Average: 4.9 (26 votes)

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:

'69 Programme Click here to view the 1969 Tour Book

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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i must add a few comments to

i must add a few comments to what has already been said... i had seen the band on 8/21 at Frank Connolly's Carousel in the round--- tent like --- ... one of the BOSSTOWN bands opened... Beacon Street Union i think... they did the first album and a bunch of oldies... my 18 year old mind was blown... the Garden Show started with the MC5 giving a vigorous effort... Halfway thru Johnny Winter a huge fight broke out on the floor... a bunch of bikers got into it... the house lights went up and Johnny Winter just kept on slinking along...

Zeppelin was a powerhouse... i remember the call and response on "Squeeze My Lemon"... The crowd trying to match Plant...

I got to see them twice in 69 and never again !






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