***TORRENT SEED ANNOUNCEMENT - THE TIMD SERIES - CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN***

[Tim Druck <tcdruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So it's late and I don't feel much like writing, I just wish the trip 
were through... 

The list has been downbeat a little bit, with the apparent fall of the 
possible new project coupled with one year passing since it all seemed 
like it was starting again.  All this hope of a new day that seems to be 
slowly fading.

Well, there was a time that hope sprang eternal for Led Zeppelin and 
their fans.  And this new show speaks to that day, the genesis, when all 
was fresh and new.  Our fellows had been in America less than a month, 
and were fresh off successful gigs on the West Coast, when a DJ named JJ 
Jackson in Boston discovered the Led Zeppelin I album personally and 
started playing it during his shift heavily, and the young Boston 
hipster underground was raring to hear this new sensation live that was 
blasting out of their radios.

The Boston Tea Party itself has been a church, a community center, and a 
music venue and club - the one real place to be if you were somebody 
worth knowing in that culture in those days.  On weekends it was a 
concert venue, and such was the case at this point, when Led Zeppelin 
arrived in Boston on 1-22-69.  JJ Jackson was in attendance for that 
night's show, and in addition to playing several cuts from LZI on his 
show the next day, also passed the word that these guys were tearing up 
the joint at the Tea Party last night, and would be playing again 
tonight.  Word got around.

Led Zeppelin
Boston, Massachusetts - 1-23-1969
The Boston Tea Party
"Boston Patriots"
A TimD Remaster

Lineage: Master > A1 > DAT (4) > CDR (4) > PC > Adobe Audition 3 > CDR > 
WAV (EAC) > FLAC (8)

01 - Train Kept A' Rollin (6:11)
02 - I Can't Quit You Baby (6:10)
03 - As Long As I Have You (13:13)
04 - Dazed and Confused (12:22)
05 - You Shook Me (8:58)

On 1-23-69, Led Zeppelin encountered a packed house as they took the 
stage.  The evidence on the tape shows that Zep roared aboard and 
destroyed the audience with a five-song first set that lasted 46 minutes 
total.  And this is where the story starts to become legend - according 
to eyewitnesses and the memories of the band, the boys took the stage 
that night and played three more sets, one more planned, and two more 
because Vanilla Fudge just didn't see any advantage in going on after 
Led Zeppelin had worn the crowd out.  Legends of headbanging, playing 
ragged, unrehearsed Beatles numbers, almost everything have gone on 
throughout the years.

This tape is what we know.  The first set - the five songs that 
supposedly started a night nobody truly remembers but wishes they did.  
I have reason to believe that the rest of the show is on high-quality 
tape, but I also have reason to believe that it doesn't exist, also.  My 
gift to you this December 10th is the show that was.  Please enjoy.


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TimD