413
January 26, 1969 Boston, MA US Boston Tea Party Set One Includes: Train Kept A Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, Killing Floor, Dazed And Confused (incl. Shapes Of Things), You Shook Me, Communication Breakdown. Set Two Includes: White Summer / Black Mountainside, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Pat's Delight, How Many More Times (incl. For Your Love, Over Under Sideways Down). When they started playing, the sounds that came out of the amps and house speakers was deafening. Bands usually played loud, but not this loud. The vibrations hit your chest with physical force. It was... it felt... whats the word? Heavy. They started with a song the Yardbirds used to cover, Train Kept a Rollin later claimed as a live signature song by Boston boys, Aerosmith. Zep had formed out of the ashes of the defunct Yardbirds. Their original name sounded like a Spinal Tap joke, The New Yardbirds. Train was the first song the band played together, when they first met and rehearsed in London. "As soon as I heard John Bonham play, John Paul Jones later said, I knew this was going to be great. We locked together as a team immediately. And the band was locked together that night as well, in an organic, often loosely spontaneous way, but it was like they could read each others minds. Pages long solo on Dazed and Confused was appropriately jaw dropping, playing with a violin bow, getting sound and feedback that was as radical as anyone had heard since Hendrix. Pages guitar playing was obviously rooted in the blues and was light years beyond most of the solo guitarists of the hippie type bands, who tended to be self-indulgent and noodled endlessly when they soloed. This was different, his solos were as well constructed as a bluesmans while at the same time full of room for improvisation and letting the spirit take over. Whatever spirit that happened to be. His guitar playing was rife with power that seemed to come from some elemental source, some ancient time of pre-history, drawing up volcanic turbulence, witches wails, storms from the mystic. They did a stunning You Shook Me, showcasing the acrobatic, elastic voice of Plant. Here was another reason to absolutely love this band, the guy could hit notes that werent even written. They did Communication Breakdown, which was stunning, which we cheered for because wed heard it on the radio already. The rhythm section of Jones and Bonham was crunching and fat, that metal sound of deep base and drums like thundering hooves. The second set included the acoustic style guitar work of White Summer and the heavy metal meets folk Babe Im Gonna Leave You. Ending out on How Many More Times, leaving the audience gasping, wanting more but no encore, wondering what the hell wed just seen, exactly. To repeat Jon Landau before hed said it, wed seen the future of rock and roll. Music got heavier, hundreds of bands tried but never came all that close to doing what Zep did. For the whole concert see here: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p...
5m 1s |
3 years ago
YouTube
Keep this video in the "Saved" list
Now, put vTap to work for you!
Let us keep you up to date with new videos related to:
The Yardbirds
Boston Tea Party (tvseries)
Conneyfogle (YouTube)
Go to Feed to see what's new!
