10 minutes

I’ve got ten minutes to write something so it will probably be a ramble.

Led Zeppelin are reforming with 3.5 of the original band members (if you count the Bonham genes in the standard way). I like a million others have registered in the hope of getting tickets. For me, it will be a long pilgrimage to London and ultimately I know I will be disappointed. I don’t even listen to Zep anymore, going to the point of skipping past in in my iTunes library, but I suppose I will make the journey trying to capture a moment that’s 30 years away and a lifetime ago.

I saw Jimmy Page when he toured with Paul Rogers in the Firm c. 1985 and it was good but not great. I heard from one of the roadies that this was due to Jimmy Page quaffing a bottle of Grouse before the end of the first half of the show.

If I travel from Texas to see the dinos in the O2 valley of the Gwangi tribute show, I hope they are sober enough to perform. I also hope that I am sober enough to listen. I probably wasn’t in 1985.

Ramble on.