Led Zeppelin met at their manager Peter Grant's house to watch Jimmy and their 
dear friend Pete Townshend (also Bowie and Bono) perform in the NETAid Benefit Concert-the 
The Pete concert without Pete (where he may, or may not have sat down). However, their plan was 
disrupted by forces beyond even Jimmy's control and they decided to embark on a mushroom hunt 
instead.  The four band members, Peter Grant and Richard Cole piled into Jones's 
"house-car" as his six year old daughter so cutely named it.  As Jones drove Zeppelin and 
company to the mushroom site, Robert and Jimmy engaged in a conversation about the romance 
of traveling in a conversion van.  Jonesy agreed, stating that one of his children was 
conceived on the same sofabed Jmmy was laying on.
	When they arrived at the mushroom hunting site, they were quite optimistic.  Cole 
carried the mushroom basket complete with essential supplies of chocolate and Jimmy Juice.  
Grant led the way until his fat cloged his breathing and he was forced to slow down.  The 
band enjoyed the scenery.  Robert rushed ahead in his excited love for nature.  Jimmy 
progressed more slowly as he dwelled on the significance of the cliff faces and the mountains.  
Grant and Cole were in the lead, driven by their natural desire to direct.  Jonesy and Bonzo 
hung back with Jimmy.  The three straglers wandered into a magical glade.  After Jones 
explained all aobut cedar trees, rocks and scorpions living in glades, he realized that 
they had lost complete contact with Robert and their managers.  The three meandering band 
members let loose a Led Call for Robert and he answered not far off.  Then they heard 
Grant's booming voice cursing at them for falling behind and wandering off.  They had 
enjoyed their moment of peacefull reflection in the glade, but answered Grant's damnations 
with quick action to catch up.  
	Together again, the group wandered away from the 'Stairway' cliff faces and down into a
grassy valley.  The grass was too tall for Jonesy to see over, but not too tall for Grant.  No 
matter, everyone had their eyes to the ground, searching for mushrooms.  They wandered long. 
Long enough for Jonesy to give in to Cole's temptations and eat handfulls of stomach-cramping
chocolate.  Jimmy ceased to look for mushrooms in his growing inclination to find water.  Grant
assured Jimmy that the river was not far ahead.  Jimmy became increasingly agitatied the farther 
they walked until finally he realized they had gone too far to turn back and he took off running 
toward the river.  Poor Jimmy didn't realize how far away the river was.  He ran and ran and 
ran.  Jones was the first to start after him, but while attempting to put two acorns 
(which Robert assured him were magical) into his pocket to take home to his girls, he dropped 
one and had to stop and search for it.  While he halted, even Grant passed him, his legs 
moving like two trees stuck in a barrel of lard.  Jonesy began to worry, when he realized 
that the river was not around the next corner, nor the one after.  He passed Cole, Bonzo, 
Grant, and Robert and raced on searching for Jimmy.  Then he laid down his heels and reeled 
around in a screaching halt.  There, there at his feet stood a lonely, shrimpy 'shroom.  As 
that was the only 'shroom spotted on the whole adventure, Jonesy suspected the worst.  He 
shouted back to the stragglers, "Jimmy has turned into a 'shroom!" and he 
almost believed it!  
	When the rest of the gang caught up, they had a ceremonial mushroom picking and placed
the 'shroom in the basket with the chocolate wrappers and Jimmy Juice.  Then Jonesy and Richard
raced on again.  They met some passerbys from the other direction and asked if they had seen a 
black-haired man in a Crowley cape.  They recieved a negative response.  Now Jonesy worried and
insisted to have another look at that 'shroom.  The Jimmy Juice had smashed it and spred its 
entrails all over the bottom of the basket.  To himself, Jonesy said, "Poor Jimmy, I knew his
juice would kill him."  By now Jonesy and Cole could hear the river.  Jones took the first path 
he came to, and hoped to find Jimmy revived by the running water.  However, there was no Jimmy.
Jones sent up a lamenting Led Call.  Robert, Grant, and Bonzo answered, but Jonesy thought he
had heard Jimmy.  Scrambling up the bank, muddying his jeans, he cursed his dear friend for 
making him think he was dead.  But back on the trail, he found only Robert, Grant, and Bonzo. 
They rushed on to the next beach.  Robert was sure that they were close now, but Jones feared
they would never find him.  Jonesy thanked Venus that he was wrong.  There on the beach was 
Jimmy, collapsed next to a sandy pit with sand embeded under his fingernails.  How unlike 
Jimmy to dirty his finger nails!  Jonesy rushed to him and prattled excitedly.  He 
lifted Jimmy's head out of the sand and remarked on the hole.  His spirits were high now 
because his best friend (next to his wife) was alive and was most assuredly NOT a 'shroom.  He
jokingly asked Jimmy if he had planned on digging his way to China.  When there was no response,
Jonesy quieted and gave all of his attention to holding Jimmy off the ground.  Jimmy wouldn't 
even stand by himself.  Rovert took Jimmy's shoulders from Jonesy's care and supported Jimmy 
himself.  Jones continued to watch his friend and to worry over him.  Then Bonzo came and took 
Jimmy's other hand and Jonesy was left to step back and watch.  Robert burried his face in 
Jimmy's hair and the three of them stood silently like that.  Jones watched, eagerly awaiting 
a response from Jimmy, but none came.  Now Robert was practically crying on Jimmy's shoulder.  
Jones began to wonder if maybe he could do a better job pulling Jimmy out of this spell.  No
doubt, Robert was making it worse.  Jonesy couldn't watch anymore because his heart ached so
strongly for his friend and he couldn't go to him without feeling like an imposter.  He turned 
his back and walked a few steps down the beach. He admired the cliff faces and remembered 
Jimmy's remarks aobut their beauty and their spirituality.  He stood like that for ten minutes,
yes Jonesy is the only one with a watch (excepting Grant maybe).  Then he turned around, 
expecting to see Jimmy back to himself jabbering on about magic and travel.  But when he turned 
back, the scene hadn't changed.  Robert, Jimmy and Bonzo were frozen like men under Medeussa's 
curse.  Jonesy began to fear that they were under a curse.  Jonesy isn't a superstitious person,
but he knows that with Jimmy anything is possible.  He walked to Robert and insisted that they 
leave the accursed beach at once.  He got no response. Then he turned to Grant and pleaded his 
case.  Grant dismissed him with a grunt.  Jonesy knew that Robert's Grant's favorite and there 
was nothing he could do.  But Jonesy became increasingly axious and he threatened that he would 
leave without them, if they insisted on fooling around any longer.  He suggested that Grant 
carry Jimmy away and that that would be the best help anyone could give him.
	The group did not respond and so Jonesy was forced to pave the path homeward.  He walked
away.  After a while he came to a crossing of three paths.  He knew which one to take, but 
decided to wait for the group so that the bunglers wouldn't take the wrong one.  He waited a 
very long time and realized that they'd never taken the right path to begin with.  So he 
backtracked, found Grant's heavy trail, and followed them all the way back to the vehicle.  His
plan had worked in that it got Jimmy and Company off of that beach.  They had not waited long 
to follow him.  However, it had also discredited him as one who gets lost.  He was overjoyed 
to see Jimmy back to health and embraced him once, but he could not show his exstaticness and 
had to assume a mad front.  His statement to the whole was, "I have the keys!"
	As punishment for their dabbling in curses, Jonesy took everyoe shopping (a very light
punnishment).  Grant offered a final appeasement to Jonesy by buying him a shirt.  From then on, 
the gang was united as before.  Then Grant took them to Las Vegas for the first time.  They 
acted like children in an arcade, Jonesy thought.