Venue:
Sheffield University Students Union
Date: 23/11/1968
It must have been around May of 1968 that I heard the Yardbirds in session on one of the John Peel BBC radio shows (Top Gear, possibly). This late version of the band played a loud, exotic and heavy set which sounded nothing like the blueswailing R&B outfit of yore and I made a mental note to investigate them further. We didn’t know it at the time, but this was one of their final performances and within weeks the Yardbirds would be no more.
Fast forward a few months and posters started to appear around town advertising a show at Sheffield university students’ union by “The New Yardbirds”. I’d read in Melody Maker that the original Yardbirds had folded and this new band featured a different line-up with guitarist Jimmy Page as the leader and only constant member. Other than that I knew very little about them.
Back then the university circuit played host to the cream of the burgeoning prog, blues and folk rock movement and Sheffield Uni was no exception. In the space of a year I’d attend shows there by King Crimson, Family, the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Chicken Shack, Incredible String Band, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Freddie King and many others I can’t recall right now. I didn’t actually go to university of course and strictly speaking non-students weren’t admitted unless signed-in by a member of the union. This had never been a problem in the past however and it was always possible to convince a passing student to oblige.
So it was that on November 23, 1968 I pitched up at Sheffield Uni to see “The New Yardbirds”, or so I thought. As it turned out the band had changed their name after just a few shows and by the time they reached Sheffield they were already trading as Led Zeppelin. The posters had been printed months ahead of time however so, unlikely as it seems now, some concert goers arrived unaware of the name change and not exactly sure who or what they were going to see.
Now, discounting a few warm-up shows in Scandinavia a month earlier, the Sheffield gig was only the eighth show Led Zeppelin had ever played. Let’s pause and think about that for a moment. Not only that, their debut album was still four months away. This was a brand new band with no recorded product in the shops and only Jimmy Page’s Yardbirds pedigree as a drawcard. So, it’s probably fair to say they were a virtually unknown quantity to the majority of the 400 or so punters who showed up that night.
The hall was perhaps the size of a school gymnasium and the stage, such as it was, consisted of a number of large square wooden blocks pushed loosely together. Too loosely, as it turned out and we’ll hear more about that later. Ticket price was ten shillings (50p) or thereabouts.
Heavy Rock may have existed in 1968, but it had yet to be given a name. At that stage Zeppelin’s music was just a harder-edged development of the psychedelic blues of Cream and Hendrix with a little Beano Album thrown in. Jeff Beck’s Truth album, perhaps the blueprint for all that was to follow, had gone on sale in August and it had clearly influenced the direction Page took with his new band.
Opening with a staccato Train Kept A-Rollin’ the band sounded tight, powerful and almost painfully loud. This 1951 Tiny Bradshaw song, as popularised by the Johnny Burnette Trio in 1956, had been part of the Yardbirds canon even before Jimmy Page joined the band. It was the perfect start although Plant’s shrieking vocals were an unfamiliar shock to the ears at that early stage.
To this impressionable 17 year-old, almost as impressive as the way Zeppelin sounded that night was the way they looked. Page in particular was the personification of cool with his leonine mane of black hair, shocking pink velvet suit, frilly shirt, red high-heeled boots and hand painted 1960 Fender Telecaster with “dragon” motif slung somewhere down by his knees. The guitar was a gift from Jeff Beck when the pair were in the Yardbirds together and it had gone through several different paint jobs since. I’d like to go on record here and claim that Jimmy Page never looked better than he did on this November 1968 night.
Robert Plant on the other hand was still a year or so away from perfecting his rock god look and on this occasion, looked more like a refugee from a hairdressing salon than a Viking warrior. With cherubic (and still quite short) blonde curls, tight blue satin ruff shirt and mod style black Levi’s sta-prest pants, his ensemble was topped off, bizarrely, with open-toed Dr. Scholl’s wooden sandals, complete with black socks (I kid you not). John Paul Jones and John Bonham, as always, looked almost completely anonymous alongside the two strutting frontmen.
The cramped, knee-high stage was constructed from a number of 3 foot square wooden blocks sitting side by side. These were clearly not secured too well as, during Bonzo’s drum solo Pat’s Delight (part of which he played sans sticks, with the palms of his hands), they began to drift slowly apart, causing part of his kit, including the hi-hat and one of the floor toms to list alarmingly to starboard. Standing only a few feet from the stage I clearly heard Bonham exclaim “my life!” before a vigilant roadie leapt onstage to rescue the situation.
The set list was a mix of blues standards, Yardbirds leftovers and around half of the then-unreleased first Zeppelin album. Surprise of the night was an extended version of the 1964 Garnett Mimms soul classic As Long As I Have You. Running for around 15 minutes, it took the form of a sprawling multi-part workout incorporating sections of Spirit’s Fresh Garbage, Sam Cooke’s Shake and the Willie Dixon classic I Just Wanna Make Love To You. This song stayed in the LZ set well into 1969, although it remains officially unreleased.
After the gig, the band were very approachable and seemed happy to hang around chatting to the few remaining crowd members and answering inane guitar questions from (ahem) some of us while the gear was packed away.
In the weeks that followed, we discussed the show endlessly and decided that while Jimmy Page was certainly a guitar god in the making, Zeppelin may have had the rug pulled out from under them by Jeff Beck, whose first album Truth was already in the shops. The exact reverse would prove to be true, as it turned out. Ah, the folly of youth. How were we to know?
Set List:
Train Kept A-Rollin’
I Can’t Quit You Baby
As Long As I Have You
Dazed and Confused
White Summer
For Your Love
Communication Breakdown
You Shook Me
Pat’s Delight
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
How Many More Times
The audience:
A few hundred lank-haired, great-coated hippies and their “old ladies”. And students
It made me think..
There was a general feeling that we were witnessing the start of something very, very special.
Sorry about the lack of photos, folks. I had some great early live Zeppelin pictures all set to go, but we know what happened next.
As a consolation I’ve uploaded the unfeasibly rare UK 1st pressing of the debut LZ album with turquoise letting.
Jeez Johnny, how do you remember the set lists so well? My first “grown up” concert was Chicken Shack, and apart from “Maudie” and “Telling Your Fortune” I can remember diddlysquat!
Thankfully geach those early Zep set lists are well-known and widely available. Speaking of Chicken Shack, when you saw them, did Stan Webb do that thing where he went out into the audience with his 100 foot guitar lead?
Was he feeling a bit couped up?
Chicken Shack trivia. The band were named after the 1963 Blue Note album by Jimmy Smith Back at the Chicken Shack and not, as some think, the 1948 Amos Milburn song Chicken Shack Boogie.
Ad it seems Stan Webb’s guitar lead was 200 feet, not 100 as I said earlier. Stan (and his roadies) must have been so thankful when wireless systems became available
They started making chicken shacks without wire?
I saw Chicken Shack on a double headlining gig with Savoy Brown – don’t recall him coming out into the audience though.
Funnily enough all Chicken Shack members (except Christine Perfect) later ended up in Savoy Brown.
In 1971 pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell joined the Savoys and in 1974 even the mighty Stan Webb recorded the album Boogie Brothers with them.
Harder to forget are the tedious comedy routines.
My sister was at Sheffield University at that time, but was more of a folkie, so probably didn’t attend.
Did she go to any of the union gigs? I may have seen her at some of the folk shows.
Isn’t that original sleeve of “Led Zep I” with the turquoise text (instead of red) the one that’s really valuable or something?
Yes, as I said in post #2 the UK first pressing with turquoise (instead of orange) title and Atlantic logo now changes hands for anything up to two thousand pounds.
Sadly, I bought a copy on the week of release in 1969, but like so many things it went the way of all flesh and was probably traded in to Honest Jon’s Records for a quid in the early 70s
As ever, the Conchmeister was there at the great events in rock history…
Here’s a promotional reel from the people who own this little-known early LZ film (not on any DVDs thus far). Who knows, it may even be new to the Concheroover?
Thanks Colin, great sound. Never seen it before.
It’s from late August 1969, just 4 months after Page bought that Gibson Les Paul from Joe Walsh in mid-April 1969 for $1,200
Blimey, it ALWAYS comes back to guitar nerdiness with you doesn’t it!?! 🙂
‘You have no idea Colin. There are entire websites devoted to stuff like this, listing year-by-year modifications Page made to his guitars. I don’t expect you to read it, but here’s a taste:
http://www.led-zeppelin.org/studio-and-live-gear/80-reference/studio-and-live-gear/jimmy-page-gear/1032-1959-gibson-les-paul-standard-no-1
I never *got* Led Zeppelin. Why bludgeon a song to death while strangling its melody with a shriek?
At last, Tiggs – we agree!!
I creamed my pants over LZ1 – after that, meh!
Thanks! I’ll have some of that lobster after all.
Gosh, thanks for that constructive comment Tiggs. You are my dad travelling back in time from 1969 and I claim my five pounds.
Hey, Tig! Stop being so snarky and offer to help Johnny out. These reviews generate a lot of interest for The Afterword. You never know, we might attract some new contributors. Let’s face it, you are very capable of putting people off posting on the site with your weird, obscure interests. It’s time to give something back & volunteer to review something honestly that you may not like, even though some poor saps have poured their heart & soul into it.
Didn’t you comment “Who cares ?” to one of my threads @Tiggerlion ?
What gives?
Great review JC – remarkable detail, but ok -where have you put your car keys.
Good idea for a thread – big bands you saw at the start
Thanks JW. Like you say, recalling the events of 50 years ago is easy. It’s remembering where I’m supposed to be this afternoon that’s the problem.
I’m not bothered what Jeff Buckley had in his record collection but, at least I didn’t take the piss like H.P. I’m sure there’s a lot of interest in Led Zeppelin’s 8th gig. Just not me.
When I was a fledgling teen I went to a party. I wore Comos, drain-pipe trousers and short hair. Everyone else was bedecked in cheesecloth and loon pants. Still, a foxy boho chick took a shine to me and tormented me during A Stairway To Heaven. Even so, I’ve never liked Led Zep.
“At least I didn’t take the piss like H.P. …” Well, what a thoroughly nice man with no discernible faults and beautiful manners you are, Tigger! I’m so glad you weren’t taking the piss with your “you are very capable of putting people off posting on the site with your weird, obscure interests” comment.
There’s tongue-in-cheek & taking-the-piss. I put it to you that listing your previous record collection from memory, one item at a time, was stepping from one to the other. I did think it funny to be fair but JW has taken offense. I didn’t care and you couldn’t care less.
It wasn’t my previous record collection from memory, it was what’s on my iTunes. I don’t own any records or CDs. I can’t imagine Junior taking offense at something so obviously stupid. I may continue – still got a few of the As to get through.
Lists are lists. I contend that a list of my albums is as interesting as a list of yours or Jeff Buckley’s. Does anybody care? Who cares if they care?
And while I’m cooling to my theme, “Why bludgeon a song to death while strangling its melody with a shriek?” is the kind of comment I’d get a good kicking for. But not you, apparently.
Well this got a bit out of hand. You are both great contributors to the blog. I’ll leave the issue of the LZ thread but yes I took offense at the Who cares ? I query why one would bother to 2. open the thread so clearly titled as to indicate its subject matter b. get to the bottom of the comments c. then type the dismissive remark and press submit.
As to who cares , well I do , which is why I posted it and presumably why it was created in the first place.To me it is like reading an interview with a musician and asking what are your influences? OK if you dislike Jeff Buckley, that may not be of interest but that takes us back to why look at the thread in the first place.
Err that question mark should have been 1.
I hate that.
Sorry, for tiggers benefit I didn’t see HPs list of albums only Tiggers I dont really care.
I’m getting a kicking now, H.P.!
Actually, when it comes to musical preferences, Afterworders generally accept some things appeal to some people but not others. In fact, we largely celebrate our differences in taste.
I happen not to be a fan of LZ. You just get a kicking for not liking The Beatles.
I really like Led Zep, and I think the site is better off if people just stay away from the threads that don’t interest them, rather than pronouncing their disinterest.
That said, Saucey, I’m not sure I see any difference between Tigger’s “I don’t like Led Zep” above, and your own series of “I don’t like modern music” essays on Tigger’s “Best of 2016” thread a short while back.
I was hoping for a spirited defence of their inspiring melodies that would drive me back to trying their records again. Fool that I am, they are neatly lined up on a shelf, unplayed for a long time. I felt inspired by their first remaster.
try the acoustic stuff on LZ 3 Tigger or BBC sessions
I suppose I should count myself lucky I didn’t get the ever-popular “Long and boring 60s essays” slur, I suppose.
I, for one, welcome Long and Boring 60s essays, and guitar pron. . .
Thank you sir. Especially for the guitar pron
Me neither. Which is my point.
But I didn’t just threadcrap with a “modern music is shit” comment, I think I put some more thought into it than that, explaining with unarguable logic exactly why modern music is shit. Anyone who read my argument would have been persuaded by it, no matter how un-crap they thought modern music to be. Similarly, nobody who understands my take on the Beatles can continue to venerate them. This is the power opinion has on the internet. Minds – and lives – are changed by the cut and thrust of comments on a music blog, especially here on the Afterword, which is like a think-tank for free thinkers open to diversity opinion.
Diversity of opinion. Edith function please.
Group hug now..Arms across the water
You wot?
You ‘eard.
I’ll ‘ave ‘arf. Pardon?
Bingo – as a bloody lawyer, I’d have expected you, of all people, to know the difference between being ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’.
Pet peeve. Soz.
If I may be allowed to offer an item of counter-pedantry: I think your analysis is correct in terms of “disinterested” and “uninterested” parties, but I’m not sure it applies to a pronouncement of “disinterest”, as someone pronouncing their “uninterest” doesn’t sound right. Lack of interest, maybe?
Agree, which is why I performed the handbrake manoeuvre.
FIGHT! FIGHT! IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
I’m a lawyer, not a fighter.
I’m ‘interested’ alright. Just in a bad way.
I believe the technical term is: malinterested.
Great! Nothing like a bit of malinterest to spice things up.
Perhaps uninterestingly, I’m disinterested in your malinterest.
Arf!!
Because that’s what they did the best. When they tried to do anything else they became insufferable.
This was a reply to Tigger, found by scrolling half a mile back before this little personal exchange intervened.
As I said at the top of the thread, I had a bunch of early LZ photos ready to go for this review, but can’t use them now the site has been all-but emasculated.
Instead here’s a picture of Jimmy Page from the back cover of the debut Joe Cocker LP With A Little Help From My Friends (so, in the public domain, right?).
Although released in May 1969, the album was recorded throughout 1968, so this is pretty much how Page looked at the Sheffield Uni show.
http://i.imgur.com/EY3guuv.jpg
Collarless granddad shirt – de rigeur!
JC – did you check whether the photos were restricted or not ?
I’ve had them in a folder on my desktop for weeks now Junior and don’t recall where I got them from (other than a Google search for Led Zep 1968).
Besides, how do you even check? It seems overly complicated and a lot of unnecessary fannying about for something we’ve done for years.
When you search for google images there is a settings option. For advanced searches you can filter for only images that you can share. Then their is sharing not for profit or for profit. So I guess if you want to post something on the blog you use that advanced search function.
OK, I’ll give it a go.
That’s the word of the day!
At the risk of opening up the whole copyright thing, the album that image came from will be someone’s copyright, as will the artwork on it. Reusing it like the above is not in any way attempting to profit from the artwork. I’d have thought it would count as ‘fair use’ (or whatever the phrase is), just as a book cover, album cover, whatever can be used for the purposes of a review.
Collarless grandad shirts are still a very popular ‘look’ for Grey Area, often with a waistcoat . . .
I was working on the assumption that LP sleeves were generally OK. And I didn’t get it off the net, I photographed my own copy. Otherwise how do we review new releases?
If that’s not the case we may as well close the blog down now and all go home.
On the copyright thread I think one of the admins said that they regard album covers as OK.
I think there’s an argument that this sort of use would fall within the copyright exemption for criticism/review.
Phew!
In other copyright infringement news – Kickass Torrents is down, and the US is extraditing its ashen-faced supremo.
http://heavy.com/tech/2016/07/kickass-torrents-sued-lawsuit-us-mpaa-shut-down-copyright-infringement-domains-broken-kickasstorrents-com-kat-ph-artem-vaulin/
Polish bloke ,busted, in art , by tracking his IP via his…wait for it…iTunes account
irony of ironies
in part
Using record covers as a “fair use quote” would mean to show the complete cover. Cropping out a picture in fact is different: you’re using the photographer’s image, so in theory it falls under all those copyright restrictions. (I’ve heard of a photographer trying to sue over the use of a back cover picture from an obscure 1962 jazz album which was fully licensed from the record company, incl. artwork and pictures…)
As pictures like the one from Page on the Cocker album were also distributed for free use as promo pix at the time, it’s not very likely there’ll be problems.
Now, as for the hand-drawn border – under EU law the rights to this still belong to the designer… (… did I hear BREXIT ?)
Bloody hell, there goes all future “name the album cover” quizzes then.
We could always just describe the image.
‘So, there’s like these four blokes, sat down in an alley, and three of them are like looking at the camera, but the second bloke from the left is like looking at a comic. . .’
This reminds me of that Berlin record shop where the young “hipster” assistant loudly asked his boss, “Do we have an album by those Beatles where they walk across the street on the cover?”
“How about the one where the skinny white bloke with the guitar is leaning on the big black guy with the saxophone?”
I wonder if they got permission to use an image of the Beano on the album artwork? Or was it early product placement?
These days I suppose DC Thompson would capitalise on such free publicity, but back then they were a different company, very anti union and probably anti pop music too.
From Wiki: “…established as D.C. Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and took its place as the third J in the “Three Js”, the traditional summary of Dundee industry (‘jam, jute and journalism’). Thomson was notable for his conservatism, vigorously opposing the introduction of trade unions into his workforce, and for refusing to employ Catholics.”
Excellent review JC. Thanks for going to so much trouble to post it. I saw Led Zeppelin twice and they were breath takeingly exciting to experience live. They simply detonated. It was so loud that you could actually feel the bass manipulating your chest and (ahem) lower stomach. Other bands that viscerally exciting were The Who, The Spiders From Mars and The Clash. I haven’t experienced that level of power since the late seventies, alas, though my ears are probably rather thankful.
Of course it isn’t all about volume. Page and Bonham, Townsend and Moon, Bowie and Ronson, Jones and Headon were masters of control, flash and confidence. The high quality of material helps too. Maybe you just had to be there, but they weren’t just good looking man, it was somethin’ else.
Thank you very much sir (or madam)
Yes, nice.
You may call me sir if you wish JC, though I do still get mistaken for a woman from behind due to my long hair.
Got it. Thanks.
Great article JC, just caught up with it. Love the Pagey guitar porn page too.
Thanks Twangster. Appreciate it coming from you.
the thread that will not die !
Quite right too!
⬆Threadkiller
No! The Zep will never be killed!
Where’s @Bungliemutt or @Bartleby
they seem to think they have chops as regards thread killing
In My Time Of Dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Dhz90oJXo
Thread Reviver!
‘Cos you can’t kill the boogie man
Ha! I surely need only recall my moment with Jimmy Page on Chiswick High Road a few years back to do that.
I had regretted not saying hello to Shirley Bassey at a ludicrously star-studded wedding I’d attended (the bride, Christina Knudsen sadly died this week) and had resolved to actually interact with people just for the craic. Page’s hair was grey, but he had yet to be photographed without it being dyed. I thanked him for LZii teaching me the guitar and he twirled his umbrella and cutsied in a somewhat flamboyant manner.
You may now consider this thread officially killed!
Great story @Bartleby
The first time I recall seeing Jimmy Page in public with his naturally silver locks was July 2007 when the guitarist was the star witness in the Glasgow trial of Robert Langley, a long-time Zeppelin fan accused of selling bootleg CDs and DVDs of live performances by the band.
there’s more than a whiff of hypocrisy about suing the bootleggers when my only encounter with Page, if you could call it that, was in Japan, where our paths crossed at a street in Tokyo (Nishi-Shinjuku) where they sell all the bootleg CDs and DVDs. Page was there specifically to buy a bootlegged film of the 02 concert.
Yes, ironically Page has a massive collection of LZ bootlegs I believe. I think in the case above, the guy in Glasgow was doing it on an industrial scale.
Although Zep’s odious manager Peter Grant was well known for using standover tactics in record stores he found selling their bootlegs.
The portrayal of Grant in ‘Vinyl’ was fairly accurate in that regard, whereas the guy playing Percy was less convincing
So much for killing the thread! Where did I go right?!
Yes, my silver haired encounter would have been 2006/7 I think.
my brother claims to have competed against or possibly just seen Jimmy in the egg and spoon race at the local primary school. He lived out near Maidenhead.
We have to hear more about this JW!
Will follow up he is flat out like a lizard drinking this fortnight but will try to get in touch.
as it happens he just rang.
no egg and spoon race – just a few shots at the coconut shy.
He’d come to the village fair in his white suit – very low key. His wife was in the birthing room next my sister in law so sort of new each other. Bro described him as somewhat disengaged in conversation- no surprises there.
knew
I can imagine Page might have some difficulty engaging with civilians.
Which reminds me. When he had his occult book shop Equinox on Holland Street, off Kensington Church Street, I went in there several times in the hope of seeing him.
Never did though.
I presume you’ve seen the short film of live footage shot in a Scandinavian studio the previous month, JC? Shown regularly on Sky Arts here.
As someone in their mid-teens, I was insanely excited by the ‘heavier’ numbers on 1,2 and 4.
I saw Zep in Glasgow, early Dec ’73. By then, it was getting a touch too self-indulgent for my tastes.
They only connected with me at III. That’s still my favourite, though I now enjoy everything except the last few only fans can get into.
III is the one for me – the acoustic side .Bron y’aur stomp captivated me.
Was just coming out when they toured Australia so we got a bracket of acoustic we weren’t expecting.
Some lovely versions of the acoustic stuff on BBC sessions.
I’ve got a load of slides taken at the Perth concert in 1973. All unpublished.
BBC Going to California is much better than the overdone IV version imho.
Have you heard Bert Jansch’s Waggoner’s Lad? Some interesting ‘signposts’ to Bron Yr Aur Stomp:
One of rather a lot of *signposts* (allegedly).
I don’t think I have seen that footage Ian. I did have some stills from the late 1968 Scandinavian shows lined up ready to go for this piece, but, well, we know what happened there.
I’m always amazed to remember that the first four LZ albums all happened in the three years up to 1971. That’s a ridiculous amount of creativity in such a short space of time. Four timeless LP recorded on the run too between a punishing tour schedule, mostly in the USA.
We’ll never see the like again, that’s for sure.
It’s a great, little gig in a small studio and the band look exactly as you describe, particularly, Percy with short hair. It finishes with ‘How Many More Times’.
I was on holiday in Spain in ’70 and the jukebox in the hotel bar had some great stuff on it. ‘Woolly Bully’ and ‘Communication Breakdown’ took a pounding.
Later that same year, I was at a party where I heard LZ 2 for the first time. I’ll never forget the rush I got from hearing it. I thought then that Jimmy’s solo in The Lemon Song was the most thrilling guitar break I’d ever heard. I went home with my first real love, still buzzing from the music, the booze and her. Great night.
There are several YouTube clips which claim to be 1968, but all are actually 1969 as far as I can see. This is a good one from early 1969 in Denmark. Page has the same hand-painted Fender Telecaster and the same haircut I described in the OP
That’s the one. I thought it was earlier, given Robert’s barnet and the song choices.
March 17th, ’69.
Less than four months after the Sheffield gig. Page looks exactly the same, but Plant has at least jettisoned the Dr. Scholl’s wooden sandals.
For those who don’t appreciate the magnitude of Robert Plant’s 1968 footwear gaffe, here’s a pair of vintage Dr. Scholl’s wooden sandals in all their copyright free glory, yesterday.
Socks not pictured
http://i.imgur.com/t7WwRgb.jpg
I remember them Really ugly aren’t they, especially the brass buckle.
Thankfully they were never seen again after that early show and soon gave way to the regulation python skin high heeled boots.
I have no idea why this old thread appeared at the side of my feed again (do they sometimes appear randomly?) but I’m glad it did. Been listening to Led Zep a bit recently and this is a brilliant eye witness account of how they sounded, looked and FELT like in the very very early days.
Did Johnny Concheroo leave the Afterword? Shame.
He left a few years ago. His current incarnation is Stuart Penney on Twitter, where posts interesting stuff every day. Lots of rare photos (well, I’ve never seen them)
Yeah I still like Zep too
Flipping through that thread, I’m not surprised he left, with the amount of bickering going on.
In answer to your other question @arthur-cowslip about why these posts suddenly appear on your homepage, I believe it’s related to how recently a post has been viewed by someone visiting the site.
@nickduvet – what thread was that then? Not that I want to drag up old history, but I totally missed him leaving the site and I’m morbidly interested in seeing what happened.
“Guys…. look at us… squabbling… bickering… like little children! We never used to be like this!”
“…Yes we did!”
I was playing some vinly yesterday and pulled out Pictures at Eleven by Robert Plant – I think it was something I picked up cheap in the 80s and possibly only played once. It was a really enjoyable listen, and Mrs. T asked from the kitchen which Led Zep album it was as it is indeed very sub Zep in places. It did make me wonder how much stuff I have sitting on my shelves that I need to discover….
Classic old school Afterword thread. Nice long form post from the Conch , not even a hint of a list, an internecine spat or 3, back to topic then off again.
Can’t even remember the spat with Tigger.
Neither can I.
I think the spat was really with HP rather than Johnny and it took place over a few threads. still, no joy with led Zep in my house! 🙂