Sitting on the couch and listening to Led Zeppelin at the Los Angeles Forum from March 27, 1970 and reading Keith Shadwick's book. In an odd coincidence, I was reading about their sixth American tour and the two gigs at Madison Square Garden (Plant comments on Jimi's death at both shows).
The encore of Communication Breakdown ended and you hear the tapers trying to get their heads together because they are obviously wrecked out of their minds. They leave the recorder running for quite a while and you can hear someone from the venue (perhaps the promoter) get on the stage mic and announce that "Tickets for Jimi Hendrix..." [remaining crowd goes apeshit] "...will go on sale next Wednesday. That's Jimi Hendrix - he'll be here April 25, tickets go on sale next Wednesday."
Just a cool atmospheric moment in the experience of listening to a bootleg, especially late at night. You allow yourself to think about being at the show. Zeppelin has just played for two hours, and the guy comes on and says, 'oh yeah - Hendrix will be along next month...' And of course you think... well, I could really use a time machine...
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