led zeppelin tour 1974

“There was an extraordinary amount of tension...” Inside Led Zeppelin’s final US tour

Led Zeppelin's record-breaking final run of shows coincided with trouble and tragedy

The fact that Led Zeppelin ’s mode of transport for their ’77 US tour was a refitted plane that included a bar, two bedrooms, a 30-foot couch and a Hammond organ tells you where the rock legends were at by this point: this was Led Zep at the height of superstar decadence. It’s no wonder that they had money to burn. In April that year, they’d set a new world record for the largest paid attendance at a single-artist performance when they drew 76,229 people to a concert at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, a show that grossed a massive $792,361 (also a new record). It had sold out in one day. They felt unstoppable. “I’m sure we all felt a little invincible on this tour,” Gary Carnes, head of the lighting crew, told Classic Rock ’s Steven Rosen. “By being associated with Led Zeppelin , it seemed impossible not to have a sense of power. I’m sure the band felt that way, and I know everyone on the crew had a feeling of invulnerability.”

But underneath all their material pow-wow and ticket sales, the band’s 11th and final jaunt across the States was fraught with problems. First of all, they’d had to postpone some of the dates after Robert Plant caught laryngitis a few shows in. After the second performance, in Chicago, Jimmy Page had fallen ill with what Calmes called the ”rockin’ pneumonia”. Manager Peter Grant, meanwhile, was still the band’s antagonistic rock but he himself was going through a marriage break-up.

“There was an extraordinary amount of tension at the start of that 77 tour,” Calmes recounted. “It just got off to a really negative start. It was definitely much darker than any Zeppelin tour ever before that time. Zeppelin still had their moments of greatness, but some of the shows were grinding and not very inspired.”

Jimmy Page ’s drinking was another issue. The guitarist was hitting it hard, and it was affecting his performances. “Quite often Robert would announce a song,” remembered Carnes, “and Jimmy would go: ‘Robert, how does that song go?’ And Robert would sort of turn around and hum it to him. And Jimmy would go: ‘Oh yeah, oh yeah, I got it, I got it.’ Or Robert would announce a song and Jimmy would go into the wrong song. The times when Jimmy couldn’t remember how a song went were very, very rare, but it did happen.”

The group all headed off in different directions after the arduous tour, but the worst was to come. Robert Plant had just arrived at his hotel in New Orleans when his wife rang to say that their son Karac was ill, soon calling again to say that he’d died. It was a tragedy that loomed over the band’s remaining years, a devastating end to a period that pushed Led Zeppelin to the brink.

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Live performances in '74?

By bamf4k February 10, 2012 in Led Zeppelin Live

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It's Bad Company

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Not off topic: But John Paul Jones also jammed with some band in 1974 (the name escapes me).

Not to mention the countless jams Jimmy did with Roy Harper.

Second. Not off topic: But John Paul Jones also jammed with some band in 1974 (the name escapes me). Not to mention the countless jams Jimmy did with Roy Harper.

Jimmy didn't do anything with Roy in 74, it was JPJ who jammed with David Gilmour and Roy in 74.

Well hats off to him, lol. But thank you for the info, I appreciate it. Are there any copys o these shows floating around?

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Actually, you are incorrect. Jimmy, Keith Moon, Bonzo, and Plant jammed with Roy Harper at the Rainbow in 1974.02.14 in London. I have the recording and will post a picture in a few minutes.

I also have the recording of JPJ on 1974.08.31 London, England UK w/Harper, Gilmour, and Broughton. As well as the performance with Bad Company in July 1974.

With Roy Harper (credit Mooney1975)

Credit Obi-Won

Another one Mooney1975 posted, this time with Bad Co.

Well that was all news to me, thanks!

Does anyone know what the shows were that Jimmy did in '74 with some other group? Here's a couple of photos:

Here's the complete answer bamf4k...

The top photo is Jimmy with C, S, N & Y...from left to right is Neil Young, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Jimmy.

Middle photo is Roy Harper and Jimmy.

Bottom photo is Jimmy with Bad Company.

That is the May 23, 1976 Bad Company concert at the LA Forum, where Robert and Jimmy made a surprise appearance for the encore. It was the first concert appearance for Robert since his accident in Greece.

It was a HUGE DEAL and sent ripples around the rock world, as it showed Robert was healed and ready to take the stage...which meant a Led Zeppelin tour was imminent.

That is the May 23, 1976 Bad Company concert at the LA Forum, where Robert and Jimmy made a surprise appearance for the encore. It was the first concert appearance for Robert since his accident in Greece. It was a HUGE DEAL and sent ripples around the rock world, as it showed Robert was healed and ready to take the stage...which meant a Led Zeppelin tour was imminent.

The Bad Co concert at The Forum has always been listed as May 23, 1976. That is incorrect. The Forum concert was played exactly a week earlier, on May 16, 1976. Here's an ad and a review:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/AlbumZeppelin/76-05-09latimesbadco.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/AlbumZeppelin/76-05-30LATimes.jpg

Bonzo on guitar? Could he actually play?

Thank you everybody, you've all been very helpful, I even have the added bonus of knowing about a '76 show as well! I look forward to tracking these shows down and having a listen!

The Bad Co concert at The Forum has always been listed as May 23, 1976. That is incorrect. The Forum concert was played exactly a week earlier, on May 16, 1976. Here's an ad and a review: http://i15.photobuck...atimesbadco.jpg http://i15.photobuck...5-30LATimes.jpg

Thanks for the help...just about everybody I've seen, including this site, had it listed as May 23.

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I asked the same question when I first saw that picture. Not sure I got a straight answer, but I think he's just screwing around

Jimmy Page - 1974

14 February 1974 » London, England @ Rainbow Theatre

1 September 1974 » Austin, Texas @

14 September 1974 » London, England @ Quaglino's Restaurant

24 September 1974 » New York City, New York @ Central Park

19 December 1974 » London, England @ Rainbow Theatre

John Paul Jones - 1974

31 August 1974 » London, England @ Hyde Park

John Bonham - 1974

Are you sure?

I was wrong as you can see above, JPJ recorded bass with David Gilmour on guitar one of Roy's albums.

Oh, forgot about that. "The Game" from HQ.

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Here's the complete answer bamf4k... The top photo is Jimmy with C, S, N & Y...from left to right is Neil Young, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Jimmy. Middle photo is Roy Harper and Jimmy. Bottom photo is Jimmy with Bad Company.

Is there a known recording of this jam?

Were Bonzo and Percy there? I know that, aside from Jimmy, Moon was there along with David Bedford, Max Middleton, and Ronnie Lane. A couple of tracks from that concert were released on Roy's live LP Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion .

• 1 month later...

Actually HQ is from 1975, and Jimmy didn't play on that album, Gilmour did, Chris Spedding played the lead part on The Game and JPJ played bass. Regarding Valentine, Jimmy played lead guitar on one track (Male Chauvinist Pig Blues). Page also played slide on a live Male Chauvinist Pig Blues released on Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion, also released in 1974. JPJ and Bonzo were not involved in Valentine, incidentally Percy was the MC at the Valentine's day concert, hope this clears up some confusion.

Some photos of Roy, Percy and Jimmy:

• 2 years later...

He didn't play anything night, he "Mimed" on guitar.

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Stephen Davis’ LZ-’75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 American Tour is that same kind of tale. Sure, the young Davis was invited by Zep’s Swan Song label to join the band on the road for a portion of their swing through the States, but he was still held at arm’s length from getting too close to the band. His attempts to bumble his way into some face-to-face time provide an air of intrigue as the tour rolls across the U.S. The concerts played by Led Zeppelin from January through March of that year are well documented, but LZ-’75 will still have you rooting for the band to pull out of their ill-health-riddled slump and for Davis to get his story.

Forget about the well-worn tales of excess and decadence from long ago; LZ-’75 reads like a disheveled pulp thriller (with occasional bits of hobbits, dope, and a suspected-but-not-verified ominous cameo by Squeaky Fromme thrown in). You find yourself rooting for Robert Plant’s voice to return full-glory. Who will reign supreme: drummer John “Bonzo” Bonham’s alcohol-tortured digestive system or his rumpled white jumpsuit? Will John Paul Jones’ ventures into the lounge lizard world on the keys alienate him completely from the rest of the band? Find out how William Burroughs holds the key to a potential one-on-one with Jimmy Page. And how a thermos of chai led to a summit among author Davis, Plant, and photographer Peter Simon one morning. And who was the mysterious prairie princess, anyway?

Rather than an “I was there and you weren’t” account of hanging out with ’70s rock gods, LZ-’75 manages to make all concerned seem rather mortal in their own way. The impetus for Davis to write the book after all these years was the recent discovery of a box of long-lost treasures from the tour. Call it a time capsule if you will; a happy accident seems more apropos.

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By January 1975, Led Zeppelin had firmly established themselves as the biggest rock band on the planet. Though they hadn’t garnered as much critical acclaim as their contemporaries in the Rolling Stones , their commercial success could not be denied. With the release of their sprawling double-LP ‘ Physical Graffiti ’ just around the corner, the time was ripe for Zeppelin to take things up a notch with a truly massive tour of North America.

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The 38-date tour formally kicked off on Jan. 18 at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, MN. Things didn’t exactly get off to the best start. Just before the leaving for the States, Jimmy Page  broke his left ring finger when it got caught in a train door, leaving him without the use of the crucial digit. The first show, while much shorter than many anticipated, was well-received, but shortly thereafter disaster struck when Robert Plant came down with a savage flu. As soon as the singer began to shake off the effects of his illness, John Bonham was hit with a stomach problem.

The band soldiered on and managed to get through that first month or so of the tour, albeit with a string of less-than-stellar performances to their name. By the time March came around however, things clicked in. Plant and Bonham were healthy once again, and Page was finally able to utilize the full force of his left hand. Many consider the band’s collection of shows on the West Coast of this tour, especially up north in Vancouver and Seattle, to be amongst the best they ever played.

They wrapped up the North American leg on March 27 at the Forum in Inglewood, CA, at which time Plant wistfully discussed the tumultuous two-and-a-half months to Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone . “Looking back on it, this tour’s been a flash," he said. “Really fast. Very poetic, too. Lots of battles and conquests, backdropped by the din of the hordes. Aside from that fact that it’s been our most successful tour on every level. I just found myself having a great time all the way through.”

Afterwards, the band had their entire tour set-up shipped to London for an iconic five-night stand at Earl’s Court. Once those gigs had finished, the plan was to head back to America for a second leg. Unfortunately, Plant was seriously injured in a car accident on the Greek island of Rhodes which put to bed any thoughts of more touring. It would be another two years in fact until the band took the stage together for a full show.

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Fifty years ago this month, 56,800 fans crammed into Tampa Stadium to watch Led Zeppelin promote their new album, “Houses of the Holy.” Just four years prior, they had played to 7,000 at Curtis Hixon Hall.

The May 5, 1973, Tampa concert wasn’t just a killer show. It also shattered the attendance record for the biggest crowd at any single-act concert. Up until that point, the Beatles held that honor with their 1965 performance at New York City’s Shea Stadium, which drew about 55,000.

“Between us we’ve done something nobody’s ever done before,” singer Robert Plant told the Tampa crowd that humid Saturday night.

The Tampa show was the second stop on the band’s 30-city U.S. tour, following Atlanta, which drew over 40,000 visitors. Tickets for the sold-out performance cost $5 ahead of the show, and $6 the day of, said Led Zeppelin super fan Vernon Bryant of Tampa.

“It was just a sea of people on the football field,” Bryant said.

A crowd of fans spilled into Tampa Stadium (later nicknamed “the Big Sombrero”) when the doors opened at noon. While the band wouldn’t take the stage until around 8 p.m., most of the seats filled by midafternoon. Spectators flung Frisbees, lit up joints and built human pyramids, some as high as four tiers, while they waited.

“Though Tampa Police said that between 2 and 3:30 in the afternoon Dale Mary Highway was one mass of traffic trying for a world record in the congestion department, by 7 p.m. there was hardly a car on the highway,” the Tampa Tribune reported.

At dusk, a crackle of fireworks welcomed Led Zeppelin to the stage.

“Musically, Led Zeppelin crashed and pounded their way through a performance that made every inconvenience born by those patient enough to stand the crush of humanity and the wait worth every moment,” wrote the Tampa Times. “Jimmy Page knocks more power out of his Les Paul Gibson [than] all of Tampa Electric supplies over a long hot summer.”

University of Tampa football players, like Leo O’Shinski, were recruited to help with security. He remembered fan after fan passing out due to the heat. The pressure of the crowd pushing at the barriers was relentless.

“We had a plywood wall in front of us, which was held up by two-by-fours,” he said. “We had to prevent the kids from breaking through.”

Preston Kuhn, another Zeppelin fan who lived in Tampa then, said his cousin often spoke about how difficult it was to photograph the band among the chaos.

“The crowd was getting crushed so bad it broke his camera,” Kuhn said.

First aid workers lost count of how many visitors they treated, helping people with overdoses as well as those injured in fights.

The set lasted several hours and included an intermission. Just before 11 p.m., Led Zeppelin ended with “Stairway to Heaven,” releasing hundreds of white doves.

“Everyone was holding Bic lighters up and it was beautiful,” said Glenda Youngcourt, 67. “That was the best part of the whole concert.”

Zeppelin returned to the stage for their encore, which included “The Ocean,” Bryant said. During the song, Plant bragged again about beating the Beatles.

“I think it was the biggest thrill I’ve had,” he would later tell the Associated Press. “I pretend — I kid myself — I’m not very nervous in a situation like that. I try to bounce around just like normal. But, if you do a proportionate thing, it would be like half of England’s population.”

He continued, “Tampa is the last place I would expect to see nigh on to 60,000 people. It’s not the country’s biggest city. It was fantastic.”

Led Zeppelin’s Tampa show brought in about $309,000, the Tampa Tribune reported — also beating out the Beatles’ 1965 show, which made $301,000.

Those who didn’t make it would have a chance to get the Led out four years later in 1977, when the band returned to Tampa Stadium. But that show was doomed by the weather. Led Zeppelin only completed a handful of songs before the skies opened up. The storm was so bad that the band refused to continue playing, and the rest of the show was canceled. A riot followed .

“More than 20 arrests, some drug related, were made among the 70,000 concert goers — 4,000 of whom police say stormed the concert stage when the show was called off,” wrote the Tampa Bay Times on the 40th anniversary of the show. “The windshields of two police cruisers were smashed by the angry concert-goers.”

While a rain date was discussed to make up the show, Tampa Stadium officials decided that the city instead needed time to cool off. At least 35 spectators and nine law enforcement members had been injured.

“That was horrible,” Bryant said. “Then [Tampa mayor William] Poe said, ‘That’s it, no more concerts in Tampa.’ And that’s when everyone started going to the Lakeland Civic Center.”

The promoters did show remorse, taking out a full-page ad in the papers to apologize to fans.

“Concerts West apologizes and is sorry for the humiliation & inconvenience to you and your faithful fans at Tampa Stadium, June 3, 1977.

You did everything that you could and wanted to do so much more. You are the best and deserve the best, not the worst treatment. Respectfully, Concerts West.”

The legacy of the 1973 show lasted through the band’s career.

Kuhn was one of the lucky fans who won the ticket lottery to see Led Zeppelin’s final show in 2007. He flew to London to watch them play and was shocked to see images from Tampa Stadium.

“When the lights finally went down, they played that news clip from Tampa,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it.”

Information from the Tampa Bay Times archive was used in this report.

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