Put On Yer Boots, People

Get yer iPods ready, because I am using the presence of a rare Mike Nesmith recording to direct your attention to two other boots for which you will surely find a use. Just go here, where you will find, yes, a 1974 in-concert recording made in London featuring the Monkee from Dallas who’s probably the second-most famous graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School. (Meat Loaf’s gotta be at the top of that list — and me, well, I’m like No. 284. At best.)

But while you’re perusing the site, do take notice of two other items of interest — one of which is rather timely, as today it was announced that Led Zeppelin is reuniting for a one-off appearance at an Ahmet Ertegun tribute show in London in November, joining the likes of Pete Townshend and … Foreigner? You must, must grab the recently discovered (and leaked) Zep show recorded off the soundboard at Southampton University on January 22, 1973; it’s the best live Led Zeppelin you’ll find, officially or otherwise. Act now.

And while you’re at The Big O, do take a taste of Sir George Master Five and Pete Best Zarustica’s The Beatles Hate project. It’s just like that neato Love thing, only without the feel-good. Or didn’t the song titles — among them, “Lovely Retard,” “Drive My War” and “Bomb Together” — give it away? –Robert Wilonsky