Some Zep content: The Knobs/Jefferson Airplane connection

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@xxxxxxxx>]

It is common knowledge, among the Zep community, about Eva Von Zeppelin
seeing the first Zeppelin album cover and freaking out one time when the
band was in Germany..... I forget the exact year off of the top of my
head. I want to say 1969 or 1970.....the band changed their name to "The
Knobs" for this one gig.

Robert Plant ahas also made no secret out of his love for the San
Francisco psychedellic rock bands such as Moby Grape and Jefferson
Airplane.

I was just looking at their 1969 album "Volunteers" where there is some
obviously nonsensical blabber on the back, well not completely
nonsensical, but obviously written for those who were taking  certain
psychedellic substances while listening to the music. And by the looks of
it, this would be very amusing under the influence......

I am going to type this excerpt from the album here, with an asterisk at
the main part I want to point out. The whole thing is amusing nonetheless,
apoligies for those who find it a waste of bandwidth, the zep content
continues below:

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>From Jefferson Airplane "Volunteers" 1969

PAZ CHIN-IN HUGE SUCCESS

Paz, South Dakota-

The sun, like a heat lamp gone ape, beat down upon the streets and feilds
of this rustic, rural community as it played host this weekend to the
first annual Paz Chin-In. It turned out to be a warm and wonderful weekend
with many wild and wacky happenings. Some of the participants and audience
alike removed their shirts. Some removed their pants. And some removed
some ants from some hydrogea plants!

*All the top bands that were advertised arrived and did outstanding acts:
The Beavers, Jeff Gleento, Hunk, THE KNOBS, Rufus and the Juts, The Ho,
The Ked, The Roland Stoves, and many more. A highlight of sorts was
reached during the Saturday Evening Show when AOK, a 51 peice band from
Houston, launched themselves from a space capsule onstage and completed
two orbits around the moon before ending their set with a brilliant
spashdown into a nearby rainbarrel!

Other hilights included:
Mo Eddison introduced a new musical instrument, a large guitar-like
apparatus with six three foot black cables strung across a fifty-five foot
replica of the Golden Gate bridge called a "Mandoleen";  and promptly
blacked out South Dakota and five adjoining states for seventeen minutes
by atteempting to play "Lady of Spain" with feedback!

Jeff Gleento completely dazzled everyone by appearing on stage wearing
glittering, sequined, and pearl inlaved orange rinds!

Many world renowned jugglers and magicians performed, including Elmer of
Elmhurst who not only juggled ten full-size bathtubs with his feet, but
also held his breath, with his hands!

At one point during the festivities the dancing got so exuberant and
vociferous that Farmer Morgan's back-forty was heard to shout "EASY ON THE
SODS, MODS!"

And Bud Dolan stopped by on Sunday and did a quick guest set, singing his
latest single, "She called Me a Hick When I Asked For Her Cup!"

All in all, a great time was had by all who attended.
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ZEP CONTENT:

I saw this reference to "The Knobs." It makes one wonder if this album was
in fact they got the idea for the name. It seems like something Robert
Plant would have come up with in my opinion......and it would be a valid
explination. Thoughts anyone? (and if replying there is no need to include
the above "story" from the airplane album, as if I didn't waste enough
bandwidth to some people, posting it again will only piss people off)

Jeremy