Sometimes touring is hard, hard, harder than it needs to be.
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| 1998 03 September On This Day Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - Salem, OR at Salem Armory Auditorium
- 1970 Led Zeppelin - San Diego, CA at San Diego Sports Arena
- 1971 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
- 1998 Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver, British Columbia
1970
According to Dave Lewis the crowd in San Diego was rowdy. Then Jimmy Page had a problem with his guitar in the acoustic set and Bron Yr Aur was abandoned. Robert Plant got creative with Whole Lotta Love lyrics.
After all that, a music critic from San Diego Union panned the show, ending with..."if this music is part of the new life style, it somehow makes the wrong side of 40 seem like the right side." [D. Dierks/Music Critic/SD Union/9-4-70]
I always wonder if the music critics of then ever ate their words.
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| 1970 Led Zeppelin San Diego bootleg insert |
1971:
"I'm Scott Muni, from WNEW-FM. They take a poll over in England every year. For the second time, the greatest rock and roll band in the land, LED ZEPPELIN!"!
"...the stage collapsed. Plant and Page made their way to the top of the stacks of amps, then crawled down and off stage. The house lights came up and the P.A. announcer asked for calm and for everyone to return to their seats."
~ A.J. Crandall report on his experience of the 1971 show
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| 1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin MSG |
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| 1971 Led Zeppelin MSG |
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♪ Led Zeppelin (New York at Madison Square Garden, 03 September 1971) 
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