew 4288 chords." It went on for a paragraph or so, but I can't remember anything else, just the absurd number of chords he supposedly knew. Can anyone identify this album, and maybe post the text or a scan of it? I'd be curious to see it again.

If memory serves correct, it's 'And IV to Go', an LP comprised of Led Zeppelin IV outtakes, realeased circa 1988.

I vaguely remember it's got a grey cover with black lettering and a sketch of the Hermit on the front. I have an

original in my stateside archive I'll pull out and scan for you later this year unless someone else posts it here. The reference to 4,288 chords is as fictional as the rest of that ridiculous story on the back cover. It could be an inside-joke on the release date, if deciphered as 4-2-88.

[Conneyfogle]

If memory serves correct, it's 'And IV to Go', an LP comprised of Led Zeppelin IV outtakes, realeased circa 1988.

I vaguely remember it's got a grey cover with black lettering and a sketch of the Hermit on the front. I have an

original in my stateside archive I'll pull out and scan for you later this year unless someone else posts it here. The reference to 4,288 chords is as fictional as the rest of that ridiculous story on the back cover. It could be an inside-joke on the release date, if deciphered as 4-2-88.