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Monday, September 28, 2015

1977.06.07 Led Zeppelin Madison Square Garden, NY (SoundBoard)

1977.06.07
 Led Zeppelin
Madison Square Garden, NY
(SoundBoard)
Magical Sound Boogie

Here is the link
https://mega.nz/#!S4sgSbgY!tmgZ5Sjw_vldso_LPZLjDyZbNI8Br2t7xnYBhOo8eGE
Review: Some rock bands have fans, others have admirers and still others have followers. But Led Zeppelin is the last great rock band who’s minions can be considered true believers.

Believing in Led Zeppelin makes its audience a unified community, which is rare in rock these days. The decline of rock as a social phenomenon and its development as big business has made the likelihood  of such sentiment obsolete. Led Zeppelin is the only exception. The nearly 20,000 believers who filled Madison Square Garden light night (June 7th) for the first of six sold-out shows were part of rock’s largest fraternity. A passion for Led Zeppelin is enough to establish communications, if not necessarily friendship, among a large segment of today’s teenagers.

The audience displayed restraint that bordered on saintliness during the one-hour delay before the concert started. No announcement or explanation was offered. But a substantial number of people did show stupidity bordering on sadism in greeting the band with an assault of fireworks that made the Garden seem like Da Nang, The explosions faded after a few songs when singer Robert Plant exerted his moral authority by requesting that those offenders “cool the firecrackers – no more of those exploding things.”

After that, most of the explosions were from the stage, where Led Zeppelin proved that it was worthy of the adoration bestowed upon it. The 8-year old band virtually invented what has become known as heavy-metal rock, an English combination of blues structures and ear-splitting volume. But the band has grown with the times. Rather than relying on its earlier style of rock-to-break-your-kneecaps-with once represented by songs like Whole Lotta Love, Led Zeppelin performed a nearly three-hour set notable for its variety, sophistication and depth.

Each member of this quartet added something special to the band’s sound. Singer Robert Plant, a tall, muscular, golden-haired man whose unbutton shirt proudly revealed the best developed pectoral muscles in rock, sand with his usually effective rasp. He maintained pitch and melody well and exuded by a gregariousness and intensity. Lead guitarist Jimmy Page is one of rock’s legends. His playing was busy, wiry, sometimes scattershot. On In My Time of Dying, he continually shifted the emphasis of the dynamics until he built to an attention-riveting, machine gun-like finish.

No Quarter was the vehicle for versatile John Paul Jones. On that tune, he performed on keyboards, alternating between spacey abstraction and kinetic surges of energy. His performance blended the styles of Keith Jarrett, Huey Smith, Beethoven, and B. Bumble and the Stingers. Drummer John Bonham, meanwhile, played with deceptive subtlety. His cannonball approach made use of empty space on In My Time of Dying, that propelled the other musicians without overpowering them.

So while many in the audience enjoyed the show simply because being there conferred status on the high school ladder, Zeppelin pleased its older fans by playing with both complexity and poignance. (D. Marsh, Newsday- June 1977)


This is the first of a six-night stand in New York and a really good show at that. In My Time Of Dying was dedicated to the British Queen. "Tonight is the beginning of the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, and that's heavy thing for us, so we'll do this one for Liz!" said Plant to the noisy audience. Kashmir is a little sloppy but the whole show is really powerful and Jimmy is on fire in Achilles Last Stand. The drumming is very sloppy in Stairway To Heaven and everyone chases each other through Rock And Roll, which makes for a very bizarre arrangement.



The first show of the band's six night residency at Madison Square Garden begins with a frantic The Song Remains the Same. The taper seems to be having a bit of trouble with his equipment, losing the right channel momentarily. Plant repeatedly exclaims "oh Jimmy!" as Page launches into a blistering sticky-fingered guitar solo. As the song ends, Plant tells the crowd "it's really great to be back, cause we never really knew whether we would ever make it back, y'know?... and I guess now that we have, we better do it good, right?" He insists that the crowd cool it with the firecrackers before dedicating In My Time of Dying to Queen Elizabeth II, in honor of her Silver Jubilee. The band hammers through a devastatingly heavy performance as Plant barks aggressively.

Since I've Been Loving You is an epic drama. Page is absolutely on fire, his fingers tear across the fretboard as he leads the crowd on an emotional journey. Plant is in top form, belting out each line with power and conviction. A fantastic performance, one of the best in recent memory. Someone near the taper can be heard saying "look here, on the roof!... they got a fuckin' Laserium!" as Jones begins his piano solo during No Quarter. There is a slight cut in the tape shortly thereafter. Page and Bonzo join in for another frenzied rendition of Nut Rocker. Page shreds wildly through an excellent guitar solo as Bonzo relentlessly hammers at his drums. Plant introduces Ten Years Gone as "a song about loves lost, but never gone." The crowd cheers loudly as the band begins a beautiful Going to California. The delicate atmosphere is interrupted by a barrage of firecracker blasts following the first verse.

Page and Plant get into a tongue-in-cheek rendition of Rawhide before Black Country Woman. Unfortunately, the latter is cut after just over a minute. The crowd erupts as Kashmir bursts out of White Summer/Black Mountain Side. The band completely loses track of one another during the latter half of the song. There are a couple briefly disturbing speed fluctuations near the beginning of an explosive Achilles Last Stand. Plant dedicates Stairway to Heaven to "the fact that good vibes are alive and well in New York." Page shreds erratically through the guitar solo. Plant exclaims "now let's go back to 1969!" before Whole Lotta Love. The band closes the show with a riotous Rock and Roll, getting caught up in the frenzy and losing track of one another during the guitar solo.

11 comments:

  1. I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN! I am not even queer but goddamn you'll make me one. You ARE A FUCKING SAINT! Thank you so much. I'd hug you tight man if I could. A bear hug.


    I'll always remember you!

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    1. Thanks a loy my friend!!! its people like you who make me feel really good about doing all of this... its very time consuming but i dont care i just want to share this zep and make it more available for people and help all zep fans to be able to get anything they want in zep! all zep shows right here!!!

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    2. Absolutely! Anytime, man. Listen, brother, you better check on your uploads. In a couple of months I am sure 60% of these links will be dead/different-site-cause-original-acquired.

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    3. Possibly, but i think Mega doesnt do that.... anyway even if that happens i will just fix them :)

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  2. This is an unbelievable blog, man. Thanks for all your efforts!

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  3. CHEERS! An amazing site you most certainly have. Just so you know.... both links for 1977.06.08 are dead and don't work. Plus the Dundee, Scotland show for 1971.11.13 as well doesn't work either. Everything else seems to be working fine so far. Remarkable collection. Quite an exhaustive labor of love I must say.

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    1. I will try to get this fixed asap thanks for letting me know. and youre welcome its no problem really i just wanted to help share the zep!!!!

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    2. The MSG Show is fixed. I had a problem with those two sources, one of them wasnt the right date of recording so i had to figure out what one was authentic. in the process i found a better one, then remastered it myself. the recordings for 6-8 are very rough, but i think what i did makes it a much easier listen, you can enjoy it much better now.

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  4. This is a truly beautiful recording. The completeness of this site is unbelievable. I did a lot of trading around 2000, when Page was touring with the Black Crowes. I first fell in love with Zeppelin boots back in 1986, when I was able to record most of the 1971 BBC show via FM radio. Twenty years ago, acquiring a recording was a fair amount of work, joining a tree, etc. Or, if lucky enough to find one for sale, quite expensive. Downloading here is obscenely easy. This is a fantastic resouce. I commend you for the passion and effort.

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