Happy Thursday gang! I'm posting this in 'real time' before I take off for the day and running a little behind this morning to boot. Anywho, I do want to "preface" this blog =)
I'm not really a fan of Led Zeppelin. I never have been.
As faaaar back as I can remember Led Zeppelin was never on my radar. When I began really digging into all of the quirky little stories and such of music that entertain me so, I couldn't ignore the roots and branches of Led Zeppelin.
Songs by Led Zeppelin that I kind of half-way like depending on my mood are:
Good Times Bad Times
Rock and Roll
Over the Hills and Far Away
Ramble On is actually on my All-Time Favorite Upbeat Hits List - if you were wondering about any of that.
Anywho -- Off we go...
On this day in 1975 -
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The tour of 1975 was problematic to say the least! Aside from the riot at Boston Garden, they hadn't played together in almost two years, Page broke a finger and Plant caught the flu...
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::Wiki "Facts"::
This tour took place almost two years since the band had completed their most recent concert tour, which was the longest break between concerts yet taken by the band. As a result, some critics have suggested that the band seemed sluggish and rusty upon their return to the stage, with the group lacking dynamics and giving rather 'heavy' performances.[1]
To make matters worse, guitarist Jimmy Page suffered a broken ring finger after slamming its tip in a train door prior to leaving England for this tour. This forced him to take pain killers and to develop a three finger playing technique during the first portion of the tour.[2]In addition, Robert Plant contracted a bad case of influenza early in the tour, causing the cancellation of one show and negatively affecting his singing ability for much of the rest of the tour, leading to some unfavourable reviews.[3] However, toward the end of the tour it was noted that group seemed to be recovering, leading to some memorable performances.[1][4]
Indeed, by the end of this series of dates, Plant himself stated that:
This has been our most successful tour on every level and I had a great time all the way through.[2]
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The lowdown from History.com on the riot at Boston Garden is as follows::
On January 6, 1975, a crowd of 2,000-plus lines up outside Boston Garden to buy tickets to the rock band Led Zeppelin. Some in the crowd then broke in to the near-empty arena, and caused thousands of dollars in damage.
"For years and years, we had people line up overnight to wait for tickets," recalls Steven Rosenblatt, the ticket-office manager at Boston Garden on that January night, "but we never had anything like this." Someone pried open the Garden's locked doors around midnight, and soon hundreds of beer-drinking, bottle-throwing Led Zeppelin fans had the run of Boston Garden. "You couldn't have this kind of crowd running around un-tethered inside the building," says Rosenblatt, "so we decided to open the ticket windows." The near-riot was calmed by around 2:30 a.m., when the Garden staff began selling tickets hours ahead of schedule. By 6:00 a.m., all 9,000 seats were sold out and the crowd had dispersed, but not before causing upwards of $50,000 to the Garden and infuriating the Boston's mayor, Kevin H. White.
No one could accuse Mayor White of failing to understand the power of rock and roll. Back in 1972, he had personally intervened to free the Rolling Stones from a Warwick, Rhode Island, jail rather than risk a riot by angry Stones fans if a scheduled concert in Boston that night were cancelled. White came down hard on the Led Zeppelin rioters. Not only did he cancel the concert scheduled for February 4, but he also announced that the band would not be allowed to perform in Boston for the next five years. In fact, Led Zeppelin would never perform there again. Banned in Beantown, the group moved on to the next stop on their 1975 North American tour and bypassed Boston on their next one in 1977. That tour would be Led Zeppelin's last in the United States, as the group disbanded following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25, 1980. ***
Another interesting ::Wiki "Fact":: and I found a VIDEO to go with this one!!
I do LOVE vintage footage!! :)
During this tour Led Zeppelin hired The Starship - a former United Airlines Boeing 720B passenger jet, to transport them between cities. This was the second and final time the band used this plane, having initially done so on their previous tour of North America in 1973.
I was googling about to find some info on the
Zeppelin Riot of '75 and found the following links you'll enjoy ----
Led Zeppelin fans riot on this day 36 years ago
Led Zeppelin Fans Riot At Boston Garden: Wake-Up Video
Until next time...
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