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It's archived on archive.org.
Here's a link to a 2018 capture:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180817105720/http://uuweb.led-zeppelin.us/
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On 2/28/2017 at 10:02 PM, KellyGirl said:
What is the reason Led Zeppelin never added the city of Miami to their US tours?
A huge metropolis and cosmopolitan city, with the venues to accomodate large sporting
events and musical concerts. They certainly had the demographic to support them as well,
sooo what gives?
Led Zeppelin played at Thee Image in 1969, the Convention Center in 1970 and the Hollywood Sportatorium (close enough) in 1971. I'm sure one of the key reasons why the band skipped Miami is due to a lack of decent arena facilities. The Sportatorium was a tin shack with awful acoustics, so I'm sure they weren't too keen on going back there. Aside from the Orange Bowl stadium, where would they have played in Miami? Miami didn't have a halfway decent arena until 1988 when the NBA's Heat arrived. -
Here are some Las Vegas Israelite clippings regarding The Doors show Mike Tell promoted on October 4, 1969. The last clipping mentions Mike Tell bringing "Led Zepplin" to Las Vegas! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any other mention of the Led Zeppelin Las Vegas gig in the Israelite, including the day after the Led Zeppelin gig (August 8, 1969). It was a weekly paper produced on Friday, and there was no mention of Led Zeppelin in the August 1st or August 15th issues either.
At least this corroborates Michael Tell bringing Led Zeppelin to Las Vegas just a few months after it happened!
I've attached a few other Ice Palace clippings from 1969 too.
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Some loose ends in response to PlanetPage's last post:
- The UNLV Rebel Yell school newspaper was not published during the summer, and as a result did not cover the show (no issues between May 22, 1969 - September 24, 1969).
- The show would not have been covered in the Las Vegas Free Press because it did not begin publishing until January 1, 1970 (when Vol. 1 #1 was produced).
- Mike Tell ("of the Las Vegas Israelite") promoted the Three Dog Night concert at the Ice Palace in conjunction with KLUC radio on July 4, 1969 and the Iron Butterfly gig on December 6, 1969, so it certainly confirms that he was promoting gigs at the Ice Palace during this time. Here are the listings from the Las Vegas Sun:
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2 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
I did look into this...based on tour itineraries it seems he may have actually seen I&TT at the Seattle Pop Festival (July 25-27, 1969) which is about ten days prior to Led Zeppelin's Las Vegas concert on August 7, 1969. Of course, it could be a Las Vegas date for I&TT is missing from this list:
From July 31st, 1969 through August 28, 1969, Elvis performed 57 shows at the International Hotel in 29 consecutive days (one show on July 31st and two shows per day from August 1st through August 28th. Elvis performed in the 2,200-capacity room while Tina and Ike played the 500-capacity Casino Theatre.
On page 107 of Richard Cole's "Stairway to Heaven" book he described seeing Elvis and Ike and Tina Turner at the International Hotel:
"The Zeppelin wives joined us for a few days during that tour, including some of the shows in Las Vegas and other West Coast cities... On this particular tour, I figured that by pulling a few strings, I could get us some front row seats to Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel... That night, we had front row tables. It was the first time any of us had seen Elvis perform. And we weren't disappointed."
"Perhaps the only dissatisfied person among us that night was John Paul, but it was good-natured despair. Before entering the showroom to see Elvis, we had spent a few minutes in the International's lounge, watching Ike and Tina Turner perform. And as Tina sang 'River Deep, Mountain High' and 'Come Together', sensually and seductively teasing the audience with dozens of bumps and grinds, John Paul fell in love. He turned to his wife. 'Mo', he said, 'what would I have to buy you so I could sleep with Tina Turner? I've always wanted to screw her. Please, Mo. Name your price! Anything!' Mo decided that it was a deal she wasn't interested in making."
A backstage photo of Maureen Plant with Robert (and a monkey - insert jokes here _____) from the Anaheim, August 9, 1969 concert corroborates Cole's assertion that the band wives were on the tour at that point.
It's also worth noting that by extending the curfew from 10 p.m. to midnight, Zeppelin could have checked out the King's show at 8:15 p.m. on August 7th and then perform their own show afterward if they wanted to, especially since the International Hotel and Ice Palace were just one mile apart.
Here's a photo from August 1969 which shows Elvis and Ike & Tina Turner on the International Hotel marquee:
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Of course - I looked for the few weeks before and after the show too. This article is the sole reference to this gig in the Las Vegas Sun. It beats having nothing, or still thinking the show was August 11th.
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On 5/15/2010 at 9:19 PM, mikezep61 said:
I would probably include 8/7/69 as another potential date for the Las Vegas show. If the band actually played Berkeley on 8/7/69, how come there are no listings for this concert in the Berkeley Barb, Berkeley Monitor, Berkeley Tribe, Good Times (SF), and several other Berkeley/SF undeground newspapers I checked out. I've never seen any evidence to suggest they played the Berkeley Community Theatre on 8/7/69.
AUGUST 7, 1969 - Las Vegas Ice Palace it is!!!!!!!!
After years and years of digging and searching many newspapers, periodicals, websites, anecdotes, etc., I'm happy to announce that we finally have some concrete evidence to support that Led Zeppelin played the Las Vegas Ice Palace on August 7, 1969. This tiny article was in the August 7, 1969 edition of the Las Vegas Sun:
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Some more Bravo 1973 Pics (with some pics from the same show):
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Definitely Nuremberg; in fact, you can see the reference to Nürnberg in the caption of the third photo from the left at the top of page. To remove all doubt, here's the second page of the article which mentions that the tour started in Nürnberg in the first paragraph:
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My best guess is "d." By the time the band got to LA they were really, really sick. Given that the Whisky dates were such high profile gigs for the band, they probably decided to skip the low profile Salem support slot to get healthier in preparation for the LA gigs.
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Early radio spot for Led Zeppelin's cancelled Salem Armory Auditorium show supporting Vanilla Fudge on January 1, 1969:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStPbvgUPlQ
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If it was a mirror, why is his right hand pointed upward? Wouldn't it be his left?
Mike, thanks for that photo. Unfortunately, that's not a video screen; it's just a mirror. There were two giants video screens to the left and to the right of the stage.
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This is the only photo I've been able to find with tangible proof of the Atlanta video cameras "in action." In other words, check out the photo of Page's head on the video screen in the upper left portion of the photo (this photo was taken by Laurence Ratner and included in his Live Dreams book; I had not seen this posted anywhere before):
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The first two photos were taken on August 25, 1974. The third one was probably taken sometime in 1973 or 1974.
Great work, mikezep. When were these photos taken?
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Here's what the luxury boxes looked like at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD (aka Largo, MD). Notice the monitors in the suites as well as the professional movie camera in the middle-left portion of the photo:
Here's a look inside one of the luxury suites. Notice the TV monitor hanging from the ceiling:
Here's a good look at the scoreboard in the center of the arena:
Here's an article I found that made reference to the screen and that sometimes the major artists did not use it:
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Here you go:
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Well two other sites have it listed as 5-23-76 and Barry Goldstein who took most of these photos has it listed as 5-10-76. So where do you come up with 5-16-76?
I have the concert ad from the LA Times. The gig was definitely played on May 16, 1976 and the May 23rd date that had been listed in several publications throughout the years is definitely incorrect (as is the May 10th date). I'll post the ad later today.
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Page and Plant performed with Bad Co. in Inglewood, CA on 5/16/76, not 5/23/76.
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Melody Maker 8/4/79:
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Record Mirror - August 4, 1979:
You gotta love the illustrations here!
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Super Rock - December 1977
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Acid Rock - November 1977:
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The Most Definitive List of Led Zeppelin’s Best Performances of Each Song.
in Led Zeppelin Live
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Fool In the Rain was performed by Robert Plant & Pearl Jam at the House of Blues in Chicago on October 5, 2005: