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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Backstage Fun!
I was backstage at this show (with Johnny Winter and MC5), giving my now friend Clive Coulson and his team an extra set of hands. The interesting part of this evening was after the show. The band had something like an 18-foot U-Haul truck. Funny how small that seems now. Everyone was piling all their gear into the vehicles at the top of the loading ramp, with the help of the Garden stagehands. We thought it was their job. At the end, the crew-chief went up to Clive asking for his "piece" for him and all the boys. Clive didn't know what he was talking about, and no one else did either. The guy started freaking out, and the Garden crew started getting angry too. They were circling all of us with forklifts, yelling and such. One of them went crazy and threw a brick at us. Time to go! Everyone jumped in their trucks and off we went through a wall of fists, bricks and boards down this long ramp to the parking lot and beyond. I was actually standing on the running board, holding on the side view mirror praying for my life! One MC5 guy got a brick in the face and needed stitches. So much was new then. The roadies never should have been in such a situation. Back at the hotel after we knew the MC5 guy was OK, everyone blew off some steam and had quite a night of it... but that is another story.