# Need help finding a Jimmy Page/Robert Plant song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 3, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-jimmy-page-robert-plant-song/324568 "2005-10-03T13:21:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrahamWellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@GrahamWellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrahamWellington)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-jimmy-page-robert-plant-song/324568/1 "2005-10-03T13:21:04Z")

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Hello.

Perhaps a good ten-years-ago I was tripping on some magic mushrooms (or Hawaiian woodrose seeds) while walking along and listening to a Walkman radio.

Anyway, it was my good fortune to have stumbled upon a station that was broadcasting a live show of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, from Sacramento, California, I think.

And so what really grabbed my attention was that opening the concert was some older fellow with a VERY thick Wales accent (though it might have been an Irish accent, not sure). Thus whilst the crowd began to roar with anticipation, the fellow in question began reading a VERY beautiful poem.

I don’t recall too many of the words to the poem, save something like, “…and when he awoke on the shore, he found in his hand a silver branch with white flowers … and a beautiful woman came to him …”

I’m not really much of a poem guy, but THAT really blew me away with how cool the words were combined with how the dude was saying them in a very slow and deliberate way … while the crowd’s roar began to rise as he continued along speaking them.

I am hoping that they might have made a CD of the concert in question, as just the opening alone would be well worth the price because it was so powerful and beautiful, IMHO. Thus, I ask, might any of you Plant/Page fans know off hand about said concert in question, and name the CD (if there is one)?

“Thanks!!!” in advance for any help. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-jimmy-page-robert-plant-song/324568/2 "2005-10-03T19:09:21Z")

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Don’t know who the guy was (did he run like a Welshman?), but the story sounds a bit like the Celtic tale the Voyage of Bran mac Febal.

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**Author:** ![GrahamWellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@GrahamWellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrahamWellington)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-jimmy-page-robert-plant-song/324568/3 "2005-10-03T19:36:59Z")

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I said “Wales” accent; I meant “Welsh.”

Um, I never heard of that which you mention. I was hoping someone would know the CD so I could run out and get.