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The Hermit LbNA #44752

Owner:Pink Panther
Plant date:Nov 29, 2008
Location:
City:Germansville
County:Lehigh
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:1
Found by: BoneyDoctor
Last found:Jan 16, 2023
Status:FFFF
Last edited:Nov 29, 2008
The Song Remains the Same is a concert film by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The recording of the film took place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during the band's 1973 concert tour of the United States. The film premiered on October 21, 1976 at Cinema I in New York and in London two weeks later. It was accompanied by a soundtrack album of the same name. The DVD of the film was released on December 31, 1999.

Since late 1969, Led Zeppelin had been planning on filming one of their live performances for a projected movie documentary of the band. The group's manager, Peter Grant, believed that they would be better served by the big screen than by television, because he regarded the sound quality of the latter as unsatisfactory. The first attempt was the filming (by Peter Whitehead and Stanley Dorfman) of Led Zeppelin's Royal Albert Hall performance on January 9, 1970, but the lighting was judged to be mediocre, and the film was shelved (this footage was later remastered and featured on the 2003 release Led Zeppelin DVD).

On the morning of July 20, 1973, Jimmy Page and Peter Grant made a contact with Joe Massot, who had previously directed Wonderwall. Massot was already known to Grant as he and his wife had moved into a house in Berkshire in 1970, where they made friends with their neighbour Page and his girlfriend Charlotte. Grant had previously turned down offers by Massot to make a film of the band, but with the huge success of Led Zeppelin's 1973 concert tour of the United States, Grant changed his mind and offered him the job of director. As Grant recalled:

“It all started in the Sheraton Hotel, Boston. We'd talked about a film for years and Jimmy had known Joe Massot was interested - so we called them and over they came. It was all very quickly arranged “

Massot agreed and hurriedly assembled a crew in time for Led Zeppelin's last leg of the tour starting on July 23, 1973 in Baltimore. He subsequently filmed the group's three concert performances at Madison Square Garden on the nights of July 27, 28, and 29, 1973. The film was entirely financed by the band and shot on 35mm with a 24-track quadraphonic sound recording. The live footage in the US alone cost $85,000.

With an intention to give an insight into the individual personalities in the band, several out-of-concert 'fantasy sequences' were shot by Massot for each of the band members, in addition to Peter Grant and tour manager Richard Cole. The sequence we follow today:

Jimmy Page is filmed sitting by a lake next to his 18th century manor at Plumpton, East Sussex, playing a hurdy gurdy. The tune played is called "Autumn Lake" and the scene was filmed in October 1973. Page's fantasy role involved climbing up the face of a snow capped mountain near Boleskine House, Loch Ness during the nights of a full moon on December 10 and 11, 1973. The act was meant to show man fighting his way to the top, only to be greeted by The Hermit on the untitled fourth album. Thematic music: "Dazed and Confused".


From PA 309, head east on Mountain Road to Bake Oven Road and head north. The road will become unpaved as it ascends Blue Mountain. At the top there will be a large parking area on the east side in the area where the Appalachian Trail runs along the ridge from GA to ME.

On foot, head basically west on the AT, passing Bear Rocks. It is a woods road most of the way, but will get rocky (some may say very rocky) in the vicinity of this impressive formation and thereafter.

Upon arrival at the Rock-O-Loungers and fire ring, the AT will take you up a rock ridge. Follow (carefully) the blazes across the rock ridge until you see double white blazes on “Y-ish” tree, leading you down and off the rock ridge. Yeah you made it!!!

From the double blazes 270* to a broken “Y” tree on the ridge. Carefully make your way over (choice of routes may vary) to the tree. About two feet in front of the tree, under a SPOR, in a grotto waits The Hermit.

Important Notes:
1. This trail is very cool, but would not recommend it for small children or those afraid of heights. (Although we did run into an entire family on the rock ridge).
2. Be very careful. Would not recommend retrieving in foul weather, rocks get slippery.
3. Eat your vegetables.
4. Hug those you love often.
5. Bring a camera and lunch.
6. Do some research! Never know what you mind find along the way.
7. I ain’t no Scaredy Cat!
8. Black Swan thinks number 3, 4 & 7 are lame, but since I know how to work the smart thingy box thing - they stay.