Showing posts with label If It Keeps On Raining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label If It Keeps On Raining. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2015

On This Day 17 August


1994 17 August On This Day Page & Plant - Wales, Corris Slate Quarry to record for No Quarter: Unledded
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Santa Fe, NM
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Wallingford, CT, Oakdale Theatre
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA, Hampton Coliseum
  • 1994 Page & Plant - Wales, Corris Slate Quarry to record for No Quarter: Unledded
1969:
This show was performed on a revolving stage. Good for the audience half the time.

1970:
The band and crew were already old hands at touring; this concert was at the beginning of Led Zeppelin's sixth US tour - the sixth in two years' time. The first week's shows were cancelled due to John Paul Jones' father's health. Peter Grant was now booking larger venues with five-figure audience capacity. After this show there were rumors that the band had been so loud the coliseum ceiling cracked.
1970 - Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA, Hampton Coliseum
1994:
On this day Jimmy Page and Robert Plant recorded songs for the MTV Unledded telecast in a slate quarry. Because why not.

It turned out that the unlovely quarry actually had pretty good acoustics provided by the huge mound of slate. The electrical lines overhead, which can be seen in the images below, kind of add to the weirdness of the whole thing.

1994 - Page & Plant - Wales, Corris Slate Quarry

1994 - Page & Plant - Wales, Corris Slate Quarry

1994 - Page & Plant - Wales, Corris Slate Quarry