October 17, 1969
New York, NY US
Carnegie Hall
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.
Notes:
2 Shows: 8:30pm and 12:00 midnight
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Review: Led Zeppelin became the first hard rock act to play Carnegie Hall since the Rolling Stones tore the place up some five years ago. Even up against Donovan at Madison Sqaure Garden (a complete sellout), both of Zepppelin's shows went clean, with tickets being scalped as much as twice their original price!
Though the management was uptight at half the audience dancing on top of their seats, and tried desparately to control the encores, the group managed to pull off one of the most exciting performances ever. They featured a selection of material from their new album, in addition to Jimmy Page's haunting "White Summer" solo and Bonzo's 25 minute attack on the skins. (J. Harris, Oct '69)
Les Girls Flock About, As Jimmy Tunes Guitar
(R. Yorke / Oct. '69)
Getting to see Jimmy Page, the quiet guitarist with Led Zeppelin during one of the group's concerts is about as difficult as persuading John Wayne that something is wrong with U.S. policy in Vietnam.
I had to batter my way backstage through a swarm of both male and female admirers strung around the stage door and the stairs leading to the dressing room at Carnegie Hall. When I finally reached the door marked "Led Zeppelin", I found that the dressing room was almost as crowded as the concert hall itself, tickets for which had been sold out weeks before.
Page was sitting in a corner, trying to tune his guitar while a group of young women looked on adoringly. It was the start of Led Zeppelin’s fourth American tour in a year and it was fairly obvious that the group had become the most popular English band working these parts, outside of the Stones.

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