Plant spiel 77

["Jerry Czarnecki" <jerrymcza@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some funny Plantations before TYH 5-18-77 (a beautiful solo near the end of 
it!): "So we decided that we'd look through the material... and never tried 
to do on stage before, and see if we can adapt some of it for you might say 
a four piece band playing with six people. So we didn't get Willy 
Preston???, we decided to do it by ourselves. When you're happy with four 
who needs six. Right... so Jonesy started to extend himself a little more, 
so first of all he got a hard-on, and then he turned to the secret weapon, 
JPJ's secret weapon, not many people see it, they say it comes out at night. 
But few can tell the tale, haha."

1. What if Zep had reformed in 77 to have six people? Then it might have 
survived. Pagey and Plant might have trained acolytes to gradually take 
over.

2. I've often felt that there is some hostility in the back of Plant's 
banter about Jonesy--"what an old wanker" from 6-21-77 comes to mind.