Post by rockandrollphotog on Aug 16, 2006 17:29:34 GMT -5
In my book "Whole Lotta Led" I've got some stories about weird apparitions caught on film at a Zeppelin concert by famous photographer Ron Raffaeli. On June 13, 1969 at a show at Birmingham town hall he got something on film he didn't expect.
On p. 78 I quoted him as saying, "As I developed the film I found pictures on the roll with 'ghost' images on stage with Led Zeppelin." The image couldn't have been a double exposure because he had used a single-reflex camera that can't reverse film to double expose. He'd heard the band talking before the show about how the hall had been built on top of ruins of a medieval prison where people had been tortured. One of the images was a distorted human face. My book has a picture of it in the first photo section, entitled "ghost." I also write about when Page bought Aleister Crowley's supposed haunted mansion on Loch Ness Lake, Boleskine Manor. There's a detailed description of that place on p. 97. Pretty freaky place. Why was Page fascinated with this stuff? In my book I point out, "Perhaps the revolutionary spirit and mysticism of the era darkened with the times."
On p. 78 I quoted him as saying, "As I developed the film I found pictures on the roll with 'ghost' images on stage with Led Zeppelin." The image couldn't have been a double exposure because he had used a single-reflex camera that can't reverse film to double expose. He'd heard the band talking before the show about how the hall had been built on top of ruins of a medieval prison where people had been tortured. One of the images was a distorted human face. My book has a picture of it in the first photo section, entitled "ghost." I also write about when Page bought Aleister Crowley's supposed haunted mansion on Loch Ness Lake, Boleskine Manor. There's a detailed description of that place on p. 97. Pretty freaky place. Why was Page fascinated with this stuff? In my book I point out, "Perhaps the revolutionary spirit and mysticism of the era darkened with the times."
