first track on the first album. Cool album cover and a killer opening to a fantastic debut album.

Yes at LA Forum Sept 23, 1977 Going for the West - a Mike Millard recording remastered. Fantastic. I found a great site for Yes concert recordings https://www.yessongs.nl/ The site is well organized and very easy to use. If you like Yes, check out this site.

Frank Sinatra once called George Harrison's "Something" the greatest love song of the past 50 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_(Beatles_song)

The things you can find on YouTube

As I was putting a list together I was reminded how groundbreaking the first Doors album was. It was released in Jan 1967. Fresh Cream was a month earlier. The prior August saw Revolver. But the Doors was before all of the following. Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow - February Strawberry Fields Forever single - February Velvet Underground and Nico - March Grateful Dead first album - March Purple Haze/Wind Cries Mary single - March Are You Experienced - May Sgt Pepper's - June Piper at the Gates of Dawn - August I saw a documentary about the Doors a while back. When discussing the first album one of the narrators talked about what it was like to hear that record at that time for the first time. Hard to imagine for me because back then all I was hearing besides Top 40 AM radio was the Beatles, Beach Boys, Paul Revere and the Raiders etc. When I finally heard the Doors first album years later it was in the context of much that had come after it.

Besides Zeppelin, and not in any order: The Doors Pink Floyd Patti Smith Group - Horses Aerosmith Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar Honorable Mention Fresh Cream, The Clash, Interpol, Pearl Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, Santana, Big Country, Heart

Are there any other versions where Jones plays organ like in this one? It has a Steppenwolf/Deep Purple bit of a vibe.

Fantastic playing and analysis. And the SOUND you get is just amazing!! Looking forward to future posts. Thank you.

I don't know how reliable this source is but it says that the new version includes 4 songs not previously released on soundboard. http://ledzepnews.com/2019/10/25/a-led-zeppelin-soundboard-recording-from-1971-is-being-released/

Robert mentioned two Sandy Denny songs in his recent podcast about Battle of Evermore. The first one I knew from Fairport (Matty Groves) , then he mentioned this specific performance of John the Gun with Fotheringay. Note that Plant does not mention Matty Groves by name - he says something about a song about Lord Donald doing something. But Plant does mention this amazing album by name. He also jokes how he and Sandy won best vocalists that year, while the prior year the winners had been Petula Clark and Englebert Humperdinck!! Change was in the air.

That is even more of a blowout than this classic Plant reference from March 17, 1975 I think that, with the title of the song being such as what it is, we should dedicate this to, are there any soccer fans here? Well there was a ah, very dramatic result at the weekend, which really typifies the title of this song. Wolverhampton Wanderers seven, Chelsea One. Trampled Underfoot.

A nice alternative to the Live at Carnegie Hall release.

I found this after seeing a brief mention on Royal Orleans.com - I am not a member there so I cannot see the whole thread. It appears from this that there is a soundboard that includes the first four songs, which as far as I knew were not available as soundboard. Has anyone heard this? https://for-real-collectors.com/led-zeppelin-midsummer-nights-dream-1971-3cd-with-obi-strip/

Other obvious differences: Dazed first solo break before the San Francisco segment. Very different. Stairway solo. Very different.

It is the magic of Zeppelin. Both versions are amazing, yet very different. I heard the 1973 version first in 1976 when the movie and live album came out and that to me was the gold standard of excellence. Then I first heard some 1971 versions and I was completely blown away. It was so different - not just the speed. but Page's ending solos in 1971 are completely different than the 1973 versions, and there is so much variety in the ending solo within each year - night to night. Another one of the many wonders of Led Zeppelin. My favorites from 1971 are Toronto and Osaka 9/29.

As was mentioned it is on the Death Wish 2 soundtrack. Beyond that I imagine he chose it because it is a beautiful, haunting melody and he had a vision that it would work well with his style of guitar playing. And he was right. I am not a big fan of the very 80s sounding drums, bass and synths here but Jimmy gets his vision across. The guitar is sublime. When I first heard this back in 1982 I thought Page had really come back swinging.

In Celebration Day the closing solo is very different from the 1976 original TSRTS version AND the 2007/2018 version. The solo in the middle of the song is very similar to every 1973 version because that is one of the very few solos that Page played very much the same just about every night. Not only was it always very much the same, it is just about the only solo he consistently played very close to the studio version. It is a very "composed" solo. Aside from that, the difference are just too numerous to count. Just listen to all the vocal dropouts from Plant throughout. On the other hand, this remaster is fantastic.

Los Angeles 4 September 1970 should be in the conversation. And Royal Albert Hall 9 January 1970.