The late edition of Led Zeppelin (day three)

All right, well sorry folks for the late post. It's been a long day (took the ACT today) but here I am, ready to entertain you with more videos and more useless trivia haha. Todays (or rather tonight's) videos will feature excerpts of a concert filmed a few days before the LA Forum concerts... and then two songs from Zeppelin's music library that aren't quite on the level of 'Stairway to Heaven' in terms of popularity... but I assure you, the songs are very good.





The first video features excerpts of a Led Zeppelin 1972 concert in California. The audio isn't the best but it's somewhat of a rare video and I just happened to stumble across it last weekend. I must say, Jimmy's dragon outfit is cool, but I like when all of them are just in jeans and stuff better.

'White Summer': this is from the Royal Albert Hall in 1970 and features basically Jimmy alone except for brief portions when Bonzo joins him. Page is on fire in this version he's spot on. It's basically eleven minutes of improvisation but Jimmy briefly cuts into 'Black Mountain Side' from Led Zeppelin.

'The Wanton Song' is from Physical Graffiti and is on the second album. One of Page's most aggressive riffs, it also features some studio trickery as the solo sounds like an organ, but is actually a guitar. To accomplish this, Jimmy used a Leslie speaker cabinet (mainly used for organs) to create the effect (think of the 'Good Times Bad Times' solo, he did basically the same thing there). George Harrison used one on several recordings for the Beatles as well.

Tomorrow will hopefully be the special with more videos than usual and also my take of what the set list should be for Monday's reunion concert.