August 11, 1969
Las Vegas, NV US
Ice Palace
Setlist:
Setlists during this tour include: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, You Shook Me, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown
Notes:
The show is reportedly organized by local promoter Michael Tell (who later married Patty Duke).
Las Vegas Weekly - "top 25" concerts held in Vegas
3. Led Zeppelin, Las Vegas Ice Palace, 1969
Though the Internet purports Zeppelin's only Vegas-related date to have been an April 19, 1970, Convention Center cancellation we've spoken to a dozen individuals who vividly recall getting the Led out at this once-hopping all-ages venue in the Commercial Center off Sahara Ave. It went down atop the wood-covered ice of a hockey arena—most likely, we deduce, on either August 11 or 12, between shows in San Diego and Phoenix—with fans of the band's blues-driven early music fanning across the plywood floor and up the bleachers along the sides. "They were good, except when Jimmy Page pulled out that violin bow and drove me nuts with it for the next 25 minutes," recalls Las Vegas resident Tom Burt. "It was before they were really big—they only had their first album out—but if you knew what was goin' on, you knew who they were."
From Michael Chain in the group PINKINY CANANDY: "We were second on the bill. A local band opened the show (at the Ice Palace in Las Vegas), then Pinkiny Canandy (Michael Chain) and then Zeppelin. (w/ thanks to Steve A. Jones)
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Wolfticket, the best band in Vegas (at one time)
So, you don't remember the name of the drummer in the reincarnation of Wolfticket, eh? It was ME, Jef Benedetti. I was the drum roadie for the group and overnight, you and Richard were ejected for what I never did know, and Justin and I came in. Two weeks after that, we opened for Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs at the Ice Palace and then three months later, we opened on New Years Eve (it snowed that night in Vegas) for Doctor Hook, Tower of Power and Azteca. We lasted three more years in Vegas before going to L.A. to make it big. We didn't. Our last gig was opening for the Cars on Midnight Special in 1979, a gig Marshall Branch masterminded for us at NBC, where he was the lead cameraman on Days of our Lives.