Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, (Bring It On Home intro) Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Georgia On My Mind, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love, Communication Breakdown.
Review: LED ZEPPELIN ZOOMS FOR FRENZIED CROWD
by David Proctor | IN music writer
Like four British Caesars Led Zeppelin came, saw and conquered a frenzied, sold-out Salt Palace audience Saturday night.
Easily the most elaborately staged rock performance ever seen in Salt Lake City, it will be remembered for years to come.
Messrs. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham are in the midst of a $3-million nationwide tour and the 11,000 plus fans here probably will be the smallest crowd they encounter. But it didn't seem to affect Zeppelin in the least. In fact, they seemed to enjoy the audience contact - something you don't encounter before 58,000 people in a baseball stadium.
LIGHTS, MIRRORS
The Salt Palace stage was a collage of lighting scaffolds, spotlights, huge banks of speakers, various light-reflecting devices, 14-foot-high mirrors and, of course, the four stars themselves. Super-singer Robert Plant and Jimmy Page fronted the band and drew most of the attention while the rhythm section of bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham supplied the music's foundation.
*Rock and Roll* one of Zeppelin's better recent songs opened the two-hour show.
It's a song that really moves - but sets a pace that's impossible to maintain. So they slipped into some slower material from their new *Houses of the Holy* album.
PATTERN CONTINUES
The band continued the fast-slow pattern through most of the night -alternating older, familiar tunes with new album cuts. Also in the format were Page's guitar breaks of varying lengths during almost every song. Most of the time, he carried it off admirably, but inevitably he began to repeat himself.
But preciseness wasn't the object. It was the flash...the excitement...the theatrics...the total audience involvement that Zeppelin was after. They succeeded - and then some.
It was remarkable that a concert which generated such advance excitement - and was performed before such an enthusiastic audience - was kept under such control. Most of it was due to restraint on the part of the audience. They were exemplary.
20 MINUTE SHOWCASE
*Dazed and Confused* was stretched out to a 20-minute showcase for Page and the special effects staff. Using a violin bow on his guitar and a delayed-echo system, Page had the sound bouncing from one side of the stage to the other. At times, it circled. When it began to be redundant, they moved quickly into *Stairway to Heaven,* one of the finest songs they've ever written. John Paul Jones' work on the synthesizer was beautiful throughout the concert but especially on this number. (courtesy: Steve A. Jones)
Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, (Bring It On Home intro) Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Georgia On My Mind, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love, Communication Breakdown.
Review: LED ZEPPELIN ZOOMS FOR FRENZIED CROWD
by David Proctor | IN music writer
Like four British Caesars Led Zeppelin came, saw and conquered a frenzied, sold-out Salt Palace audience Saturday night.
Easily the most elaborately staged rock performance ever seen in Salt Lake City, it will be remembered for years to come.
Messrs. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham are in the midst of a $3-million nationwide tour and the 11,000 plus fans here probably will be the smallest crowd they encounter. But it didn't seem to affect Zeppelin in the least. In fact, they seemed to enjoy the audience contact - something you don't encounter before 58,000 people in a baseball stadium.
LIGHTS, MIRRORS
The Salt Palace stage was a collage of lighting scaffolds, spotlights, huge banks of speakers, various light-reflecting devices, 14-foot-high mirrors and, of course, the four stars themselves. Super-singer Robert Plant and Jimmy Page fronted the band and drew most of the attention while the rhythm section of bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham supplied the music's foundation.
*Rock and Roll* one of Zeppelin's better recent songs opened the two-hour show.
It's a song that really moves - but sets a pace that's impossible to maintain. So they slipped into some slower material from their new *Houses of the Holy* album.
PATTERN CONTINUES
The band continued the fast-slow pattern through most of the night -alternating older, familiar tunes with new album cuts. Also in the format were Page's guitar breaks of varying lengths during almost every song. Most of the time, he carried it off admirably, but inevitably he began to repeat himself.
But preciseness wasn't the object. It was the flash...the excitement...the theatrics...the total audience involvement that Zeppelin was after. They succeeded - and then some.
It was remarkable that a concert which generated such advance excitement - and was performed before such an enthusiastic audience - was kept under such control. Most of it was due to restraint on the part of the audience. They were exemplary.
20 MINUTE SHOWCASE
*Dazed and Confused* was stretched out to a 20-minute showcase for Page and the special effects staff. Using a violin bow on his guitar and a delayed-echo system, Page had the sound bouncing from one side of the stage to the other. At times, it circled. When it began to be redundant, they moved quickly into *Stairway to Heaven,* one of the finest songs they've ever written. John Paul Jones' work on the synthesizer was beautiful throughout the concert but especially on this number. (courtesy: Steve A. Jones)
November 30, 2007 10:23pm Mike Gags
When I first heard they played Salt Lake City I was like "WHAT?" 1/2 hour into the show, Robert calls this the last show in the Midwest..........."WHAT?" SLC in the Midwest?????? Well, he's from England so he's forgiven.
Great quality board of this show circulates in various circles and I must say I'm impressed. Robert blames the altitude (5k ft) as the reason Jimmy's guitar keeps going out of tune. RNR>Celeb Day are a little rough. But by Over the Hills they're dialed in and like most of the 1973 US Tour, some of the tighest jamming this side of the Mississippi. No Quarter is absolutely smoking........Jimmy's wah-wah tone is sick! Listen to him steer that wah-wah to another planet. SRTS>Rain Song is also flawless. Jimmy's last solo (the one he blows off on the '77 tour) is killer. If you've seen the movie, it's the part where Jimmy's playing flamenco style on the 12-string. Dazed & Confused is over 30 min and another masterpiece in the making. By mid-tour, this song steadily clocked in over a 1/2 hr and it blows my mind that Jimmy could come up with such inspiration night after night. Stairway is next and I always preferrred the 1975 versions (Have you seen Earls Court?), but this one is very well-played as Robert's vocals are crystal clear. Heartbreaker and WLL close out the show and Jimmy's solo on Heartbreaker is spot on. The theramin section of WLL is also a highlight.
All in all a standard kick-ass 1973 Zep show..........In my opinion, Jimmy's at his all-time peak on this tour.
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Led Zepplelin 1973 Salt Palace Show
April 18, 2010 5:45pm Kurt
I remember seating was folding chairs down at the floor level, and at some point during the concert they asked people to come down to the stage. We ended up right in front of the speakers. It was a great concert.
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I was at this concert. It
February 27, 2013 6:03pm Laddy
I was at this concert. It was great. I was a student at the University of Utah and played football. They used some of the team for security guards. I was in a folding chair 10th row on the floor. Saw the concert for free and actually got payed 25 bucks. I don't know why they hired us, we just sat there and tripped the concert. Zeppelin always has and always will rule.
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i was at this concert
November 17, 2011 6:18pm john
Great concert, my friend was mad cause they didn't play when the levee breaks. Thanks for the memories.
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Led Zeppelin Salt Lake City 1973
December 20, 2007 10:06am Carlos Pinto
I was 18 years old, I had not missed a concert in Salt Lake since I was 14. I have been lucky enough in my lifetime to see just about every great band back in the day. This however was the best concert I have ever been to in my life. Led Zeppelin live performing all the great songs that made them the Hammer of the Gods.
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Salt Palace 1973
February 25, 2015 11:49pm HT
Absolutely epic concert!
Does anyone remember what Page was wearing that night?
Could have sworn it was a football jersey.
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I was there and I did not see
June 1, 2020 1:57am Alan
I was there and I did not see anywhere in the story about when Bonham broke a drum head, took a bit to fix but the rest kept us entertained...I had just graduated high school out there, Layton
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