Recently a longtime friend and neighbor told me he had parted with his third multicultural wife and was moving on to another lady.
Then I heard from Lemmy another even longer friend from my old school days who pretty much likes different races and has had more female partners than I can count. He recounted a story and...
This was too good to keep to myself.
WOW! I just got blown back decades!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9VpWAEk6aI
He said: Watched a B&W Zeppelin performance of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" and
immediately (after recovering), thought of two things:
You, with your hair down to your elbows and your long beard and the
the expression on your and all of our faces when he screamed to "STOP" the
performance...
And the lights came back on...
The STAGE HAD COLLAPSED with the rush of fans swarming the stage in the
darkness. There was a gigantic hole in the center of the stage at the
Garden.
AND THEN!....he CONTINUED the rest of the song while jumping up and
down like he was on a diving board on the broken planking overlooking
the hole in the floor of the stage!
Holy smokes! Thank god for reefer or else I'd have no memory of those
days at all!
FUNG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMRJSXHJ8ok
Surprised to hear the news, I responded
This song the most under-appreciated one Zeppelin recorded. It’s all so simple — soft-loud. So what makes it work? One, Page tries mightily to approximate the sound of a mountain being dropped on your head. Two, it’s not a normal Zeppelin work. There’s no real guitar solo but there are the words.
There is something plaintive, and un misogynist about Plant’s delivery. He’s not happy so he has to ramble. He may return eventually, and when he does, the pair will go walking in the park. But right now, he’s got to get away.
Plant turns this simple situation into an emotional maelstrom of the first order. His singing, if anything remains of the blues idiom in it, is that apotheosis. It’s also a match for Page’s chording, which is really saying something