If it ever happens Greg I promise you will have a seat, and we will kick that bucket clear across the universe.
Hey Rol! Thanks...nice too see you also.
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40 Years..Where did they go?
- Thread starter RWIGWH
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Hello there and Happy New Year to you all. I hope you are enjoying the holidays.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you've given the website.
It's good news for the New Year. The first of the Led Zeppelin releases - comprising of Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III and their companion discs - will be released this year. I've also been working on some of my own material from the archives that will be unleashed in 2014.
Let The Good Times Roll!
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you've given the website.
It's good news for the New Year. The first of the Led Zeppelin releases - comprising of Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III and their companion discs - will be released this year. I've also been working on some of my own material from the archives that will be unleashed in 2014.
Let The Good Times Roll!
On this day… 06 Jan 1975
[h=1]I planned to play Boston Garden with Led Zeppelin[/h]On researching for this website, I discovered that on January 6th 1975 there had been an incident at the Box Office at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts that had involved a sale / non-sale of tickets to thousands of fans. Police were called and it all ended with the scheduled Led Zeppelin show being cancelled by Mayor Kevin H White (who saw red) and, even more, there was apparently a five-year ban put on the band playing the venue. I was blissfully unaware of any of these shenanigans, but the Mayor was, by all accounts, a Rolling Stones fan! I played in Boston again in 1995 at The Fleet Center with Page & Plant.
[h=1]I planned to play Boston Garden with Led Zeppelin[/h]On researching for this website, I discovered that on January 6th 1975 there had been an incident at the Box Office at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts that had involved a sale / non-sale of tickets to thousands of fans. Police were called and it all ended with the scheduled Led Zeppelin show being cancelled by Mayor Kevin H White (who saw red) and, even more, there was apparently a five-year ban put on the band playing the venue. I was blissfully unaware of any of these shenanigans, but the Mayor was, by all accounts, a Rolling Stones fan! I played in Boston again in 1995 at The Fleet Center with Page & Plant.
1) It is said that the atomic clock in Colorado gets its timing from John
Bonham
2) His synchopated sonic symphony is credited with inspiring the exhaust
notes of the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta and Citroen GT.
3) 'Moby Dick' was used to dig the Chunnel.
4) His subtle timing and delicate wrists made 3 legendary Jazz drummers
envious.
5) His right foot was used as a pile driver to drill for oil in the North
Atlantic.
6) His 30 minute drum solo once registered a 4.5 on the Richter scale during
a concert in Germany in March 1973.
7) He once outplayed the entired percussion section of the London
Philharmonic Orchestra while simultaneously eating a sandwich in his right
hand.
8) Mathematicians have studied his timing to better understand pure math.
9) All rock drummers threw away their sticks in 1969 after hearing the first
Led Zeppelin album.
10) His double bass attack was outlawed on 6 continents.
11) God has 'Achille's Last Stand' set as the ringtone on his mobile phone.
12) He coined the term "thrutch"
13) His Hertfordshire steers had better rhythm than any other animals in the
UK
14) 'When the Levee Breaks' is the national anthem in the South Sudan.
15) Recordings of his footsteps are sampled even to this day.
16) Certain rare South American birds changed their mating calls to emulate
his ching ring.
17) His great-grandchildren will be born with perfect rhythm and perfect
pitch.
18) His shadow is in color and larger than Ginger Baker's
19) The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will be adding two more rings
to emulate John's symbol.
20) All traffic lights would turn green whenever John was driving.
Bonham
2) His synchopated sonic symphony is credited with inspiring the exhaust
notes of the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta and Citroen GT.
3) 'Moby Dick' was used to dig the Chunnel.
4) His subtle timing and delicate wrists made 3 legendary Jazz drummers
envious.
5) His right foot was used as a pile driver to drill for oil in the North
Atlantic.
6) His 30 minute drum solo once registered a 4.5 on the Richter scale during
a concert in Germany in March 1973.
7) He once outplayed the entired percussion section of the London
Philharmonic Orchestra while simultaneously eating a sandwich in his right
hand.
8) Mathematicians have studied his timing to better understand pure math.
9) All rock drummers threw away their sticks in 1969 after hearing the first
Led Zeppelin album.
10) His double bass attack was outlawed on 6 continents.
11) God has 'Achille's Last Stand' set as the ringtone on his mobile phone.
12) He coined the term "thrutch"
13) His Hertfordshire steers had better rhythm than any other animals in the
UK
14) 'When the Levee Breaks' is the national anthem in the South Sudan.
15) Recordings of his footsteps are sampled even to this day.
16) Certain rare South American birds changed their mating calls to emulate
his ching ring.
17) His great-grandchildren will be born with perfect rhythm and perfect
pitch.
18) His shadow is in color and larger than Ginger Baker's
19) The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will be adding two more rings
to emulate John's symbol.
20) All traffic lights would turn green whenever John was driving.
On this day… 12 Jan 1995
[h=1]Led Zeppelin were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[/h]A wonderful manifestation of egos and resentments. The irony of the release date of Led Zeppelin I in the US and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction 26 years later was amusing.
[h=1]Led Zeppelin were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[/h]A wonderful manifestation of egos and resentments. The irony of the release date of Led Zeppelin I in the US and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction 26 years later was amusing.
John Mellencamp on Robert Plant...
"What role does vanity play in a man's life?
Well, you have to be careful with that, don't you? I'm taking old age like a
man. If I get a little belly on me, goddammit that's the way a man's
supposed to look. That's what happens when you get to be a certain age.
And yeah, okay yeah, I'll put a little ink my hair every now and again.
But you have to be careful, because after a certain time you start
believing it yourself and you just look foolish. You're a certain age.
Act it. I learned that from Robert Plant of all people. I went down to
Louisville, Kentucky, to see him live a few years ago and I didn't
really know what to expect because all his posing with his shirt
unbuttoned in the Led Zeppelin days. But today he just stands there and
sings his ass off, and he doesn't count on all that posturing to get him over.
He knows that with his talent and his voice and his charisma that he doesn't
have to show it off as an older gentleman. He's fantastic.
Watching him just walk up there and deliver these songs with his voice.
That's the way you're supposed to do it, man. Robert Plant taught me a
shitpile and he didn't know it."
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/john-mellencamps-life-advice-20140219
"What role does vanity play in a man's life?
Well, you have to be careful with that, don't you? I'm taking old age like a
man. If I get a little belly on me, goddammit that's the way a man's
supposed to look. That's what happens when you get to be a certain age.
And yeah, okay yeah, I'll put a little ink my hair every now and again.
But you have to be careful, because after a certain time you start
believing it yourself and you just look foolish. You're a certain age.
Act it. I learned that from Robert Plant of all people. I went down to
Louisville, Kentucky, to see him live a few years ago and I didn't
really know what to expect because all his posing with his shirt
unbuttoned in the Led Zeppelin days. But today he just stands there and
sings his ass off, and he doesn't count on all that posturing to get him over.
He knows that with his talent and his voice and his charisma that he doesn't
have to show it off as an older gentleman. He's fantastic.
Watching him just walk up there and deliver these songs with his voice.
That's the way you're supposed to do it, man. Robert Plant taught me a
shitpile and he didn't know it."
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/john-mellencamps-life-advice-20140219