On Jonesy & In Through The Outdoor

[Oner OZAYLAK <OnerO@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

Couple of days ago I was reading Q's Led Zeppelin special issue at night. In
the ITTOD review John Aizlewood stated that it was Zep's swan song and
almost forgotten. So I decided to express my feelings about this comment and
my discovery of Zep while John Paul Jones subject is high nowadays.

One evening near the end of year 1979 I was listening to our old Philips
vacuum tube AM radio (we didn't have a transistor FM radio then). It was a
program called Studio FM which still runs on Turkish Radio & TV Institution
FM Radio 3, about to be run 3000th times on September or October 2003.
Producer & DJ Yavuz Aydar announced (UK's) Melody Maker magazine's (not
published now, acquired by New Musical Express) Annual Reader's Poll for
best of 1979 albums results and played the 1st. It was Zep's ITTOD, 2nd &
3rd were Yes - Tormato & Supertramp - Breakfast In America or vice versa. In
th(e)at evening I was hooked by Zep's music. I still remember it very well.
I then have these 3 albums recorded on cassettes, no record player then,
just a small Schaub Lorenz mono cassette player.

Intro and guitar solo of "In The Evening", swirling keyboard and bass
melodies of "Carouselambra" (as if fusing 3 songs into one) and super
emotional melody and keyboard solo of "All My Love" hit me deep and I began
to listen to rock music with Zep. Therefore Zep and ITTOD have been my first
love and it goes on to be.

So, no, Mr. Aizlewood WE have never forgotten ITTOD & WE will never forget,
but thanks for the review anyway.

Keep on Rock & Rolling.

Oner