We hear a banger of a show from Jimmy Page/Robert Plant from March 11, 1995 in New Orleans. This show had some unique performances and great energy. I play House of The Rising Sun/Good Times Bad Times, a lovely Thank You, and a super groovy Dancing Days. A good one!
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Ep. 322 – The Heart of Markness Led Zeppelin Podcast
This is a North Bridge remix/remaster of Led Zeppelin playing Frankfurt on June 30, 1980. This is a fun, very good show with flashes of magic. North Bridge did a hell of job fattening up the soundboard recording, and making it sound almost professionally recorded.
I play In the Evening (which benefits the most imo from the North Bridge treatment), Trampled Underfoot, and a glorious, fun, joyous, playful Whole Lotta Love with Jimmy playing sweet blues licks in the Boogie Mama section, along with a spontaneous performance of Frankfurt Special. This is a good one.
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This is a show I covered in a two parter about 5 years ago. Led Zeppelin in Cleveland, Ohio on April 28, 1977. I’m revisiting it now because it’s an amazing show, worthy of another listen. The band is on and the power and mystery are on display. Bonzo seems locked in a little tighter, Jonesy seems a bit more front and center, and it makes for a glorious show.
I play The Song Remains the Same, Achilles Last Stand, and a rare encore performance of Trampled Underfoot. This is a fantastic gig and a very nice recording.
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You can imagine my delight when I saw that Led Zeppelin Boots had created an updated edition of the 1975 soundboard compilation that’d been around for a bit. Choosing tracks from the extant soundboard tapes, Boots crafted a very enjoyable listener. You can think of it as a sampler. You get a taste of each show represented.
I play Sick Again from 3/21 Seattle, Levee from 1/18 Bloomington, and Kashmir from 2/28 Baton Rouge.
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North Bridge has released a new remix/remaster of Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden on June 7, 1977. This is the first night of their multi night residency in NYC. Jonesy’s bass is very well represented, with a fat tone missing from many 1977 boots.
I play Achilles Last Stand (Jonesy’s bass dude…) and an epic, eternal No Quarter with the Nutrocker included. It’s nuts. Then Bonzo and Jimmy go primal on the festivities, and we have another 1977 No Quarter in the books. Good stuff.
I like the instrument separation North Bridge attains through his remixing the stems extracted from the raw recording. If you would like to download this complete concert recording you may do so, courtesy of my Patrons, right here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thcdPwBe8M8Q9GdI5f4Oo_wJ-lQaxrKl/view?usp=sharing
This is a very cool look at Jimmy Page’s music mere months before the formation of Led Zeppelin. May 29, 1968 at the Concord Colosseum had The Yardbirds playing a very cool bluesy/psychedelic set to a very lucky audience.
Given that Clapton, Beck, and Page all gestated within the Yardbirds, it’s safe to say the Yardbirds were a guitar band. Unfortunately, they were marketed as a pop combo, so as the 60’s evolved into the wilder, more improvisational psychedelic areas, the disconnect between their record company and the band became unsustainable. The band folded shortly after this gig, leaving Jimmy with the Yardbirds name.
I play Mr. You’re a Better Man Than I, Heartful of Soul, and a wild and improvisational I’m A Man. I find it interesting that I’m a Man is the song in which the band stretches out and jams, rather than Dazed and Confused, which was also in the setlist. This a very cool snapshot of a very cool time in music, as well as the future of Led Zeppelin.
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This is an amazing send off for Robert Plant’s higher range. December 8, 1972 at the Hard Rock in Manchester, UK is a great performance of a great band reaching their peak. The recording is clear and nice, and the instruments are all well balanced and represented.
I play Since I’ve Been Loving You, and a raucous 27 minute Whole Lotta Love, with jams and medleys aplenty. It’s great. It’s 1972 Led Zeppelin. You should get the whole recording.
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I was delighted to come across this wonderful recording through Led Zeppelin Boots’ amazing YouTube channel. April 14, 1970 had Led Zeppelin playing Ottawa, Alberta in a brilliant, exciting, explosive kaboom of awesomeness.
The tape itself in fragmentary and incomplete, but what’s here is gold. I play Dazed and Confused, Heartbreaker, and an incredible White Summer/Black Mountainside. This show was a delight!
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Boston was always a big Led Zeppelin town, starting back at the very beginning with the marathon Tea Party gigs, through this show right here. July 20, 1973 is the last time Zeppelin played Boston. The crowd is wild at this gig, so much so that the band eliminate Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, and Moby Dick from the setlist. All to keep the crowd from going Chernobyl. No encores either.
I play Celebration Day, a smokin’ Stairway, and a brilliant No Quarter that presages the brilliance about to be recorded in NYC a week later.
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Eight days after the shambolic Live Aid reunion Jimmy Page joined Robert Plant onstage at the Brendan Byrne Arena, in East Rutherford, NJ. The contrast between the two gigs couldn’t be greater. Robert’s voice is virtually perfect and Jimmy’s guitar (and Jimmy himself) are in tune.
I play an aching beautiful Young Boy Blues from his then current Honeydrippers EP, and then I play the two encores Jimmy played with the band; the first being a standard blues number (I don’t know if it has a name), and then a fiery run through of Treat Her Right, which calls back to when they jammed the same tune two years earlier.
This is a great performance and a shining testimony to the viability of a Page/Plant collaboration even back then, when they sniped at each other in the press.
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