Although the 2 hour show Saturday was 6,000 short of capacity, listeners blanketed the football field and stands. Lots of battles and conquests. The British rock group Led Zeppelin drew 50,000 rock fans who paid $320,000 at Kezar Stadium last weekend. So excited to get the poster of one of them with the new TBL issue. Wow! Grateful Dead, Waylon Jennings, New Riders of the Purple Sage - May 26, Kezar Stadium. 636/637/638), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA, USA 2 June 1973, Disc 1: Opening Anouncements, Rock And Roll, Celebration Day, [Bring It On Home Intro/]Black Dog, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since Ive Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains The Same, The Rain Song, Disc 2: Dazed And Confused [inc. San Francisco], Stairway To Heaven, Moby Dick, Disc 3: Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love [Inc. Rock: 18 sets: Classic Rock: 17 sets: Folk Rock: 17 sets: Blues Rock: As a result, Grant resolved to hire The Starship for the remainder of the tour, at a cost of $30,000. Over 600,000 paying ticket-holders were in attendance. As well as being an excellent performance in its own right, the song acts as an effective prelude to a ten-minute No Quarter, which,as Lewis puts it, was developing into a showpiece all of its own. With Jones, as Hodges puts it, playing moody electric piano, the songcomes across assplendidly mysterious and dramaticin this performance. Led Zeppelin arrived extremely late for their performance and hurried on to the stage, only to find the start of the show held up by an equipment malfunction, so we hear Robert Plant talking to the audience for a while, before deciding to leave the stage. Since Ive Been Loving You is a very effective performance with an excellent vocal turn by Plant and atmospheric keyboards from John Paul Jones. The tour took place shortly after the release of Led Zeppelin's chart-topping fifth album, Houses of the Holy. During the early part of the tour the band had hired a small private Falcon Jet to journey from city to city, but these aircraft are comparatively light and susceptible to air turbulence. Tour statistics Stephen Davis (1995). After all this mayhem, things calm downtemporarilywith therelatively subduedstart ofOver The Hills And Far Away, which Plant states, is about the passage of man up and down the track. During the heavier, almost brutal,latter part of the song, Plant makes his customary reference toAcapulco gold, andprior to Misty Mountain Hop he goes on to comment on the smell of marijuana drifting up on to the stage, saying smells good up here, its all going in the right direction. At this point an enormous joint was thrown on to the stage, and we hear Plant stating thathe will save for later. 01 opening announcements02 rock and roll03 celebration day04 black dog05 over the hills and far away06 misty mountain hop07 since I've been loving you08 no q. As far as the rest of the opening acts go, I have to say that I didnt give a damn about seeing any of them. Led Zeppelin - Live in San Francisco 1973 (Rare Film Series) Led Zeppelin 3.01M subscribers 1.5M views 14 years ago Rare 8mm footage of Led Zeppelin performing at Kezar Stadium in. Hundreds of others heard the music for free from rooftops in the surrounding neighborhood. Add setlist, 8 activities (last edit by Ranchotexicali, 2 Oct 2022, 18:12 Etc/UTC). Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, (Bring It On Home intro) Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. A repeat of that sentence opens disc two, though now we hear Plant go on to say, itreally blew it, it really blew it. Bumping this up on the 40th anniversary of this historic concert. I wasnt there to sit around consuming unmentionables and fuck everything in a skirt. "These are the seasons of emotion And like the wind, they rise and fall ..This is the wonder of devotion - I see the torch We all must hold. I love all the pictures and the story. 24. r/ledzeppelin. Four songs from the show (Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love, Communication Breakdown andThe Ocean) appear onLed Zeppelin:The Butterqueen (Unbelievable) and the complete show features on Vibes Are Real (Continental Sounds), Takka Takka (Tarantura), Persistence Kezar (Holy), Persistence (Cobla),Two Days After (Immigrant), Best Vibes In Frisco (Jelly Roll), Whos Next? You need the benefit of hindsight because its not about what you think is iconic, its about what the world thinks. New Submission. We couldn't stop what was happening. Led Zeppelin - Kezar Stadium SF USA, June 2 1973. . Excellent bloody pictures. Ive seen the photo of Robert Plant holding the white dove maybe thats where Im getting this idea. Jimmy Lester training to fight Tito Marshall, Jimmy Lester and Carl Moore interviewed before fight, Ferd Hernandez & Jimmy Lester (Pre-Fight), Jimmy Lester on upcoming fight with Ralph McCoy, Curtis Cokes and Jimmy Lester on upcoming fight, Interviews with Jimmy Lester and Florentino Fernandez. Led Zeppelin 's 1973 North American Tour was the ninth concert tour of North America by the English rock band. Amazing pictures! Jimmy certainly looks dapper! Somebody else wrote here about how cool the people were that day and I agree. 204. . PlanetPage Members 2.6k Gender:Female Location:Canada As I stated in my review of Godfathers The American Return, the two songs complement each other effectively, for, as Jimmy Page stated in an interview with Guitar World in 1993,The Song Remains The Samewas originally going to be an instrumental an overture that led into The Rain Song. Before The Song RemainsThe Same Plant makes scathing references to the press, referencing a paper thats published on the west coast that always seems tocriticize poor old English groups, andironically dedicating the song, to the musical papers that think we should remain a blues band. The Rain Song is beautifully executed here, andit constitutes a splendid conclusion to the first disc, marred only bywhat seems to bean equipment problem which results in a few seconds of loud and horrible noise near the end. Of course, he might just have been thinking: How the fuck did you end up on my hand? But I think theres more to it than that. 29 Apr 2023 14:59:30 Jimmy Lester on beating the Hurricane Kid. The exterior of the plane was re-sprayed with Led Zeppelin emblazoned down the side of the fuselage. The thirty-seven gig tour was exhausting for the band, three hour shows each night. .largest outdoor concert at Watkins Glen, New York with The Band, Grateful Dead, and The Allman Brothers Band. This is certainly worth havoing though. 539. The best concert Id seen before this had been fantastic The Who on the Whos Next tour, at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. I am very jealous. "The level of their success then was unbelievable Being so close to them at the time, it was difficult to be objective about it all you know, I was going along on the bus. Rehearsals took place at Old Street Film Studios in London. Led Zeppelin - 1973/06/02 - Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA [FULL CONCERT] Tour: "North American Tour 1973"Led Zeppelin Archives on Facebook: http://on.fb.m. What a tremondous show. [6] The theft was discovered by Led Zeppelin tour manager Richard Cole, who was immediately interrogated by police as a suspect. I am sorry if this conversation has been written before. (I read somewhere a few years ago that theyd been stuck in a plane on the tarmac at LAX and had hauled ass to the stadium straight from the airport.) Led Zeppelin performs at Kezar Stadium on June 2, 1973 in San Francisco, California. [1] The resulting tour broke box office records across North America. Led Zeppelin's show in San Francisco was supposed to be the huge finale to the long first leg of their most important tour. . You guys choose all the albums in this list, I'm glad you voted til the end. Kezar Stadium 2 June 1973 Led Zeppelin's live show at the Kezar Stadium in San Francisco signalled the midway point of the band's North American tour, which spanned the Spring and Summer of 1973. The exterior of the plane was re-sprayed with Led Zeppelin emblazoned down the side of the fuselage." Led Zeppelin - 1973/06/02 - Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA [FULL CONCERT] Tour: \"North American Tour 1973\"Led Zeppelin Archives on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1JbJsrASetlist:01 - Introduction (00:00)02 - Rock and Roll (02:49)03 - Celebration Day (06:35)04 - Black Dog (10:10)05 - Over the Hills and Far Away (16:55)06 - Misty Mountain Hop (23:56)07 - Since I've Been Loving You (28:40)08 - No Quarter (37:28)09 - The Song Remains the Same (48:23)10 - The Rain Song (53:50)11 - Dazed and Confused (Extended) (01:02:26)12 - Stairway to Heaven (01:33:54)13 - Moby Dick (Extended) (01:45:21)14 - Heartbreaker (02:16:27)15 - Whole Lotta Love (Extended) (02:24:22)16 - Communication Breakdown (02:37:39)17 - The Ocean (02:41:48)I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO RESPECTIVE COMPOSERS,MUSICIANS AND COMPANIES INVOLVED, FOR FAIR USE ONLY, NO PROFIT INTENDED. And you cant do that if youre running around the stage all night, or at least we couldnt back then." Kezar Stadium is an outdoor athletics stadium in San Francisco, California, located adjacent to Kezar Pavilion in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park. Kezar Stadium's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances. Anyway, Robert Plants a real hippy at heart, so the idea was that at the end of Stairway to Heaven, wed release the doves and theyd fly off into the air as a homage to peace and love. The following year a furtherhalf-hour surfaced, giving us the complete performance ofMoby Dick and running to theconclusion of the show. Let That Boy Boogie), Communication Breakdown, The Ocean. KRON-TV & CBS News film news reports from the show. In a more recent interview, Page recalled: We arrived in America and we did 53,000 at Atlanta and then 55,000 at the following concert in Tampa, Florida it was quite clear that if people were going to come along to see us in those kind of numbers we werent going to have problems doing concerts that would fulfil the demand. He continued promoting stadium-sized concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco with Led Zeppelin in 1973. Tour: Probably one of those gigs where all of the photos taken are great. 6/2/73 Kezar Stadium San Francisco. Careful Axeman Eugene on New releases from Blind Faith, Clapton, Kiss, & Judas Priest! As a result, Grant resolved to hire The Starship for the remainder of the tour, at a cost of $30,000. Join. Before this, an instrumental section that would later resurface on Achilles Last Stand leads into Plant singing a snippet of Scott MacKenzies 1967 hit San Francisco. It was a beautiful, warm morning and as people filled the stadium, the Zeppelin-anticipation was already electrifying the crowd, that rare and wonderful I-cant-believe-Im-actually-here-look beaming on everybodys face. The definition of a rock band. In saying that I shall begin. Thousands in the audience are in view behind him, it is an amazing picture that Plant himself said was his favorite. It marked the beginning of a 12-year reign, during which the group was widely considered to be the biggest and most innovative rock band in the world. Or maybe it really was that way., After the concert I was unable to speak coherently for a long time. A month ago, Led Zeppelin grossed $309,000 to shatter the Beatles mark in 1965. Photograph: Neal Preston My best shot Photography 29 Apr 2023 15:32:26 In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson wins the FINAL honorable mentions round! A storming version of Heartbreaker, complete withlengthy guitar work from Page,opens the third disc and this is followed by an equally exciting Whole Lotta Love. Plants vocals and bodily gyrations seemed tired and routine, and drummer John Bonham and bassist John Paul Jones had trouble solidifying their back-up sounds in in the early going. Such a lacklustre performance might have resulted, if Rolling Stone is to be believed, from the bands financial motives in playing to such a large audience; the magazine states that, Zeppelin are back doing what they do best converting heavy metal into dollars. Comments such as theseare perhaps unsurprising,given the negative attitude shown towards the bandby large section of thepress at the time, particularly in the USA. The latter song was pruned back after the European dates earlier in the year, the band largely dispensing with the lengthy medleys and including just The Crunge and John Lee Hookers Boogie Chillen during most shows ofthe American Tour. Brit Rock by the Bay currently features exclusive photos and memories of a 1973 performance by Led Zeppelin at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco: LED ZEPPELIN: JUNE, 1973 SteveAJones Members 23.5k Gender:Male Location:Tokyo Posted August 17, 2010 Excellent feature! Led Zeppelin is the band that has become most associated with the Starship. However, Persistence Kezar(Holy) is clearly inferior in terms of sound. Led Zeppelin. He continued promoting stadium-sized concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco with Led Zeppelin in 1973. 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I had never heard of this, never seen it, and watching him play guitar with it bended my mind around in new, uncharted ways. As Ingham points out, Continental Soundsused fairly high generation tapes that ran 3% too slow and also failed to present the songs in the correct running order. Organizers said the group netted better than $1,000 per minute during the show here.
Kezar Stadium is a stadium located in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. Led Zeppelin Jun 02, 1973 Uploaded by Zimtrim. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. We were among the first couple of thousand people there and were able to stake a claim to a spot about 100 feet from center stage. Watch on YouTube Kezar Stadium - June 2, 1973 8mm footage of Led Zeppelin performing at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, 1973. Kezar Stadium is a stadium located in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. Still, I knew it was a nice picture. [14], I remember that tour rather like the lyrics to "The Battle of Evermore". Over 600,000 paying ticket-holders were in attendance. michaelcm53 The acoustic set was dropped for this tour, and No Quarter from Houses of the Holy was unveiled. 8mm Film w/synch audio 43,563 views Jul 11, 2019 John Waters 1.27K subscribers Led Zeppelin June 2, 1973 Kezar Stadium San. As Argenteum Astrum comments both on hisLed Zeppelin Database andon Zeppelins website, Dazed And Confused is one of the best versions ever with Bonham and Jones going crazy at the end with the complex rhythms. Everything is played with extreme confidence, asserts Anderson, especially Dazed, with the rhythm section playing guessing games with Page. I suspect that he tortured, menacing sounds Page wrings from his guitar with the violin bow are the source of Hodges description of this renditon as, very psychedelic. Tony Gassett, on Underground Uprising, rightlycontends that Page is on top form here. It was supposedto follow two shows at the Inglewood Forum on 30 and 31 May (the latter, of course, oft-bootlegged as Bonzos Birthday Party), though the first of these shows was rescheduled for the day after the Kezar Stadium eventdue to Jimmy Page injuring a finger. Anyway, it turned back to the stage and Robert stuck out his hand. Mary Kezar (Wendy wecd-68/69/70) Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA - June 2nd, 1973. . In 2001 a soundboardfragment lasting a little under half-an-hour and including approximately fifteen minutes of the drum solo,appeared on Imperial Kezar (Electric Magic), edited with the audience recording. Thank you so much for this. Fossilized plants including palm and olive from Caldera of Thera. Nobody else could have pulled that off without looking pretentious. I can't believe these haven't been "out" thanks so much!! Not sure why but the story had a said air about it, almost like the scene around him still causes him a bit of anxiety. He grew up around animals and has the look of someone who understands nature. Wendy has recently reissued Mary Kezar in new packaging, featuring the same photograph as the newGodfather release on the front cover. Recorded At - Kezar Stadium Notes Kezer Stadium, San Francisco, California, June 2nd, 1973 Issued in a tri-fold cardboard sleeve. !GREAT TO SEE THE PICS AND HEAR THE STORIES!! Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin is published by Reel Art Press on 9 October. Well, thank you very much for a great show, he jokes, well see you in five minutes. Rock and Roll finally commenced the proceedings, writes Dave Lewis in Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, The band were a bit sluggish to start with, but didnt take long to warm up. The start of the show made a greater impression on attendee Gary Hodges, contributor to the website Brit Rock By the Bay, who remembers, suddenly Led Zeppelin stormed on, opening with Rock and Roll. The sound was huge and crisp it almost felt warm. Keith Shadwick, author of Led Zeppelin: A Band And Their Music 1968-2000, also detects no sign of sluggishness, calling it a barnstorming version, and it sounds suitably frenzied to my ears. Why don't you . 2 (Crystal Cat CC 1139-44), Stuart on Bob Dylan USA box Vol. The British rock group Led Zeppelin drew 50,000 rock fans who paid $320,000 at Kezar Stadium last weekend. you cant go wrong with having both. Stairway To Heaven follows, providing anotherindisputablehighlight of the show. Thank you for sharing this with us. I was such a huge Zeppelin fan (and still am), that the Stones could have played that day and I would still have been comparatively indifferent. [1][6] Their dress attire also took on a more flamboyant nature, evidenced in particular by guitarist Jimmy Page's hummingbird jacket and John Paul Jones' Spanish matador jacket. Theres a protocol when youre on stage: dont step on anything, dont move anything, dont trip over a cable, dont touch the dry ice machine, dont breathe on any fucking instruments. New releases from Beano, Tricone, Zion, & no label! Great pictures and interesting account of the scene. Great pictures - thx for finding and sharing. As Danny Goldberg, the bands press agent at the time,points out, the rock critics were brutal to Led Zeppelin. One who was most certainlynot was Charles Shaar Murray, who wrote in the UKmusic paper New Musical Express that, Led Zeppelin and 50,000 San Francisco people got togetherto provide one of the finest musical events Ive ever had the privilege to attendaltogether a magical concerta revelation., For a tape recorded in an open-air venue amidst an audience of fifty thousand people in 1973, the sound quality is very impressive. For additional information about DIVA please visit our FAQ page. Bob Dylan Without A Ticket (Thinman-151/152), Elton John Flip It Over (Mighty Fishy MF01-107), Paul McCartney Oakland, Sunday, May 8th, 2022 (Nanker Dog 005). During the early part of the tour the band had hired a small private Falcon Jet to transport its members from city to city, but these aircraft are comparatively light and susceptible to air turbulence. This tour and others established Led Zeppelin as the boss, and ecstatic packed stadiums proved it. 20 days ago. Led Zeppelin Setlist at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA, USA Edit setlist Tour: North American Tour 1973 Tour statistics Add setlist Setlist Rock and Roll Celebration Day Black Dog (With Bring It On Home intro) Over the Hills and Far Away Misty Mountain Hop Since I've Been Loving You No Quarter The Song Remains the Same The Rain Song Its a look of calm, understanding and respect. Overall, this set, which features a stunning performance, the best sound yet for the audience tapeand very attractive packaging, is another exemplary Led Zeppelinrelease from Godfather. I also remember white doves being released from cages atop the speaker towers on both sides of the stage during the opening bars of Stairway to Heaven. He continued promoting stadium-sized concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco with Led Zeppelin in 1973. The Kezar concert was a daytime show and Led Zeppelin were supported by Roy Harper, The Tubes and Lee Michaels. Join. Led Zep's record breaking concert attendance 4th & 5 May 1973 Led Zeppelin had just released their fifth album 'Houses of the Holy',. [8] The band later sued the Drake Hotel for the theft.[9]. August 17, 2010 in Photos. As a result, Grant resolved to hire The Starship for the remainder of the tour, at a cost of $30,000. First i'd like to thank Dan Cuny for sharing his memories and photos. May 25, 1973 Salt Palace - May 26, 1973 Sports Arena - May 28, 1973 Kezar Stadium - June 2, 1973 The Forum - May 31, . The Rolling Stones 2017 shows begin to show, Bruce Springsteen Saturday, Everybody Rocks! It would be terrific if the label went on to supplement it with its own version of the soundboard segment. Philip Elwood, writing in the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, argues that, the quartets performance lacked the dynamic spark of earlier local presentations. The sum of money was the band's takings from their three New York concerts. There is a foldover, four-panelbooklet with further onstage shots and brief notes, based largely on Lewis book, credited to Paul De Luxe..
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