CARNEGIE HALL, NY 10-17-69 - Never Before Seen Fan Photos! First use of Black Beauty Les Paul

[mickey g]

They missed a couple, drowan:

The Free - January 25, 1971

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - May 26, 1971

 

...pretty good shows, too. 😁

 

 

[drowan]

Mickey G:  Yes, both of those shows are worthy of mention.  Thanks for the follow up!  Regards, DRowan

Edited July 7, 2022 by drowan

[mickey g]

On 7/7/2022 at 11:06 AM, drowan said:

Yes, both of those shows are worthy of mention.

Okay, I will 😁 

 

 I had seen the Free open for Blind Faith at MSG, & ELP recently headline at the Fillmore East. On the way to the Free show I was telling a buddy, who was lead vocal in a band, how Paul Rogers would swing the mike cord around stage like Roger Daltrey. On the way to ELP, was telling the gang how Keith Emerson will jump on top of his organ & rock it across the stage...Neither of which happened at the Carnegie Hall shows. LOL

 

ETA: It may have been the knife thing with Keith Emerson, where he jabs the Bowie knives into the organ keys. Memory is foggy 😵

[drowan]

CELEBRATING A MAJOR MILESTONE:   40,000 VIEWS OF THIS FORUM PAGE!!!!!!!!!  THANK YOU LZ FANS!!!!!

 

Edited July 21, 2022 by drowan

[drowan]

CD Jewel Box graphics of 10/17/69 Carnegie Hall concert produced by Tanantura feature our original photos posted on this Forums site!

Edited October 26, 2022 by drowan
Better quality image following site recommendations.

[daveg62]

Fantastic great to see

[drowan]

Photos from this Forum site have been "tweeted" out several times by LZ fans, such as this pic tweeted by Domenico Tarantini:

Led Zeppelin Lyrics™ Retweeted

Domenico Tarantini

@blackbart6996

Oct 17, 2019

Led Zeppelin live at Carnegie Hall N. Y. october 17, 1969

@ZepLyrics

Edited November 8, 2022 by drowan

[drowan]

Here is a transcribed excerpt of the Carnegie Hall audio recording that amazingly was finally released in early 2022 integrated with a "backstory" on the concert logistics for that night on October 17, 1969:

We’d like to with something off our first album written by Willie Dixon. This is called I Can’t Quit You…sorry about the delay”. The story went that the band was late getting into NYC and some of their gear was rented, certainly not Jimmy’s guitar. After a minute and a half they get it together for a crushing version of I Can’t Quit You, Jimmy rips into his leads, extremely fluent and quite fast. 

More tuning follows a devastating version of Heartbreaker that sounds quite like the studio version except with an incredible guitar solo and a small bit of tuning, Jimmy is taking no prisoners he is almost relentless in his attack. Once Jimmy gets tuned again, Dazed And Confused begins proper, the audience give his Wah effects pedal a massive ovation, they know what is coming, Jimmy’s Tour De Force. The song is well played, much has been said about his guitar tone in this recording, this song is one such example. There is just the right amount of distortion present that gives it a nasty yet ominous sound, late 1969 versions of Dazed are excellent, very focused with Page changing the mood at will. This version starts off rather standard, it does not end that way, Jimmy uses the light and shade concept to create a tense feel, your waiting for him to explode yet he keeps it toned back, the tension remains until the end. 

Source:  Graf Zeppelin LZSC-1017A/B.

Edited December 24, 2022 by drowan

[drowan]

A Japanese issue of the Led Zeppelin October 17, 1969 Carnegie Hall live concert recording features concert photos from this LZ Forum website:

 

[drowan]

The commentary keeps on coming about this October 1969 Carnegie Hall LZ concert that just blew away the fans!

Edited February 10, 2023 by drowan

[drowan]

On 2/24/2019 at 1:36 PM, drowan said:

Here's another photo of LZ attorney, Steve Weiss, with Peter Grant taken at some point well after (year unconfirmed) the Carnegie Hall concert in 1969.

There was some question as to who the person on the far right of this photo is.  He look s a lot like Bruce Harris of Cash Box.  Below is a photo of Bruce but without a mustache.

[drowan]

...Or could the "mystery fellow" with the mustache be Eddie Kramer?

Edited February 20, 2023 by drowan

[drowan]

An excerpt from Bob Spitz's 2021 biography provides great color about the 1969 LZ Carnegie Hall concert:

 

Source:  Led Zeppelin:  The Biography, by Bob Spitz, 2021

[drowan]

[drowan]

On 2/19/2023 at 7:26 PM, drowan said:

The picture immediately below was identified earlier as "Eddie Kramer" with Jimmy Page, but that can't be correct as Eddie looked much different in those days (see subsequent photo from similar time period). 

 

Edited March 24, 2023 by drowan
To add a photo.

[drowan]

Photo of Howard Stein, the promoter of the Carnegie Hall Led Zeppelin concert, taken in 1974 in front of the Academy of Music in NYC. 

[chillumpuffer]

On 2/20/2023 at 12:26 AM, drowan said:

...Or could the "mystery fellow" with the mustache be Eddie Kramer?

It's Glyn Johns isn't it?