Last post for today, I promise...

["JR Sroufe" <jrsrouf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

1. I get to wait just a little longer than May 27 before I get my 
DVD/CD sets. I preordered mine from Amazon.com and took the free 
shipping option. But I can handle that for the amount of dough I'm 
saving in the process. My total for both sets was $42.47. Not fucking 
bad, folks. Looks like around June, 5 when I get to check out this 
awesome stuff. Hats off to the band for making sure this release was 
within the financial reach of the average Joe Six-Pack fan like me. 

2. It really pisses me off whenever I read a Led Zeppelin biography, 
and the same lines keep repeating themselves - "rising from the ashes 
of The Yardbirds" etc. Also, they all manage to end their bio's up 
with the tired old synopsis - "Bonham was found dead in his bed after 
a drinking binge and choked on his own vomit". Well, who else's vomit 
would he have choked on? The housekeeper's? 

3. Wonder what kept any '77 footage off the DVD release? A little 
would have been nice. If nothing else, just for the excess that's on 
display for that tour. Don't get me wrong folks, excess is a *good* 
thing. 

4. The artwork on the DVD set kind of depresses me a little. The 
image of the zeppelin dissipating in the sky says to me: "this is the 
end, the payload has been expelled, the zeppelin has left the 
building."

5. I'd love to give Jimmy Page's email address and a liter of vodka 
to David P. to see if he would get hammered and tell him that he 
didn't know shit about Led Zeppelin. Hee hee...whatta riot that would 
be.

6. Grant's gearing up for another stateside Zepfest in October in 
Niagara. Last one was a fucking blast. I'll bet they're still 
cleaning that place up. The smart money this year is on me being 
found dead in my bed after a drinking binge, choked on my own vomit. 

7. Eddie Edwards must drink the strongest tea in Britain to pick 
apart the shows and film like he does. My guess is that he sleeps 
maybe one night in seven. But due to his teeth-gritting tenacity in 
sourcing this stuff out, we have marvelous works such as The Garden 
Tapes. Great work, Eddie.

8. 'How The West Was Won' is a silly title, but they could have 
called it '4 English Lads Fart And Belch In America' and we would 
have still bought it.

Later,
JR