That is the problem with old farts like me… we go to tell one story and our brains misfires and another story starts to come out. Just slap us gently and we’ll get back on topic.
Infamously, on April 9th, 1977, at the Chicago Stadium, Led Zeppelin had to cancel a concert about half-way through their set when Jimmy Page became ill. The excuse was food poisoning, but many felt he was just too whacked out on cocaine. I lean toward the latter, but I have also had food poisoning and you feel like you’re gonna die. Page even had to sit on a chair during one song just before they decided to call it an early night. Some fans got pissed off and a brouhaha ensued, but nothing too major. The concert was rescheduled for August of 1977, but Plant’s son died bringing Zeppelin’s 1977 tour to a sudden, and understandable, early end.
And drawing those old style Ticketmaster concert tickets was a blast from the past. I have many stubs like that from seeing concerts at the old Chicago Stadium.
Now, before some of you do the math and start telling me that a t-shirt from 1977 that fits a 160-pound skinny kid like Bud would never fit a 65-year-old heavy-set man in 2022, you’d be right. I originally had a line for Ivy essentially calling her dad out for telling a story of a t-shirt he didn’t own anymore, but I ran out of room on this page and decided to just let it go. I got carried away with the size of the two upper frames and didn’t feel like resizing the whole comic for one line. Also, this a comic series that at one time featured a Mystic Frog, so logic doesn’t apply in this universe. 🙂
NOTE: I’ve gone back to my old update schedule of every Wednesday. It will be much easier for me to stay on target with this schedule. I was hoping that my being semi-retired I’d have more free time, but that was a pipe dream for sure! I’m busier than ever in some ways.
I never got to see Led Zeppelin in concert, and in April of 1977 I was finishing up my sophomore year at Illinois State University carrying 21 semester-hours worth of classes and also working/directing the 6:00 p.m. daily local news broadcast. No wonder I came home that summer completely worn out. But Google is our savior for looking things up and I found that “Rock and Roll” was one of the encores Zeppelin performed on that tour. Since it is my favorite Zeppelin tune, that’s the one I’m featuring today.
And one final note about April 9th, 1977; the high temperature for that day was 62F, which is warm for Chicago in April, so having Bud in just a t-shirt would not be unusual for us Midwest folks. 1977 has two months of extreme temperature records for Chicago. January of 1977 was the coldest on record with 17 days of zero degrees or below, and May of 1977 featured nine straight days of 90F or higher days which is still Chicago’s warmest May on record. Another thing we old farts do… talk about the weather. Get used to it. 🙂
Too many joints makes it impossible to focus on the story.
Pffffftt…. what?
What’s even more amazing than it still fitting, T-shirts do stretch a little 😉 is it’s still being in one piece after 45 years…
I rarely wear tour shirts because I’m always afraid they’ll fade out after too many washings, but lately I’m thinking that I haven’t got that many washings left in ME so I’m breaking out the Deep Purple tour shirt I never thought I’d be able to buy because I waited almost 50 years to see them in concert and then they just appeared in this hick town…and even added an extra night because the first sold out in minutes. My only regret is that Jon Lord wasn’t touring anymore but Don Airey did a great job and even if it’s heresy, I think I like Steve Morse better than Blackmore.
The Zepp tune threw something up from the dregs of long buried memory but I still like it even if it too may be seen as heresy, after all ‘diversity’ is the word of the day..isn’t it ? 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8SX579qW64
I’m wearing the old t-shirts I haven’t wore in decades for the exact same reason. I didn’t buy them to pass them on to my kids in mint condition, I bought them to wear them! And so I shall.
The funny part about that shirt is that they were originally scheduled for one night only and the second show was added after they saw more people still wanting tickets than they’d sold for the first show and added it at the last second. Yet both nights show up on the shirt…must have been printed locally, or it was planned all along, who knows ?
I do have a set of ‘official’ Ian Paice sticks out of it though, cheapest sticks I’ve ever seen, I wouldn’t dare play with them 😉
Poor Robert Plant he lost his son I can’t imagine losing a child no wonder he stopped the tour. Jimmy Page should lay off cocaine disappointing the fans but endangering your band mates should a riot occur. Well he still a guitar hero though his luster is some what diminished part of the break up of Led Zeppelin but Bud has the real 1977 tour vintage T shirt. I have vintage clothes hand me down from over 20 years ago and they fit me nicely. But I wash and wear them sports T shirts and the like sometimes I look at vintage styled shirts. But they are knock offs made in Bangladesh and the country is on river Ganges delta over populated and polluted due the production of textiles including knock offs. I agree with cool T shirt but focus more on the story even though Ivy would look great with daisy dukes or mini skirts with boots or pumps just focus on the story. My former room mates were either too tall or wide to steal my clothes. Alt right Ben would never wear my Che T shirt it would be a crop top on him anyway. Beside he kept making snide remarks like girly feet since I could wear pumps and he was size 12 towered over me saying “you women folk need use men folk for protection and calling me a libtard ohhhhhh”. Oddly enough if I was younger woman and he was not so alt right I’d date him. While Chris is too wide. Reads spider man but clobbers local spiders poor little guys talk about cruel irony. Incidentally I saw the Led Zeppelin movie the song remains the some along with Duran Duran in San Francisco 1984 made the pandemic less unpleasant. I’ve been to rock concerts and it seems for some reason cliques don’t mean as much but sadly back in school they do.
Bud will get back on track with the current story. I just had to toss this in for fun. 🙂