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[DavidZoso]

This was a outdoor show held at the Tampa Stadium in Florida on June 3rd 1977. If you have ever heard the live audio of this show it was a great start to the 10th show on the 2nd leg of the US 1977 tour. There were 70,000 fans in attendance. After they played The Song Remains the Same, Sick Again, and Nobody's Fault but Mine- it was stopped and then a riot erupted with the fans and the police. It took me years to find some photos for this show-so enjoy.

Aerial view


Promo photo-backstage


Alternate photo to the one above- Bonzo is smiling


Jimmy Page -backstage


John Paul Jones -backstage


The Song Remains the Same




The Song Remains the Same-except lower right pic is Sick Again


Sick Again


Sick Again


Sick Again




Riot with fans and police on the field at the stadium


Another view of the riot

[missytootsweet]

Thank-you so much for posting these! I'm going to bookmark this page.

I was there. See me down there, about a third of the way back in the field, waving (wearing a pink shirt)?

What a mass of people that day. People were there for hours ahead waiting for the band.

My experience there was actually fun for the most part. It probably helped considerably that my friends and I were all pretty mellow and high that day.

It was thrilling to hear TSRTS, but no Rain Song for me,--plenty of rain though.

You know, the riot stuff must have happened away from me because I recall an orderly exit from Tampa Stadium that night.

The next day I proudly wore my Led Zep '77 black t-shirt and picked up both local papers. I swear I think one of them estimated a crowd capacity of 83,000 people. But I might not recall accurately or The St. Pete Times bumped the numbers up.

Thanks again for posting the pix. I think I'll just look at these awhile and think of what was and what could have been...... missy

[beetleron]

great pics of this one.......i've never seen them

you can see the storm moving in behind them.........awesome

i really like these threads....hope to see some more

[LSDdreams]

These photos are amazing!

[beetleron]

relased on this 10 lp multi color vinyl set back in the day......didn't have a pic of mine so i stole one

Edited by beetleron, 06 February 2011 - 05:16 PM.

[Hotplant]

Awesome...never did see the crowd shots...wow. Thnx again!

[2bitnogoodjive]

Too bad about the riot. Not a smart move putting "Rain or Shine" on the tickets..

[TypeO]

Awesome.
I want to look at these crowd photos in Photoshop so I can zoom in.
I might be in there!

[Walter]

relased on this 10 lp multi color vinyl set back in the day......didn't have a pic of mine so i stole one

Saw this set at a record convention back in the 80's. Never bought it because it seemed to be a collection of partial shows and I was young and looking for complete ones. Oh well....

Thanks for sharing those pictures - amazing photos!!!

[DavidZoso]

Here is the links to listen to the show. The source I have in my collection has the complete Nobody's Fault but Mine but this one on youtube doesn't

It is so funny- right before The Song Remains theSame some guy yells " Bring on the Blimp" then another guy yells "Robert Plant you have great hair"

Then you can hear somebody blowing a fog horn while they are playing- gotta love audience recordings.

Great to look at the pics while listening to headphones- Instant Time Machine

Great version.

Edited by DavidZoso, 10 February 2011 - 07:49 PM.

[DavidZoso]

Found some more Tampa '77 pics.

The Song Remains the Same




Sick Again

[NobodysFaultButJimmys]

I WISH THAT GETTYIMAGES WATERMARK WAS REMOVED, THAT ROBERT PLANT AND JIMMY PICTURE IS SPECTACULAR !

[DavidZoso]

Well I am registered at Getty and it didn't take off the watermark- Corbis took off their watermarks if you were registered.

[cindy]

Great pics David. You're right it's like a "Time Machine" when ya listen to the music while looking lol
Thanks

[sam_webmaster]

Stadium concert memories are happy, hazy, horrid
Tampa Tribune / 03.18.11

http://www2.tbo.com/.../news-breaking/

".... Many respondents recalled Tampa Stadium's most infamous show – the June 3, 1977, Led Zeppelin concert that was scratched after three songs because of bad weather.

"I went with a friend from high school and I remember listening to Robert Plant and seeing a huge black thunder cloud start to move right across the sky," writes Mary Jane Jeffrey. "I had never seen a cloud like it … a giant round cloud that looked as if it was the same size as the stadium itself."

"For a good 45 minutes it rained like I've never seen before," writes John Stobbe. "Then it totally cleared up, and we were expecting the show to go on. But with no explanation, the announcer came on and said the concert was cancelled. The fans couldn't understand why. Bottles of liquor were being hurled onto the stage, and then police in riot gear came charging over the barricades and swatting fans."

Patrick McCusker and his girlfriend got there late and waited out the rain in his car.

Walking up to the stadium, McCusker writes, "things were being thrown over the top from inside, and as we got to the gate – people were running out of the stadium and warning us not to go in there.

"We got back to the car just in time to see the police cars coming from all directions," he writes.

"The only good thing that came out of this is that I started picking up ticket stubs laying on the ground and later turned them in at the local record store for a refund and made over $100," writes Ted Newbury."

[DavidZoso]

The Song Remains the Same- Fantastic photo-one of my new favs.

[missytootsweet]

Wow, that is one nice shot^^^. Jimmy Page sure has the moves.

I hope you keep diging up these great pictures.

It's nice for those of us (like me!) that were there and missed out on what I'm sure would have been a fantastic show.

Edited by missytootsweet, 23 March 2011 - 08:07 PM.

[badgeholder]

Great pics. (I'm pretty sure on the recording the guy is saying "Robert Plant you have curly hair". It's what I hear anyway).
The backstage shots are funny, Bonzo stuck a salami down his pant leg or something

[sam_webmaster]

[Sprinz77]

Here's an original shirt from my collection made by the promoter for the crew.

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