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Set List: Led Zeppelin, London, 2007
At Led Zeppelin's first reunion gig in 27 years, Robert Plant dedicated "Whole Lotta Love" to Ahmet Ertegun, noted that "Trampled Under Foot" was his Jimmy Page's attempt to sound like Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues" and provided no clues as to whether Led Zep will take the stage again, like on a tour of the States.
Variety's Steve Clarke reports that Led Zeppelin, with Jason Bonham on drums, performed the following Monday at London's O2 Arena:
Good Times Bad Times / Ramble On / Black Dog / In My Time Of Dying / 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 / Whole Lotta Love / Rock and Roll

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I saw them 6 times on the Physical Grafitti tour and they SUCKED!!!! Unless they were completely sober tonight, I can't imagine it being different.
Have movies of the shows to show how bad they were. Philly Spectrum, L.I. Nassau Coliseum and M.S.G. in N.Y.
Posted by: NotSurprised | December 10, 2007 at 06:05 PM
Hey, in response to NotSurprised comment. I have a show from Feb of 75 at MSG. Your ears must suck, not Zep. some of the 75 tour was pretty rough, it was Plant's voice
Posted by: Robert | December 10, 2007 at 06:17 PM
I've listened to many Zepplin bootlegs, and the '75 tour in particular was incredible, some sets lasting 3 and half hours. I have a CD of Dallas and No Quarter specifically was mind blowing.
They may not be what they used to be, but '75? Well, that was an amazing tour.
Posted by: Paige | December 10, 2007 at 06:57 PM
The music critic/genius 'notsurprised' is most likely just trying to stir sh#$ up. I've seen virtually all the great bands of the rock era, and Led Zeppelin were clearly in a class by themselves. When fully focused and firing on all cylinders, no band in the world, before or since, not even The Who at their absolute peak, could compete with Led Zeppelin. In the entire history of rock music, Led Zeppelin remain totally unique and without equal. In all honesty, without John Bonham, Zep's incomparable drummer, it can never truly be Led Zeppelin. That aside, the surviving members are so extraordinarily gifted that I'm sure it was a spectacular show.
Posted by: Bobby | December 10, 2007 at 07:27 PM
Where is Over the Hill and Far Away? Best Zep song ever! Hope they come to Florida, I'll be in heaven!
Posted by: azureblue | December 10, 2007 at 07:48 PM
My mother majored in music from the University of Wisconsin in 1952 and eventually became a pianist for the Milwaukee Symphony's Spring League. As a student of classical music, she surprisingly had an enormous respect for contemporary rock including Emerson Lake and Palmer, the Beatles, and Led Zeppelin. She enjoyed listening to their "clever arrangements" and could hammer out some serious renditions. Many of my friends would want to hang out with my mom and hear her play. Now 76 and suffering from a recent stroke, she wants to see her favorite rock band- Led Zeppelin. I can only hope they come to the US.
Posted by: WisZepFan | December 10, 2007 at 08:23 PM
I had sex with all of them in their heyday, and Peter Grant was definitely the champion when it came to a roll in the hay!
Posted by: Pamela Des Barres | December 10, 2007 at 08:30 PM
What an exiting day it has been. Even though I wasn't there physically, I was in spirit and thought. Their music was the soundtrack of my youth, hell my life. I am in the Bay Area and was at the infamous show in Oakloand in July 1977. I will listen to and revere their music until the day I die! Zep Rules forever.
Posted by: Eric | December 10, 2007 at 08:40 PM
YO.. you people don't know anything about music.. real music is all abnout us the next generation, black people and hip hop.. led zeppelin and old white cavemen music sucks and isn't listenable, the future is us, the hiphop community and groovy rap beats.. rock is for old losers and is music for retards..look at them with their old guitars and crappy style
Posted by: macdmc | December 10, 2007 at 09:25 PM
macdmc, didn't Nas say that hip hop is dead? Loser. Go post in the rap forums.
Posted by: Jimmy | December 10, 2007 at 09:30 PM
The comment from MACDMC is hilarious! For people who can't play music other than one beat, scratching a record back and forward on a turntable, using simple second-grade rhymes, it is truly hilarious. For people who can't speak or type English properly, who can't even speak at all without using their hands like gibbons, and who perpetuate racial hatred with songs about killing whitey and mistreating women like trash, I know where the REAL music is! Even at their absolute worst, the generation that Led Zeppelin thrived in was light years ahead of the mental and cultural Neanderthals that oocupy music and America today. Once Arsenio Hall taught people to act like monkeys with his Whoop Whoop Whoop, and rap impresarios got rich off making sure their customers remained in monkeydom waving their arms wildly with no brains in their heads, there was no looking back!
Posted by: Princess | December 10, 2007 at 09:34 PM
Princess.. when you open the tv what you see? hiphop, when you go on MTV what do you hear? the great rap music that everyone wants to see or else they would play other music styles. when you look at young people what do you see? hiphop fashion, even white people. We the black are so best at music that even white people want to be like us and try to speak and move like us. We are the biggest influence in this generation and we will dominate the future. This is our time, we are not being your slaves anymore. We know what is cool and we rap about it in our songs with the best music equipment that there ever was, no prehistoric instruments like led zeppelin. All that you said is stupid because we the rap generation is the best and we rule over stupid bands like led zeppelin who are not worth nothing and I just proved it! take that! rap represent !
Posted by: macdmc | December 10, 2007 at 09:46 PM
macdmc, hip-hip is NOT music. I repeat...it is NOT music. Stop calling it music. It is rhythm with syncopated words over it - just like Square dancing. If it doesn't have melody and/or harmony it's not music. Rock is for retards? I guess tracks saying "Ni**er" 50 times while taking about women's butts and shooting cops is Harvard grad material huh? And the future IS NOT Hip-Hip and Rap, Rap/Hip Hop is actually OLD. Its been around since the late 70's/early 80's. Sugarhill Gang, Run DMC, Digital Underground, Public Enemy anyone? Hip-Hop and Rap have overstayed their welcome at this point. Rock 'n Roll just has no direction at the moment, no new heroes, no genre shaping artists taking it in any new direction like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Eddie Van Halen, Nirvana etc. did in their day. There's no inpsiration. Music today is corporate, vanilla, Wonder bread, created for the masses crap. Nobody is taking risks or bucking trends. Music (and movies)is green lighted more by the marketing departments than real record moguls like Ahmet, Phil Spector, Don Kirshner, Lou Adler back when it was about the music and not dollar signs. Hip Hop is dead and I live for the day when 50cent has to sell off his mansion and cars to pay all the back taxes he owes.
Posted by: VoiceofReason | December 10, 2007 at 09:50 PM
..."we are the biggest influence in this generation and we will dominate in the future..."
Yeah, right. Did you ever stop to think that that might be what's WRONG with this generation? All these young punks like you are so dumbed down, it's taking less and less to make you think your stuff don't stink. Well, let me tell you, you better pull your head out of that self centered universe and get a dose of reality.
Posted by: fishaholic | December 10, 2007 at 10:01 PM
Youz tell them macdmc! These niggar-hatin' whiteez gotza ta hear it like it is. Ah shit. Fuck deez old Zeppelin whiteys. Dayz old and dayz don't matterz anymore to nobody. Hip hop rulz! Get down with Coolio and P. Diddy! Martin Luther King Jr. Man!!!! Nobody uses instroments no more. Demz for looozers
PeEeace OUT
Posted by: macdmc's retarded brother | December 10, 2007 at 10:19 PM
To MACDMC and Princess, you grew up on Rap and Hip Hop, we grew up on Rock & Roll. Don't speak like a thug, it only shows your complete ignorance. There is really good talent that has come out of the Hip Hop generation. Too bad the other 90% of it is total crap! What you see is a generation of angry people that think society owes them something. Get a grip! Oh, and Zepplin rocks!
Posted by: Tboner | December 10, 2007 at 10:19 PM
macdmc: If there was no rock where would rap "artists" steal their samples and drum beats?
Posted by: blueraja | December 10, 2007 at 10:22 PM
I saw Zeppelin in 77 in LA, when Keith Moon joined John B for a drum solo two really great drummers, who were giants of the music industry of their time. Kids who listen to r and b and rap don't have a clue how big these artist were compared to back then. Zeppelin sold out 5 or 6 consecutive nights in the LA at the Forum in in 77, no artist today could do that. In those days concerts could draw 200 thousand or half a million people, and people could walk around in the masses safely. Nowadays try going to a hip concert or any big event and not worry about being carjacked or robbed in the parking lot or gang violence. They say that music is a reflection of the culture, and while zeppelins music wasn't going to shed light on the theory of relativity, it was popular, and a lot more descriptive of th soul of of the human race for their time and respectfully with dignity which compared to what we have being produced today, ghetto music now just reflects the inability of the uneducated to grasp anything but fear , violence and racial hatred. Its not a matter of white music or black music, a lot of African music is really good yet sounds nothing like US ghetto music or but like Led Zeppelin and the old motown stuff the music has soul, and that is what makes good listening.
Posted by: stacey | December 10, 2007 at 10:41 PM
Rap? There, I farted....
Seriously, macdmc is likely a 13 yr old troll simply stirring the pot out of boredom, having not tasted his mom's snatch in so many years.
As for Zeppelin...well, 20 million souls vying for tickets pretty much says it all.
Posted by: Gunny2112 | December 10, 2007 at 11:44 PM
The show was utterly fantastic!!! Led Zeppelin didn't perform every song we fans wanted to hear, but my God... what an experience!! Hammer of the Gods indeed. (And lovely Pamela DesBarres - your book rocks, too, sweetheart.)
Posted by: Mighty Zep | December 10, 2007 at 11:45 PM
To be there on my birthday, WOULD'VE been a story to be told. To see, no less, legends.
Lawrence
www.carmatchpro.com
Posted by: Lawrence R | December 11, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Let see, I'm too stupid to play an instrument, I have a terrible voice so I can't sing, what do I do? I know I'll rap. And along with rapping I'll murder someone for street cred, sell drugs and push some black chicks into being my ho's, that's the ticket. Hey MCstupid, when you wake up and get your check from the mailbox why don't you spend some of it on a Led Zep album and see what real music sounds like, oh and by the way, your mother says hi and where the hell was my fathers day card.
Posted by: DJwiggitywack | December 11, 2007 at 01:40 AM
Let see, I'm too stupid to play an instrument, I have a terrible voice so I can't sing, what do I do? I know I'll rap. And along with rapping I'll murder someone for street cred, sell drugs and push some black chicks into being my ho's, that's the ticket. Hey MCstupid, when you wake up and get your check from the mailbox why don't you spend some of it on a Led Zep album and see what real music sounds like, oh and by the way, your mother says hi and where the hell was my fathers day card.
Posted by: DJwiggitywack | December 11, 2007 at 01:41 AM
I also saw those 1977 concerts in LA at the Forum. It was a musical highlight of my life when Keith Moon joined John Bonham for Moby Dick and Whole Lotta Love.
Posted by: Oldtimer | December 11, 2007 at 03:19 AM
Led Zeppelin is definitley one of the best rock bands ever. I too had heard some of their concerts were less than steller because of Plant's voice being out of shape. They way he pushed his vocal chords to the extreme, I guess you have to expect that now and then. And the drinking didn't help.
Rock and Roll is a very limited musical format. There's only so many ways you can combine the chords, beats, and voices until it becomes another genre. Zeppelin were vert unique.
As for comparing Zep to todays music, most of it is not even close in quality. 75% of the best rock and roll music that will ever be made, has already been made, and most of that was done in the 60s and 70s. It's good to hear that Zep can still recreate the magic.
Posted by: RJC | December 11, 2007 at 03:51 AM