July 5, 1969
Hampton, GA US
Atlanta International Raceway (Atlanta Pop Festival)
Setlist:
set includes: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, You Shook Me, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown
Notes:
Zeppelin return to America and play in front of their largest audiences yet, including over 40,000 at the Atlanta Pop Festival.
The first Atlanta International Pop Festival was held more than a month before Woodstock. It was organized by Alex Cooley, who later went on to organize the Texas International Pop Festival. The crowd numbered in the high tens of thousands, perhaps close to one hundred thousand. With temperatures nearing a hundred degrees, local fire departments used fire hoses to create "sprinklers" for the crowd to play in and cool off. It was a peaceful, energetic, hot and loud festival with few (if any) problems other than heat related.
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I was there, right in front,
I was there, right in front, and Zeppelin was wild! As I recall they hit the stage around midnight and immediately energized the entire gathering. Robert Plant was shirtless and racing back and forth across the stage, stepping over half dressed women that had jumped up and fallen down before the security guys could help them back off. There were a lot of big name groups, but none that compared to the mighty Zeppelin. I've been telling my kids about this one for years.