Sure I can tell you fellow rockers where you can get the complete Led Zeppelin studio recordings for a great price. But before I do, I thought you’d like to join me in a little Zep nostalgia.

These studio recordings are only possible thanks to the fact that Zeppelin has had a highly successful music career and the demand for such a product would have been immense. Because of this, it made me think of the following.

Have you ever seen the movie The Time Machine with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux? This guy built a time machine that could transport him to the past or the future. Now, I have no particular desire to see what will happen in the world fifty years from now, but I do have a longing to return to certain specific events that have already happened. Do you know where I would go? It would have to be Led Zeppelin’s first US tour in January 1969.

Yeah, I know, some of the younger generation rock fans are probably cracking up to see all those flower power hippies experimenting with free love and looking like they haven’t had their hair done in six months. But that was the fashion we followed, and I often wish long hair would come back (not that I can grow mine out).

Anyway, back in 1969, Zep had been conceived a few months earlier and went on his first tour in Scandinavia. It still makes me laugh when I watch the video of one of those Scandinavian concerts, where the audience sat on the floor, cross-legged, clapping politely when the band had finished one of their songs. How different this must have been compared to the Fillmore West concert in San Francisco in January ’69. I wasn’t there, but I would love to travel in my time machine with Yvette Mimieux as my rock girlfriend, to take a look at what which would ultimately become the birth of rock music.

According to Jimmy Page, it was at that San Francisco concert that he learned that Led Zeppelin “had arrived.” Boy, that must have been a show. I wonder how many readers of this article actually attended the Fillmore West that night? I bet you have great memories!

My, or rather our (I almost forgot Yvette) trip in the time machine would then continue with a tour of the United States, visiting places like San Diego, Boston, New York, Chicago and Miami.

Almost two whole months traveling back in time to witness the dawn of an epic journey, made by (and nobody knew it then) the biggest and most influential rock band in the world.

Thanks for the company Weena! (Watch the movie).