I got it!!!

[LeBeau/Shea <boojum@xxxxxxxx>]

I got it!!!  My copy of the Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions CD.  Whooo-hoo!  
It's playing on my CD player right now (Hey Jeremy, Robert's singing
"squeeze my lemon.")  :-)

The day before the release date...how did I get it?  Well, I just stopped by
My Favorite Record Store earlier today, and Jeff the clerk had it blaring
over the stereo system when I walked in.  He was on the phone but I started
jumping around and pointing to the CD on the "Now Playing" rack, so he
laughed and said to whoever it was on the phone, "I gotta go, Perilous
Cheryl just walked in and she wants her Led Zep CD."  (Must have been
someone I know.)
Jeff grabs a CD from a box behind the counter, then stops and says, "I can't
really sell you this yet, it's not officially due out until tomorrow."
I yelled "Come on, Jeff!"
"Well, gee Cheryl, if my Atlantic rep calls, I could be in big trouble."
"Jeff!"
"Well, okay.  But you gotta promise that when you get it home, you're not to
open it and play it until tomorrow."
"JEFF!" 
Boy that Jeff's a funny guy.  But he's cool because he also gave me the
special Led Zeppelin store order form the record company sends to get them
to order more Zep titles.  It's really nice; 10 page, glossy B&W photos with
blank order space.  A really nice collectors piece.  Jeff says his only
complaint with the CD (and he admits its a minor one), is that it has
overdubs.  Other than that he thinks its a fine CD and worth it.  Anyway, I
also bought The Yardbirds' new remastered "Roger The Engineer", and a Zep CD
bootleg "The Lyceum Ballroom U.K. 10/12/69".  Life is good.  :-)

I took the CD home and put it on.  By the time the second "Communication
Breakdown" came on, I was dancing all around the room.  At that point, I
picked up my kitty, Onion, and started dancing with him.  He loved it; he
was clinging to my shoulder and purring away.  I then put him back on the
couch, but he looked up at me with his big kitty eyes and jumped back on my
shoulder and we danced around to "Traveling Riverside Blues".  My cat loves
Led Zeppelin!  :-)
My hubby, Joey, came home just in time for me to dance with him to
"Something Else."  He listened to the CD a while and "Makes 'The Song
Remains The Same' seem inconsequential, don't it?" 

What prompted me into stopping by the record store in the first place was a
wonderful Zeppy experience I had in art class earlier today.  Sometimes I do
some side work as an artist model at UCONN.  The class I modeled for today
were made up of mostly 19 & 20 year olds who like "modern rock".  They
usually like to listen to tapes (mostly classical music) while working on
their stuff, but today the teacher put on some dreadful stuff *nobody* like
and people were grumbling about it.  I pulled out my little case of a dozen
tapes I usually carry around.  It contained mostly Led Zep but also had
Beethoven, Ronnie James Dio, Dead Can Dance, and Carl Orff's "Carmina
Burana."  I handed them to a student and said, "Here, pick something."  I
figured they'd pick the Beethoven or Carmina Burana.  So I'm standing on the
platform and next thing I hear is "Immigrant Song".  Someone put on Led
Zeppelin III!  "Friends" came on next, of course, and some of the class
started *singing* to it!  I'm not kidding!  I couldn't believe they even
knew the words!  All I could do was stand on the model platform and grin
like a Cheshire Cat!  :-D

I had a very Zeppy day today, I hope you all did as well.
Cheryl