Re: I'm a new subscriber...

[Timothy McCullough <srstim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Mixer wrote:

> My dad also duig into his vinyl and let me borrow his copy of Led
> Zeppelin' I, and the soundtrack to TSRTS. I asked him, before listening to
> the albums, if any one of the songs were the one that went "Hey hey mama
> said the way you moooooove" and he said that was called "Black Dog" and he
> didn;t know what labum that was on, because he prefered their earlier
> stuff.

My dad, being a bit older, was into the Beatles, and used to buy me Beatles
records when we went out. I had to discover Zep on my own, and it too is a
cool story; although not as long, but I'll relate it at another time.

> My next venture was to find the "Chaisaw Song" in which Robert yelled like
> a chainsaw.....from listening to the zepset's, I soon figured out that
> this was the Immigrant SOng. My parents bought me Led Zeppelin II formy
> 12th birthday in 1990.

I've never heard Immigrant Song described that way before. Interesting idea...

> The zepset's on WBLM were still being listened to, I had also discovered
> another station, WHEB out of Portsmouth, which had a similar program
> called "Get the Led Out". WBLM one time played this song called "Hot Dog"
> which I found really funny, even though I thought the music sucked. But I
> had to get that song, because TOm didn;t beleive me when I said there was
> a Led Zeppelin country song called "Hot Dog"

I remember when this song was first played on the radio. I thought they had
finally gone off the deep end, until I realized they were busting on country
music... Then I heard In The Evening, and I knew they were still there...

> For Christmas of 92 I got Coda.

I bought this album the day it first went on sale. It was one of the sadder
days of my life as a Zep fan, as i knew it would be the last album of "new"
songs that I would hear...

> I bought Presence so I could hear NFBM, and thought that this was the best
> Zep album, as it was all electric. Never went for the acoustic stuff back
> then, nor did I like blues.

This too, is my favorite album. You can hear the pent-up energy all over it...

>  Someone on thge
> newsgroup mentioned sometime in mid 94 about a Led Zeppelin mailing list
> called "Digital Grafitti" with over 300 members, so I joined that.

Did you ever get even with them?

> Not
> long after joining, I purchased my first Led Zeppelin bootleg, Destroyer,
> on vinyl for $40.

Good choice. My first boot was the audience recording of 7-17-73 Seattle,
bought in a record store on the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ for $3.50. They had
Blueberry Hill there, too, and a bunch more, all brand new and sealed. Not a
one of them was more than $5.00!!! Boy, do I miss those days...    I'll relate
my little story as to how I became a Zep fan later. These stories are one of
the reasons I like this list so much. Zep content at it's finest. Anyone else
have a story about how they became Zepheads? I'd love to hear them...
    Toonz
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