Re: Who the hell is Tom Davis?!

[darwin@xxxxxxxx (Darwin)]

Larry,

I have this very same article in the back of a book I have called "The Led
Zeppelin Collectors Guide To Bootleg CD's" or the title is something close
to that, I dont have it on hand.  In the back of the book is numerous
reviews and articles and I just happened to recognize this one.

Rock on

Darwin

>Found this little bit of comedy on Rob Godwin's Illutsrated Guide 
>CDRom. Anyone know where it came from?
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>LED ZEPPELIN GIVE REALLY POOR CONCERT
>
>	Led Zeppelin played to a sell-out crowd at the Pittsburg Civic Arena 
>last Monday evening, March 30th
>	The entire with-it, hip, freaked-out, pseudo hippie high school 
>population of Pittsburgh was there, sitting around the lobby of the 
>arena like crows on a telephone wire. I never will understand why 
>people like to sit around like that, unless it's to say "Ha, look at 
>me, how hip I am."
>	Anyway, the concert was a half hour late in starting, alledgedly 
>because the concert was a sell-out, but everyone wasn't in their 
>seats, how could they be, they were al sitting around outside looking 
>hip!
>	But when the concert did start, it started badly.Jimmy Page and 
>Robert Plant were on stage wiggling their hips and acting like 
>complete jackasses. The only thing coming out of the amplifiers was 
>alot of grouch and fuzz and feedback, and the music was really 
>poor. It went on like this for about twenty minutes and I was sitting 
>there thinking how many Jeff Beck records I could buy for five 
>dollars.
>	The everybody got off stage and Plant introduced Jimmy Page as "the 
>White Thummah" and he sat down and really played the hell out of 
>Black Mountain Side. It was really fine.
>	After that, the group came back and played some more. Then they 
>started playing Moby Dick, which has to have one of the world's worst 
>drum solos as it's feature. But the drummer, John Bonham did a really 
>excellent solo for about fifteen minutes, with and without 
>drumsticks. I couldn't help but wonder how sore the guy's hands must 
>be, because he's been on tour for almost a month playing without 
>drumsticks. Then everybody else came back on and they started playing 
>songs from Led Zeppelin III and it was really nice. It turns out 
>Jimmy Page can really play the guitar, when he stands still. But when 
>he starts acting like an asshole, the only sounds he makes are guach, 
>fuzz and feedback.
>	The PLayed Whole Lotta Love and about halfway through the song 
>people started getting up from their seats and moving towards the 
>stage. Of course our fine Pittsburgh Police Department started moving 
>everyone back towards their seats, starting with the head. Robert 
>Plant just stopped singing and said "we're not gonaa play with that 
>going on" and the whole group just walked off. They came back on 
>however, and appealed for order and asked the police "if you want him 
>to sit down, the why the HELL are you hittin' on 'im?" They finished 
>Whole Lotta Love, complete with guitar freak-out, and they played 
>Heartbreaker.
>	This was their last song and they said goodnight and everything, but 
>there was more trouble on the floor, so they came back and appealed 
>for peace, and gave two extra songs as pacifiers. There were screams 
>for more so they did another song. Then a bra came sailing up on 
>stage and they did another song.
>	By this time the police were lined up in front of the stage but they 
>were out of sight behind a wal of tenny-bobbing flesh. Robert Plant 
>didn't help matters by leaping into the crowd and back on stage at 
>one point. Another bra came shooting out of the crowd. I can see some 
>little chick explaining to her mother how she lost her bra.
>	They finally did another song and I swear I saw a policeman standing 
>on stage with his aht on sideways clapping his hands. When they 
>finally did leave, one of the promoters came out and announced that 
>there is going to be a two day rock festival in Pittsburgh this 
>summer with such noted artists as Grace Slick and The Airplane, Jimi 
>Hendrix, and Chicago. I think that if this guy hadn't made this
>announcement there might have been real trouble. As it was everyone's 
>attention was taken away from the group. 
>	I can't really say that I enjoyed the concert. Maybe it's because I 
>expected too much. When I went into the building, I just had the name 
>Jimmy Page stuck in my mind. It seemed so ureal. Every picture I've 
>seen of him he seemed so cool and collected that I wasn't ready for a 
>Jimi Hendrix replica.I can't say the music was that good either. It 
>was good old Rock & Roll, but it was pretty strung out, and not too 
>intense.
>	At least if the subject comes up, I can say "Yeah, I saw Led 
>Zeppelin and they weren't so hot", and sound sophisticated.
>						
>							Sincerely,
>							Tom Davis
>
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>
>Damn funny stuff, I say.....'specially the part about the bras flying 
>on stage:-)
>
>Bless your socks,
>Larry
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