Re: HTWWW Review

[Eddie Edwards <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From the review forwarded by Bruce:

>Plant then introduces
>the Stairway To Heaven to a rousing reception which contradicts his later
>recollection that the audience was quiet during such a moment and reaffirms
>Page's that it wasn't.

An audience's reaction to Plant's announcement of Stairway at a June 
1972 concert is of no relevance to the issue of Jimmy's and Robert's 
contradictory recollections. It's true that Plant has claimed that 
audiences were bemused by early renditions of the song whereas Page 
seems to remember that they reacted very positively to it, but these 
comments all refer to 1971 performances before the song had been 
released. At the time of the California 1972 concerts, the fourth album 
had been out for more than six months and the audiences would have been 
very familiar with Stairway. It would have been amazing if they had not 
given it a rapturous reception!

My reaction on first hearing Stairway To Heaven from How The West Was 
Won was one of bewildered astonishment for an altogether different 
reason. If you want to know why, then the new, revamped, expanded Garden 
Tapes web site is the place for you. If, on the other hand, you would 
prefer to avoid reading about such details until you've had a go at 
spotting them for yourself, then you should definitely NOT go to:

http://www.simplyled.net/thegardentapes.html

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Eddie