Posted on 12/11/2007 3:46:36 AM PST by maquiladora
LONDON (AP) - After that performance, Led Zeppelin really must go on tour.
The reunited rock 'n' roll legends were superb Monday in their first full concert in nearly three decades, mixing in classics like ``Stairway to Heaven'' and ``Black Dog'' with the thumping ``Kashmir'' and the hard-rocking ``Dazed and Confused.''
The band's three surviving members - singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones - were joined by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.
And it was the newest member of the band that was given the honor of kicking off the sold-out benefit show, pounding out the beat before the others joined in on a near-perfect ``Good Times Bad Times.''
After the lights went down at the O2 Arena, newsreel footage of the band arriving in Tampa, Fla., for a 1973 performance was projected onstage. Then Bonham jumped in, soon to be joined by the rest.
They followed that with ``Ramble On,'' and with it destroyed all rumors that the 59-year-old Plant could no longer reproduce his trademark wail.
With his button-down shirt mercifully buttoned up, Plant roamed the stage belting out hit after hit, rarely giving his critics anything to work with.
But Page showed he still has the touch as well. Besides ripping out his patented riffs all night, he put the spotlight on himself when the band played the bluesy ``In My Time of Dying.''
With his left hand moving freely up and down the neck of his guitar and the metal slide wrapped around one of his fingers, Page effortlessly played a song that's not easy to master.
Page and Plant later combined to open ``Nobody's Fault But Mine,'' a song that starts with another classic Page riff and then gets help from Plant mimicking the same sounds...........
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Enjoy...
‘Good Times, Bad Times’ (the opening number)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsHcUwtw5H0
‘Black Dog’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EunajGvY8-Q
‘In My Time Of Dying’
http://www.4shared.com/file/31748840/3e4ca409/IMTD.html
‘The Song Remains The Same’
http://www.4shared.com/file/31745419...951/TSRTS.html
‘Stairway To Heaven’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_JTMuHOQk
‘Kashmir’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZxukPZ0pjA
Van Halen on tour again too!
Wow Plant’s voice sounds better than I’ve heard it in 15 years!
Wonder if he’s using a Harmonizer?
A blazing version of Kashmir!
Well, I went to a Zep concert when the double album came out (1977) and it was horrible. Page was so drugged out that when he sat down for the acoustic numbers, the roadies had to CROSS HIS LEGS for him. Plant sang everything an octave lower. Ever hear “Whole Lotta Love” sung by Barry White?
“In My Time Of Dying”
In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do is take my body home
Well, well, well, so I can die easy [X2]
Jesus, gonna make up my dyin’ bed.
Meet me, Jesus, meet me. Meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, Lord. Please meet me with another pair
Well, well, well, so I can die easy [X2]
Jesus, gonna make up.. somebody, somebody...
Jesus gonna make up... Jesus gonna make you my dyin’ bed
Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven... Won’t you let me in
I never did no harm. I never did no wrong
Oh, Gabriel, let me blow your horn. Let me blow your horn
Oh, I never did, did no harm.
I’ve only been this young once. I never thought I’d do anybody no wrong
No, not once.
Oh, I did somebody some good. Somebody some good...
Oh, did somebody some good. I must have did somebody some good...
And I see them in the streets
And I see them in the field
And I hear them shouting under my feet
And I know it’s got to be real
Oh, Lord, deliver me
All the wrong I’ve done
You can deliver me, Lord
I only wanted to have some fun.
Hear the angels marchin’, hear the’ marchin’, hear them marchin’,
hear them marchin’, the’ marchin’
Oh my Jesus... [repeat]
Wow. King Theoden—er, I mean, Robert—sounds really good. They hit it out of the park!
}:-)4
Bump for later...
If they could repeat this show on a major tour it would be HUGE!!!
Didn’t/doesn’t he call himself “Percy”?
Kashmir is insane. I can’t wait for the DVD.
The 77 tour is notorious even amongst Zep fans for its problems...
Page was on heroin,Bonham was drinking too much,Plant’s on died back in England.Because of Page, the concerts varied in quality.
BUT some of the 77 tour is Zep legend, like the legendary LA Forum, NY, Cleveland,Seattle and Detroit concerts. And some of 77 rate as the best concerts they ever gave and rate as some of the vert best bootlegs (like ‘Destroyer’ or ‘For Badgeholders Only’ which were Cleveland and LA respectively.
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be - seriously though this is seriously cool.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/music/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=10327
Bottom Line: It’s been a long time, but the band shows it can still rock the house.
O2 Arena, London
Monday, Dec. 10
For two hours and 10 minutes Monday night, legendary British rock band Led Zeppelin had the privileged fans accommodated by London’s O2 Arena ecstatic listening to 16 of its greatest hits. It was something not seen for almost 20 years.
The evening was to honor the late Atlantic Records founder and producer Ahmet Ertegun, and the band’s devoted throng — many of whom had paid thousands of dollars and flown thousands of miles to see them — could not have been happier.
The Led Zeppelin part of the show began right on time with a giant screen showing clips from U.S. television when Led Zeppelin first toured the States.
Original members Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant blasted onto the stage with drummer Jason Bonham taking the place of his father, John Bonham, who died in 1980. The stage was brilliant and the lighting looked great, with an excellent video display offering multiple images behind the live players.
Page, 63, is stout these days, with puffy features and frizzled hair, but his fingers move just as quick. Plant, 59, whose visage is more familiar with all the publicity he’s been doing for his hit album “Raising Sand” with Alison Krauss, appeared like a well-fed Anglo Wild Bill Hickok, commanding the stage and still finding those elusive trills.
Jones, 61, was clean cut, all business on keyboards or bass, and Bonham at the drums looked beefy but fit.
They began with a brisk version of “Good Times, Bad Times,” with Page’s guitar crisp and clear but Plant’s voice cramped by feedback. When “Ramble On” followed, Plant’s microphone was working better and he sounded in good voice, growling and snapping just like he used to.
Page swung into “Black Dog,” with Plant teasing the crowd while the guitarist chopped left and right with industrial power. Classic blues chords summoned a long, dynamic delivery of “In My Time of Dying,” and the years started falling away.
Plant spoke of the “thousands and thousands of emotions that we’ve been going through for the last six weeks ... and to be here tonight for Ahmet and with Jason here.”
He said, “This is our first adventure with this song,” and the band played “For Your Life,” from its seventh studio album “Presence.” It was the first time the song had been played live.
Plant then did something the band didn’t always do: He paid tribute to Robert Johnson and his song “Terraplane Blues” ahead of a lively encounter with “Trampled Under Foot” from 1975’s “Physical Graffiti.”
The Staple Singers, the Blind Boys of Alabama and Blind Willie Johnson were name-checked by Plant as he introduced Johnson’s “Nobody’s Fault but Mine,” also from “Presence.”
“No Quarter,” from the band’s fifth album “The Song Remains the Same,” which was always at the heart of their concerts back in the day, allowed plenty of time for rumination on strings by lead Page with Jones on keyboards and Plant finding the glittering high notes of old. “Since I’ve Been Loving You” followed.
Plant said, “It’s peculiar to think of creating a dynamic evening and choosing songs from 10 albums, but there are certain songs that have to be here, and this is one of them.”
“Dazed and Confused” then promptly ruled as Page used a violin bow on his guitar to erect a cathedral of dissonance while the crowd roared its approval. Another required number was “Stairway to Heaven,” which Page performed on a double-necked instrument as Plant’s surprisingly still-supple voice glided on the legendary hit.
“The Song Remains the Same” kept the crowd joyous, and Plant then tipped his hat to drummer Bonham for stepping into his father’s shoes, leading into “Misty Mountain Hop.”
Thanking all the people who had come from more than 50 countries, Plant declared, “This is the 51st country” and commenced “Kashmir,” which was the song most Led Zeppelin fans said they wanted to hear in a music magazine poll. It left the singer in tears and the audience, which had been long on its feet, hollering for more.
Back onstage, the encore inevitably took the form of “Whole Lotta Love.” At the end, Plant saluted Ertegun and Atlantic Records and said good night. It looked like it was all over, but then, Led Zeppelin burst back for a resounding version of “Rock and Roll,” leaving the packed house celebrating the extraordinarily good fortune that allowed them to witness it.
All them good times, yeah, you can say that again.
Concert set list follows
Good Times, Bad Times
Ramble On
Black Dog
In My Time of Dying
For Your Life (first time ever played live)
Trampled Under Foot
Nobody’s Fault but Mine
No Quarter
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Dazed and Confused
Stairway to Heaven
The Song Remains the Same
Misty Mountain Hop
Kashmir
Encore
Whole Lotta Love
Rock and Roll
Hendrix, on the other hand, was absolutely phenomenal when I saw him the first time. Second time, he was drugged out, forgot lyrics, but still beat Zep all to pieces.
BTTT!
Thanks for the links!
Got it, thanks.
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