includes: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, White Summer / Black Mountain Side, You Shook Me, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown.
Rodney Bingenheimer gives Jimmy Page a long fringe vest, which JP wears onstage that night. It was custom made by Hatter's Castle which was located on Sunset Blvd across from Thee Experience club.
One of the few shows where John Bonham uses a double bass drum.
Press Review: Anaheim Crowd Wild Over Led Zeppelin “Noise”
Orange County was overflowing with teeny-boppers Aug. 9, as Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull performed at the Anaheim Convention Center. The crowd went wild over Led Zeppelin’s noise, but I preferred Jethro Tull’s music.
Led Zeppelin, led by the shrieking of Robert Plant, had in it three very fine musicians. Drummer John Bonham performed one of the best solos I have ever heard, and lead guitarist Jimmy Page played excellently. On bass guitar was John Paul Jones. However, Plant’s singing detracted from any musical effect the group had. He simply mimicked the lead guitar with his voice… every entertaining. But the crowd loved it, not permitting the group to leave until they had completed a half-hour encore.
Instrumentally, the group was excellent, playing together to produce a very good sound. As if the lead singer had nothing else to do, he would get into the act with mind-blowing howl. [M.Gindes, Aug. 1969]
includes: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, White Summer / Black Mountainside, You Shook Me, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown.
Rodney Bingenheimer gives Jimmy Page a long fringe vest, which JP wears onstage that night. It was custom made by Hatter's Castle which was located on Sunset Blvd across from Thee Experience club.
Support Act: Jethro Tull
One of the few shows where John Bonham uses a double bass drum.
Press Review: Anaheim Crowd Wild Over Led Zeppelin “Noise”
Orange County was overflowing with teeny-boppers Aug. 9, as Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull performed at the Anaheim Convention Center. The crowd went wild over Led Zeppelin’s noise, but I preferred Jethro Tull’s music.
Led Zeppelin, led by the shrieking of Robert Plant, had in it three very fine musicians. Drummer John Bonham performed one of the best solos I have ever heard, and lead guitarist Jimmy Page played excellently. On bass guitar was John Paul Jones. However, Plant’s singing detracted from any musical effect the group had. He simply mimicked the lead guitar with his voice… every entertaining. But the crowd loved it, not permitting the group to leave until they had completed a half-hour encore.
Instrumentally, the group was excellent, playing together to produce a very good sound. As if the lead singer had nothing else to do, he would get into the act with mind-blowing howl. [M.Gindes, Aug. 1969]
October 18, 2010 4:11pm debra h
I was there and Jethro Tull was the opening band & we thought 'who's Jethro Tull?" ha-ha. Led Zep rocked!
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Anaheim Concert of 69
May 3, 2012 5:51am Rod
This was my sixteenth birthday present and it rocked. Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull together...At first each of the groups doing their own sets, and then both bands getting up on stage together and rocking out for around 40 minutes...My first big indoor concert, and a really great experience. Thank you to all the musicians for making my life better.
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Anaheim Show '69
December 20, 2007 9:44am Phil Hendrie
I was there. Jethro Tull opened. The show was incredible. They had curtained off a corridor for the band to exit through from the stage and the crowd pushed forward enough to collapse it following the show. I remember Bonham's solo.
Some blond, long-haired kid jumped up on stage after the show and hugged Page, then danced along the apron waving to the crowd and getting an ovation. The band, I'm sure, had been so many places and played so many venues that it wasn't surprising when Plant finally said to the crowd, "It's nice to be back..........in this area." He probably knew he was in the LA area but not quite in LA.
Great seats, a third of the way back, stage right, half-way up. The price? $7.50 a seat.
Beautiful thing.
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My very first rock concert
December 11, 2007 12:31am mike c.
I took my girl friend to this show (even though she had broke up with me the week before, a promise is a promise). I was 16 and had only heard one song (Communication Breakdown, which was the encore that night) before that. I had never heard of Jethro Tull before but did recognize one of the songs they played that night. I became a huge Led Zeppelin fan from that day on although never saw them live again. They also played a medley of Elvis songs and it was probably inside of Whole Lotta Love like on the BBC Session recordings.
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Can you remember if John
November 8, 2009 8:59pm Badgeholder
Can you remember if John Bonham was using two bass drums at this show? There are photos of him with the double-bass set-up, but nobody knows if they are from Bakersfield or Anaheim, so I thought I'd ask someone who was actually there, especially since you say you remember Bonham's solo. Thanks, and if you can't recall, that's also understandable. Just something I'm trying to figure out. You're lucky to have seen them in'69, I didn't catch them until '75.
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Jethro Tull followed by Led Zeppelin
December 29, 2012 4:11pm kenmozo
Just a correction. Jethro Tull opened the show followed by Led Zeppelin. No Spirit (band) that night. Tull was and has/had always been more energetic live, though both bands delivered great sets. I recall Anderson leaving the stage and taking a cub of coke (drink) from a fan. I was able to see Zeppelin from an overpass walk to the stage and will always remember Jimmy Page's glassy eyes staring up at us as he walked by. I heard about this concert a few weeks earlier at the Newport '69 Festival at Devonshire Downs, Northridge CA. Still have the ticket stub to the show!
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I was there at the Anaheim
May 30, 2019 4:12am David Mouland
I was there at the Anaheim convention center front row seats somebody yelled out Jethro Tull get it on you fucking hillbilly in Anderson replied don’t yell like that you’re going to hurt your voice Junior hippi. Then they went into my Sunday feelingI would like to know where I would go to find images of that concert I’m 67 and I’ll never forget that night
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I was young at that concert.
April 27, 2020 3:12am Charles e jones jr
I was young at that concert. 2nd time I saw Tull saw them 2days before at Newport 69 Devonshire downs. I did get lucky enough to go back stage and get Led Zeppelin's auto graphs. To bad some one stole that shirt from me (ouch!!!!!!!) I met Jimmy Page later in Reno at the Peppermill casino when he was making album white snake I was running his Keno ticket we had a great talk about that show and I blew him away when I said hey remember that kid who keep asking if he got all the auto graphs on back of his shirt ? Then I said that was me !!!!i should have went to the party afterwards they asked I said had to hitchhike home. Still didn't get back to San Fernando valley until 7 am and heard my Dad trying to open my door see if I was in. I was just by the sink of my teeth I don't think I would have wanted that ass whooping for being out all night but it would have been worth it. To go with them a old Jethro Tull LED Zeppelin fan !!! God Bless and keep on Rocking I still am going lots of concerts still collecting autographs ,T Shirts , set lists and heart memories love you all CJ