Re: Led Zeppelin Live Concert Review: April 7, 1970--Dorten Auditorium--Raleigh, North Carolina

[Ari-Heikki P|ntinen <hlarpo@xxxxxx>]

Thanks to David for these enthusiastic and careful concert rewievs!
It's a pleasure to read them even if I haven't heard them myself. I just
read once more this Apr 7th (or 8th or whatever) '70 rewiew and noticed:

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, you wrote:

> Since I've Been Loving You:  "Have a gargle?This is a thing called 'Since
> I've Been Loving You'."  I've listened to a few 1970 renditions of this
> song and have noticed that the energy level is very high in many of those
> versions.  The same can be said of this version--it's strong and hectic.
> Page begins it all with absolutely the wrong riff, but, as he would do
> countless times in his concert life, he manages to stitch the right notes
> together to effectively conceal the mistake and pick up the right melody.
> This intro is thus made special by a mistake--true Page genius, right?

I have to agree! A true master is not necessarily technically perfect
but he can handle these mistakes very smoothly. And speaking of SIBLY,
I remember their 21.6.77-version: the beginning of the song sounds first
almost horrible because of the wrong riff but very soon Page can restore his 
playing and in the end everything is just fine...if there was something bad
in the beginning there wasn't that anymore!

All the best,
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