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1968 30 December On This Day Led Zeppelin at Gonzaga University, Spokane WA
AUDIO: a minute and a half of Dazed and Confused (MP3) |
- 1968 Led Zeppelin - Spokane, WA at Gonzaga University
1968
The House of Gonzaga was the ruling family of Mantua, in Northern Italy, from 1328 to 1708. The most famous son was Aloysius Gonzaga, who was canonized in 1726. In 1729 Pope Benedict declared Aloysius to be the patron saint of young students.
Gonzaga University is a private Jesuit university located in Spokane, Washington, founded in 1887.
As noted in today's post: The audience recording of Dazed and Confused from Gonzaga (9 minutes and 42 seconds long) was training for a number that would run much, much longer in later years. According to Jimmy Page, the song had "all the movements of a classical symphony". Note that Led Zeppelin performed Dazed and Confused more than 200 times over the years, with the longest being nearly 45 minutes at The Forum in LA, 27 March 1975.
Also in 1968
Not on this day but interesting: In 1964 Jimmy Page, along with Big Jim Sullivan, had worked with PJ Proby on Proby's first studio album,
I Am P. J. Proby. Four years later all four members of Led Zeppelin recorded together for the very first time -- but not on a Led Zeppelin album, on PJ Proby's final album
Three Week Hero. The recording sessions took place starting August 1968 and the album was released in April 1969.
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According to Proby in a 2012 interview by Corbin of
Finding Zoso:
"...we recorded that album, I think it was in two days. We even undershot, we recorded it with about thirty-five minutes left over, and so Roland yelled down, “Why don’t you all busket*? We shouldn’t waste the studio time.” I told the boys, “Y’all start picking and I’ll write as you pick.” So the three last numbers on the album, It's So Hard to Be a Nigger/Jim's Blues/George Wallace is Rollin' in This Mornin’, I just made up as the boys played."
Jimmy Page - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar
John Paul Jones - Bass guitar, keyboards, arrangements
John Bonham - Drums, conga
Robert Plant - Harmonica
* Re: "busket": Roland must have said "busk it", meaning improvise.
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♪ Led Zeppelin (Spokane WA at Gonzaga University, 30 December 1968) 
