Just got a DVD of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant playing at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne in 1998, another bootleg.

The show was broadcast by Rockpalast in Germany so I assume it was recorded by someone onto VHS and then they’ve recorded that onto DVD. They did a good job too. The set includes great versions of Bring It On home, Heartbreaker, Gallows Pole, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, Most High, How Many More Times and loads more. I saw P&P several times when they played together in the 90’s and they were always good. I saw them at Shepeherds Bush Empire with an audience of about 800, Madison Square Garden, Wembley, Dublin and another warm-up gig in Poole.

Just got an email from an agent where a company needs 9 test analysts in the City. I phoned him straight away and I was the first to do so. I asked him had he got much response and he admitted it was starting to dribble in and that he had carpet bombed the problem a bit. The email went to 3,000 IT people.

I suppose they’ve generated a mailing list of everyone they have a resume for, including developers, business analysts, project managers, scrum masters, DBA’s, operators etc and enter the mailing list name in the ’To’ field and fire and forget (Dunno about forget, they’ll get a load of abusive emails for that little stunt. Ed). Bit cheap.

The Led Zeppelin at Knebworth DVD was delivered the other day and again its taken from the video screens and does it rock?

You bet it rocks. The color is a bit saturated in places but then that’s due to the lightshow, I assume. I was watching it on a normal sized TV but it was so good I have just put it on the 42″ widescreen with sound through the stereo and it’s really awesome stuff. Over The Hills And Far Away sounds good with the great Bonham bass drum thump that was on the How The West Was One CD. Still watching this. Update later.

Makes you wonder what other concerts of their’s had video screens. I don’t think video screens were used before about 1975 so if anything prior to then is to be sold by Amazon then it would have to have been filmed. I wonder if there’s anything from the 1980 Europen tour? 

I’ve just seen that this DVD is also for sale at play.com and has got 8 ot of 9 lousy reviews for sound and picture quality. Same with Amazon, most people thinks it’s a rip off and rubbish quality and give it 1 or 2 stars. They maybe right but I’m just glad to see the darn thing and at $12 for 1 hour 41 minutes of great music, jeez, what are they complaining about.

I went to this show.