And of course, the lucid thinking that led to dressing up as a fucking
Nazi onstage...on the 1977 tour...
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Knebworth is weird. The rehearsals beforehand available via the
Copenhagen Warm Up boot series shows a band of teen aged beer drinkers, incapable of playing. By all accounts this was a disaster of a rehearsal, yet the band plowed on. Look closely at the Knebworth footage, particularly during "Whole Lotta Love"...you'll see Plant grimacing at Page, deliberately ignoring cues and generally feeling uncomfortable to be there in the first place.
Plus, the version of
Achilles Last Stand has been drastically altered from the 1977 tour version. Some segments are missing completely, and one get's the general impression that Page could not master them any more or eliminated them out of indifference..
Out of duty or conscience, after 1978 John Paul Jones got stuck holding the band together at that point, which explains why
In Thru The Outdoor sounds like a bad Moody Blues/Emerson Lake & Palmer album.