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[Zach Maurer <mau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack Fredregill wrote:

>Hi everyone!
>Ever since I joined this list (recently), I have been wanting to say
>something, but never had anything to add. Well, finally I have something
>which I want to say. As you might have guessed, it pertains to the BBC
>Sessions release.

>First of all, I would just like to say that I am rather young (19) as far
>as Led Zeppelin fans goes. I feel I am of a dying breed. True, many young
>people out there like Zeppelin, but anymore, the majority of Zep fans my
>age and younger only know the band through the radio or maybe one disk. I
>think the cause of this, obviously, is that the band does not exist
>anymore, putting Zeppelin in the "classic rock" category. Furthermore, this
>means that those in my generation never got to see the band live, and never
>got to know them the way many of you do.

I couldn't agree with you more in your feelings.  Just about all of my
friends who even listen to Zepp are "casual listenters" at best.  It's
really nice to see other young people, I'm 18 by the way, who are really
into Zeppelin today.  As far as seeing the band live, you've hit it
perfectly...when I heard the first rumor of a possible reunion for
Atlantic's 50th I was so happy I didn't know what to do, and that wouldn't
even be Zeppelin, not really.

>I have a deep passion for Led Zeppelin, but again, being young, my interest
>is still budding but can never blossom to the point where past generations
>are. Anyways, finding out about and subscribing to this list is just one
>more step in the development of my interest in the band, which is greater
>now more than ever largely due to this list. This list has opened me up to
>a whole new realm of Led Zeppelin. For instance, as stupid as it sounds, I
>never knew anything about bootlegs or anything else about the dramatic
>following the band has. This is probably due to my age as I said, and also
>due to the fact that I was never in the right circles to know about such
>things. Another thing I wouldn't have known (at least this early) was that
>this new BBC stuff was coming out. And that's another thing I'd like to
>comment about.

I have a grand total of 1 bootleg, (this will increase soon) and the only
live material I had ever heard was TSRTS, which I thought was pretty good.
With the release of BBC, and some of the other live stuff I've heard
recently I've realised just how much I've been missing out on.  This list
has already started to give me more knowledge of Zeppelin than what can be
gained from their albums.

>Since my live knowledge of the band, like many but not like the die-hard's,
>was minimal before this release, it's incredible to me to hear such music
>from a different side of Zep.

They really are so powerful live, it's a shame that more of their concerts
haven't been released officially.  They are keeping so much of their best
music from the public, I really think that people would appreciate Zeppelin
more if they could hear them playing live.

>Anyways, I've written past most people's attention span already, but I'd
>like to add one more thing before I go:
>As this is where I go to expand my knowledge of Led Zep most often, I hate
>to see when people use the list as a place to argue issues which have
>nothing to do with Led Zep. I subscribe so that I can hear what others have
>to say about the band or to confide in others stories as Led Zeppelin fans
>as strong as everyone on this list are hard to find. 


Bing, Bing, Bing...We have a winner!  I cannot express enough how much I
hate having to scroll through the innumberable private tiff's just to get to
the posts which actually mention Led Zeppelin.  It really seems odd that
people who are so interested in the music and life of a band can put forth
the effort to create such a wonderful list as this one, and then use it to
vent their anger on others in such a way that makes me think I'm really not
one of the youngest people on the list. 

It was a great post Jack.

ZSM