As Laura and others said, for those of us who weren't around back then, it's a treat to read such a detailed, exciting concert experience story. I literally got goosebumps a few times. Reading your post made me think of how I'd never been a huge fan of TSRTS (the song) until I heard it live at my first Page/Plant concert. So powerful and I remember thinking the atmostphere was like Beatlemania when they opened with it. It almost blows my mind to imagine what it must've been like to see those songs performed by the actual Led Zeppelin in their prime, but you did such a good job of describing it, I guess I don't have to
Some months ago I went to the Jason Bonham Zep Experience expecting myself to enjoy a great cover band and get some Bonzo history. I think subconciously I had never had any serious thought of actually hearing some of those Zeppelin tunes live in person, as clearly that era has passed...or really anything even convincingly sounding like I'd imagine the proficient and powerful Zeppelin had sounded back in the day. So I was totally caught off guard to find myself choked up at points, able to close my eyes and let my imagination convince me I was hearing, at least, the original Led Zeppelin playing live. ...especially since some of those songs Page/Plant never got around to doing (and anyway, Page/Plant had a different feel, IMO). So it was a very satisfying experience and if I had forgotten what the band meant to me back when I discovered them at 14 and then spent the next decade obsessing, I was viscerally reminded of it then.
Anyway, the point to that little aside is ...reading your story also took me to that place. So thank you for that.
Only thing that makes me wonder about is your age. 10 years old? You were probably still wetting your bed a few short years prior and now you're engaged in minutes-long passionate french kisses in public and thinking things like "baby steps...baby steps"? Assuming your main source was your jounals, the way you recognized and analyzed the show's goings-on is almost unbelievably adult. It's impressive that you understood the significance of what you were witnessing. Obviously, a lot of it was written from your now-adult perspective so maybe if I reread it I'd see it was consistant with that explanation. As for your girlfriend...Robert Plant might as well have been a geezer to an 11 year-old girl. Pre-teens like Justin Beiber, teenage Leif Garret types, not hairy chested guys who could pass for 30, no? But I've never been an 11 year-old girl.
EDIT: oh, though the part about your girl literally getting scared during Dazed sounds pretty legitimately like a kid experience, haha.