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• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Los Angeles at Whisky A Go Go (day 4 of 4)

1969 Led Zeppelin at Whisky a Go Go

1977
Led Zeppelin spent January and February 1977 at Manticore Studios preparing for the next US Tour. The band's first show was to be Ft. Worth TX on February 27 but Plant came down with laryngitis.  The tour's actual start was in April. But then on 26 July 1977, Robert Plant's son Karac died, and Led Zeppelin did not perform again until 23 July 1979 in Copenhagen for a warmup for Knebworth.

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Los Angeles CA at Whisky A Go-Go, 05 January 1969) 

Led Zeppelin at Manticore Studios 1977

Led Zeppelin had begun rehearsing in November 1976 for their 1977 U.S. Tour.  By January or February they had moved to Manticore Studios in Fulham, an old theater owned by Emerson Lake & Palmer.

Many of the B&W photos below were taken by Pennie Smith and appeared along with an interview by Roy Carr in NME, 26 February 1977. 

Classic Rock Magazine with Manticore Studios photo

The pedal steel guitar was for a reworking of Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You.  Photos at this session by Kate Simon.

Below:  Another session day at Manticore, photographer unknown.  If you know who gets the credits, please tell me!