"What's he think I am, an ignoramus?"

[<davidp_@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings to the brethren of Zeppelin:

All right, I have to say it?not too loudly, but I must.  I'm disappointed that 
Page felt 
it necessary to "cut and weave" with the track list of HTWWW.  Certainly, his 
editing of 
this live release doesn't compare to TSRTS, but I simply can't understand why 
he insists 
on mixing different nights of a show to create a track that is, essentially, 
not the "real 
McCoy"?or is that the "real Spock"?.  Live music is just that?live, with all 
it's glory and 
all its weaknesses.  You can't splice and mend a bad moment when you're playing 
on stage, and 
I don't believe it's fair to the listening audience to do that on a recording.  
When someone 
asks me, "By the way, which night was used for 'Immigrant Song" on HTWWW?"  
I'll have to reply, 
"Well, essentially it comes from Long Beach, but some of the vocals come from 
the night in LA."  
That person is going to look at me a little curiously and reply, "I thought 
this was a live album?"
See what I mean?  I'm not moaning and groaning about the release?God knows, the 
public needs 
to hear what Zeppelin really sounded like in their prime?but I just wish that 
vanity played 
absolutely no part in these release, as it doesn't in the actual shows.

My good friend, JR, quips:

>>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.<<

Boy, you get stoned drunk one night on Vodka and Diet Mountain Dew, call 
everyone on a 
mailing list "clueless", and folks think you're going to act that way for the 
rest of your life.

Hardly, JR.  I would tell him he didn't know shit about wardrobe :-P

Take care, folks?

David


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