gjohung Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 You saw the June 23rd show. The night when Keith Moon came out. He accompanied Bonzo on Moby Dick. He also played along on WLL/Rock and Roll. The video eternal light posted is from that night. The setlist for the night: 1. The Song Remains The Same 2. The Rover (intro) / Sick Again 3. Nobody's Fault But Mine 4. Over The Hills And Far Away 5. Since I've Been Loving You 6. No Quarter 7. Ten Years Gone 8. The Battle Of Evermore 9. Going To California 10. Black Country Woman 11. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp 12. White Summer 13. Black Mountain Side 14. Kashmir 15. Trampled Underfoot 16. Out On The Tiles / Moby Dick 17. Guitar Solo / Achilles Last Stand 18. Stairway To Heaven 19. Whole Lotta Love (intro) / Rock And Roll That's interesting that you say Kashmir was the highlight for you. Cause on this night JPJ fucked up a certain bit of the song. The band was lost for a bit, but they soon found there way back. Thanks... but I do not recall the who Keith Moon Bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohung Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Thanks... but I do not recall the who Keith Moon Bit... I am on a quest to really find out when I went. I am one of the few or many that experienced LZ at the peak of their career. Living it through all the great hits as they were released as "new" records. I remember going into club called Gazzari's on Sunset and a cover band called Wizkids doing a Hots on for no where just days after it was released. As a FOB (Fresh Off the Boat) immigrant from Japan/Korea this was Rock and Roll Heaven. And I counted days until Led Zeppelin would return to US. I do remember this Los Angeles show and Some west coast show was postponed from earlier date - late 1976 to mid 1977. Six month wait was so unbearable to me. I also remember I had a fight with a buddy who was supposed to be my partner to see Led Zeppelin and he didn't want to go with me. I went with another fellow who was somewhat not familiar with LZ. I am sure my original buddy regretted years later that he missed the chance to see LZ. I pulled out a binder folder with sleeves with collection of ticket stubs from all the concerts that I have been to. Unfortunately, I guess it was common practice to tear the portion of ticket that has all the information. all I have is 1/4 of torn ticket with may be date and seat numbers. I have no way of telling which tickets were which. Although I have labeled some. But I think my LZ ticket stub will original date prior to re-scheduling. Boy did I find lot of ticket stubs.. coming into the 80's they were kind enough to take just the corner and leave the 3/4 so I have all the concert info. so if it was not 6/23/77 when was it?? I also recall it was not the first night ...and it was during the week days. ghj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooney1975 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 so if it was not 6/23/77 when was it?? I also recall it was not the first night ...and it was during the week days. ghj The reason I said it was the, 06/23/77 show was when you mentioned that Page had some guitar problems on Trampled Underfoot. They also performed Trampled Underfoot on the 06/25th and 06/27th shows. But, Pagey didn't have any guitar problems on those nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohung Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 The reason I said it was the, 06/23/77 show was when you mentioned that Page had some guitar problems on Trampled Underfoot. They also performed Trampled Underfoot on the 06/25th and 06/27th shows. But, Pagey didn't have any guitar problems on those nights. Thank you, then it must have been. I vividly recall JPJ carrying on the song just with Clavinet - now basically LZ is a 3 piece instrument band so it was just Keyboard and Drums. But do you recall the original tour date had been postponed?? and also, there was a set date for LZ to play Rose Bowl but it was cancelled. ghj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooney1975 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Thank you, then it must have been. I vividly recall JPJ carrying on the song just with Clavinet - now basically LZ is a 3 piece instrument band so it was just Keyboard and Drums. But do you recall the original tour date had been postponed?? and also, there was a set date for LZ to play Rose Bowl but it was cancelled. ghj http://ledzeppelin.com/show/june-23-1977 On here it list the original dates in March. Also, it list as the shows being postponed cause of Plant's illness. Have never heard anything about Zeppelin setting a date to play at the Rose Bowl. Was this scheduled for the 1977 tour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeydripper Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I recall during Trampled Underfoot - Jimmy's guitar went dead and he made a what the f*ck jesture. It took a while for roadies to come and fix. the whole guitar cable. These were the days of laser shows. Unfortunate for me they dropped Dazed and Confused from their set list. But before ALS - I thought it was much earlier in the set - but set list indicates it was 2nd to the last song - Jimmy stood inside a pyramid created by laser beam light and he did his violin bow there with the pyramid rotating incrementally in synch with Jimmys violin induced power chord. The Zep's Laser operator from 77-79 is a member of another Zep board and he's told stories about how during the 77 tour virtually all of Jimmy's gear was falling apart and held to together on a thread. One night the 1/4" jack plate simply fell off his #1 Les Paul and he being the crew member geeky enough to wear a pencil protector in his shirt pocket was summoned to fix it. He quickly found a thick piece of metal...cut it to size, drilled the holes and shaped it to the contour of the body. Great part of this story is that now every single Jimmy Page signature custom shop LP has a replicated jackplate of HIS backstage creation on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icantquityoubabe Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Zep's Laser operator from 77-79 is a member of another Zep board and he's told stories about how during the 77 tour virtually all of Jimmy's gear was falling apart and held to together on a thread. One night the 1/4" jack plate simply fell off his #1 Les Paul and he being the crew member geeky enough to wear a pencil protector in his shirt pocket was summoned to fix it. He quickly found a thick piece of metal...cut it to size, drilled the holes and shaped it to the contour of the body. Great part of this story is that now every single Jimmy Page signature custom shop LP has a replicated jackplate of HIS backstage creation on it! I still remember the blue lazor beams during Kashmir on 5/30/1977. Remember that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohung Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I still remember the blue lazor beams during Kashmir on 5/30/1977. Remember that? I remember it as a huge mirror ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamp Dog Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I saw the Baton Rouge stop in '77...after over thirty yaers the details are a little fuzzy though. I do remember that it was a great show as far as I was concerned. I had tickets to a show in New Orleans later too...but that show was canceled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgeholder Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 The Rose Bowl show was to be in September of '75. I had a ticket!!! It was gonna be great! But NOOOOO. Robert had to break his freakin leg. arrg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgeholder Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Those "waiting all night at Ticketmaster" stories really bring back some memories too. Because these shows would just sell out so fast...it was tense. I vividly recall being behind some old lady who was getting some stupid campsite reservation or something, and she's looking at the proposed space, going "ummmm....well, can I see what else is available" and we're all behind her just going AAAGGGGGGH!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!!!! just picturing all the floor seats disappearing while she browses, hahaha, oh man, it was SERIOUS BUSINESS man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Those "waiting all night at Ticketmaster" stories really bring back some memories too. Because these shows would just sell out so fast...it was tense. I vividly recall being behind some old lady who was getting some stupid campsite reservation or something, and she's looking at the proposed space, going "ummmm....well, can I see what else is available" and we're all behind her just going AAAGGGGGGH!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!!!! just picturing all the floor seats disappearing while she browses, hahaha, oh man, it was SERIOUS BUSINESS man That's crazy! She would have been killed if she was at the Flipside record shop where I scored my 1977 L.Z. tickets. It was absolute mayhem. Broken windows and fistfights. A different era for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocean Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 was at all these shows FRONT ROW!!! ok....1977 was a very different time than now...music and concerts were so different....I'm 50 now....and have seen more than 1000 shows in my lifetime...I still have most all of my ticket stubs....I really have seen almost everyone...most of 'em 5 to 100 times.with that said.... I waited 2 1/2 weeks in line...I was the very first person in line to buy tickets in the DC/MD area. Infact tickets were scheduled to go on sale at 10:00am Sat morning....and at 4:00am Sat...the police came and escorted the first 10 of us into the cap center and sold us our tickets...tickets were $9.50 with a .50 service charge...so the very first $10.00 concert tickets. We were allowed to buy 10 tics for each of the 3 nights....I bought 10 front row center seats 3 nights in a row.... holy shit!!!!!!!!!!! The police then escorted me and my nine other friends...who bought the whole first 7 rows center out!, out to our cars because they were afraid we would be mugged.......honest absolute true story.......then I simply traded when they added a fourth night for another front row seat...I still have 3 of my four stubs...........THE SHOWS...............first let me say...I was, am probably still am, one of the biggest Zep heads ever....they were everything to me since 1969 when ZepI came out....was never then same again.....waiting in line over night each year to buy the albums as they were released....back to the shows... Upon the first show I didn't want to be wasted or drunk because I wanted to remember everything....they were late coming out...when the house lights went out....you have NEVER heard such a roar from a crowd...this wasn't a Beatles hysterical roar...this was pure blissful love screaming to our favorite muscians on the planet, who were literally 3 feet from my face....front row and I never got down off my chair....we stood on our chairs all 4 hours....singing every lyric.....it was insane...from the first notes of TSRTS....it was a dream come true this 18 year old!! Things were so different as I said...we didn't know what they were gonna play...there was no internet to look up setlists....in fact there was no MTV and we never even got a glimpse of our heros other than Circus Mag, Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy.....we were totally enamored by their presense...it was so exciting....all 20,000 of us KNEW this was history...... 4 nights...yes 4 nights...by the 4th night we were dissappointed in our heros to be honest...they played the same songs each night...and Robert even said pretty much the same thing between songs.....or so it seemed as it was happening....listening to the boots now, we all know there were a couple differences...like Dancin Days..etc.....Jimmy was wasted...I mean wasted...on the 3rd night...after STH he held his double neck above his head and 2 roadies caught it just in time.....he needed to be carried off the stage..... Another big event was some asshole shouting a bottle rocket on stage which caught Plant's shirt on fire, or at least smoldering.....and he ripped his shirt off, basically cursed the guy out...threatened to shut down and played shirtless for a while.......also you've never seen such a cloud of pot smoke....you could cut it with a knife...... All that said almost 30 years ago.....still the BEST SHOWS I HAVE EVER SEEN....no one has ever come close.....the Who with Kieth Moon was close....but they were NO LED ZEPPELIN.... hope you enjoyed reading...I enjoyed remembering. Damn I'll never forget it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gina62 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 nice post,. glad to go down memory lane with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZepFanatic Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Listening to the "Mike the Mike" (DEFINITIVE version of 6/21/77 LA Forum)...what a fucking incredible recording *AND* show...the band is smoking! See, when they were on during this tour they were *ON*, but when they went off, they were WAY off... I also recently looked at some pics of Jimmy between the '75 Tour and the '77 Tour...holy shit, what a different. I'd never done a side-by-side comparison but in '75 he still looked fine, in '77 he looks dead...that's what horse'll do to ya, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZepFanatic Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 An interesting read: http://www.classic-rock-legends-start-here...-1977-tour.html And very true, sadly...dark dark dark! Also, I am listening to the 6/21/77 show and during Jimmy's long (and most oftenly too long) guitar solo before Achilles, someone in the crowd yells out "OK WE'VE HAD THE GUITAR LESSON!!"! HAHAHAHAHA Even the crowds were having a bit much of the band's self-indulgences, although I do have to say by this stage of the tour Moby Dick was down to a manageable 16 minutes and was dropped entirely by Seattle in July '77... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Also, I am listening to the 6/21/77 show and during Jimmy's long (and most oftenly too long) guitar solo before Achilles, someone in the crowd yells out "OK WE'VE HAD THE GUITAR LESSON!!"! HAHAHAHAHA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That's funny ZepFanatic. I recall on the final night in Chicago 1977 the 2 disco boys sitting next to me saying - "They better get their asses in gear!" ...right after the acoustic set. The following song blew the house out. Trampled Under Foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZepFanatic Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 ^^The acoustic sets were so good...they didn't know what they were talking about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 ^^The acoustic sets were so good...they didn't know what they were talking about! Yeah, compared to the rest of the crowd they were "odd men out." Little skinny moustaches, gold medallions and silk shirts didn't quite fit the occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZepFanatic Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Yeah, compared to the rest of the crowd they were "odd men out." Little skinny moustaches, gold medallions and silk shirts didn't quite fit the occasion. HAhahha....what the hell were they doing at a Zeppelin show?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdh Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 7 fucking 50 to see the Mighty. Your seats were right inside the concourse. I am sure the concourse level at the Cap Centre was sheer lunacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan_Song Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 World Tour in 1977??? I have understood that USA was the first part of this tour, this one was going to spread to South America also and I believe that it departs from Asia if not badly I remember. Does someone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZepFanatic Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I don't know why but for some reason the 1977 tour still is one I always enjoy listening too...maybe it's because of the incredible setlists? Dunno...but it's always been one of my favorites, along with the US tours of 1972, 1973, and the end of the 1975 US tour... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote (Chicago @ Jan 15 2009, 04:48 PM) Yeah, compared to the rest of the crowd they were "odd men out." Little skinny moustaches, gold medallions and silk shirts didn't quite fit the occasion. HAhahha....what the hell were they doing at a Zeppelin show? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taking up space. The tickets were probably comps from their coke dealer. He must have mentioned that there was going to be a spinning disco globe at the end of Stairway To Heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZepFanatic Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 ^^ :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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