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19 hours ago, davidh said:
My best friend's parents went to the Melbourne show but I haven't gotten too many stories over the years about what it was like, beyond the fact that as a performance, it was life changing, and Plant was absolutely incredible in person. The other thing I've heard from them was the crushing disappointment of seeing TSRTS in a theatre a few years after having seen the band at their peak.
Yeah... the band were definently the best during 1972. It's my favourite year.
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8 hours ago, JTM said:
Yeah, Ok. One is allowed to dream. The Oakland incident was two years later btw.
Well, there wouldn't have been many dark times. Jimmy would probably not do drugs, and maybe Robert's son wouldn't have died.
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2 hours ago, Realperson said:
Naw bro, I grew up in Pittsburgh and the maximum concert attendance indoors there was about 18,000. I think Plant/Page drew about that much in 1995 and that was the max ever held at the civic arena. I was too young in 1975 to see LZ but I’ve seen a lot of shows there and no way could it have seated 25,000 or more people
Oh. I thought a David Bowie concert in '78 drew like 30,000 people.
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1 hour ago, JTM said:
How's that work then, what has a tree got to do with anything. Would Bonzo still be alive.
Probably yes. Because there probably wouldn't have been the Oakland incident the next year...
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Celebraton Day (the album)
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On 7/13/2019 at 9:54 PM, luvlz2 said:
Queen and Adam Lambert kick of 'Rhapsody' tour https://ultimateclassicrock.com/queen-2019-set-list-tour-opening-night/
I went to go see them in Auckland
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December 26th, 1968 - Denver
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One thing is for sure, if that blasted tree hadn't grown, Led Zeppelin would probably still be a band
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I'm gonna play the role of fan fiction and try and come up with a reasonable itinerary for the cancelled North American leg.
(1) August 23rd - Oakland, CA, USA - Oakland Coliseum (Day On The Green #4)
(2) August 24th - Oakland, CA, USA - Oakland Coliseum (Day On The Green #5)
(3) August 27th - Tempe, AZ, USA - Sun Devil Stadium
(4) August 29th - Kansas City, MO, USA - Arrowhead Stadium
(5) August 31st - Atlanta, GA, USA - Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
(6) September 1st - Tampa, FL, USA - Tampa Stadium
(7) September 2nd - Louisville, KY, USA - Kentucky Fairgrounds Stadium
(8) September 4th - New Orleans, LA, USA - Louisiana Superdome
(9) September 6th - Pasadena, CA, USA - Rose Bowl
(10) September 8th - Denver, CO, USA - Mile High Stadium
(11) September 9th - Norman, OK, USA - Lloyd Noble Center
(12) September 11th - Birmingham, AL, USA - BJCC Coliseum
(13) September 12th - Jacksonville, FL, USA - Veterans Memorial Arena
(14) September 14th - Baltimore, MD, USA - Baltimore Civic Center
(15) September 15th - Providence, RI, USA - Providence Civic Center (since the band were banned from playing Boston, they organized this gig for everybody who had a ticket to come see them here)
(16) September 16th - New Haven, CT, USA - New Haven Coliseum
(17) September 18th - Buffalo, NY, USA - Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
(18) September 19th - Philadelphia, PA, USA - The Spectrum
(19) September 20th - Philadelphia, PA, USA - The Spectrum
(20) September 22nd - New York City, NY, USA - Shea Stadium
(21) September 24th - Pittsburgh, PA, USA - Three Rivers Stadium
(22) September 25th - Cincinnati, OH, USA - Riverfront Coliseum
(23) September 26th - Columbus, OH, USA - St. John Arena
(24) September 28th - Detroit, MI, USA - Olympia Stadium
(25) September 29th - Toronto, ON, Canada - Maple Leaf Gardens
(26) October 1st - Montreal, QC, Canada - Montreal Forum
(27) October 2nd - Toronto, ON, Canada - Maple Leaf Garden
(28) October 4th - Chicago, IL, USA - Chicago Stadium
(29) October 6th - St. Paul, MN, USA - Saint Paul Civic Center
(30) October 7th - Milwaukee, WI, USA - Milwaukee Arena
(31) October 9th - Salt Lake City, UT, USA - Salt Palace
(32) October 10th - Albuquerque, NM, USA - University Arena
(33) October 13th - Edmonton, AB, Canada - Northlands Coliseum
If you think there should be some dates that should be replaced please tell me
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1 minute ago, SteveAJones said:
They had only performed one night in Pittsburgh in 1975 (Feb 1st).
Still, I think they would've chosen a Philadelphia date over Pittsburgh. Also, the Pittsburgh Civic Arena was very flexible, and could take up to 30,000 people. Knowing Led Zeppelin, they maybe would've performed to 25,000 people.
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On 11/15/2019 at 1:46 PM, SteveAJones said:
A total of 33 dates were cancelled but many remain unconfirmed. Everything above has already been confirmed with additions/corrections below.
August 10-20 Roughly ten days of tour rehearsals planned to be held in France on August 10th onwards were cancelled.
September 9 was Norman, Oklahoma
Pittsburgh (date unconfirmed)
Not so sure about Pittsburgh.... They'd already performed 2 nights there at the Civic Arena.
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On 11/14/2019 at 1:05 PM, William Austin said:
This cancelled tour has been a subject of my interest lately. I have fully realized just how different the band’s history would have been if the car accident had never happened.
Just last night I was reading about the era between the 1975 and 1977 tours in When Giants Walked The Earth. It really is a wonder the band didn’t break up in 1976.
I guess all of the planned tour dates have never been confirmed. I haven’t been able to find a full list yet. And it appears not many tickets had been sold yet by the time the tour was cancelled.
But based on the dates that are known, I think the tour would have looked something like this:
August 23/24 - Oakland
August 27 - Tempe
August 29 - Kansas City
August 31 - Atlanta
September 1 - Tampa
September 2 - Louisville
September 4 - New Orleans
September 6 - Pasadena
September 8 - Denver
September 9 - Oklahoma City
Has anything actually been written about what Jimmy was planning with the set? Since there were no rehearsal, I’d guess that most of it is speculation.
I think it would have been similar to the EC shows with a few switches. Some additional PG songs like Ten Years Gone, Night Flight or Wanton Song.
Since I’ve Been Loving You probably would have been added back and Dazed discarded. The EC performances of the song were average. It seems every member of the band not named Jimmy were pretty tired of it. The 1975 renditions of HMMT were really good and could have gotten better over time if kept around. This would have been a fresh and welcome addition to the set.
I think this could have been a great tour if only.
I think the setlist might've been something like this
1. Rock And Roll
2. Sick Again
3. Over The Hills And Far Away
4. In My Time Of Dying
5. Since I've Been Loving You
6. The Song Remains The Same
7. The Rain Song
8. The Wanton Song
9. Kashmir
10. No Quarter
11. Ten Years Gone
12. Trampled Under Foot
13. Moby Dick
14. Dazed And Confused (w/ Woodstock/San Francisco)
15. Stairway To Heaven
ENCORE
16. Whole Lotta Love
17. Black Dog
Going To California maybe could've been added for the Oakland/Pasadena shows. Then they would've probably performed Heartbreaker or Communication Breakdown on certain ocassions. Also, it's said that there were supposed to be 33 dates for the intenairy. I think they'd put in some dates for Toronto/Detroit area, maybe some more in the Ohio area, the South maybe. It would've been a really succesful tour in terms of financial gross and attendance.
For the Far East Tour, they inteniary would've been similar to the 1972 Australian shows.... Deep Purple had announced shows in Jakarta for December 1975, so LZ may have opted for shows in Singapore/Indonesia area.
European Winter Tour - A date in Helsinki probably means dates in Scandinavia and probably Germany. They'd already performed in the Netherlands and Belgium as warm-up gigs for the tour, so they'd probably leave those cities til' last.
Japanese Tour - Probably just big cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
I've heard that they were also planning on doing a British tour in 1976, along with shows in South America. The British Tour probably would've been in around January, and it wouldn't have been too big. Probably just concert halls in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff... maybe some other big cities. But I mean, they'd just played Earls Court so....
For South American shows though, not very many bands had come to the region. The Rolling Stones were supposed to perform in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, but those were cancelled. If this did go as planned, there would've been many riots. So probably not the safest decision to perform in the region.
After they'd complete the tour, they would've worked on Presence and The Song Remains The Same. Screw that tree.
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.... Nevermind then
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Who here likes Queen?
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17 minutes ago, sam_webmaster said:
Kooyong Stadium seating capacity is about 5,000 + approx 9,000 on the lawn.
The offical capacity was around 10 to 15,000 during the 70's/80's. It's been reduced to 5,000. There may as well have been 25,000 people at Melbourne.
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49 minutes ago, BobDobbs said:
If the last two are from Melbourne, that sure looks like quite a bit more than just 14,000 people (quoted from above). Maybe its just perspective but that audience looks closer to 40k+. Was the 14k audience claim a typo?
I just recently went to see Queen in Auckland. I thought there were what 35 to 40,000 people there. Turns out there was on 27,000. I think it's a pretty good example of the More Than Meets The Eye thing. Although, the venue was very flexible, so there could've been about 20 to 30,000 people but I'm not so sure.
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2 hours ago, Zep Hed said:
Here's all we've got in the timeline so far.
Not very many bands performed in East Asia apart from Japan. Deep Purple were one of the first, and performed in Jakarta in 1975. However, it turned out into this big scandal thingy ma jig. And then nobody really performed there until like the 90's.
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Does anybody have any tickets from the cancelled Singapore show?
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4 minutes ago, ledzepfilm said:
The first shot is Sydney, the bottom two are Melbourne.
Thanks!!
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2 minutes ago, Zep Hed said:
Haha I wasn't criticizing Dazed; just linking the game to an element of Zeppelin. I love Dazed; the longer the better!
How 'bout this? Tune the bumpers and bells so if you hit them in the proper sequence, you can play Bonzo's Montreux. 😃
I did prefer the renditions of How Many More Times though...
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14 hours ago, The Only Way To Fly said:
I LOVE these photo's! I think there's quite a few from an Aussie soundcheck too (a barefoot Robert Plant IIRC). What fun they must have had during the early years. Incredible.
I'm pretty sure the last two were taken during their show at the Sydney Showground... The first one I'm not so sure. But it's quite funny when you think about. The stage is just basically a long wooden platform, with amps and the ocassional lights.
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14 hours ago, Strider said:
June 22 is when Jimmy wore both the black dragon suit and the white poppy outfits.
Here's the deal. When Jimmy had the black dragon suit made Jimmy was at 1975 weight. He could wear the pants without a belt with no problem at the last night of the L.A. Forum March 27, 1975 and during the Earls Court five-night stand.
But by 1977 Jimmy had lost a lot of weight...A LOT of weight. When he wore the black dragon suit in 1977, if he didn't wear a belt with the pants the pants would sag severely off his bony hips. This is what happened at the June 22 Forum show...Jimmy Page's pants fell down.
You'll notice that in photos of the Oakland Stadium gig that he wore the black dragon suit, Jimmy is wearing a belt on his trousers.
As for the sunglasses, Jimmy opened every Forum show I saw with sunglasses and a scarf and they were usually gone by "Nobody's Fault But Mine".
Damn man, where do you get all your information from?
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Hear are some pictures from the tour -
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On 11/1/2020 at 3:39 AM, Zep Hed said:
A million points for keeping the ball alive for the duration of a 1975 rendition of Dazed and Confused!
Oh come on...... it wasn't that bad.
Ranking The 1977 Shows
in Led Zeppelin Live
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... Every Forum show. The lucky duck