This just in: It’s a Good Times Bad Times opener. I’m wrong. You’re wrong. We’re all wrong. Nooo, the defense is wrawwwwng. Ramble On and Black Dog followed. More updates in the comments section as we go along here…
Setlist and Video Update: Good Times Bad Times*, Ramble On*, Black Dog, In My Time of Dying, For Your Life**, Trampled Under Foot, Nobody’s Fault but Mine, No Quarter, Since I’ve been Loving You, Dazed and Confused***, Stairway to Heaven, The Song Remains the Same, Misty Mountain Hop, Kashmir.
Encore: Whole Lotta Love, Rock ‘n’ Roll
*Rarely played.**First time played.***First time played since Earl’s Court 1975.
No Immigrant Song? Oh well. Anyway, the fine folks at ITV treated us to our first video look at the music you’ve been waiting to hear:
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Real Deal Multimedia: Okay, so that wasn’t it. But this is ITV’s footage. And here’s a longer download or stream from the BBC of Black Dog with some actual music from the event. And here’s a sendspace file of the full Good Times Bad Times. And a .rar file of GTBT and Stairway. And here’s video of Ramble On, Black Dog, In My Time of Dying, and For Your Life as well as The Song Remains The Same.
YouTube videos are starting to emerge, mostly in their entirety (watch ’em quick before they come down): Whole Lotta Love, Rock and Roll, Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven, and Since I’ve Been Loving You (so far).
The Sun reviews the gig, Rolling Stone’s David Fricke reviews the gig, and a solid, honest review from the Royal Orleans message board follows in the comments section…oh, and Naomi Campbell claims she got mugged.
Want more? Tyler Bell’s blog has THE GOODS. Get over there, post-haste…
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Just looking at the setlist you can tell that there is a tour on the horizon…save your shekels.
Good Times Bad Times, Ramble On, Black Dog, In My Time of Dying, For Your Life, Trampled Underfoot, Nobody’s Fault But Mine, No Quarter
PLEASE PLAY RED ROCKS PLEASE PLAY RED ROCKS PLEASE PLAY RED ROCKS PLEASE PLAY RED ROCKS PLEASE PLAY RED ROCKS!
I said this under the other post but what do I get for calling the opener?
you get nothing! Under section 37B of the contract signed by you, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if – and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy – “I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained,” et cetera, et cetera…”Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum,” et cetera, et cetera…”Memo bis punitor delicatum!” It’s all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!
wonder if anyone is going to complain….”greatest hits show – too preditable”
LED ZEPPELIN – 12.10.07
Good Times Bad Times (1)
Ramble On (1)
Black Dog
In My Time of Dying
For Your Life (2)
Trampled Under Foot
Nobody’s Fault but Mine
No Quarter
Since I’ve been Loving You
Dazed and Confused (3)
Stairway to Heaven
The Song Remains the Same
Misty Mountain Hop
Kashmir
Encore:
Whole Lotta Love
Rock ‘n’ Roll
(1) – Rarely played.
(2) – First time played.
(3) – First time played since Earl’s Court 1975.
But, really, aren’t they all “Rarely played” these days?
First video emerges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv-lW7K66M0
more gigs im hopings still for bonnaroo
Sick.
Epic.
Confirmed.
Review from Royal Orleans
GT/BT
They played the shit out this. Unfortunately, no one bothered to do a soundcheck at all after they set up for Zeppelin and the guitar was almost non-existent. bass wasn’t a lot better. I’m sure the people closer to the front could hear fine, from the amps, but the sound guys fucked up the FOH. They basically did Zeppelins levels DURING the first song. – but you could tell they were on it – it fucking rocked. Hopefully the multitrack got the audio the FOH missed.
RAMBLE ON
Same thing. Seemed like a great version, but it was hard to hear the guitars. JPJ’s bass riff melody part at the beginning was drown out by the “lite” drum part thundering through the arena. Again, not their fault. The sound guys got their shit together about halfway through this when they figured out they couldn’t hear Jimmy’s solo. Up came the guitars and it was great the rest of the show The end of the song was great!
BLACK DOG
Wow. HEAVY.. and slow. Oh man.. these guys are going to really tear shit up tonight.. you could just tell.
IMTOD
The slowest, heaviest, most creeping death version I’ve ever heard. Jimmy has become an real, seasoned, old blues player.. he slid all over the neck like he was actually dying… so MUCH feeling… people in the crowd were subconsciously swooning with him… unbelievable – and when he finished each riff, the descending slide was accompanied by JPJ, ever so lightly, DEEP and low.. sounded like they’d sunk right into the pits of hell itself. And that;s just the opening part. When the drums came in for the first time before “well well well..” it sounded like an explosion. When they got to fast part, it seemed like Jason was right on it.. I couldn’t hear well enough to know for sure because Jimmy’s was wailing away like a madman… This was a very good version.
FOR YOUR LIFE
YAY! One of them had said they scrapped this at rehearsal – but here it is! I always wanted them to play this live – and here it is! Such a GROOVE this tune has… simple, too – bug powerful chords.. sounds great live. Bonham did a good job recreating the swagger this song has on the album. There was one part I noticed he left off that’s a big part of the pattern – but he can’t be expected to be a carbon copy. I though this really sounded great. Grooved, even.
TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT
I’ve never been a huge fan of this song. The album version is ok to me, but not one of my favs and I have never thought much of the live versions. Holy shit. Tonight I understood the attraction. THIS ROCKED.
CUSTARD PIE (Intro)
I didn’t hear this and I don’t think it happened. It’s possible I missed it, but wouldn’t it be a train wreck to segue into
NOBODY”S FAULT BUT MINE
can’t remember this at all. don’t know why – I never left, but it may be due to the “Newfoundland Asshole”. More about him later.
NO QUARTER
Oh man. The dry ice (probably fake fog these days), the THICK, heavy tone on Page’s riffing… JPJ’s signature song was on the money tonight. They played the shit out of this.
SIBLY
It just keeps getting better. The older they get, the better they play this. Page and Plant both knocked this one out of the park – except – Plant jumped the gun at one point and cause the band to skip an entire section to catch up with him. I think this may keep it off the DVD unless they can do some editing magic… but they covered it VERY well – right back together in about 3-4 beats – only lost a single measure, best I could tell. The song was so damn good, you’d hardly remember the screwup, afterward, unless you were trying to for a review.
DAZED & CONFUSED
Fantastic. Nice to have the correct bass player playing this… they didn’t pull any punches with this.. we got everything you’d want from them, in a 1973ish Dazed version. When they got to the fast part, Bonham was really keeping up well – but (I think) they ran off the tracks when they went to bring it all back down to the verse again. I can’t be sure about it, because they covered very well and they were FRANTIC – I mean NAILING that shit all the way through. Bonham was thrashing like a madman here, too… this was Led Zeppelin, on stage, at 60 years old absolutely NAILING this shit. Whatever that little bit was that happened, it glossed right over. I hope it doesn’t keep it off the DVD because this was a great version.
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
They played it. What else is there? I thought the guitar had too much drive on it from the beginning – was very brash and abrupt – and made it lose some of the effect the song has, but Robert sang it like he really meant it. this is one of the FEW places I saw Page use his busted pinky finger. More on that later. I need to hear the tape before I can comment on the solo. It was about what it’s always been live, as I remember.
But they played it. “and the crowd went wild”. When done, Robert stood with both arms outstretched and bowed, staying bowed halfway for a good 20-30 seconds, like “I did it for you, finally”. And had plenty applause to soak up.
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME
why not? He had the doubleneck out… good version. Played very passionately, but I don’t remember anything special about it. I was REALLY hoping they’d drop into Rain Song afterward, but no dice.
MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP
This was a crowd pleaser. Funny to hear people trying to sing along, then realize they don’t know the words. The crowd was in a great mood, and this really was like a bit of lighthearted fuel to the fire. Went over very well.
KASHMIR
Holy fuck oh wow man this RIPPED. R I P P E D. I’ve hardly ever liked the live versions of this song because they sound so thin – usually. To me. Anyway – NOBODY would say this sounded thin. This was FUCKING INCREDIBLE. Plant was Plantationing about how he’d been told there were people from 50 countries in the audience for the show… and that this song was about the 51st country… then BOOM! it starts. Lush, thick, TIGHT. This should be a very good version on tape. Page’s chords were really clear and tight and JPJ’s sound wasn’t that thin bullshit from some of the bootlegs, it was RIGHT.
Then they left! Thunderous applause, cheers, seat banging, rhythmic clapping, etc…. for several minutes. I didn’t time how long it took, but it didn’t die down at all until right as they started walking back out and got kind of deafening! Jimmy has hi transperformance, so I know what this is gonna be..
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
Groove. This was really good, but I found the tone from his transperformance to be inferior to what his LP had sounded like all night – other than that, they was great. We got the solo about like it was with P/P plant tours where the guitar is tuned down slowly while he holds his arms out…. just making a SHIT LOAD of noise, Page was.. I mean it was great.. all that sound coming from this one guy. Robert was really spending the rest of his voice here… giving it all he had since it was the end.
Did a big bow, got EVEN louder applause and left again. At this point, some dumbasses start leaving… I’m sure they felt REALLY stupid later.
So the crowd isn’t having any of this one encore shit and begins raising enough hell to make the first encore call back seem like a Yanni concert. I mean there was no mercy. For SEVERAL minutes, it just got louder and more frantic and then whole-crowd rhythmic clapping starts, just like the beginning of the old TSRTS soundtrack… but a lot longer.. gradually getting faster.. and louder and more people join in… then… with the clapping..
“ROCK – AND – ROLL! ROCK – AND – ROLL!” over and over…
Out they come again.. I think this is point where Jimmy said something in the mic, but he’s always so soft I can never understand him… hopefully the 276 boots will have picked it up better.
ROCK AND ROLL
Bonham nails the opening. I’ve heard so many people try to play this and fuck up the accents. He was on it. Plant did the best he could do to scream this out the right way, and it was really good. Just a killer rock song… a perfect way to end the show since, after all, it HAD been a long time since they’d rock’n’rolled.
They finished and left again.. this time for good, we were sure. Much more applause, but by now, after calling for two encores, the audience was completely beat. The house lights came up after 2 mins or so and every one finally relented and began to leave.
notes:
Bow – awesome. Jimmy really did a great justice to this signature part of Zeppelin’s live show. Green laser pyramid and everything.
“The Newfoundland Asshole” was this monumentally obnoxious guy in a red short and a leather jacket that read “Republic of Newfoundland” on the back – he was standing in the row in front of us, about 3 seats to the right. He was completely drunk at 6pm, before the show even began and it just got worse from there. During the show he did EVERY fucking inappropriate thing you could imagine, verbally and physically, other than show us his ass. I really thought that was coming, too. I’m glad I didn’t bother to tape this, as this guy would have made the recording COMPLETELY useless, especially considering how many sources we’re going to get this week. I can’t tell you how pissed the people right behind him were.
There was hardly ANYTHING wrong with this show, other than the few things I mentioned above. You could really tell JPJ was concentrating SUPER hard and feeling the burden of driving the band this time around.
Jason Bonham did better than ANYONE would have thought, even with the positive remarks about the rehearsals, he really played the best gig he’s ever played. I’ve never been impressed with his playing until to night. He did a VERY, very good job and would have made his old man proud. There were a few places, like solo at the end of RocknRoll – end of the show – where nearly WAS John Bonham – wailing away in the strobe lights to close the show.
I couldn’t ever see Jimmy use his broken pinky. All the screen-close-ups I noticed, he had it curled back under was playing with only the three fingers – which is AMAZING considering how well he played. The only time I saw him use it was during the Stairway solo and it seemed like it failed him… it’ll be interesting to watch the video once it gets out. Without having seen it, though, you’d never know he was fretting with 3 fingers – or least I cuoldn’t tell. He was ON IT tonight.
Robert did a really good job. You could tell he was pushing himself all the time… he didn’t half-ass anything, and there were plenty Plantations here and there.
JPJ was JPJ. I think his new role is the one Bonzo used to play.. he was the glue. Where JPJ used to watch Bonzo more than Bonzo watched him, Jason kept a close watch on JPJ and Page all night… you could really see the burden on JPJs face most of the show as he was in deep concentration to be sure he was spot on while Jimmy did his thing. He was JPJ – the rock. So nice to hear this music played with the correct bass player.
John Bonham’s son is a fine stand in for his Dad, – the best man for this job, easily. You’ll have NO DOUBT once you see the show over the next few days / weeks.
added some more that I’d forgotten…
as far as this BS about the crowd being “limp” – I sure as hell didn’t see that! I was way up top and it looked like a fucking SEA OF PEOPLE with their arms in the air, to me. the only time the crowd was queit was when they’d been STUNNED by the mighty Led Zeppelin. There is a different dynamic when all three of these guys play together. After the last song, we were all “limp” because we were completely EXHAUSTED.
The was NO lethergy i ntaht crowd tonight. No way.
Also – a funny aside – they had a huge sugn up saying no cameras, but they all got in. I seriously counted something like 300 using extrapolation – I counted the number of glowing screens on the cameras on the floor in a small areas, then multiplied by the amount needed to finish covering the floor – because they were EVERYWHERE.
I’ll try to give you an idea of exactly how MANY cameras were in the arena. You know how people hold up lighters at concerts – and there is like 25% coverage of glowing flames? SAME – except glowing camera screens – looked like little blue lights EVERYWHERE. There were 15 cameras just in the rows in front and behind me.
There must be THOUSANDS of video clips from this show in existance. I saw no one doing audio taping, but I’m sure they were there – and stealthy. Just hope they didn’t have a “Newfoundland Asshole” near them to screw up the tape!
Shortest GTBT ever?
Crowd reaction after 1st encore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE56P7uhZEc
For Your Life is a big (and happy) surprise. The best song from their best album.
I hope they DONT tour. Zeppelin has always had a shred of integrity by insisting they wouldn’t tour as Zep as they can’t without JB. That’s why Page and Plant had to be billed that way. RB wouldn’t have it. Screw a tour – the legend is great as it is – in our memories and in the tiny amount of live material that’s available.
C’mon Phil, you wouldn’t want to go? Seeing JPJ at Bonnaroo was one of the true thrills of my concert-going lifetime…I would love to see them once. If the quality of the product is high, then the integrity is maintained.
Who the fuck would complain it’s a greatest hits tour? What else would it be? It’s Zeppelin and they’ve been off the scene for years. It’s not like they’ve been in the studio making gold records this whole time. Anyone who says that deserves to be kicked in the face down a flight of stairs.
I saw CSN when they toured behind “After the Storm” and I didn’t want to hear their new shit. It annoyed me.
If I fork out $100 to see Zeppelin, they better play a greatest hits show or I’ll burn the fucking place down to it’s foundations.
/Swearing
Anybody got the goods on a torrent yet?
The torrent is up over on Dime a Dozen if you’re lucky enough to have an account. Mine seems to have lapsed. This seems to be a most inopportune time for such an event.
whoever says zeppelin sucks must have never watch them live in concert before. they can rock you upside down with communication breakdown and bring you do your kneels with Stairway to Heaven! Zep rocks!
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