LED ZEPPELIN: LIVE IN 1969
Dominating a 15 year period, surrounding 1930, the big and exciting thing in transportation was the dirigible, or zeppelin, a self-propelled, steerable balloon made rigid through internal aluminum framework. Owing to the combustibility of the gases used to suspend these huge structures, they were considered unsafe, and were prohibited after 1937 with the crash of the Hindenburg.
LED ZEPPELIN: LIVE IN 1969
Pam Brent
MARCH 1969
Included here for pure historical interest is the very first mention of Led Zeppelin inCREEM. That's because it had to be the first—it was in CREEM Volume 1, Number 1. It might not have been the best show in the world—at least, that's what Brent thought—but who knows? Maybe after 11 years she's changed her mind.
Dominating a 15 year period, surrounding 1930, the big and exciting thing in transportation was the dirigible, or zeppelin, a self-propelled, steerable balloon made rigid through internal aluminum framework. Owing to the combustibility of the gases used to suspend these huge structures, they were considered unsafe, and were prohibited after 1937 with the crash of the Hindenburg.
Now, in 1969, a new zeppelin has appeared and begun to infuse itself into our culture. This new zeppelin, totally unique from the old, may also be considered a mode of transportation, but not in the sense of its forerunners.