What a show. To think, I almost missed it. Best of all, it didn’t cost me much. I did have to spend three bucks for parking, but I figured that was a small price to pay for what I got to see, hear and enjoy.
Riding back, my Virgo neighbor kept repeating, “What a babe he is. He’s just an old hippie, you know, Kramer, we could cut your hair, and you’d look just like him!” [Repeated three times.>
Show was pretty amazing. It will air November 9, and it’s worth seeing. The taping lasted close to three hours, he did one encore, and some girl sitting next to me had one of the best comments I heard, “This is better than Christmas morning!”
The studio isn’t very big, imagine a really intimate club setting, some padded bleacher-type seating, and – I think fire code was 400 – Robert Plant, singing songs. He joked about one song, “This one should be in the public domain by now…”
He still has his voice. Plus he was pretty relaxed. According to my friends on the set, employees, not volunteers, he was a bit naughty in the rehearsal, “I can do anything I want?”
Rock stars don’t change.
He did pay homage to American Delta Blues and Elvis, mentioned Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, and left the crowd on its feet, calling for more.
I don’t know how Austin City Limits managed to swing getting him in to play, but it was incredible.
Don’t ask me to name the songs, I couldn’t repeat the set list if I had to. Some old, some really old, some stuff from the new album, a little of everything. Still got the pipes and the humor, judging from the banter coming from the stage.