I thought about the same DC-ALS transition as the transition of noise solo to ALS does work very well. That could work, I would just need to consider the placing of the tunes in the setlist... hmm. Edit: maybe like this (although, looking at this I think STH should be brought last before encores, which I just critisized above, haha) 1. The Song Remains The Same 5 MIN 2. Sick Aagain (Rover Intro) 6 MIN 3. Celebration Day 5 MIN 4. Nobody's Fault But Mine 8 MIN 5. In My Time Of Dying/Over The Hills And Far Away 12 MIN 6. Since I've Been Loving You 10 MIN 7. No Quarter 25 MIN 8. Tangerine 5 MIN 9. Ten Years Gone 10 MIN 10. Kashmir 11 MIN 11. Moby Dick 15 MIN 12. Heartbreaker/ Trampled Underfoot 9 MIN 13. Stairway To Heaven 12 MIN 14. Dazed And Confused until the end of bow section 20 MIN 15. Achilles Last Stand 11 MIN 16. Encores Whole Lotta Love, jumping to Black Dog, Communication Breakdown, Rock And Roll: 15 MIN TOT: 179 MIN

I have been thinking about this since I came back to Zep boots late last year. The idea is to compile 1977-1979 concert set list given the songs and capabilities Zep had gathered by that time. Let us pretend the band is in La Forum 77/ Copenhagen 79 shape. The point is to keep the show under 3,5 hours with encores and Plantations and give sort of top limit for time for each song, and preferred way of deliverance if there are differences over the years (for example, Tangerine). Of course, arguments to back up your choices are the whole point of the exercise. I will give it a go but only saying this is how it looks today. Another day, another ideas. 1. The Song Remains The Same 5 MIN 2. Sick Aagain (Rover Intro) 6 MIN 3. Celebration Day 5 MIN 4. Nobody's Fault But Mine 8 MIN 5. In My Time Of Dying/Over The Hills And Far Away 12 MIN 6. Since I've Been Loving You 10 MIN 7. No Quarter 25 MIN 8. Tangerine 5 MIN 9. Ten Years Gone 10 MIN 10. Kashmir 11 MIN 11. Dazed And Confused 35 MIN 12. Stairway To Heaven 12 MIN 13. Moby Dick 15 MIN 14. Heartbreaker/ Trampled Underfoot 9 MIN 15. Achilles Last Stand 11 MIN 16. Encores Whole Lotta Love, jumping to Black Dog, Communication Breakdown, Rock And Roll: 15 MIN TOT: 194 MIN The first three: As a 1-2 or 1-2-3 punch Immigrant Song and Heartbreaker only get silver. By 77, when Bonham really was beating the skins and the delivery of SA had more groove, I dare to say, that was the best show start ever. However, the 73 shows have a highlight for me as I always get the chills when RR turns into the opening riff of CD. That is a very special song and I do not wonder Page brought it back in 79. Too bad the delivery was not as good as in 73 (or earlier). So, I took it here to really blow some minds and as for the Immigrant song-HB intro, given the conditions on the band's shape RP could not possibly do the yells, even in lower key. NFBM & IMTOD bring a start-stop section to the show and at the moment I prefer IMTOD over OTHAFA as the latter has a good solo part but as a whole song I think the first one wins but it is so close they could be taken in turns as they kind of did 77. SIBLY & NQ section needs no explanation I guess. Just, the band should play the 75 rendition of NQ without the boogie section, that was a bit silly. Damn, I would be happy with a late 73 US tour versions too but they miss the long JPJ-Bonham interplay that is the key to happiness for me when that really worked out. First raw cut. The acoustic set is gone, sorry. But... I slow things down with the 75 EC version of Tangerine and the must have TYG. That'll have to do. Kashmir, by 77 they really had learned to deliver this one. Instead of having Page torturing a cat onstage for 20 minutes, why couldn't we listen to some music instead. Dazed has to be in the list. Absolute maximum is 35 minutes though. We can stick to the 75 versions where SF/Woodstock interludes were played. Stairway after Dazed. I think they got this one right in the set list 73. Later when they played it as the last song before the encores it does feel a little off the place. A hard rock ballad as a last song... MD: No Zep concert without one, just keep it short(ish). 77 LA versions or my preference, 70-72 versions without the timpani part. I'd like to hear HB after the drum solo as in 73 but here TU could rotate. Achilles, that is the true show stopper so to speak. Put on the lasers and smoke machines... here we go! As for the encores, they way WLL was played in Copenhagen & Knebworth 79 intrigues me. They found a new very cool riff. Let us use that and jump to BD, CB or RR depending on the day. It looks like I am tilting towards the late Zep for some reason... I mean the early 70-72 playing is very tight and 70-71 when RP's voice killed flies was really something else. However, as a whole show and also in terms of songs they composed they got better all the way to LA 77 when it got bloody galactic.

This is a feel good story. I also noticed your gestures in the movie and was always wondering if the girl was thinking what the actual hell is going on here when RP and the rest of the crew kept on tearing MSG down.

Heartbreaker from Montreux 7.3.1970... it struck me Page played with a similar opening riff in Vienna 1973. Or what do you say?

Just adding my post count... Dazed from Burn Like a Candle 25/06/1972. Love the Walter's Walk/ Crunge mid-section.

^ Haha!

Wendy's Badgeholders... First post. Sorry about the controversial avatar but have been using the same pic and nick on all forums (all motorcycle related) that I have joined. Did some CD changing etc. in early noughties and have now revived this bootleg hobby as so many new shows with quality have emerged and you can study them online. What a great time to be alive.