I know it's become a cliche...

soma1975

Teyeplayer said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Jimmy Page's 14 year old girlfriend completely put me off to be honest. 

I’m always surprised that in light of the spate of celebrity allegations, operation yew tree and clearly shifting public opinion, that there hasn’t been more focus on Page. Particularly, as his tastes are so openly in the public domain.

I think the fact that if pics are anything to go by Page himself has transitioned into an ancient little Chinese lady nobody cares to try and unravel it. 

fields5069

I wouldn't want to see Led Zep to be honest. At the moment I just want to see bands / musicians who probably don't tour that much. I would love to see Damien Jurado. I'm not sure when he'll make it to the UK next though, give that he would reportedly do pretty much anything to be able to stay at home with his family more.

stratman3142

I saw them on the 15th January 1973 at Trentham Gardens, which I guess was around that era.

fretfinder

One of my all time favourite bands, and I went the the 1975 Earls Court gig. Maybe you had to be of that era to appreciate them properly. I don’t think much of Lonnie Donegan but apparently he was massive once... 

proggy

soma1975 said:

proggy said:

My first ever gig was Led Zeppelin at Earls Court 1975.

Meh. Mine was Transvision Vamp at Brixton Academy. 

You lucky bugger. Front row I hope!

Grumpyrocker

Teyeplayer said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Jimmy Page's 14 year old girlfriend completely put me off to be honest. 

I’m always surprised that in light of the spate of celebrity allegations, operation yew tree and clearly shifting public opinion, that there hasn’t been more focus on Page. Particularly, as his tastes are so openly in the public domain.

Probably a combination of several things - including the things Lori Maddox has said publicly. I wonder cynically it may be due to if Page has to fall for this then the Sainted Sir David Bowie would have to fall too. And people seem to think the sun shone out of his arse. 

Edit: Back to the actual point of the thread. I'd have loved to. I'm too young to have ever seen the band live.

soma1975

proggy said:

soma1975 said:

proggy said:

My first ever gig was Led Zeppelin at Earls Court 1975.

Meh. Mine was Transvision Vamp at Brixton Academy. 

You lucky bugger. Front row I hope!

She did half the gig in her bra. It was the greatest moment of my life up till that point. 

Jez6345789

Saw it all back in the day sort of a happy fuzzy memory did the earth move was my life changed no.

breakstuff

soma1975 said:

proggy said:

My first ever gig was Led Zeppelin at Earls Court 1975.

Meh. Mine was Transvision Vamp at Brixton Academy. 

  Mine too, but Manchester Apollo. 

soma1975 said:

proggy said:

soma1975 said:

proggy said:

My first ever gig was Led Zeppelin at Earls Court 1975.

Meh. Mine was Transvision Vamp at Brixton Academy. 

You lucky bugger. Front row I hope!

She did half the gig in her bra. It was the greatest moment of my life up till that point. 

Did the one I was at in a little leotard. 

Couldn't keep my eyes off her thighs. Think that was the point in time that started my thigh fetish 

DrBob

The company I work for did the video screens, cameras etc for the Celebration Day show at the 02. As part of the deal they got given a fistful of tickets for the show. There was talk of an in work lottery for the tickets but bizarrely the day of the show just happened to coincide with a board meeting for the PLC/Group that owned us in London and all the senior execs went and had a lovely time at the show ....

Kittyfrisk

Last saw them at Earls Court on 24th May 1975. One of my favourite bands at the time, not one of my favourite concerts.
Sound was pretty poor & they were mostly going through the motions IMHO.
Fell out with diehard friends for saying this at the time, but I know I was right 

EricTheWeary

DrBob said:

The company I work for did the video screens, cameras etc for the Celebration Day show at the 02. As part of the deal they got given a fistful of tickets for the show. There was talk of an in work lottery for the tickets but bizarrely the day of the show just happened to coincide with a board meeting for the PLC/Group that owned us in London and all the senior execs went and had a lovely time at the show ....

I seem to remember that a criticism of that show was that due to the number of corporate tickets occupied by people who were about as rock'n'roll as Giles Brandreth the atmosphere was a little flat. 

Jalapeno

EricTheWeary said:

DrBob said:

The company I work for did the video screens, cameras etc for the Celebration Day show at the 02. As part of the deal they got given a fistful of tickets for the show. There was talk of an in work lottery for the tickets but bizarrely the day of the show just happened to coincide with a board meeting for the PLC/Group that owned us in London and all the senior execs went and had a lovely time at the show ....

I seem to remember that a criticism of that show was that due to the number of corporate tickets occupied by people who were about as rock'n'roll as Giles Brandreth the atmosphere was a little flat. 

Plus it is a huge barn of a place and the sound isn't always that good (that said - Prince, Arctic Monkeys & Queen + Adam Lambert sounded great).

Philly_Q

Knebworth was just a little too early for me, my first proper gig (Hawkwind) was right at the end of 1979.  Of course in hindsight I'd have loved to be there, although generally they don't seem to have been the greatest of live bands.

And I've never really bought into the idea that punk made such a difference.  Of course it was huge - and hugely influential - for those that liked it, but the likes of Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis as well as more mainstream acts like Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles were hardly swept aside.  They probably barely noticed unless they were reading the music press at the time.  Phil Collins may have said Genesis couldn't get arrested at the time but their biggest success - by far - was still to come.

And as for the singles and albums charts - Abba, Boney M, ELO, Meat Loaf, the Grease and Saturday Night Fever soundtracks.  I don't think any of them were losing sleep over X-Ray Spex either.

lasermonkey

Is there a better video where
a: they play in time
b: the guitars are in tune
c: Percy doesn't make all those unnecessary noises?
Otherwise, I'm gonna have to go with a firm no.
TBH I've never got LZ. Most of my friends have dug them at some point, and I like the odd song or two, but most of the time they just set my teeth on edge.

BeardyAndy

Fuengi said:

For me, the one gig regret I have is not going to see Peter Gabriel on his Secret World Tour in the 90s. 

So many amazing musicians at the top of their game and some superb songs with a really inventive set. 

I was at Glastonbury '94 and he was closing on (what should have been) the Pyramid stage, we left before he went on to avoid the traffic! 

roberty

Fuengi said:

For me, the one gig regret I have is not going to see Peter Gabriel on his Secret World Tour in the 90s. 

So many amazing musicians at the top of their game and some superb songs with a really inventive set. 

Jeremy Corbyn's let himself go...

ICBM

Philly_Q said:

And I've never really bought into the idea that punk made such a difference.  Of course it was huge - and hugely influential - for those that liked it, but the likes of Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis as well as more mainstream acts like Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles were hardly swept aside.  They probably barely noticed unless they were reading the music press at the time.  Phil Collins may have said Genesis couldn't get arrested at the time but their biggest success - by far - was still to come.

And as for the singles and albums charts - Abba, Boney M, ELO, Meat Loaf, the Grease and Saturday Night Fever soundtracks.  I don't think any of them were losing sleep over X-Ray Spex either.

I like all those too - well OK, I'd draw the line at Boney M - and I quite like Zeppelin as well, on record... Plant's screeching is more understated and Page at least keeps things fairly to the point.

It's that sort of tedious overblown self-indulgent live performance that's the problem - and why punk was needed to give it a well-deserved kick in the balls. Zeppelin were far from the only culprits.

PolarityMan

For me the gig I most regret not attending is the NiN tension tour. That looks proper awesome.

soma1975

I saw NIN support GnR at Izzy Stradlin's last gig with them at Wemblry and Rezner tried to smash his guitar but it bounced back and hit him. (i refuse to look for a youtube video in case my memory of the even is totally wrong).