My husband must be one of the luckiest men alive. A couple of months ago I read in the Daily Telegraph online that there was to be a lottery for a chance to get tickets to a one-off Led Zeppelin reunion show that was being held in honor of the recently deceased Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records (his character figures in the Johnny Cash movie Walk the Line). So I told him he should sign up for it, he said why not, and the thing was done.
Some weeks went by, and I read to him in the paper that something like a million people all around the world had registered for this lottery that was ending that day so that the winners could be notified they had won a chance to buy tickets. There were only about 20,000 tickets to be had, so odds were astronomical.
Next morning, as the Churchett Express was driving around town to deliver and collect children as necessary, I got a call from Dale saying he’d gotten an e-mail informing him of the details and that he had 72 hours in which to buy tickets or forfeit his right to do so.
NO WAY!
We sat on it all day long, making sure it wasn’t an Internet scam, but it was the real thing. He purchased his two tickets that evening for him & Glen to attend.
Originally the concert was scheduled for 26 November, but Jimmy Page—the guitarist—injured a finger a couple of weeks before, so it got pushed out to tonight—10 December. I have just read three reviews of the show—the BBC News, The Daily Telegraph, and Germaine Greer—and all of them without reservation were absolutely blown away by the musicianship they saw onstage tonight from the band (3 of the 4 original members plus the deceased drummer’s son filling in for his dad). Wow. I really wish I’d been there!! But I think it’s fantastic that Dale got to go—I still can’t believe he actually got picked for tickets. What a treat.
Posted by elizabeth at December 10, 2007 09:20 PM