includes: Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Black Dog, Since I've Been Loving You, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California, That's the Way, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Dazed and Confused, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love (medley).
A gig in Vancouver was originally scheduled for this date, but was cancelled by Vancouver city council. An announcement in the local newspaper read:
“Due to a freeze on rock concerts in Vancouver, Led Zeppelin announces that a second show will be held in the Seattle Coliseum, this Sunday at 8:00 p.m. This is a make-up for the City of Vancouver and all its Led Zeppelin fans. Tickets for the cancelled Vancouver show will be honoured at the Seattle Coliseum. So come on down and experience a killer of a show.”
includes: Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Black Dog, Since I've Been Loving You, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California, That's the Way, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Dazed and Confused, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love (medley).
A gig in Vancouver was originally scheduled for this date, but was cancelled by city council.
“Due to a freeze on rock concerts in Vancouver, Led Zeppelin announces that a second show will be held in the Seattle Coliseum, this Sunday at 8:00 p.m. This is a make-up for the City of Vancouver and all its Led Zeppelin fans. Tickets for the cancelled Vancouver show will be honoured at the Seattle Coliseum. So come on down and experience a killer of a show.”
Press Review excerpt: Led Zeppelin Impressive in Seattle Stand
Led Zeppelin, Great Britain's premier hard rock blues group played to two near sellout crowds Sunday and Monday at the Seattle Center Coliseum. Both nights the audience got what it came for; high energy, hard-driving, absolutely wild rock and roll - the music to which the group owes much of its vast popularity in the U.S.
They are a superb stage band. Rock concerts have evolved into an entire style or theatrical performance, multidimensional involving aspects of dance and pantomime.
Some of the concert's most exciting moments were when Plant's voice and Page's guitar would dominate the music throwing the song back and forth, building to new heights or taking the number in an entirely new direction. The group's other members, John Paul Jones on Bass and organ and John Bonham on drums, were as accomplished as the rest of Led Zeppelin. There is a complex and highly individual style to their music, long free-form instrumental breaks with loose phrasing and easy passage from one style and mood to another.
It's too bad that Led Zeppelin continues to be identified with such comparatively inferior bands as Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. For underneath the group's heavy sound, there's a tremendous amount of musicianship and some of the most individual writing and composition occurring in rock today. [G. Arthur / Herald / June 1972]
Seattle June 18, 1972
April 29, 2016 8:17am
This was my favorite concert of all time. They did an encore that felt like it would never end. My 1962 Studebaker Lark was the last car left in the parking lot. It just wouldn't start.
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March 16, 2008 9:33am Argenteum Astrum
All that is known to exist from this show. The night after is legendary and from what I can hear here, this one must have been very, very good too. We can only speculate if during that show some previews were also played. The show in itself was postoponed from Vancouver to Seattle due to authorities: "Well, what can we say? Something tried to do a lot of damage in Vancouver, I believe; breaking doors down and all that old shit! It's pretty unfortunate really when we try to stand for an alternative idea to the system that goes on now, and we're talking about love and peace and somebody's smashing everything up. I don't really know the situation, but I know that we couldn't go this year. We couldn't even go across the boarder. So, anybody from Vancouver here? Well, that's nice one! We've always had such a good time there." Some movement was in the audience during the acoustic set. Since I've Been Loving You is just outstanding and the band seems to be in good spirits and the playing is as good as ever.