frank zappa - stairway to heaven

the only chance i had to see frank zappa and the mothers of invention was in the fall of 1970. it was in dayton, ohio, and the show was festival seating. if you brought your mother, she got in for free.

i liked the fact that nothing was sacred to frank, not even this rock and roll classic by led zepplin.

i first heard stairway to heaven at a concert at the boston garden. my dad bought 3 tickets. one for me, one for a friend claude durham and one for himself. my dad always new a good show when he saw one, rock, jazz, classical, it didn't matter. during the break jimmy paige came out on the stage all alone, sat down in a folding metal chair with his 12 string, and said he wanted to play us a song he was fooling around with. it was stairway to heaven and it appeared on led zeps next album.