Cool - they played their greatest hits!
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Led-Zeppelin Reunion set |
So far Led Zeppelin have played: 'Good Times Bad Times' "The set started with a clip from 'The Song Remains The Same' DVD with an American news clip telling of they broke The Beatles' attendance record for a gig in 1973 in California. Simple stage set, video screen behind the band." 'Ramble On' "'Ramble On' done in extremely slow, bluesy manner, with shards of electric guitar from Jimmy Page." 'Black Dog' "Page wearing dark shades, quite muddy sound. Crowd singing the 'ah-ah' bits back at Plant." 'In My Time Of Dying' "Page is playing bottleneck guitar. Plant spoke for the first time before song, saying 'Good evening'." 'For Your Life' "That's not something you get to hear often these days, Led Zeppelin giving a song its live debut." 'Trampled Under Foot' "Before starting Plant told the crowd it was the band's attempt to sound like Robert Johnson's 'Terraplane Blues'." 'Nobody's Fault But Mine' "There are huge screen's dominating the O2 Arena, they split into four sometimes, goes monochrome, colour etc...quite spectacular." 'No Quarter' "Following the song Plant paid tribute to John Paul Jones, who played keyboards and bass on the track." 'Since I've Been Loving You' "A bit of a style guide for you, all the band are dressed in black bar Page who is rocking a white shirt. As for the song they gone for the epic version....very bluesy." 'Dazed And Confused' "Settle yourselves in, we're expecting a ten minute version of this classic... it was. At the end of it of the song Plant told the audience 'On guitar Jimmy Page, just as he did on 'The Song Remains The Same' DVD which was filmed in Madison Square Garden in the 70s." 'Stairway To Heaven' "What do you think happened? Right! From the moment those opening notes rang out the whole audience went absolutely crazy. The atmosphere is electric. Afterwards Plant said "Ahmet, we did it!" 'The Song Remains The Same' 'Misty Mountain Hop' "Plant kicked this one off by praising the job drummer Jason Bonham has been doing, stepping into his late father's shoes tonight." 'Kashmir' "Yet another epic, as this song cracks the ten minute mark. Plant introduced this one declaring 'We've got people from 50 countries here and this is the 51st'. Afterwards they left the stage to loud applause. Will they do an encore? What do you reckon..." 'Whole Lotta Love' "... of course they come back to deafening applause. And it's an extended version of the old 'Top Of The Pops' theme. Then once more the band leave the stage with a visibly emotional Plant declaring: 'Thanks to everybody. Thanks Ahmet Ertegun, this one for is Ahmet Ertegun as we remember the days when Atlantic Records was the best label on the planet!'." Rock and Roll Show's closer |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:50 pm ] |
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I never wanted this to happen. |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:37 pm ] |
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why? early returns are saying this show was fantastic |
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| Author: | Hawkeye Vince [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:51 pm ] |
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Cool - they played their greatest hits!
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:53 am ] |
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some pics and vids here http://www.led-zeppelin.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=990 most of the songs are dropped down at least a whole key...which makes them sound wierd. nonetheless, you could tell they were in pretty good form-- page especially since he was usually drunkard who fucked up previous 'reunion' shows-- and that they had practiced these songs for a good long while before the show. |
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| Author: | Jim DeRevolting [ Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:23 am ] |
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OUTSTANDING review of the concert by David Fricke of Rolling Stone - and I mean outstanding job of writing, and he loved the concert too! 
For the second encore of their first full concert in twenty-seven years, at London’s 02 arena last night, Led Zeppelin tore into “Rock and Roll,” from their untitled fourth album, with a joyful vengeance. As drummer Jason Bonham hammered with the ghostly precision and ferocity of his late father, guitarist Jimmy Page fired dirty chunks of Chuck Berry and bassist John Paul Jones kept iron time with familiar reserve, singer Robert Plant sang the most obvious words of the night: “Been a long time since I rock and rolled.” Overhead, images of a much younger Zeppelin, in concert during the early and mid-Seventies, flashed on a huge digital-video screen. In those films, Led Zeppelin were the biggest, loudest and most cocksure band in rock. Jimmy Page’s now snow-white hair was still jet black; Robert Plant was a golden god, not yet a Viking elder, and the late John Bonham — whose death in 1980 abruptly ended Zeppelin’s reign — still ruled the engine room. But the band that played underneath those memories last night was not the one that misfired at Live Aid in 1985 or again in New York in 1988. This one was rehearsed, ready and out to kill. This band was Led Zeppelin in every way. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham the Younger opened their two-hour show with the confident wit and colossal nerve of “Good Times Bad Times,” the first song on Led Zeppelin’s 1969 debut album. Even before Plant opened his mouth, the original fury — a surprisingly lean, dub-like crossfire of cannonshot chords, frantic, gulping bass runs and polyrhythmic swagger — was in order and in force. “In the days of my youth/I was told what it means to be a man,” Plant sang, in the slightly lower register of someone who gives those lessons now. It was an appropriate effect, too — an admission of age delivered with feral pride — on a night dedicated to the memory of Zeppelin’s late friend and mentor, Atlantic Records’ co-founder Ahmet Ertegun. (Proceeds from ticket sales will go to music scholarships, created in Ertegun’s name, at schools in New York, England and his native Turkey.) Earlier, a quote from Ertegun, who died in 2006 at age 83, hung from banners at the sides of the stage: “It is a great life, this life of music.” Zeppelin honored that sentiment by playing like a band renewed, not merely reunited. You could see the pleasure — in the way Plant kicked at the base of his mike stand in “Ramble On,” sending it in an arc over his head ‘72-style, and in the big grin on Page’s face, blown up on the screen, as Bonham flew into the climactic drum thunder of “Black Dog.” For much of the show, even with a full, wide stage to themselves, Page, Plant and Jones stood in tight formation at the foot of the drum riser, often facing Jason, as if they were still in rehearsal. “I just want to have fun!” Plant barked at one point, as the band swerved from the extended, frenzied mid-section of “In My Time of Dying” back into the song’s blues-march backbone. Zeppelin did not walk or waltz through any of tonight’s sixteen songs. You could hear the care, the weeks of practice that started back in June, in the live debut of “For Your Life” from the 1976 album Presence, a song which, according to Plant in our recent cover story, the band tried in the first rehearsals but dropped after two days. Obviously, there was no staying away from its eccentric oceanic chop. There was no getting away from the warhorses either. “No Quarter” came with the obligatory dry ice. “There are certain things we had to do — this is one of them,” Plant said, almost in apology, introducing “Dazed and Confused.” Page was soon back in ancient ritual — pulling long wah-wah groans from his Gibson Les Paul with a violin bow under a rotating steeple of green-laser beams. More impressive, though, was the fresh tension in the song’s slow-drag sections as Page, Jones and Bonham pulled at the tempo, heightening the expectation between Page’s bent-note growls and Bonham’s thundercrack rolls with extra delay. “Stairway to Heaven” was also not quite its overfamiliar self, and refreshing for it, Page fingerpicking the opening motif and hitting the ringing twelve-string chords with a relaxed, folk-rock grace, echoing Plant’s thousand-yard stare as he sang “And it makes me wonder . . .” The inevitable “Whole Lotta Love,” the first encore, was almost identical to the second-album script except for a short, tantalizing passage of raw-blues argument after the whooping-theremin blowout — no drums, no bass, just Plant and Page’s guitar snapping at each other like junkyard dogs. Any doubts about Plant’s ability to still hit the high notes, his willingness to go stratospheric, was obliterated at the right, dramatic points in “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and “Kashmir.” Jones and Bonham locked in like family. And Page was a continual shock on guitar, mostly because he has played so little in public for the past decade. At sixty-three, Page is undiminished in his sorcerer’s mix of reckless ferocity — stammering runs, strangled howls, granite-block chords — and guitar-army wow. He recreated the harmonized-lick break in “Ramble On” with a sly blend of phasing and natural glide, and evoked the riff-orchestra swoop of “The Song Remains the Same” with a sustained rain of twelve-string harmonics. It was also clear why Page’s solo career has been one of fits and starts. In Led Zeppelin, Page built the perfect beast for his fury and ambitions. Last night, he cut and slashed against Jones’ percolating clavinet in “Trampled Underfoot” like an enraged butche, and matched Plant’s hairpin cries in the field-holler passages of “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” with a devils’ choir of distortion. At times, Zeppelin seemed to amaze themselves. “Spectacular!” crowed Plant, turning to Bonham with pride at the end of “Rock and Roll.” As the words “Led Zeppelin” filled the back screen, before the band left the stage for good, Bonham dropped to his knees and bowed, as if to say “I’m not worthy,” In fact, he was, in spades, pushing his elders — hard — in the circle dance “Misty Mountain Hop” and the steady, exotic ascension of “Kashmir.” It is only fair to point out that there were other performers on the bill, including Foreigner, Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers, Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings and members of Yes and Emerson Lake and Palmer — all squeezed into an hour’s potpourri to pay tribute to Ertegun and his reign at Atlantic, with varying historic accuracy. Rodgers got the first, major ovation of the night, but with a version of his 1969 hit with Free, “All Right Now.” Singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini — the youngest featured act by about twenty-five years — did his best with “Mess Around,” written by Ertegun for Ray Charles, then followed it with “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),” a 1966 hit for Cher, an Atlantic artist, but on another label. Stranger still, Nutini sang it with a raspy, trilling effect that eerily called to mind a late-Sixties cover of the song by British singer Terry Reid — best known now for being the guy who turned down Page’s offer to be in Zeppelin and suggested Plant instead. It is also important to note that Zeppelin left the building wiithout making any reference to their future together, if there is one — no “See you next year!” or “Until next time . . .” The only message they left behind was, “We were the best — and still are.” The waiting begins again. |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BOOTLEG!! |
http://ledzeppo2.4shared.com/ not soundboard, but still pretty good quality. |
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| Author: | Woodridge Ryan [ Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:08 am ] |
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Maybe I'm late to the party on this, but Led Zeppelin will be performing at Bonaroo in Manchester, Tennessee this summer. I am definitely going. June 12-15. |
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| Author: | Beef Rockmore [ Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:36 pm ] |
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Woodridge Ryan wrote: Maybe I'm late to the party on this, but Led Zeppelin will be performing at Bonaroo in Manchester, Tennessee this summer. I am definitely going. June 12-15.
Isn't Doug Plank rolling into town on the 14th with his Georgia Farce ??? SELLTHOSEDAMNTICKETS! |
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| Author: | Woodridge Ryan [ Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:02 pm ] |
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The "farce" game will be played in Georgia |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:03 pm ] |
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Woodridge Ryan wrote: Maybe I'm late to the party on this, but Led Zeppelin will be performing at Bonaroo in Manchester, Tennessee this summer. I am definitely going. June 12-15.
ive heard this, but im not sure its official yet. and im certainly not making any travel plans until i hear this news from the horses mouth CSFMB road trip! |
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