MY GOODNESS I like your music. I had bought the first Zep album with a thick handful of others (rabid collecting)(and I had a spendin money job in HS), in That Year Of My Favorite Albums, and I had a honkin console stereo in my big bedroom that was lend-lease from my parents. It had like a 30" bass speaker. Awesome thing for 1961 technology.
Anyway, I couldn't listen to em all right away, and I was out somewhere and heard Babe I'm Gonna Leave You on the "alternative radio."
Wow, I sed to mysef.
I gotta get this.
We had bought the album, Neal and I, sight unheard because we Knew It Was Coming.
Lo and behold, when they said who it was. I realized it was home leaning against the Boxcar O Sound!
I ripped the plastic off and slopped that thing on the table and TOOK OFF.
Cranked it up loud, [remember "RECORDED LOUD TO BE PLAYED LOUD" ~ liner note of Let It Bleed] and sat in front of the ring of niebelungen for the ride of the valkyries. I had it up so hot it was three feet past me before I heard it.
Always kind of liked to preview em that way.
Who's Next, Bold As Love, Layla, It's A Beautiful Day, Small Faces Ogden's Nutgone, Sergeant Pepper's, Yadda Yadda Yadda.
I remember the place and the afternoon and the effect like it was Yesterday.
The Book of Revelation, it was. Rock and roll hits Art.
Dazed And Confused.
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