I bought a slide, an old Coricidin bottle like Duane Allman
used. But when I tried to get into Elmore James and Muddy Waters, I ended up
with a bunch of CDs I never listened to more than once or twice. Being a white
kid growing up in a patch house on the outskirts of Morgantown, West Virginia,
the blues may as well have been N.W.A. or Public Enemy. I thought Jeff'd
steered me wrong.
So I started hitting record stores like Charlie Watts hit
Mick Jagger after that 5am wake-up call. I knew my personal thread through the
music went deeper, and I was more than just an orphan who'd been passed around
like a bottle of Boone's. Music made me all too keenly aware that I could be
more than my guidance counselors ever expected me to be. I had my own roots and
didn't have to buy into somebody else's past or culture to feel complete. I
didn't know nothing about my mom or dad, but I knew I was conceived to Led Zeppelin III and I knew when I
finally kicked it, I'd kick with a guitar in my hands.
Download the show at Sugarmegs.
Led Zeppelin
"Mudslide" (Pre-bootleg source) [The Diagrams Of Led Zeppelin Vol.44]
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada March 21, 1970
Perhaps the earliest Led Zeppelin bootleg to be produced was the forty minute soundboard fragment from the first show of their fifth tour of north America: a very cool listen.
01 Heartbreaker
02 Organ Improv./Thank You
03 What Is & What Should Never Be
04 Communication Breakdown/Ramble On
05 We're Gonna Groove
06 Since I've Been Loving You
07 Whole Lotta Love (middle cut)
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