RE: Calling all Badgeholders: The Digital Zeppelin Project is Officially Announced (Unofficially, of course)

["LetsRock" <letsrock@xxxxxxx>]

Hey Mark Your post is one of the most creative ideas I have read on this
mailing list in a LONG time I'm sick of wading through all theses tired worn
out topics of  " who did this, why Jimmy, no its Robert, poor old  JPJ and
lets dig up Bonzo" topics...  I'm not sure how, but I would like to help in
anyway I could bros

LetsRock


> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:09:15 -0500
> From: Mark Clark <airweasel@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Calling all Badgeholders: The Digital Zeppelin Project is
Officially Announced (Unofficially, of course)

> Dear Fellow Zepheads and fellow music lovers,
> I am putting out the call for everyone to take part in the Digital
> Graffiti project that I am assembling. I've been a fan of Jimmy Page
> and Led Zeppelin for more than a decade and its been my dream to put
> together the absolute best and biggest collection of Led Zeppelin
> recordings possible and present them to Jimmy Page for potential
> official release. I've amassed quite a collection of studio outtakes
> and various live recordings over the years while at the same time
> working on a sound recording technique to remaster and restore them to
> enjoyable listening quality. The goal here is not profit by any means,
> but simply a labor of love from the fans of the greatest band that ever
> lived to repay the band for all their hard work and all the wonderful
> music they've given us. What I have in mind is making a central server
> where all of this music is available to the fans (with the band's
> cooperation and agreement) to profit the charities that Jimmy Page is
> working on and the band members-their families,etc) for whatever moneys
> lost from all the rampant bootlegging and greedy profiteers who've
> stolen from the band in the past. They put their heart and soul into
> giving the fans the best they had to give, toiling through hardships
> and personal tragedies to keep a Led balloon afloat all those years
> despite being panned by all the critics and endured religious idiocy in
> the form of accusations of backword masking and occult worship. I'd
> like to assemble it from the lowest generation recordings out
> there-hell, even the master tapes if they are still in decent shape and
> can be unearthed. Its time to take the music back, clean it up and give
> it to the band so they can give it to us like they wanted to do all
> along.
> If any one knows where the best recordings are hiding please contact
> me so that I can work on getting them back to the band and getting them
> officially released for everyone to enjoy. Those who provide the lowest
> gens and the best source recordings, audio or video, will be allowed
> full lifetime access to the project and given credit for their work.
> Isn't that the badge every one's been waiting for? I look forward to
> hearing you. If anyone wishes to verify that I am honest and not a
> scammer, I'm sure the people I've recently sold some of my original
> silvers to would be willing to attest to my reliability since all of
> them are members of this group and got excellent deals and quality
> service from me. Don't forget, just a few more weeks until Jimmy shows
> us How the West Was Won. Sure wish I could be at the premiere of that
> one-it's going to be one hell of show don't you think? Peace, y'all.
>
> Mark
> airweasel@xxxxxxx
> www.desertlightning.com