October 25, 1969
Boston, MA US
Boston Garden
Setlist:
includes: Good Times Bad Times (intro) ~ Communication Breakdown, I Can't Quit You Baby, Heartbreaker, Dazed and Confused, You Shook Me, White Summer / Black Mountainside, Moby Dick, How Many More Times (medley incl. Lemon Song, Kansas City).
Notes:
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Press Review: "Naragansett's "Tribal Love-Rock Festival" of the twenty fifth attracted a typical Boston Tea Party crowd, with a hardly subtle difference in order of magnitude. The Led Zeppelin propelled itself onto the Boston Garden stage to confront sixteen housand colourfully-attired high school and college aboriginals - a total of thirty-two thousand dilated pupils, all eagerly trained upon the massive loth-fronted bank of amplifiers that was 'to produce the capper of an evening of northern-fried schmaltz rock and mini-riots.
They sped rather rapidly through their early material in group effort, combining "Communication Breakdown" and "Good Times, Bad Times" into a medley. At this point, group feeling began to flag, and the spotlight turned mainly to Page, although towards the end of the performance Plant (lead vocal) began to play vocal catch with Page's riffs.
The Zeppelin performance really had two climaxes, one of them faultless. The first was Page's rendition of "White Summer", a very lengthy medley of both Zeppelin and (Johnny) Winters-like patterns, connected at times rather faultily with semi-classical phrases.
The second climax was the well-deserved solo of Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who contrived to enrapture the audience with rythm while entirely avoiding any imitation of Baker's "Toad", which is no small feat of willpower." - G.Berk, October 1969
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Boston Garden - October 25, 1969
I've told and retold a countless number of times stories of this concert. I was 12 years old - my first concert (my second concert was the Doors - same venue) - and what a concert it was. I was second row, center - courtesy of a friend of the family's. Of course, the concert was made even better by the shear amount of smoke in the Garden. It shaped my musical tastes for the rest of my life. I'm still a huge fan and so are my children - and I'm 52 years old this year. My kids are 19, 20 and 25 - they know pretty much all of Led Zep's music - you can still hear it being played in my house - So, all of these years later - are they going to tour again???? Please, say yes!