Another great thing about this track is the tone on the guitar solo. It sounds a bit like a keyboard, and nothing like what would be "expected" for a song this heavy. The solo itself, its construction and phrasing, is also very unexpected for a heavy riff track like this. Just a few more things that make Zeppelin Zeppelin.

There are quite a few good soundboards available on tela.sugarmegs.org from 1971, and some from 68-70. The 71 shows are amazing. They have the Santana III tracks and Neal Schon. The CD release from Tanglewood 1970 is amazing and it has two Santana III tracks. For a real treat check out the official 1968 live release from Fillmore West.

Fantastic photos! Thank you for sharing. What a month that was in Louisville. Led Zeppelin on April 25 and Heart in their prime in May.

In the episode on album cover art they briefly showed Presence and talked about how a cover can add an extra dimension to the music.

The Zep catalog is so diverse, I wonder if there are other tracks you don't think sit comfortably in it? Growing up in the 70s I would hear this point about numerous songs on each album starting with LZ III as it was released.

Yes indeed. Here he is in 1963. He gets a blistering intro, and a great break after the fiddle break. Too bad they don't give him a few more choruses, but that was country music. Glen even gets to sing a bit here. And here is Glen 19 years later, and he gets a slightly longer break. Country cooking.

I was at this show, and I can remember reading this article the day it came out. I cannot believe if I had just gone over to the Hotel Northampton after the show. . . Thanks for posting the article. I think this was Jones' first show in the US on that tour? Pearl Street is a small venue. I was standing right in front of Jones for the show.

What do I make of the fact that this is reported in Variety and NME before it is reported on the official band website as "News"? Maybe it is not news because there is no release date yet?

These are fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I wish more of the movie had been shot from a vantage point like this, where you can see the whole band at once, without all the quick cuts and moving cameras.

RIP Robby. Great live version of 2 early Kansas tracks. Both sung by Robby and featuring lots of violin.

From jimmypage.com today. I played the Seattle Kingdome with Led Zeppelin 17 Jul 1977 On this day in 1977, Led Zeppelin played the Kingdome in Seattle, an indoor venue that held 70,000 people. It felt surreal, as we entered the building through an airlock door. Here is a section of my solo spot that features the theremin and the bow and the exploration of both. It's lengthy but gives an example of my avant-garde journey with this sonic architecture.

Jones is just so incredible in this. I hope someone does a matrix of the whole show.

I wonder - if I had not been listening to Jennings Farm Blues all those years on the bootleg, would it have been my favorite of the outtakes on the re-issues? Maybe. It is amazing, but by the time the reissues came out, I had been hearing it for years, so perhaps it did not have as much impact as the things I had never heard before.

10 Ribs and All

La La. So many textures, and Page's guitar tones and phrasing are out of this world. A close second would be 10 Ribs and All. So unexpected and so ethereal.

It is on YouTube now. Great composition from Jones. Sorry about the multiple embeds here but it did not show up when I saved this post so I tried to re-embed, still didn't show , so I posted it as a link. Now all 3 attempts show up. Oops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUOTPbSBfW8

Glad you liked it. Have you listened to WLL from that show yet? It has a great improvised introduction, and some keyboards during the theramin section - rather unusual.

Very well said. For a more over the top/rawer version go to Orlando 8-31-71. Not as good a recording but it is something else.

It's Your Thing was released on Feb 16, 1969. It hit Number one on the US R&B Chart and Number 2 on the US Chart. Those were the days when radio was not so segmented. Zeppelin had started building a funk breakdown into Communication Breakdown that spring. You can hear a bit of it in the March Danish TV broadcast.