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In soundboard recordings from two of the concerts from this tour, at the [[The Forum (Inglewood, California)|L.A. Forum]] on June 25 and the [[Long Beach Arena]] on June 27 respectively, were remastered by Page and officially released on the album ''[[How the West Was Won (Led Zeppelin album)|How the West Was Won]]''.
In soundboard recordings from two of the concerts from this tour, at the [[The Forum (Inglewood, California)|L.A. Forum]] on June 25 and the [[Long Beach Arena]] on June 27 respectively, were remastered by Page and officially released on the album ''[[How the West Was Won (Led Zeppelin album)|How the West Was Won]]''.

No official live footage of the band was filmed during this tour. In an interview he gave to ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper in 2010, when asked which performances from Led Zeppelin's career stand out to him now, he made reference to the tour, but acknowledged the lack of visual recordings:

{{quote|I think what we did on ... ''How the West was Won'' — that 1972 gig — is pretty much a testament of how good it was. It would have been nice to have had a little more visual recordings, but there you go. That’s the conundrum of Led Zeppelin!<ref name=jackson2>James Jackson, "[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6979690.ece Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin IV, the band's peak and their reunion], ''[[The Times]]'', January 8, 2010 .</ref>}}


==Tour set list==
==Tour set list==

Revision as of 07:19, 23 January 2010

North America 1972
Concert by Led Zeppelin
Poster for Led Zeppelin's concerts at San Diego, used to help promote its 1972 North American tour
Start dateMay 27, 1972
End dateJune 28, 1972
Legs1
No. of shows19 (including two European warm-up shows)
Led Zeppelin concert chronology

band. The tour was divided into two legs, with performances commencing on May 27 and concluding on June 28, 1972. It included two warm-up shows in Europe
.

History

Guitarist

Rolling Stones' tour of the same period, much to the annoyance of Led Zeppelin.[2][3][4] In order to prevent this from happening again, the band's manager, Peter Grant, decided to hire PR
consultants to help promote subsequent tours.

During this concert stint the band stopped at New York to mix tracks that had been recorded at Olympic Studios in London the previous month, for their forthcoming fifth album.[2]

According to Led Zeppelin experts Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett, it was at around this period in time that Grant began to implement the unprecedented policy of asking concert promoters for 90% of all gate receipts:

The group's stature was such that he was able to pull off this major swing with little resistance from the agents and promoters. Any deal with Led Zeppelin was better than no deal at all, they decided. As a consequence Led Zeppelin's fortune began to pile up at an even faster rate [than before].[2]

For this tour, and all of Led Zeppelin's subsequent American tours, the band hired Dallas-based company Showco to provide its lighting and sound.[5]

Recordings

Like many other

Led Zeppelin concert tours, several of the concerts performed by the band on this tour were recorded by fans as unofficial bootlegs. Some of these were subsequently released on bootleg titles such as Burn Like a Candle
.

In soundboard recordings from two of the concerts from this tour, at the

Long Beach Arena on June 27 respectively, were remastered by Page and officially released on the album How the West Was Won
.

No official live footage of the band was filmed during this tour. In an interview he gave to The Times newspaper in 2010, when asked which performances from Led Zeppelin's career stand out to him now, he made reference to the tour, but acknowledged the lack of visual recordings:

I think what we did on ... How the West was Won — that 1972 gig — is pretty much a testament of how good it was. It would have been nice to have had a little more visual recordings, but there you go. That’s the conundrum of Led Zeppelin![6]

Tour set list

This was the first tour in which Led Zeppelin used songs from their upcoming album Houses of the Holy ("Over The Hills and Far Away", "Dancing Days", and "The Ocean"). This was also the last concert tour on which Led Zeppelin included an acoustic section until it was revived in 1975 for their Earls Court performances. The decision to drop the acoustic set was perhaps made because their live concerts were regularly extending into three hour long marathons (and sometimes up to four and a half hours), which were becoming taxing on all four band members.[2][3]

The fairly typical set list for the tour was:

  1. "
    LA Drone" (Page, Jones
    )
  2. "Immigrant Song" (Page, Plant)
  3. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham, Page, Plant)
  4. "Black Dog" (Page, Plant, Jones)
  5. "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Page, Plant)
  6. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Page, Plant, Jones)
  7. "Stairway to Heaven" (Page, Plant)
  8. "Going to California" (Page, Plant)
  9. "That's the Way" (Page, Plant)
  10. "Tangerine" (Page)
  11. "
    Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
    " (Page, Plant, Jones)
  12. "Dazed and Confused" (Page)
  13. "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page, Plant)
  14. "Dancing Days" (Page, Plant)
  15. "
    Moby Dick
    " (Bonham)
  16. "Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham, Dixon, Jones, Page, Plant)

Encores (variations of the following list):

There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour.

Tour dates

European warm-up shows

North America

External links

References

  • Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4.
  1. ^ How the West Was Won liner notes
  2. ^ a b c d Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4, pp. 76-77.
  3. ^ a b Luis Rey (1997) Led Zeppelin Live: An Illustrated Exploration of Underground Tapes, Ontario: The Hot Wacks Press, p. 186.
  4. ^ Interview with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, January 1975
  5. ^ Lewis, Dave (2003). Led Zeppelin: The Tight But Loose' Files: Celebration II (1st Edition ed.). London: Omnibus Press. p. 32. ISBN 1-84449-056-4. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  6. ^ James Jackson, "Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin IV, the band's peak and their reunion, The Times, January 8, 2010 .
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