Led Zeppelin's First Tour: A 1969 Review You’ve Never Heard

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@rich9848 Ай бұрын

I remember the only time I saw Led Zeppelin - it was February 1970 at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. The Guitar riffs were superb, and the sound level was well beyond anything I'd heard before. About 8 of us went, and afterwards the most frequent thing said was "do you have a steady high pitched whine in your ears" - very, very loud

@robertlear2712 Ай бұрын

I saw Led Zeppelin in concert in 1969 and 1970. They are electrifying in concert, especially Dazed and Confused. Robert Plant is 33 days younger than me. 😊 I was in a rock band in college at the time and we played some of their songs.

@RobertVeasquez Ай бұрын

Saw them in 1969 at the Texas International Pop Festival. It was a three day event shortly after Woodstock. They were fantastic…! I’l never forget Page using his bow…..it was total magic!

@paulkazakoff9231 Ай бұрын

Saw L Z in 1972 in Perth, Australia and they were amazing. Very loud and powerful clean sound which for the time was staggering.They obviously had state of the art equipment for an outside concert.I remember my ears were still ringing a bit 2 days after the show !

@sicotshit7068 Ай бұрын

Page & JPJ played on many song/albums as sessions players, including Page on a 007 song. Besides their first 6 gigs as The New Yardbirds tour, in Scandinavia in 1968, they toured the US starting December 26,1968. So that was shortly before their album came out in the US, on January 12,1969. It was released in the UK & I believe elsewhere in March of 1969. I’ve never seen this article, certainly one of the best, if not the best, Rolling Stone & others had nothing nice to say. Millions of fans around the world loved & still love them, yet critics had nothing nice to say. Those bad reviews were why they hate giving interviews, I can’t say I blame them. Thank you for sharing this great early article.

@baillar100 Ай бұрын

That was a well written review, and it gives apt descriptions of what the band must have sounded like. It really gets to the heart of the band. It's amazing that Zeppelin got off the ground so quickly and with such force. Thanks.

@erickaplan711 8 күн бұрын

Monster talent & a genius manager, Peter Grant.

@Tyrell_Corp2019 Ай бұрын

As someone into Zeppelin since the 70's when a kid, I always remember the absence of anything about them in print. However, on the radio, they were loved. On WPLJ in NYC, there was an occasional "Get the Led Out" day with a 24 hour marathon. And then there was, "Zeppelin, Stones, Beatles, Who, Day". God I miss when DJ's weren't controlled by corporations.

@JamesLang-gd8pl Ай бұрын

Fantastic. I think it's great they got into Canada on their first tour.They drove to their shows in a rented station wagon.4 years later they had their own Boeing Jet....He'll of a Band.

@MaryNovak-lk1bv Ай бұрын

Did you hear that there's a new rock-doc about Led Zeppelin's early years? They finally found a distributor for it and it'll be coming to movie theaters in the month of May

@edvedder7835 Ай бұрын

Feel sorry for any band that had to play with them. They would have been blown away.

@robertatherley7761 Ай бұрын

Saw Zeppelin in Ottawa 1970 , Toronto 1971, Montreal 197 5 Their Live peak period seemed to be 1970 through 1972.

@Joemartin-g5b Ай бұрын

My favorite band , never got to see em .

@sicotshit7068 Ай бұрын

Same for me, I was to young in their early days, & by the time I could drive & they hadn’t been back to the USA. In their early day, they played closer to where I lived, more in my teen years to far away.

@Joemartin-g5b Ай бұрын

@@sicotshit7068 I was going to see them but plants son died. Then the next time Bonham

@sicotshit7068 Ай бұрын

@ sorry both horrible deaths prevented you from seeing them. It’s not the same, but I’m so glad we have these videos, I saw TSRTS back when it came out. I’ve watched it twice on KZbin, & I’ve watched the other three concerts too.

@michaeloneill1360 Ай бұрын

Page's Guitar Sound on: Hurdy Gurdy Man was a Peek into the Future of Hard Rock Music!

@luvbasses5487 Ай бұрын

Pull up their Osaka 9-29-71 concert on Led Zeppelin Boots channel. Listen to the whole thing! Highlights for me include the Whole Lotta Love medley of party tunes and then John Paul’s Hammond Organ solo, then right into Thank You. I consider this essential listening. It’s Zeppelin firing on all cylinders!

@grahamfay2473 Ай бұрын

That was so interesting. Thank you so much for an insight to the first tour of the greatest band yo jave ever graced the music world.❤

@ingridredfern5065 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this it was great to listen to.🤘😊

@DAGDRUM53 Ай бұрын

The first concert I went to was Led Zeppelin on August 4 1969; I was 16 and 6 weeks old. The last time was May 21 1977.

@prisonersforprofit Ай бұрын

i think this was their 2nd tour in north america, the first was before and while their first record came out, they replaced jeff beck's group who had cancelled, peter grant managed both and sent unmarked records ahead of them (imagine how much they'd be worth?) zep was completely unknown but famously took over the tour, the other bands just stopped showing up.

@ArtscapeDesigns Ай бұрын

I grew up in LA and got to catch Zeppelin on their first tour when they opened for Deep Purple, we were blown away

@sampate4323 Ай бұрын

Saw them live at the Atlanta Pop Festival July 1969. Plant was a whirling dervish

@CUBICUB Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this.

@audiomover Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@ronaldpowell2717 Ай бұрын

Saw zeppelin in '75 and '77 in Greensboro N C .Saw 100s of shows In that venue by far zeppelin was the best. One of the local movie theaters would play "The song remains the same " every Saturday night. We would drop a hit of acid 😂and have a ball. The 70s was the greatest decade ever. What do you think??

@DoncampbellUSMC Ай бұрын

Right On THANKS

@bishlap Ай бұрын

Page was 25 in 1969, Plant was indeed 21.

@sicotshit7068 Ай бұрын

Bonham would be 21 the end of May 1969, & Plant in August of 1969, they both may have still been 20.

@PeterTea Ай бұрын

@@sicotshit7068 Yah, I think they were only 20 at the time.

@camarols6712 Ай бұрын

Led Zeppelin’s first chosen tour started in 1968 in Scandinavia

@sampate4323 Ай бұрын

Also, at Atlanta Pop Festival they did Train Kept a Rollin. Only band that day that came close to matching them was Grand Funk Railroad. Farner was brilliant. The Funk were completely unknown and not even listed on the bill.

@trajan6927 16 сағат бұрын

Grand Funk and The Mighty Who.

@K-Rock1963 Ай бұрын

The picture shows Page playing a Les Paul. He played a Telecaster in the early days

@tomsz64 Ай бұрын

He Also Used his 59 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty before it was stolen

@TheDivayenta Ай бұрын

I saw them in April 69 at the Winterland in San Francisco. I was a blushing teen when they did The Lemon Song which wasn’t recorded until later. 😂

@BeachSR17 Ай бұрын

Bonham has four arms! Four Sticks!

@michaeloneill1360 Ай бұрын

I saw them at the Montreal Forum in Feb, 1975

@luvbasses5487 Ай бұрын

May I ask; have you viewed the recently surfaced footage from that night you were there?

@michaeloneill1360 Ай бұрын

@@luvbasses5487 Yes, there's a 8mm video on You Tube

@luvbasses5487 Ай бұрын

@@michaeloneill1360 yes, I’m aware. I was hoping you were aware of it too. I’ve had the vinyl boot recording of this show for 30 years and always wanted to see some footage from this ‘75 tour. Speedy’s footage captured it perfectly! My god what a stage set they had on that outing! Between the Vaudeville-like lightbulbs at the foot of the stage to the multi colored lighting rig to the great big neon signage. What a spectacle it must’ve been to witness in person! I’m happy for you that you got to see it…and a little jealous!

@michaeloneill1360 Ай бұрын

@@luvbasses5487 Musical Highlight of my Life! 1975 was a Great Year! It was also my 1st Time, I made love to a Girl! 2 Landmark Events in 1 Year!!

@luvbasses5487 Ай бұрын

@@michaeloneill1360 i couldn’t be more happy for you! Great year, great fun! I was only seven in 1975…and never saw LZ. They’re my favorite band and I listen to them every day even still! They were simply the best! They loved Canada too!

@camarols6712 Ай бұрын

The earliest recording out there today is in Washington state. I believe it’s called Gonzaga 1968.

@user-surly Ай бұрын

It seems likely that LZ was born from necessity when the Yardbirds disbanded after Page had booked a Scandinavian and North American tour into early '69. It seems pretty risky to change the band's sound when the initial was anticipating the comparatively restrained psychedelic-pop sound from a band that had a history of line-up changes. I have read that Led Zeppelin wasn't particularly well-received in places where the Yardbirds were most popular. Apparently this wasn't the case in the U.S./North America. Page's new band may have risen from the ashes of the Yardbirds but was carrying on more in the vein of another recently disbanded British supergroup- Cream.

@ub1953 Ай бұрын

Saw them in "summer of "69" NYC Flushing Meadow Park and later in "73 at MSG; at one of 3 shows that became film..Song Remains the Same

@edwardgonczy3170 Ай бұрын

I'm 72. I saw them 3 times in 1969, the first was on their second tour at Fillmore East in May 1969. I believe that is around the time Jimmy Page acquired his Les Paul #1 from Joe Walsh (not gifted, he bought it). I was in Europe for 2 months in the middle of summer, when I returned Woodstock was just about to happen. I had 3 invites which I respectfully turned down (I think I had a premonition of what it would be like and just don't like sitting in a field of mud for 2-3 days) although, believe me, I was far from a saint at that time of my life. Instead, I went to see Led Zeppelin for the 2nd time at The Asbury Park (NJ) Civic Center as my consolation prize. I also took my first "journey to the center of the mind" which made the evening all the more memorable. Then I saw them 2 weeks later at The Pavillion in Flushing, NY which was adjacent to the site of the World's Fair years earlier. It was one of the first "general admission" shows and fairly chaotic. There is actually a site where a fellow concert goer reminisces about after the show, when a fellow who was "out of his skull", climbed to the top of the "world sphere" and caused quite a ruckus. I liked them but actually thought The Who had the better repertoire. There was just a bit too much of Plant's caterwauling and Page doing that slightly annoying thing with the bow on his guitar but had to say overall, pretty good.

@trajan6927 16 сағат бұрын

The Mighty Who at this point were already playing for 6 years and established a powerful live set.

@trajan6927 16 сағат бұрын

I read many articles favorable to The Who and The Rolling Stones at this time when Zep was just starting out. Zep was not the only kid on the block. It was known that The Who live were the band to beat. At The Rolling Stones Rock N Roll Circus, 1968, The Who performance was legendary. Monterrey Pop 1967, Woodstock 1969, Isle Of Wight, 1970, 1971, Live At Leeds 1970 nuff said.

@ralphbuege9693 Ай бұрын

How long was their set?

@dwandersgaming 20 күн бұрын

I thought Jeff Beck was on Hurdy Gurdy man and Page was on Sunshine Superman? At least I thought Beck did Hurdy Gurdy man because of the sound but apparently it was not.

@thetruthhurts6652 3 күн бұрын

Big difference from the review they got after PG.

@erickaplan711 8 күн бұрын

Led Zeppelin: none of it was by accident. All by design. Page and Jones were experienced, calculating studio rats with tons of chops and finesse & they had deep contacts in the industry. And Page & Plant knew how to pick the right drummer and vocalist. For mass appeal. Yes, Terry Reid would have been an interesting vocalist, but looking & listening back, Robert "Percy" Plant was the only choice, as was Bonham as drummer. As the story goes, during early rehearsals it was said that it "sounded like money coming out of the amps." Scary, scary good. And with Peter Grant at the helm, Led Zep was intended to be & were second fiddle to nobody. Credit where credit is due. Many bands (like Iron Butterfly) were scared to death of sharing a stage with Zeppelin. Rightfully so. Such an amalgam of talent.