As gsparaco (who considers the sound quality excellent)points out in his review of the Wendy release, the taper was very close to the stage and is able to capture every little detail emanating from the stage that afternoon. All audience-sourced releases derive from the same tape; most are broadly similar and are rated as excellent by Argenteum Astrumon Led Zeppelin Database. This tour was to support Houses of the Holy and the last three shows at Madison Square Garden were to be filmed for the Song Remains The Same movie. Led Zeppelin is the band that has become most associated with the Starship. Wendy has recently reissued Mary Kezar in new packaging, featuring the same photograph as the newGodfather release on the front cover. But you never know if youve shot an iconic photo at the time. After five years of evolving, I think we can do a few things like that now and again.Dazed And Confused is then introduced as, an oldie but gooie that you might remember. It is played in asuperb version, stretching to half-an-hour,which brilliantly highlights the interplay of the musicians. Long live Led Zeppelin.. The dove landed on Roberts hand. Likewise the soundboard recording does not soundharsh as the previous two titles.Godfathers A Celebration For Being Who You Are presents the audience tape with the soundboard onlybeing utilized to fill gaps where appropriate, including the Bill Graham outroduction, which the taper did not capture. After performing a show at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco on June 2, Led Zeppelin encountered bad turbulence on a flight back to Los Angeles. Without them on my side, I cant do my job whether thats for Led Zeppelin or Led Zepagain the tribute band. The soundboard tapewas releasedonLed Five (Empress Valley) and Vibes Are Real (Watch Tower). He stands there with a cigarette and beer in hand, and the bird, and a bemused look on his face. I mean, when I came back from the last tour I didn't know where I was. Not sure why but the story had a said air about it, almost like the scene around him still causes him a bit of anxiety. But Zeppelin in full flight was an incredibly intense experience."[16]. They were! If youre a professional photographer in my line of work and you cant get a great photo of Robert Plant, you should probably quit your job and go sell donuts. Powered by Invision Community, Led Zeppelin - Kezar Stadium, San Francisco 1973/photos & memories. KRON-TV & CBS News film news reports from the show. Rather than saying QZER to most maniacs, ZEP 1973 is a famous day which is like a . I am very jealous. I wasnt there to sit around consuming unmentionables and fuck everything in a skirt. The following year a furtherhalf-hour surfaced, giving us the complete performance ofMoby Dick and running to theconclusion of the show. News Report: 50,000 See Led Zeppelin in Bay City. In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson wins the FINAL honorable mentions round! Such a great read! I was overwhelmed, stoned out of my head, and thoroughly awestruck. 1 mo. But we just kept trying, pushing forward, every show. History [ edit] Date: 1973; Related Show: Kezar Stadium - May 26, 1973; Subjects: Grateful Dead (Musical group) Jennings, Waylon; New Riders of the Purple Sage; In saying that I shall begin. Japan. May 25, 1973 Salt Palace - May 26, 1973 Sports Arena - May 28, 1973 Kezar Stadium - June 2, 1973 The Forum - May 31, . Although the 2 hour show Saturday was 6,000 short of capacity, listeners blanketed the football field and stands. Copyright 2009-2023 San Francisco State University. Dave Anderson, on the Underground Uprising website regards it as a killer version, and Argenteum Astrum, both on his Led Zeppelin Database website and onthe bands official site, argues that it is one of the best 1973 versions of this number. Rehearsals took place at Old Street Film Studios in London. As Danny Goldberg, the bands press agent at the time,points out, the rock critics were brutal to Led Zeppelin. One who was most certainlynot was Charles Shaar Murray, who wrote in the UKmusic paper New Musical Express that, Led Zeppelin and 50,000 San Francisco people got togetherto provide one of the finest musical events Ive ever had the privilege to attendaltogether a magical concerta revelation., For a tape recorded in an open-air venue amidst an audience of fifty thousand people in 1973, the sound quality is very impressive. Well we can surely disagree but just off the top of my head these US '73 shows blow away the MSG run: 5/31/73 LA Forum, the infamous "Bonzo's Birthday Party" show. 2014. So excited to get the poster of one of them with the new TBL issue. ago. 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Led Zeppelin - The Vibes are Real ( 2 CD SET ) ( Kezar Stadium San Francisco, June 2nd, 1973 ) Related products Elvis Presley - I'll Remember You ( Live at Las Vegas Hilton , February 3rd , 1973 , Midnight Show ) As Argenteum Astrum comments both on hisLed Zeppelin Database andon Zeppelins website, Dazed And Confused is one of the best versions ever with Bonham and Jones going crazy at the end with the complex rhythms. Everything is played with extreme confidence, asserts Anderson, especially Dazed, with the rhythm section playing guessing games with Page. I suspect that he tortured, menacing sounds Page wrings from his guitar with the violin bow are the source of Hodges description of this renditon as, very psychedelic. Tony Gassett, on Underground Uprising, rightlycontends that Page is on top form here. Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin is published by Reel Art Press on 9 October. Their dress attire also took on a more flamboyant nature, evidenced in particular by guitarist Jimmy Pages hummingbird jacket and John Paul Jones Spanish matador jacket. My brother and my friends walked with me back to my place, and I remember all of us hanging out, being mostly quiet, in a state something akin to suspended animation. (Wiki),

Kezar Stadium is a stadium located in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. During the early part of the tour the band had hired a small private Falcon Jet to journey from city to city, but these aircraft are comparatively light and susceptible to air turbulence. What a tremondous show. 29 Apr 2023 14:59:30 you cant go wrong with having both. With the dove and the Newcastle Brown Ale, its so British and so Robert the Led Zeppelin singer at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, 1973. Perhaps the biggest music event in Bay Area history was held at Kezar. According to Wikipedia: On-stage, Led Zeppelins shows were developed further from those performed on previous tours, with the introduction of dry ice, laser effects, backdrop mirrors, hanging mirror balls and Catherine wheel pyrotechnics. Kezar Stadium 6/2/73 By ZepFanatic February 5, 2009 in Led Zeppelin Live Start new topic 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 ZepFanatic Members 364 Gender:Male Location:Boston Posted February 5, 2009 Listening to this boot after not hearing it in a WHILE (I have the combo AUD/SBD version).fucking phenomenal. 24. r/ledzeppelin. I was Led Zeppelins tour photographer. So much happened in such a short time. But when the cages opened, the birds flew out and one did a low pass over the audience, then must have taken too deep a breath of the San Francisco air remember, this was 1973 and there was a high chance of being dosed by some deadhead. The stadium's name is a homophone of "KEY-czar". The best concert Id seen before this had been fantastic The Who on the Whos Next tour, at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. But Zeppelin totally blew them away. Wow! mike. It was never recovered and the identity of the thief or thieves has never been discovered. [1][6] Their dress attire also took on a more flamboyant nature, evidenced in particular by guitarist Jimmy Page's hummingbird jacket and John Paul Jones' Spanish matador jacket. He continued promoting stadium-sized concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco with Led Zeppelin in 1973. 29 Apr 2023 15:07:20 Led Zeppelin Setlist at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA, USA Edit setlist Tour: North American Tour 1973 Tour statistics Add setlist Setlist Rock and Roll Celebration Day Black Dog (With Bring It On Home intro) Over the Hills and Far Away Misty Mountain Hop Since I've Been Loving You No Quarter The Song Remains the Same The Rain Song I was such a huge Zeppelin fan (and still am), that the Stones could have played that day and I would still have been comparatively indifferent. In 1969, Led Zeppelin released its self-titled debut which was produced by Page, as were all the subsequent albums. It was there for about five seconds. Jimmy certainly looks dapper! I was a guitar player in a rock band that played in a bar a couple of times on Haight Street, and the idea that I was going to see the Gods of Rock play at a slightly larger venue in the neighborhood made me feel like one of the luckiest people on the planet. Led Zeppelin plus supporting acts to be announced - June 2, Kezar Stadium. Neal Preston's best photograph: Robert Plant catches a dove, s far as I know, Im the only person ever to be, a picture I took of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. The tremendous momentum is maintained with a crunchingCelebration Day and a thunderous Black Dog which here, as elsewhere on the tour,gains a few bars of Bring It On Home as an introduction. [View film here], KRON-TV & CBS News film news reports from the show, LZ Zooms High At Kezar - review (Examiner), San Francisco (Kezar) 1973 review (Berkeley Barb), 'Led Freaks' - Fans Camp at Kezar (Chronicle), Led Zeppelin (American tour report) The Times 7-11-73, LZ Expects $3mil From 33 Concerts (May 1973), Teen-Clubs, Box 45, Egegaard Skole - September 7, 1968, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l4kXOBoL-M, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFI_KtixBU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foa6iPGHzkk. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. They flew out over the crowd, blowing everybodys mind. Here is an account of the show by someone there: In June 1973 I was 15, living at 827 Shrader St., a block from Kezar Stadium. This was a case of being in the right place at the right time with the right lens. Im sorry about that strange, er,whatever it was, says Plant. 3 CDr, Unofficial Release. Amazing pictures! Led Zeppelin hired for the first time The Starship a former United Airlines Boeing 720B passenger jet. The sound is amazing and Roberts voice is very powerfulhe screams and gets right up there for perhaps the last time in his careerhis range would be lessened on the following toursThe entire band shines on this showand the entire show is excellent!, The press did not necessarilyagree. We really wanted to take the live performances as far as they could go. Reminds me of the great shots of Sydney '72. 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The band smashed records for attendance, beating the Beatles June 2 at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, if what I read is correct. It was a beautiful, warm morning and as people filled the stadium, the Zeppelin-anticipation was already electrifying the crowd, that rare and wonderful I-cant-believe-Im-actually-here-look beaming on everybodys face. The exterior of the plane was re-sprayed with Led Zeppelin emblazoned down the side of the fuselage." 363. I know that the sound is not alway the best so I learned to listen to the performance, and in do. He continued promoting stadium-sized concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco with Led Zeppelin in 1973. A Celebration For Being Who You Are comes in Godfathers customary tri-fold sleeve, which features photographs from the show, including two of Plant holding one of the white doves released during the bands set. Im just glad it didnt land on Jimmy Pages hand or something bad might have happened to it.