Led Zeppelin - tonight's setlist (SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY)
 

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Led Zeppelin have taken to the stage at the O2 Arena in London tonight (December 10) - and NME.COM will be bringing you the action as it happens.

Currently we're experiencing one of technical issues with our live blog, but we don't intend to let that stop us, so we're going to post up the set and the comments from our journalist in the hall in this news story while we get things fixed.

So while it is a bit basic, if you just refresh this news story every few minutes you'll have the action.

So far Led Zeppelin have played:

'Good Times Bad Times'
"The set started with a clip from 'The Song Remains The Same' DVD with an American news clip telling of they broke The Beatles' attendance record for a gig in 1973 in California. Simple stage set, video screen behind the band."

'Ramble On'
"'Ramble On' done in extremely slow, bluesy manner, with shards of electric guitar from Jimmy Page."

'Black Dog'
"Page wearing dark shades, quite muddy sound. Crowd singing the 'ah-ah' bits back at Plant."

'In My Time Of Dying'
"Page is playing bottleneck guitar. Plant spoke for the first time before song, saying 'Good evening'."

'Your Life'
"That's not something you get to hear often these days, Led Zeppelin giving a song its live debut."

'Trampled Under Foot'
"Before starting Plant told the crowd it was the band's attempt to sound like Robert Johnson's 'Terraplane Blues'."

'Nobody's Fault But Mine'
"There are huge screen's dominating the O2 Arena, they split into four sometimes, goes monochrome, colour etc...quite spectacular."

'No Quarter'
"Following the song Plant paid tribute to John Paul Jones, who played keyboards and bass on the track."

'Since I've Been Loving You'
"A bit of a style guide for you, all the band are dressed in black bar Page's who is rocking a white shirt. As for the song they gone for the epic version....very bluesy."

'Dazed And Confused'
"Settle yourselves in, we're expecting a ten minute version of this classic..."

I really hope they play something from In Through The Out Door. Hopefully there will be a boot of this show.

Sounds like a great time so far. Of course, I want them to play "Fool in the Rain!" I also think "When the Levee Breaks" and "Immigrant Song" are show ins -- Valhalla, I am coming! :cool:

Here's a link to multiple pictures taken at the rehearsals for the show:

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Se...ntId=78302346#

Good to see NO BACKING MUSICIANS on stage!!!

LED ZEPPELIN Perform 'Dazed And Confused' And 'Stairway To Heaven' At Reunion Show!

A reunited LED ZEPPELIN - singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham - are currently on-stage at London's O2 Arena performing at the much-hyped Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert. The hard rock legends have performed the following songs tonight (December 10th): 'Good Times, Bad Times', 'Ramble On', 'Black Dog', 'In My Time Of Dying', 'For Your Life, 'Trampled Underfoot', 'Custard Pie', Nobody's Fault But Mine', 'No Quarter', 'Since I've Been Loving You', 'Dazed And Confused', Stairway To Heaven', 'The Song Remains The Same'.

NME.com has running commentary of the show.

'Stairway To Heaven'
"What do you think happened? Right! From the moment those opening notes rang out the whole audience went absolutely crazy. The atmosphere is electric. Afterwards Plant said "Ahmet, we did it!"

'The Song Remains The Same'

'Misty Mountain Hop'
"Plant kicked this one off by praising the job drummer Jason Bonham has been doing, stepping into his late father's shoes tonight."

By the way, this show will be out on DVD in the very near future...

I wonder is La Nicks will show up to sing R&R :cool:

I looked on Getty Images to see if she went but I didn't see her. The rest of rock royalty is there, though.

I know. :blob2::blob2: But I can't wait that long so hopefully we'll get an audio boot to tide us over.

I am kind of shocked she is not there. She is a huge fan. She once said of LZ that they were really almost too much talent on stage. Plus, she was another "child" of Ahmet E.'s. Finally, she did that gig where Plant was awhile back. I think La Nicks is not really into going to rock concerts as we never really hear of her going to one. The last one was, I think, the Bette M. one in Phoenix, when Taku was with Bette.

However, if there ever was a band who NEEDED them, these guys are it. Page has been a wizard in the studio, but I've always thought LZ sucked live.

Also, Plant still has a buldge in his pants and he can still stand at the mic in a manner as sexy as Jim M. and despite his age.

Can you post a link to the Getty site?

Check out Liza Marie and family - they are SCARY!!!!!!!!

http://www.tmz.com/

Kashmir

Whole Lotta Love

Thud!!

Why oh why didn't I go to this :mad:

I know. I would have sold a kidney. :laugh:

^^^

Thanks!!!!!!

I know. What happened? :lol:

Maybe she went incognito?

Could be. I know if I could get a ticket and sit in the audience essentially anywhere I wanted, I'd be there.

Do you think Paul M., Mick J., and the other glitterati actually sit in the audience. Or, do they have some sort of suite somewhere.

I can't imagine them sitting in the audience.

'Kashmir'
"Yet another epic, as this song cracks the ten minute mark. Plant introduced this one declaring 'We've got people from 50 countries here and this is the 51st'. Afterwards they left the stage to loud applause. Will they do an encore? What do you reckon..."

'Whole Lotta Love'
"... of course they come back to deafening applause. And it's an extended version of the old 'Top Of The Pops' theme. Then once more the band leave the stage with a visibly emotional Plant declaring:
'Thanks to everybody. Thanks Ahmet Ertegun, this one for is Ahmet Ertegun as we remember the days when Atlantic Records was the best label on the planet!'."

'Rock And Roll'
"Just time for one more, as after two hours the night reaches its climax, and what a stomper to go out on."

Houses of the Holy Crap, Batman! What a great show!! I hope they get the performing bug and tour, damn it! :thumbsup:

thanks for posting this.



now i'll go cry myself to sleep :sniffle: :distress:

Black Dog clip from the BBC:

http://search.redlasso.com/ClipPlaye...8-0de10d3da74e

The Song Remains The Same:
http://www.4shared.com/file/31745419...951/TSRTS.html

In My Time Of Dying:
http://www.4shared.com/file/31748840/3e4ca409/IMTD.html

Various clips:
http://q107.com/media/?id=cilqfm&cat...37;20-%20video

ITV news clip:

Plant sounds great. They all look a little Keith Richards rode hard and put up wet though :laugh:

Good Times Bad Times:

NBC Nightly News showed a clip of Rock N Roll and it sounded fine to me...A bit sloppy, (Zep has always sounded very sloppy live) but still good none-the-less.

I think they sound great.

Good Times Bad Times (full song)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=98NAEF7O

Here is an article on the event. It includes some of the seating preferences. Also - poor Naomi :rolleyes:

Naomi Campbell Mugged at Zeppelin Concert
Tuesday , December 11, 2007

By Roger Friedman


ADVERTISEMENTNaomi Campbell Mugged at Zeppelin Concert

Would it be an event if Naomi Campbell weren’t somehow at the center of things? While Led Zeppelin reunited in London to memorialize Atlantic Records’ Ahmet Ertegun, the supermodel was in a luxury box at the O2 Arena getting mugged.

As the show ended I ran into her coming out of the VIP exit. She was having a fight with one of the security men. As we passed, she announced to me, "Someone stole my handbag. It had two phones in it!"

It’s unclear whether Campbell reported the crime or how it happened. She made her complaint to security and then exited through the VIP section while thousands upon thousands of music fans swarmed over her.

She was the only celebrity known to have had a problem at a concert that was filled with A-list names. Mick Jagger, for example, attended the show with girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, while his children, Georgia and James, came with their mother, Jerry Hall.

The two groups did not run into each other. Hall and kids were satisfied to sit in very good seats at the side of the stage near Bob Geldof, while Jagger was seated in resort mogul Sol Kerzner’s private box with Mica Ertegun and James Taylor.

Elsewhere in the O2 Arena lots of other celebrities watched Zeppelin and a stellar roster of musicians put together by producer Harvey Goldsmith pay tribute to the memory of Ahmet Ertegun. They ran the gamut from Rosanna Arquette to guitarist extraordinaire Jeff Beck.

Arquette’s friend Paul McCartney was expected but not seen although his security man arrived and lingered near Arquette in the VIP café before the show.

Also seen in the café were the entire Presley family — Priscilla, Lisa Marie, Riley and son Ben. The four appeared to have cornered the London market on mascara, and Priscilla now looks like Morticia Adams. Why? Who knows?

Juliette Lewis also was spotted in the O2, as was Nile Rodgers, New York radio personality Carol Miller, Will Arnett of "Saturday Night Live," legendary '60s pop icon Lulu with rock jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and, ultimately, Foreigner’s Mick Jones, who played one song — "I Want to Know What Love Is" — with a full band and girls’ choir as a tribute to Ertegun.

Jones wasn’t the only Atlantic alumnus on the bill preceding Led Zeppelin. Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman played at the concert and official after party with his Rhythm Kings featuring Albert Lee. At the after party, Wyman started the show that then featured in succession a group of Atlantic all-star R&B performers whose CDs still sell for the label, some more than current acts. They included Sam Moore, Percy Sledge, Ben E. King, and Solomon Burke.

But just to demonstrate how much the new Warner and Atlantic have nothing do with Ertegun’s fabled label, no executives from the current company bothered to come see those performances.

In fact, Warner Music had its own private party in competition with the official after party and its own artists. These included execs from Rhino Records, which now administers Atlantic’s Ertegun-created catalog that includes Moore, Sledge, King and Burke. Unbelievable, no?

But the after party at Club Indigo on the O2 campus was packed to the rafters while Moore wowed them with "Soul Man," "Money," "I Can’t Turn You Loose," a tribute to Billy Preston on "You Are So Beautiful," and a gorgeous duet with Rodgers on "We Shall Be Free."

Percy Sledge followed with "When a Man Loves a Woman," King offered a tribute to the great Atlantic group the Drifters, and Burke brought his famous throne and gospel soul tones.

It was the real Atlantic Records or, as Robert Plant said during the Led Zeppelin show, a tribute to when Atlantic was "the most magnificent record company on the planet."

Of course, a lot has changed in all that time. Plant, for example, only arrived at the O2 Arena less than a half hour before the group went on stage at 9 p.m. Jimmy Page already was in the house before that, fretting about the show and how he would perform.

The corridor in front of the group’s dressing room was the only place "absolutely no one" with backstage passes was allowed to go before the show began. They were obviously nervous.

There was no reason to be. If you were a Led Zeppelin fan when they last performed together 30 years ago, nothing has changed. But to paraphrase the song they chose for a final encore, it’s been a long, lonely time since they rock and rolled. After blowing on stage like a thunder storm with a trio of hits — "Good Times Bad Times," "Ramble On" and "Black Dog" — the group stumbled.

A strange song selection combined with iffy audio dynamics didn’t help. "In My Time of Dying" and "Your Life" were a little obscure and too long for a crowd packed frighteningly like sardines onto the floor of an arena. To use the vernacular, it was a buzz kill.

The audience — which had gone wild singing the ‘ah-hah’ refrain in Black Dog — drifted. Plant finally really spoke to the audience at that point: "Thank you for the thousands and thousands of emotions we’ve been going through for Ahmet." He added: "And to bring Jason in."

The reference was to Jason Bonham, who joined Plant, Page and John Paul Jones in place of his late father, John, on drums. Bonham the younger is a muscular, hard-hitting and enthusiastic drummer who gave the group a renewed zest for life.

His father would have been proud to see his bald son (funny since the remaining Zeps have heads of hair only Sweeney Todd could love) reinvigorate some of the hoariest music rock and roll has even seen.

Some things did not work so well. "Stairway to Heaven," the group’s famous seven-minute-plus reverie and radio staple, should have been the finale. Instead, it sort of popped up in the middle of the set and had a pedestrian quality. The sound quality was distorted, and the grander moments of this soap opera were lost. It was a disappointment.

On the other hand, "Kashmir," which has Middle Eastern tones and a shuddering drum line, was remarkable. When Plant twice hit beautiful high shimmering notes, the video operator was wise to show Page smiling from ear to ear. It was as if his partner had just made Olympic history.

"There are people from 50 different countries here," Plant announced before the song began, "and this is one of them."

Maybe because it was a one-off show and the group was nervous, there was little humor. The connection to the audience was more corporate than personal, a stark contrast to the later soul show when Moore, King and Sledge showed where Ertegun’s real heart belonged.

Still, you could see in Led Zeppelin’s dynamic English blues a connection to the world from where Ertegun (and Jerry Wexler) came. And when it was time to sing "Trampled Under Foot," Plant not only cited Robert Johnson but cracked wise.

"We were in a church in Mississippi in 1932," he said, smiling for the first time.

The show was a success, financially and emotionally. There’s no doubt about it either: Seeing how many hundreds of millions The Police have raked in this year, Led Zeppelin no doubt will make one last incredibly lucrative tour.

It may have been a coincidence, but in the audience was Gary Arnold, the senior entertainment officer of Best Buy, the huge American electronics chain. It was Best Buy and Arnold who underwrote the Police tour and saw hugely positive results. My guess is he’s gonna have a whole lotta love for Zeppelin when they’re ready to tour, as well.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316401,00.html

I'm going to jump off a bridge now, thanks. :distress::distress::mad::mad:

What's she gonna throw at her assistants now?

Does he play like his dad stylistically?

Kashmir: