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Led Zeppelin was born out of the ashes of the Yardbirds. With the wailing vocals of Robert Plant, the thundering back beat of John Bonham’s drumming, the guitar virtuosity of Jimmy Page and the multi instrumentalist abilities of John Paul Jones Led Zeppelin was set to take off. The spark was lit by the ferocious management of Peter Grant.
For this blog series I read Stephen Davis’ “LZ-’75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 American Tour”. It’s a decent enough Led Zeppelin book. It’s probably more for a Led Zeppelin completist like myself than a casual fan.
While the charges of plagiarism against Led Zeppelin are true, the mighty Zep took those songs up several levels. For this blog I’m going to post the original song and then Led Zeppelin’s version.
This is one of Stephen Davis’ favorite Led Zeppelin concerts. I left out most of the solos. Most of these videos aren’t from that actual concert, but live performances from over the years. This here is the actual concert, audio only.
1) “The Song Remains The Same”:
2) “The Rover/Sick Again”:
3) “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”:
4) “In My Time of Dying”:
5) “Since I’ve Been Loving You”:
6) “No Quarter”:
7) “Ten Years Gone”:
8) “The Battle of Evermore”:
9) “Going To California”:
10) “Black Country Woman”:
11) “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp”:
12) “White Summer/ Black Mountain Side”:
13) “Kashmir”:
14) “Trampled Under Foot”:
15) “Moby Dick”:
16) “Achilles Last Stand”:
17) “Stairway To Heaven”:
Encore
18) “Whole Lotta Love”:
19) “Communication Breakdown”:
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