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Blue_In_AK

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40. Oh, I agree, they were good bands,

Reply to kwassa (Reply #39)

Wed Apr 23, 2014, 08:25 PM

Apr 2014

which is why we were going to the concert to see them. Zeppelin hadn't even released their first album in the US yet, and we had never heard of them. They kind of blew our socks off. "Who ARE these guys??"

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