All those years ago! I was in the 7th grade going to school at Battle Creek Junior High School, freshly out of the juvinille dentention center for whatever it was they kept arresting me for back in those days. I guess it was a mixture of skipping school, smoking my stuff, drinking some wine and inviting other lads along for the ride, my bad, but my goodness those were some fun days when I wasn't in juvie!

Anyway I had two tickets to this show and I remember thinking that I would be damned if I was going to miss it. I was just placed into a very nice foster home. I was amazed that I was allowed to go to this concert because everything else about this foster home spelled disipline! But I was up front with the foster dad and he agreed to let me see the show. I ended up taking my foster brother, Howie with me and we had a blast. I'm glad Howie was able to go because I know that it was probably one of the biggest highlights of his short life which ended when he was about 19 and in prison for dope. I was lucky to never see the inside of a jail cell after I turned 18 and eventually got my act together. Now I am 45 and a banker, who'd of ever guessed that one!

Led Zeppelin put on a terrific show but thinking back the music always helped me through those long 2-3 month stints in juvie hall. I always convinced those in authority that it would be the right thing to do to let me have my posters of Zep on the walls and those posters always made me feel like I wasn't alone, I had the music with me. Now the St. Paul Civic Center is gone and made way for the River Center but never again was any concert even close to this one. Alice Cooper was teargased by some derainged fan at this place during his heaviest of drinking days and during the song Schools Out, he said "Saint Paul you suck". Even when it got a bit rowdy with a few flying chairs at this Zeppelin show, all that Robert Plant said was, "Saint Paul, mellow out man!" and the concert proceeded without much further problem.

Now it is November 21, 2007 and Led Zeppelin is a little over two weeks away from their reunion show in the UK. I sure hope that the boys have it in them to make it to Minnesota one more time on at least one last world tour because there are a lot of people here that would love to hear you guys belt out Minnesota Blues along with anything else you would care to play here one more time!