Wonderful piece I saw them in 71 shortly before my 16th birthday. I had been a fan since the first album released two months after my bar mitzvah which was right before Nixon’s election. I was a fan before I knew anything about Plant and Bonzo when they were still THe New Yardbirds. THat was an amazing show at THe Garden. I guess that was the high point of my fandom not that I never dis liked them but I got more into Jazz and film. I remember watching PLant and Page on a Jonesless PBS special. When PLant released his first album with Alison Kraus. I decided I needed all of Led Zep on CD and I did and I do.
I will write about this phenomenon in more detail anon--how, at 14, I was expanding my vocabulary for jazz, with greater and greater sophistication, then needing to have something raw and gritty again. Each time I went further into jazz, going back to the Velvets or Declan or even Zep reminded me I had a hunger for it, and I was exactly the same listener or musician or person.
Wonderful piece I saw them in 71 shortly before my 16th birthday. I had been a fan since the first album released two months after my bar mitzvah which was right before Nixon’s election. I was a fan before I knew anything about Plant and Bonzo when they were still THe New Yardbirds. THat was an amazing show at THe Garden. I guess that was the high point of my fandom not that I never dis liked them but I got more into Jazz and film. I remember watching PLant and Page on a Jonesless PBS special. When PLant released his first album with Alison Kraus. I decided I needed all of Led Zep on CD and I did and I do.
I will write about this phenomenon in more detail anon--how, at 14, I was expanding my vocabulary for jazz, with greater and greater sophistication, then needing to have something raw and gritty again. Each time I went further into jazz, going back to the Velvets or Declan or even Zep reminded me I had a hunger for it, and I was exactly the same listener or musician or person.