Average: 3.3 (59 votes)

June 3, 1977

Tampa, FL US

Tampa Stadium

Setlist:

The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine.

Notes:

77 programme

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Show ends early due to rain. 

The promoters then ran a full page ad, apologizing to fans for the turn of events – it read:

“Concerts West Apologizes and is sorry for the humiliation & inconvenience to you and your faithful fans at Tampa Stadium, June 3, 1977.

You did everything that you could and wanted to do so much more. You are the best and deserve the best, not the worst treatment.
-Respectfully, Concerts West.


 

News Report: At Least 100 Injured At Led Zeppelin Concert

TAMPA Fla. - City officials, reeling from a mini riot which erupted when a thunderstorm washed out a Led Zeppelin concert, canceled a rain check rerun Saturday, leaving fans from as far as Michigan and New York holding "rain or shine" ticket stubs.

"If I were in Buffalo, I'd go home right now," said Bonnie Strickland. The 19-year-old youth and three companions had driven 24hours to get to Florida for the concert. Strickland said they were the first ones in the stadium when the doors opened at 11:30 a.m. Friday for the8:30 p.m. concert. After spending the day in 90-degree weather on the sun baked football field, they settled down for the concert.

The British band played for 20 minutes before the thunderstorm hit. About 45minutes later the concert was called off.
The cry "We want Zeppelin. We want Zeppelin" came from the 70,000 fans as rocks and bottles began flying onto the stage."We had what had to be called a small riot. There were between 3,000 and4,000 people who were unruly and disorderly," Tampa Police spokesman Johnny Barker said.

About 250 police officers, all in riot gear and using billy clubs, broke up the rioting and herded the fans out of the stadium. The scene was followed by 26 reported traffic accidents near the grounds. "The cops didn't give any warning," one teen-aged girl said. "They just waded in. I ended up at the bottom of the crowd and a cop kicked me in the head. My brother got a broken leg and broken ribs."

The melee left an estimated 100 fans with injuries. Eight were arrested. Shift Commander Tom Wilson said "in the neighborhood" a dozen officers were treated for injuries." One had a concussion, there was one with a broken hand, one with a broken ankle, one with cut lips and some teeth knocked out, one with a dislocated shoulder..." There were so many people you just couldn't move," a 32 year-old man from West Palm Beach said: "I was just trying to get away. The ticket said rain or shine."

Persons holding ticket stubs can get refunds, but we are encouraging them to mail in their refund requests," Barker said. (Newswire - June 5, 1977)

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I was there at the Orange

I was there at the Orange Bowl when tickets went on sale on a Saturday morning April 1977. We ( my 3 best friends and I ) showed up at the parking lot which was open at 9 pm and sat outside on my VW bug till sunrise and then the metro dade county cops showed up in force to get everybody off the property due to quite a few kids tearing up the insides of the football stadium, hellishly, driving motorcycles inside in the middle of the night. Nearby homeowners called to complain as more and more fans waiting to buy tickets for the June 3 rd showed up. It was unreal. Toilet paper and even the sinks were flying out of the stadium. A few crazy drug induced fans were messing it up for everybody. After we were outside waiting to buy a maximun of 6 tickets each and in line it was about 9am that morning we finally got our tickets. But only an hour after we were escorted outside with my car still in the northside parking area..... fans threw rocks and bottles and anything they could pick up at the cops driving by. Yeah.... we all threw stuff. We thought we would never get to buy tickets at that time.






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