At age 15 on 4/20/1977, I attended my very first concert at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati Ohio and watched in amazement "An Evening with Led Zeppelin", the concert lasting over 3 hours. It was their 2nd concert of 2 nights in Cincy and remains to this day THE VERY BEST concert I have ever attended in my life. Indeed, I'll never forget being on the floor of the coliseum during a very rare second encore and feeling it literally BoUnCiNg a little from everybody stomping their feet as "Trampled Under Foot" ended their show. Sadly, it ended up being the very last song that the mighty Led Zeppelin would ever perform in Cincinnati, due to never returning before the tragic death of John "Bonzo" Bonham in 1980. Unknown to me at the time, their final song performed was also a prophetic warning of danger just few years later and yards away, more specifically, while standing/waiting outside on the pavilion of Riverfront Coliseum along with 18K+ half-frozen rockers (most having only a general admission ticket/no reserved seat) on the cold winter Monday evening of December 3, 1979, with everyone stoked to see The Who perform live at 8pm. At 7:30pm, suddenly I was caught up in a crowd stampede that carried me forward for about 10-15 feet before I realized what was happening, and by then I was already falling/being pushed down by the crowd around me. I remember being unable to move my arms out in front of me as I was falling down (that natural reaction everyone has when falling to protect their head from hitting the ground). Only recently, after over 4 decades, did I remember closing my eyes and thinking "Well, I guess this is how I will die", and fully expecting to feel the pain of being 'trampled under foot', simply because there wasn't a damn thing I could do to prevent whatever was about to happen. Fortunately for me, the crowd 'pushed back' against the force that was carring me forward, which in turn, helped to push me back up/stand on my feet. After opening my eyes and regaining my balance, I was so damn thankful simply to be alive and uninjured. As quickly as the stampede had started, thankfuly it had stopped after a few terrifying seconds. I was absolutely livid/irate at whoever was behind me, since his/her pushing me down almost got me killed, so I turned to yell at whoever it was. Oddly, everyone around me had this strange and bewildered expresion on their faces, and in their eyes, like "WTF just happened?'. The dude behind me looked very puzzled and then displayed genuine remorse once I started to glare at him. I just shook my head and turned back around without saying a word, remembering how thankful I was just to be alive. I was still about 40 yards away from the only doors/gates opened by security (the 4 doors of the main entrance) and waited patiently in a bottleneck of humanity, everyone anxious to get inside and find a seat. While waiting, of course I heard people screaming outside on the pavilion, but that was nothing new, based on every concert I'd been to before. In truth, I never saw anybody that had been injured or was laying dead on the pavilion. The concert started at 8pm, but The Who had already played a few songs by the time I reached the main entrance and handed my general admission ticket to the guard for verification, received the stub back, but then also received a brand new and unexpected SURPRISE from security: a 'pat down' by another security guard searching for illegal recreational substances and/or contriband to confiscate. Ok, if it matters, in between Led Zeppelin on 4/20/1977 and The Who on 12/3/1979, I went to at least 10 different concerts at Riverfront Coliseum, and this was the very first time I was ever given a 'pat down' search as I entered the coliseum. Simply put, drug usage of any kind was never an issue that coliseum security ever focused on, tried to prevent or even stop at any concert I'd ever been to at Riverfront Coliseum, so why was it now suddenly an issue? No wonder it took so damn long to get inside the coliseum on 12/3/1979, because security had implemented their 'pat down' search (legalities of it be damned) of every rocker immediately after they got their ticket stub back. In security's defense, it made perfect sense to only open the 4 doors/gates of the main entrance because they could control the crowd as it entered, and better facilitate their newly implemented 'pat down' search. But in truth, the search required additional security people to function effectively, and in turn, prevented security from opening 2 or more different sets of doors/gates that encircle the coliseum, usually by 6:30pm to prevent a crowd from growing too large on the pavilion, which was standard procedure for security at every concert I had attended previously at Riverfront Coliseum. Tragically, with security waiting until 7pm to finally open only the 4 doors/gates of the main entrance, in addition to their new 'pat down' search, this created a huge bottleneck of 18,000+ half frozen fans, all trying to get inside the 4 doors of the main entrance that are all within a few feet of each other. SPOLIER ALERT: It takes longer than 1 hour to verify a ticket, return the stub and then search 18,000+ fans, regardles of the type of show it's for. In hindsight, as scary as the stampede was, I feel extremely lucky to have survived it uninjured and get to watch most of the fantastic concert The Who performed at Riverfront Coliseum on Monday, December 3, 1979. Or perhaps i should say, I was luckier than the 26 rockers with tickets to The Who, but who missed the concert because they instead were taken to local hospitals for their severe trauma/crushing injuries from the same stampede/crowd push I was involved in that almost killed me, and definitely luckier than the 11 rockers with tickets that not only missed The Who concert on the cold winter Monday evening of December 3, 1979, but also the rest of their young adult lives, may they all R.I.P., they are not forgotten. Sadly, to date, no one has ever been charged with or criminally prosecuted for the obvious negligence that ultimately resulted in the death of 11 souls at Riverfront Coliseum on the evening of 12/3/1979. The culpability of the those ultimately responsible for the tragedy got swept under the rug by the media that opted instead to quickly to find other scapegoats, like sound checks, festival seating, rock music, illegal drugs and any other reasons to defer the blame elsewhere. I guess the real question is who ordered coliseum security to implement the 'pat down' search at a concert that was sold out within a few hours after the tickets went on sale months earlier. I believe it was the Cincinnati City Council, basically the same group of politicians that forced Jerry Springer to resign in shame from the city council (as a councilman) when his personal check was found in a vice raid of a massage parlor suspected of prostitution. Jerry complied, pubically apologized for his actions and then became Cincy's youngest mayor ever, all happening before he left Cincy to become a household name as host of his famous TV show. The city council/Charles Keating also tried agressively (unsuccessfully after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling) to remove Larry Flint's fredom of speech in Cincinnati, so basically they were used to throwing their weight around on any issues they found offensive or objectionable. Upset over all of the illegal drug use happening before, during and after these damn rock concerts in their beloved city that they conservatively ruled with an iron fist, they demanded coliseum security do something about it or "heads will roll". Fearing backlash or pink slips, security failed miserably in their attempt to appease the city council, and the rest, as they say, is history. That's my 2 cents on the subject, after 4 decades to think about a tragedy was easily preventable and should never have happened. Sorry, I went off topic, but these 2 epic bands/concerts are bonded together forever in my mind, body and soul.
@johnpaine3891Күн бұрын
Yeah, best concert I ever saw!…Earl’s Court 1975…they played for 3 hours! Sublime 😊…still listening to the best band ever at 66😅
@teddybear9029Күн бұрын
Knebworth 79❤❤❤
@stuartbutler9771Күн бұрын
I was there, happy memories!
@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid2 күн бұрын
Bags packed, trunk already gone ... Misty Mountains here we come.
@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid2 күн бұрын
This goes beyond ... the Groove underneath all molly cules by the real Fab Four.
@mikhailo_miki422 күн бұрын
Page is so sloppy, he has lost his level on guitar since 74-75, this is so bad that it gives me pain 🫤.
@dosgatosnegros4 күн бұрын
Anybody from RAF Uper Heyford who went to this concert particularly. From 20 security police squadron? That was the only good day I had in the UK. Strangely, I hardly remember it.
@fredzeppelin55086 күн бұрын
I approve of this performance.....
@spookybaba7 күн бұрын
Page is playing like he's just starting out. Awful soloing!
@mjuza71145 күн бұрын
Heroin :(
@spookybaba5 күн бұрын
@@mjuza7114 really??
@EllPhillipКүн бұрын
Compared to this, the version in the '73 movie looks like award winning material.
@neillenet2918 күн бұрын
Pretty sure this is the Knebworth concert
@MUGSYBROWN8 күн бұрын
Thank You 🙏🏼 for posting this. It’s AWESOME !!
@thebrokerofbrokerstv6811 күн бұрын
Plagiarism aside no one in their league. Rick Beato needs to sit with the living 3 legends. Theres no such thing as too much swagger
@andthensome51214 күн бұрын
I always wondered why they kept Black Dog in their set. Never sounded very good live.
@johnwolf329414 күн бұрын
So darn good
@susanking321315 күн бұрын
Rock on
@clivezsmith15 күн бұрын
I didn't know this existed. Better than Knebworth ❤
@mjuza71145 күн бұрын
This is Knewbworth:)
@MaddyN999Күн бұрын
@@mjuza7114😂
@russ9822617 күн бұрын
Some rockin guitar Jim Cuddy.
@geraldhartley21 күн бұрын
In hindsight… Brian should have been singing lead on more songs. What a great rock and roll voice 47:20 for example.
@rockhead6923 күн бұрын
Everytime I see the mighty L.Z this question pops up...what has happened to music?
@teddybear9029Күн бұрын
The tech generation are too blame.
@dude689423 күн бұрын
I don't know how Jimmy Page does it. Just listening to these songs blows your mind. Cant imagine what goes on in your head when you are creating and playing them.
@Matthew_Eitzman15 күн бұрын
You’d be surprised what musicians think when an often performed piece is played. Muscle memory frees the musician from the enemy of flow: thought. Performing a repetitive piece that’s over 10 minutes can induce an almost meditative state. This was the case when I recorded “Lost Hills”. It was before smart phones and an era when Netflix would mail DVDs. I had a lot of time on my hands when I wrote and recorded and overdubbed that one. “View of a Gallery” was another one that comes to mind. It’s probably why they sound so similar: I started with an open-tuned acoustic guitar that was improvised. The guitar was overdubbed, (while trying to remember what I had just played) , an open space would be created, to be filled with synthesizer or electric guitar. Percussion, manually played by tapping keys on a drum machine or programming a tempo pattern on the multitrack recorder, was added next. Mixing would be done later because I would be pretty tired of hearing the song over and over while overdubbing. Adding bass was the most frustrating because I was trying to figure out what key I was in because the guitar was open tuned.
@barrybreen874526 күн бұрын
I was there 1979
@jmart941426 күн бұрын
Excellence. Thank you for this Zep live footage. Never saw a live performance 17 yrs old when this was happening....SWEET ⭐🎉💥
@Mickey6348726 күн бұрын
You have to give them credit to put on a 2 1/2 hour show. Robert, jpj and bonzo were ok for the whole thing. As the show progressed, Jimmy fades. He was great at the beginning. He managed to get through it, but with everything he was going through at the time, managed to make it to the end.
@desert-storm-borncharlie1127 күн бұрын
OMG, you DO NOT get to see a lot of live Nobody's Fault But Mine! This version is lit asf too!
@zsoltbarna123128 күн бұрын
Ami a Führer Mercedesét illeti, kizártnak tartom, hogy valaha ült ebben az autóban. Gyűjtöm azokat a felvételeket amelyek Hitler rendszámmal igazolt autói voltak. Ez az autó gyanúsan új. Nem beszélve arról, hogy a győztes hadak azonnal lefoglalták volna mint a többi hetet. Nincs rajta rendszám sem, csak annyi, hogy Sinsheim. Szóval Ez az autó csak olyan, de nem az! Egyébként én is láttam személyesen.
@Professorkenneth29 күн бұрын
51:00 i love john Paul and Bonham in sync with each other.. sound's so awesome, gave me the chills..😅 1:07:03 👍🏻💯 plants voice is brilliant. Zeppelin were one of the greatest . Cheers
I enjoyed reading your well chosen words, Thanks for clearing in me the man not shown at shows J.P. J.,
@ColorizedClassicsChannelАй бұрын
Epic. The mix is (almost) good.
@melissagepfrey7107Ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@KrazyRedjointsАй бұрын
20:56 nobodys fault but mine
@paolorotelli4336Ай бұрын
´´The Legend´´💙
@morningstar8651Ай бұрын
Yeah! Do ya……..know my name!!!!!❤
@RiccaOsbourneАй бұрын
Hello People 🖤
@Rocksider2525Ай бұрын
Still, the greatest band.
@cachosantillan1100Ай бұрын
Que buen recital de rock , por algo son grandes .....gracias por dejarnos disfrutar de Led Zeppelin!!!!
@curiousone2530Ай бұрын
I was there. Awesome venue and concert. Tood Rungred did well too.
@ricardomontoya9480Ай бұрын
Por la fecha del concierto y el fallecimiento de John, esta presentación ha de haber sido de las últimas Gracias por subirla, la mejor de las mejores bandas de rock
@Itslikethis-un3kiАй бұрын
I love you Katie. I do.
@Broslow965Ай бұрын
Этот концерт намного лучше их второго шоу 11 августа. На этом надо было остановиться.
@thomasharhen2168Ай бұрын
Impeccable timing with this band!!! Best Band Ever!!!!!!!
@thomasharhen2168Ай бұрын
Not enough camera work on J.P.J. 😢
@jeannerundles734Ай бұрын
I'm still so young at heart, that's the influence Zeppelin has on you! Been a long lonley lonley lonley...time!❤❤❤
@jeannerundles734Ай бұрын
Grew up with them since 1969, and still watching and listening 🎉2024! That's right, greatness is Zeppelin ❤
@jjd903Ай бұрын
I don’t know What I've been told Eskimo pussy Mighty cold
@johnzaq3881Ай бұрын
Zappa the best
@jjd903Ай бұрын
@johnzaq3881 is that Zappa? If it is I didn't know! I thought we were just changing up lyrics.
@ericeverett510Ай бұрын
Great to see the camera on Jonesy during NQ
@JorgeFernandoPombo-zs6mjАй бұрын
Pura mxerda, avezes pienso que es mejor que estos tipos no hagan nada