40th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti

ColtsKurt wrote:Had the cassette tape, but don't think I ever bought the vinyl… Sure wish I knew where those tape cases went.

cravnravn wrote:Back in 79 I purchased a technics turntable built in equalizer and hooked the up to Bose 901's....we lived in an apartment at the time, my neighbors hated me, back then my main music was disco and funk, never forget coming home from work and the Mrs telling me our daughter was amusing herself by pulling out the 6 miles of tape out of my Parliament 8 trak..

Yeah the Technics turntable was pretty good back then ( I had the Pioneer Linear tracking turntable)

I happen to have a pair of Bose 901's on either side of my 82in HDTV

My Carver ALS speakers are too big for the living room so they are just sitting upstairs waiting for a crossover rebuild.

I got the 901'a from some guy for $300 and all the speakers had the old cones that just disintegrate after several years so I sent them to Bose and they gave me a FREE rebuild with the new cones that don't dissolve like before so I have had mine connected to the Carver amps for almost 20 years (the Carver speakers came out in 1986 and I was the first customer and Bob Carver let me test them and blow em up and give me new parts for free)

I used to disturb my neighbors as Bob Marley used to say but before reggae I played Led Zeppelin,The Who,Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix.........and if I was in a mellow mood The Grass Roots and the Guess Who

Still have most of my vinyl collection here and several are the remastered on virgin vinyl type so they are worth some money now and in fact I have the Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" half-speed remastered on virgin vinyl from Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs NEVER PLAYED of even OPENED so the value goes up every year (I have to get a turntable)
I never let other humans touch my gear or the LP's and CD's or cassettes (I even have the half speed remastered Pink Floyd on a special cassette and that has been played many times)

cravnravn wrote:I have my dads 45 collection, his wife kept the 33 albums. I came a crossed a 45 of JFK's inaugural speech, love to find an old record player and listen to it.

BlueShoes1 wrote:

cravnravn wrote:I have my dads 45 collection, his wife kept the 33 albums. I came a crossed a 45 of JFK's inaugural speech, love to find an old record player and listen to it.

Here you go:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pioneer-PL-S40-Turntable-Quartz-Direct-Drive-Auto-Return-33-3-45RPM-/271770802978?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f46cd5b22

OR you can buy this one and then let me test it

http://tinyurl.com/Walker-Audio-Proscenium-Black

If I could trust ebay I would find a decent one for $100-$150 and I see a few there.

ColtsKurt wrote:Thanks for this thread.  Made me go back and revisit the greatness that was Led Zeppelin in the 70's.

Incredible stuff.

Magic wrote:

ColtsKurt wrote:Thanks for this thread.  Made me go back and revisit the greatness that was Led Zeppelin in the 70's.

Incredible stuff.

No doubt one of a kind........ ad I have a couple CD's just to play in the car when I go on a cruise by myself.

I have all the albums with one copy of each in nice condition and several that I played to death like Led Zeppelin I-II-III

In that yahoo video with Page and them playing that remastered version he talked about how the record company complained about that cover for LZ III with the spinning wheel and it is why they made that cover for the Physical Graffiti when they used their own company *Swan Song Records*

I never would have guessed I would get that album the day it came out and 40 years later listen to the new version and see Jimmy Page talking and answering questions on a computer.

BlueShoes1 wrote:To each his own but I never, ever, ever got into Led Zeppelin's stuff to any extent.  Other than Stairway to Heaven, I still don't get what all the love is about.  Maybe I was too "mature" (compared to you young whips) to understand, huh?  Santana, War, Stan Getz, Bread, and Mathis...those represent my electic taste in the 70's.

ColtsKurt wrote:

To be clear… same everything - original - but remastered to today's standards?  

Why wouldn't every freaking album ever cut be tweaked like that?    

Magic wrote:

BlueShoes1 wrote:To each his own but I never, ever, ever got into Led Zeppelin's stuff to any extent.  Other than Stairway to Heaven, I still don't get what all the love is about.  Maybe I was too "mature" (compared to you young whips) to understand, huh?  Santana, War, Stan Getz, Bread, and Mathis...those represent my electic taste in the 70's.

LOVE?

They do have songs about getting some from chicks but Bread is not "mature" and is love with a piano

The thing about Led Zeppelin is they wrote lyrics AND are all the best at playing their instruments (unlike that cRap we have today)

You just heard the ones they played on the radio (Stairway to Heaven billions of times)

You are the same age as those guys and I bet you couldn't play a guitar like that in 1968 or the drums like John Bonham! (he was 20) and Jimmy Page was born Jan 9th 1944 and can play anything with strings and is still hard at work

Too bad Bonham had to drink vodka for breakfast and ended that (of course Robert Plant has several albums on his own after that)

They did it all from acoustic songs to the Hammer of the Gods from the blues to rock and didn't have 2 pop songs and 8 fillers on every album like the ones you mentioned (Santana is playing one long song on the guitar that never ends and never changes)

AM radio was ok when I was 10 years old

BlueShoes1 wrote:

I was talking about the fans' love for Led Zeppelin, not love-related songs.

BlueShoes1 wrote:To each his own but I never, ever, ever got into Led Zeppelin's stuff to any extent.  Other than Stairway to Heaven, I still don't get what all the love is about.  Maybe I was too "mature" (compared to you young whips) to understand, huh?  Santana, War, Stan Getz, Bread, and Mathis...those represent my electic taste in the 70's.

Magic wrote:

BlueShoes1 wrote:

I was talking about the fans' love for Led Zeppelin, not love-related songs.

Well I admit they have millions of those fans......still after 45+ years and a couple love songs about chicks and one about his son that died at about 6 years old (Robert Plants son)

But hey I got one we would both like to see even though he just turned 75 on that very same day as this Led Zeppelin anniversary

Smokey Robinson is going to be at a casino in Tacoma WA on March 6th and we both must agree he is a legend and one of a kind

The closest I see to you on his short tour is Apr 3 • Highland Heights, KY

BlueShoes1 wrote:

Believe it or not he's been to Lancaster.  We have a place called The American Music Theater about 10 minutes from where I live and they get all sorts of the older generation pop singers.  Smokey was there, I believe, within the last year.  

BlueShoes1 wrote:Well, technically I'm truly an "oldies" guy since my teen years ran from 1958-1966.  I find it interesting that, even after 50 years, when someone says "play some oldies" EVERYONE knows what they mean -- Miracles, Platters, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Rick Nelson, Frankie Avalon, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, Four Tops, Temptations, Mary Wells, Barbara Lewis, and on, and on and on.  Hell, I do my grocery shopping and hear them play songs from that era all the time as background music.  Imagine that.  Someone must think the music from 50 years ago is still relevant.