The Year of Led Zeppelin
A (completed) quest to listen to every Led Zeppelin concert in a year
Day 221: 4/25/1977 Louisville, KY
4/25/1977 Louisville, KY (Presence's master>cassette transfer)
The Song Remains the Same, Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, The Battle of Evermore, Going to California, Black Country Woman, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, White Summer/Black Mountain Side, Kashmir, Over the Top, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll
Page's fingers get stuck in the strings during the guitar solos in The Song Remains the Same. Plant repeatedly exclaims "well!" as Sick Again comes to a close, receiving a more enthusiastic response with each iteration. Page blazes through the guitar solo in Nobody's Fault But Mine. As the song ends, Plant asks the rowdy crowd "can you not push so much at the front, cause there's a lot of people gettin' a little bit hurt." The band gets a bit lost toward the end of In My Time of Dying.
There is a brief cut in the tape at the beginning of Jones's piano solo during No Quarter. Page and Bonzo join in for a frantic rendition of Nut Rocker. Jones gets a bit ahead of himself as the piece comes to a close and begins to play the main theme before Page and Bonzo pull him back. Page shreds erratically through a somewhat disjointed guitar solo. Someone in the crowd can be heard shouting "The Ocean!" as Plant is introducing Ten Years Gone, to which he mistakenly responds "we always do the old shit, what are you talkin' about?" adding "that's why we're in rock and roll, man!" Page struggles through an out of tune guitar solo. Plant pushes his voice to the limit during The Battle of Evermore. Black Country Woman is introduced as "a song inspired by a bad night with a woman... or a good one, on the other hand." There is a slight cut in the tape just before the final verse of Bron-Y-Aur Stomp.
Kashmir is incredibly powerful, the intense sonic assault threatens to destroy the taper's equipment. There is a cut in the tape in the middle of Achilles Last Stand. As the song ends, Plant tells the crowd "it's a long story, but if you could listen to the lyrics sometime, you might understand the relevance of it." Stairway to Heaven is dedicated to "peace amidst the brotherhood of Louisville." Page delivers an epic guitar solo. The crowd goes absolutely mad as Rock and Roll crashes into motion.
The tape is noisy and overloaded.
Labels: ALS, BCW, BYAS, GTC, IMTOD, KM, NFBM, NQ, OTT, RAR, SA, SIBLY, STH, TBOE, TSRTS, TYG, WS/BMS
dragonspirit said...
Plant delivers an powerful (perhaps excessively) performance in Battle of Evermore. I have a hunch that he was saddened and angered by the violent death of the young person in the concert from a few days before this one.
nutrocker said...
Actually I'd be more inclined to think Plant sings BOE so aggressively because he was pissed off at the rowdy crowd...someone threw a bottle at the stage after "Ten Years Gone" that hit Page's guitar (listen closely on the tape, you can hear Jimmy exclaim, "Fuck off!")
Louisville was NOT a good performance, IMO- the band was so distracted by the crazy audience they fucked up nearly every song. People talk about how bad the Tempe show is, Louisville gives Tempe a run for its money as one of Zeppelin's poorer shows.
I was only 15 years old in Louisville back in 1977 and that was by far the best concert that I have ever seen in my 52 years of life! I do recall that Robert Plant asked the crowd to please take a step back several times, due to people passing out from being pressed against the stage. Supposedly, it was an idiot from my home town that hit Jimmy Page with whiskey bottle. Regardless of all that, when they played " Nobody's Fault but Mine" it was perfect in every way! So perfect, that it's been embedded in my memory for 37 years now!
I am the guy who provided the cassette tapes of this show (BonhamFan). I have been offline for a while.
While "vultures" grabbed the raw transfer ans made money from it, I am still happy to have provided it for a copy of other LZ live shows. The music is $ to me!
Was at that show myself,trippin,was completely awed and inspired.Still listen and think of them as the best
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1968.12.30 Spokane, Washington
1969.01.05 Los Angeles, California
1969.01.09 San Francisco, California
1969.01.23 Boston, Massachusetts
1969.01.31 New York, New York
1969.02.02 Toronto, Ontario
1969.02.14 Miami, Florida
1969.03.03 London, U.K.
1969.03.14 Stockholm, Sweden (1st show)
1969.03.15 Gladsaxe, Denmark (1st show)
1969.03.15 Brondby, Denmark (2nd show)
1969.03.17 Gladsaxe, Denmark
1969.03.22 Birmingham, U.K.
1969.03.25 Middlesex, U.K.
1969.05.25 Columbia, Maryland
1969.06.19 Paris, France
1969.06.20 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K.
1969.07.06 Newport, Rhode Island
1969.07.20 Cleveland, Ohio
1969.07.21 New York, New York (2nd show)
1969.07.25 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1969.08.08 San Bernardino, California
1969.08.17 Wallingford, Connecticut
1969.08.18 Toronto, Ontario (1st show)
1969.08.18 Toronto, Ontario (2nd show)
1969.08.31 Dallas, Texas
1969.10.30 Buffalo, New York
1969.11.05 Kansas City, Kansas
1970.01.08 Bristol, U.K.
1970.02.23 Helsinki, Finland
1970.02.28 Copenhagen, Denmark
1970.03.07 Montreux, Switzerland
1970.03.09 Vienna, Austria
1970.03.10 Hamburg, Germany
1970.03.12 Düsseldorf, Germany
1970.03.21 Vancouver, British Columbia
1970.03.25 Denver, Colorado
1970.03.29 Houston, Texas
1970.04.05 Baltimore, Maryland
1970.04.08 Raleigh, North Carolina
1970.04.09 Tampa, Florida
1970.04.12 Bloomington, Minnesota
1970.04.14 Ottawa, Ontario
1970.04.17 Memphis, Tennessee
1970.04.18 Phoenix, Arizona
1970.06.28 Shepton Mallet, U.K.
1970.07.19 Berlin, Germany
1970.08.15 New Haven, Connecticut
1970.08.17 Hampton, Virginia
1970.08.21 Tulsa, Oklahoma
1970.09.02 Oakland, California
1970.09.03 San Diego, California
1970.09.06 Honolulu, Hawaii (1st show)
1970.09.19 New York, New York (1st show)
1971.03.05 Belfast, Ireland
1971.03.06 Dublin, Ireland
1971.07.05 Milan, Italy
1971.08.23 Fort Worth, Texas
1971.08.31 Orlando, Florida
1971.09.11 Rochester, New York
1971.09.13 Berkeley, California
1971.09.23 Tokyo, Japan
1971.09.27 Hiroshima, Japan
1971.09.28 Osaka, Japan
1971.11.13 Dundee, Scotland
1971.11.16 Ipswich, U.K.
1971.11.24 Manchester, U.K.
1971.11.25 Leicester, U.K.
1971.12.02 Bournemouth, U.K.
1972.02.19 Adelaide, Australia
1972.02.20 Melbourne, Australia
1972.02.25 Auckland, New Zealand
1972.02.27 Sydney, Australia
1972.02.29 Brisbane, Australia
1972.05.27 Amsterdam, Holland
1972.05.28 Brussels, Belgium
1972.06.07 Montreal, Quebec
1972.06.09 Charlotte, North Carolina
1972.06.13 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1972.06.14 Uniondale, New York
1972.06.17 Portland, Oregon
1972.06.18 Seattle, Washington
1972.06.27 Long Beach, California
1972.06.28 Tucson, Arizona
1972.10.05 Nagoya, Japan
1972.10.10 Kyoto, Japan
1972.12.04 Glasgow, Scotland
1972.12.12 Cardiff, Wales
1972.12.20 Brighton, U.K.
1973.01.02 Sheffield, U.K.
1973.01.07 Oxford, U.K.
1973.01.14 Liverpool, U.K.
1973.01.15 Stoke, U.K.
1973.01.18 Bradford, U.K.
1973.01.22 Southampton U.K.
1973.01.25 Aberdeen, Scotland
1973.01.28 Edinburgh, Scotland
1973.01.30 Preston, U.K.
1973.03.06 Stockholm, Sweden
1973.03.14 Nuremberg, Germany
1973.03.17 Munich, Germany
1973.03.22 Essen, Germany
1973.03.24 Offenburg, Germany
1973.03.26 Lyon, France
1973.03.27 Nancy, France
1973.05.13 Mobile, Alabama
1973.05.14 New Orleans, Louisiana
1973.05.26 Salt Lake City, Utah
1973.07.06 Chicago, Illinois
1973.07.09 St. Paul, Minnesota
1973.07.12 Detroit, Michigan
1973.07.21 Providence, Rhode Island
1973.07.24 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1975.01.25 Indianapolis, Indiana
1975.01.29 Greensboro, North Carolina
1975.02.10 Landover, Maryland
1975.02.16 St Louis, Missouri
1975.02.28 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1977.04.03 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1977.04.19 Cincinnati, Ohio
1977.04.23 Atlanta, Georgia
1977.04.25 Louisville, Kentucky
1977.04.30 Pontiac, Michigan
1977.05.18 Birmingham, Alabama
1977.07.20 Tempe, Arizona
1979.07.23 Copenhagen Denmark
1979.08.04 Knebworth, U.K.
1980.06.17 Dortmund, Germany
1980.06.18 Cologne, Germany
1980.06.21 Rotterdam, Netherlands
1980.06.23 Bremen, Germany
1980.06.24 Hannover, Germany
1980.06.27 Nuremburg, Germany
1980.06.29 Zurich, Switzerland
1980.06.30 Frankfurt, Germany
1980.07.02 Mannheim, Germany
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Songs and Must Hears
*Must Hear* (57)
ALAIHY (12)
AML (13)
Baby Please Don't Go (1)
BCW (34)
BIGLY (12)
BIOH (27)
Blueberry Hill (2)
BYA (8)
BYAS (89)
C'mon Everybody (5)
CB (102)
DAC (207)
DD (37)
Down By the Riverside (1)
For Your Love (3)
FYL (1)
Georgia on My Mind (1)
GTBD (1)
HB (148)
High Heel Sneakers (1)
HMMT (56)
I Gotta Move (2)
I'm Talking About You (1)
ICQYB (49)
IMTOD (58)
It'll Be Me (2)
ITE (17)
KF (9)
KM (89)
Let's Dance (1)
Long Distance Call (1)
Long Tall Sally (5)
Louie Louie (2)
MMH (65)
Mystery Train (2)
NFBM (55)
NQ (101)
OOTT (2)
OTHAFA (112)
OTT (29)
RAR (164)
SIBLY (188)
Sitting and Thinking (1)
Something Else (4)
Stand By Me (1)
STH (192)
Sunshine Woman (1)
TBOE (34)
TG (30)
That's All Right (1)
The Girl Can't Help It (1)
The Girl I Love... (1)
TKAR (44)
Travelling Riverside Blues (1)
TRS (111)
TSRTS (134)
TTW (58)
TU (70)
Twenty Flight Rock (1)
TY (48)
WGG (15)
WIAWSNB (72)
WLL (167)
WS/BMS (93)
WTLB (3)
YSM (28)
Day 239: 6/21/1977 Los Angeles, CA
Day 238: 6/19/1977 San Diego, CA
Day 237: 6/14/1977 New York, NY
Day 233: 6/8/1977 New York, NY
Day 232: 6/3/1977 Tampa, FL
Day 231: 5/30/1977 Landover, MD
Day 227: 5/22/1977 Fort Worth, TX
Day 226: 5/21/1977 Houston, TX
Day 225: 5/18/1977 Birmingham, AL
Day 224: 4/30/1977 Pontiac, MI
Day 223: 4/28/1977 Cleveland, OH
Day 220: 4/23/1977 Atlanta, GA
Day 219: 4/20/1977 Cincinnati, OH
Day 217: 4/10/1977 Chicago, IL
Month Ten: October 2008
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