ratster Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 This supposedly a photo taken at the Kooyong concert which I bought as a print at a swap meet...looks like a colourised B&W photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walesdad Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 4 hours ago, ratster said: This supposedly a photo taken at the Kooyong concert which I bought as a print at a swap meet...looks like a colourised B&W photo. Great image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donb8 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 I've come to look at this tour as being really overrated. The band never really gels. Jimmy's playing at 30% compared to the level he was playing at the us tour. No wonder the audience looks tame in that footage from Sydney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnOsbourne Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 1 hour ago, donb8 said: I've come to look at this tour as being really overrated. The band never really gels. Jimmy's playing at 30% compared to the level he was playing at the us tour. No wonder the audience looks tame in that footage from Sydney. Probably. They're definitely transitional shows, much like the Japan shows later that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidh Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 I didn't look closely at this original post when I first read it, but I thought that there was no way that 80,000 people attended the Subiaco show. Not only would that have meant about 10% of the entire population of the city would have been in the one place, but Perth is one of the most isolated capital cities in the world, so it's not like people would have been traveling from all over to attend. I found a review of it here from the time that gives the much more realistic, but still extremely respectable, figure of 8,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tainted cheese Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 On 9/17/2022 at 3:44 PM, donb8 said: I've come to look at this tour as being really overrated. The band never really gels. Jimmy's playing at 30% compared to the level he was playing at the us tour. No wonder the audience looks tame in that footage from Sydney. It's not my favorite tour as a whole, but some of the heaviest concerts they played where done there. I love Adelaide 19th and the 2nd to last show in Sydney, great stuff and just hard driving ferocious playing, even Plant's voice was top-notch for many of those shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donb8 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Auckland is the best show. IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hally Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 On 11/21/2020 at 9:36 AM, LedZep123 said: Not very many people know about these shows as well as the Japanese shows that Led Zeppelin did in '71 and '72. But, in my opinion, the Australian shows are actually some of the most important in their career as a band. Why? Well, first off, it gave them an introduction to stadiums, which they played during '73 and '77 in North America, including their famous Atlanta, Tampa and Detroit shows. Heck, they played to some 80,000 people in a 50,000 seat stadium in Perth on the first night. In Sydney, they played to between 30,000 and 40,000 people. Maybe even more!!! Secondly, it proved that the band can actually rock in places that aren't just in America and Europe. Sure they played Japan just a few months before, but they were, to what, 10,000 people. They were the biggest thing to come to Australia since The Beatles in '64. They also set a record attendance for the highest attended show in New Zealand, when they played in Auckland to about 25,000 people. And that is pretty big. I'm from N.Z., and they're not the biggest rockers in the world. And imagine in 1972!!! All in all, these were definently some very important concerts in the band's career. Hear is the complete inteniary with the rounded attendance. 16th February - Perth, Australia - Subiaco Oval - 80,000 19th February - Adelaide, Australia - Memorial Drive Park - 8,000 20th February - Melbourne, Australia - Kooyong Stadium - 14,000 25th February - Auckland, New Zealand - Western Springs Stadium - 25,000 27th February - Sydney, Australia - Sydney Showground - 38,000 29th February - Brisbane, Australia - Brisbane Festival Hall - 6,000 If anyone was here, please share your story. I have to agree. They were. at their peak at this one. "Was overcast, even drizzling rain. Arrived in an overpacked Kombi (very cliche but true) smoking all the way in. No tickets, we grinned and walked passed the ticket guy fast as he frantically grabbed for a ticket from whoever may have had one. I slipped a $5 bill into his pockets for his efforts. Five bucks to see Led Zeppelin seemed more than fair. Just after 2PM and I swear the sun broke through like a spotlight over the stage as they walked on. A mass of people jumped the racecourse fence from the power of the Immigrant Song kicking off as we looked on stunned. A few hours later they finished their umpteenth encore (contrary to set lists) and left the stage to enormous applause. What a show and of course we had never seen anything so dynamic and powerful back in ’72. Simply amazing and one of their best (acknowledged years later by Page and Plant) concerts ever." My comment from JPJ Audio Forum https://jpjaudio.com.au/1972/02/27/led-zeppelin-australian-tour-1972/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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