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[J T]

Hmm somebody sleeping at a Led Zeppelin Concert.

 

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[Ed Driscoll]

Hmm somebody sleeping at a Led Zeppelin Concert.

Somebody didn't time the drugs very well.

 

[SG Std]

One of the earliest pictures of Jimmy Page with his newly acquired [from Joe Walsh] Les Paul [5-2-69]

 

[corpse]

Guess they didn’t Have a Fire Marshall.

 

[NickiC]

The purple trousers picture, looks like The Boston Tea Party gig.

 

[jb_abides]

The purple trousers picture, looks like The Boston Tea Party gig.

Post #4? ... Grande Ballroom, Detroit. May 1969

Post #5 ... Boston Tea Party, also May 1969

 

[SpencerD]

The purple trousers picture, looks like The Boston Tea Party gig.

it is.

 

[SG Std]

Here's another picture from Zeppelin's May 1969 performance in Boston & supposedly that is JJ Jackson [one of the original MTV VJs] in the lower left hand corner. Kinda looks like a small venue--I wonder if they were loud?!!! LOL!

 

[Ed Driscoll]

Here's another picture from Zeppelin's May 1969 performance in Boston & supposedly that is JJ Jackson [one of the original MTV VJs] in the lower left hand corner. Kinda looks like a small venue--I wonder if they were loud?!!! LOL!

I think that's entirely likely. In Barney Hoskyns' 2012 book, Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band, Danny Goldberg, the “US press officer for Zeppelin, president of Swan Song in the US,“ was quoted as saying, “In the United States, there was a tremendous shift once rock radio became established. The power of critics was reduced by 50 percent overnight because people could hear music themselves, played by DJs who couldn’t write and weren’t so intellectual and weren’t part of any group. Zeppelin was the first big radio superstar in the rock world, which coincided with WBCN in Boston. They said they owed everything to J.J. Jackson. They didn’t say, ‘We owe everything to Rolling Stone.’ Whereas a couple of years earlier, the Jefferson Airplane would have said, ‘Thank God for Rolling Stone!’“ It's not surprising that in the early '80s, MTV wanted that level of gravitas during their startup phase.

 

[SG Std]

I think that's entirely likely. In Barney Hoskyns' 2012 book, Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band, Danny Goldberg, the “US press officer for Zeppelin, president of Swan Song in the US,“ was quoted as saying, “In the United States, there was a tremendous shift once rock radio became established. The power of critics was reduced by 50 percent overnight because people could hear music themselves, played by DJs who couldn’t write and weren’t so intellectual and weren’t part of any group. Zeppelin was the first big radio superstar in the rock world, which coincided with WBCN in Boston. They said they owed everything to J.J. Jackson. They didn’t say, ‘We owe everything to Rolling Stone.’ Whereas a couple of years earlier, the Jefferson Airplane would have said, ‘Thank God for Rolling Stone!’“ It's not surprising that in the early '80s, MTV wanted that level of gravitas during their startup phase.

Thank you for your post and here's another confirmation about [DJ at the time] JJ Jackson's involvement & promotion of Led Zeppelin's January, May, & October's 1969 gigs in Boston -

 

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