Re: John Paul Jones interview

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>Boston Globe has an interview with John Paul Jones on
>the new Led Zeppelin DVD:
>
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/145/living/Older_diehards_will_find_new_concert_footage_jampacked_with_gems+.shtml

A couple of interesting points from the article:

"'This was like putting together a mammoth jigsaw
puzzle,' Jones says from England, referring to the
DVDs. "Everything was in rusty old film cans that had
to be broken open...We would say, 'Should we film
somewhere? Oh, I don't know.' And by the time people
processed the film, we were off on tour again and
people forgot to look at it."

This raises the question, at what point were the VHS
(Beta?) copies made, that have since leaked out to
bootleggers, given that the original reels of film
weren't opened again shortly after they were used?  In
all these years, have the bandmembers themselves been
watching old VHS of Knebworth, RAH and Earls Court?

"There's no footage of the 1969 Boston Tea Party
show...'We played for four-and-a-quarter hours that
night,' says Jones. 'That was really the origin of the
jamming. It developed out of recognizing that people
wanted more. So we went through our Beatles repertoire
and Elvis repertoire -- anything that we knew more
than four bars of. And the jamming became fun to do.
It felt free.'"

So it really is true then, that they played that long
at the Tea Party?  It's not a long tale, as they say? 
There was speculation that there were a lot of encores
for the LA and Long Beach '72 shows, but apparently
isn't so.  I have to suspect JPJ's memory on the Tea
Party show as well.

All in all, it's pretty good to have an "on"
performance on official CD at last.