not just a bunch of zeppelin, but all of it. the entire zeppelin catalog from I to In Through the Out Door. when played from beginning to end, it takes about 8.5 hours. i know cause i used to listen to it intact, without touching the ff while driving from the bay area to so cal during college. by the end of 8.5 hours of zeppelin, you are convinced you can lift your truck up and break it in half.

anyways, the idea here is to get one or two zeppelin tribute bands, ones that take the music seriously, not as a joke, and have them start at about 2 in the afternoon one fine saturday and play the entire catalog from beginning to end, in order, every song.

while they are playing, the assembled attempt to build a 1:10 scale zeppelin out of steel, mylar and other junk. 1:10 scale is about 80 feet long and 15' in diameter. in other words: big. we'd have to have about 100 builders, 18 welders, 4 generators, a giant pile of steel, tons of silver mylar sheeting and a project lead sitting on a tall tower with a bullhorn organizing the chaos below. no, mateo can't play this role, for obvious reasons. nor can i, for obvious reasons.

oh, and we would need lots of hydrogen too. can't forget that. that is what makes it explode, of course. we'd fill a bunch of internal bags with the hydrogen so that when lit, we would get an appropriate pop.

the zeppelin catalog creates the time frame for the building. the building is a race against everything zeppelin wrote. much more interesting than a race against something stupid and obvious, like the sun, or moon, or regular mood swing of chicken john.

not sure how to make any money out of this yet. maybe we forgo that aspect of the event and don't let anyone attend unless they are actively working on the hindenborg. building an 80' hindenborg in 8.5 hours is not a trivial challenge.

j

Dude! You got Methane!! Will that work??

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