Daylight Legends Documentary: Led Zeppelin's Kezar Stadium 1973 Performance Explored 

I always thought '73 was the peak of the band, Robert's voice was still working, Jimmy wasn't messing with the H, and Bonzo kept the partying under control. JPJ was always a good boy. It seems, come '75, things start getting sloppy. Thank You JCM for another fine job!

Had that poster of Plant holding the dove since the 70's and never really considered what or how that show was. This was awesome, thanks again!

I was there in 1973 and I was also there in 1977, but I love the show in 73. I was 20 years old went with four cousins in my little Toyota that only is seat four but there was five of us we had heard that people were camping out by the stadium. Our plan was to leave at five in the morning but instead we left that midnight. I have some great pictures of the band.🎸✌🏽 will never forget that show. Thank you, Mr. Bill Graham.

I have heard the boot of this show and the band brings it hard. I forgot that the Tubes & Lee Michaels played before Zep's set. What an amazing show, three really great bands in SF.

I absolutely love these Zeppelin concert retrospectives you put together,Jose. Thank you. We all appreciate your hard work. Cheers.✌️❤️

Jose you are “THE MAN” as a lifelong ZEPHEAD all the work you do is awesome and greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!

Dude I can't get enough of your excellent Zep docs! I just wish you could play entire songs. You're right BONZO was bombastic during that show!

Since I've been loving you, is a shear masterpiece of music. Every note of it!

If you listen to what Robert Plant says about Bill Graham, it was true until the day he died. We in the Bay Area we’re so fortunate to have Bill Graham. Was there anywhere else in the world that had as many shows of all sizes, did anyone have as many shows like the Day On The Green series every summer. Other places got big multi-line-up shows. But did anywhere have as many? We were blessed to have him.

My parents went to the Kezar show in '73. The main thing that they remember about the show is that the drum solo seemed to go on forever.

I really appreciate your commentary throughout the video. Thanks for teaching me and allowing me to appreciate Zeppelin even more ❤

I was there and back then you weren't searched and my buddies and I were drinking brandy shots and passing dubies around and I sat down during Lee Michael's set and when Zeppelin hit the stage I got up and I was so sunburned I couldn't open my eyes all the way. It was still awesom . I also saw a guy break his leg trying to sneak in. Good times

Thanks from a Zep lifer. As a UK fan, info on the legendary USA tours was always sketchy in the pre-digital age. Loving how you provide extensive new detail and expert insights into their shows. Been waiting for this content for years!

Most stuff I see on youtube about Zeppelin is just a rehash of stuff that has already been done to death. Your videos have fresh stories and facts about the band I have never heard anywhere else. You must do a ridiculous amount of research and it is totally appreciated! You are really great at this!

Jose, thanks for the video both videos the one you did of Santana and the one you did a Led Zeppelin got to see Santana in 1969. I was 15 years old a few months before he he hit Woodstock. The Woodstock band was amazing. They were very tight by 69. I had that zeppelins First album and four years later in 73 me and my cousin purchased tickets to go see zeppelin in San Francisco some great music came out of San Francisco and down south lower Canyon also has some great bands the late 60s and 70s were great years were music the best🎸✌🏽

This was simply outstanding JCM. I'll definitely be revisiting this show. 🌹

My dad was signed to RCA-records in 1974 & lived in Hollywood for a few years. He used to see the Tubes at “Gazzaris” on the strip, and said they were quite a spectacle back then.

Led Zeppelin did play at the Berkeley Community Theater in 1971. Also, Roy Harper did not open, he was thrust in unexpectedly between Lee Michaels and Zeppelin’s sets to help cover the delay.

When I watch these documentaries, I go back in Zeppelin time. Great job Jose 👍👍

Fabulous! A 404 error, Page not found! Incredible work as usual; thank you Jose!

Thank you once again for another great video Jose-I really enjoy them-all the best from NZ

Oh my 👀s &👂s Can’t Wait Jose !

Wowie WoW YAY!!! OMG!!! Sooo **Excited** Weeeee Thank you ever so **JCM** **RockON**

Thank you great work as always JCM

Fantastic work as usual, you have no peers when it comes to documenting Zeppelin ❤.

Love listening to these shows JCM! Thank you. They provide a great deal of information about one of my favorite bands of all time.

Always such a pleasure. Thank you!

An ode to time travel-I lived in San Fran in the early 2000’s; I took a series of bus connections out to Kezar(regardless of stadium updates) and walked the exterior perimeter just to vibe because of the Persistence bootleg- thank you for your commitment to production! You get it-

Excellent work as you always do

I’m very thankful for what you do for us fans

I’ve an old vinyl copy of this show, called “Persistance”. It’s my favorite Zeppelin bootleg! The guys were particularly adventurous that day, …not sure if it was because it was the odd daytime setting, or like the bootleg title, running into equipment problems and such, caused them to focus more than usual, as they “persisted” against the odds Wonderful show, and you captured its vibe beautifully Jose! I always look forward to your videos Jose, great work as always!

Wow this one was interesting, I have heard pretty much most Zeppelin bootlegs, but I've never heard anything from this show before. This WAS the Zeppelin show to see, they somehow managed to get really spontaneous and adventurous and hold it together really tight.....I would give almost anything to travel back in time to see this show!! Pages guitar sound!! Insane!! Pages playing was again, on point but at the same time he was really pushing it into other dimensions, Plant was sounding the best I've heard from '73, Jones, well, hes Jonesy.....Bonzo, agressive but at the same time carefully considered in his playing that night....Thanks for putting this one together JCM, I have often looked at the photos from this show and wondered what it was actually like......well, there it is!!

Jose' --- another great video giving a great perspective of how things happened and the overall scope of live Zeppelin shows. Thank you

Jose, this is awesome. Kezar. Yes! Great documentary, sir. Cheers from FL.

Cheers J. Nice work

What an awesome surprise to see this today! You killed it as usual. Hard gig to find any tape of.

Thanks again for this marvelous rockumentary, Jose! Brilliant as always! I like these venue oriented documetaries about Zep's concert life! I'd love to see a similar one for the Zep's Fillmore shows! If you have planned it - great, if not - I think you might consider it for somewhere in the near future! 🙃 Thanks again! Rock on, Jose🤟🍺

this show means aa lot to me because my birthday falls on June 2nd, thanks for doing a video on this gig man !!

To this day and back then, Zeppelin personified cool; every guy wanted to be them and every girl wanted to be with them. Plant's picture with the dove is off the charts; ,cigarette and beer in one hand and a white dove in the other; man, that's the definition of cool!!

This was soooo atmospheric, I felt like I was there! 👏I just loved the way you went through highlights of the numbers along with your detailed and knowledgeable comments about each member's performance, flourishes and occasional flubs. I didn't know Jimmy traveled separate that day, wonder what happened there..... Photos from Kezar look atypical (like Sydney '72 ) as it's daylight. Zeppelin always seemed much more like creatures of the night, but that didn't stop Plant and Bonham in particular from putting in a great show here. I just adore Bonzo's "and a fooooour ' from the start of The Ocean, he seemed to be quite playful in this gig. It's funny you mentioned the Cough. I saw some yt comments saying it was Plant, but being a Bonzette and having heard a fair few studio outtakes (that brief Four Sticks Alternate take for example) I noticed he was prone to coughing and wondered if it was in fact him while he and Plant were singing here.

I was there in 1973 with four cousins, and got pictures on my wall of the band

Woow great Job as always Jcm. Always skipped over this bootleg for some reason , so gonna listen to it now and give it the time of day. Bonzo was in top form!!

Hey JCM, thanks for another great episode. I’m reading the comments, lots of people at the show or know people who were. I’m from the Bay Area as well, and was just driving by Kezar Stadium with a friend who was getting a little annoyed about how I kept talking about Zeppelin playing there in ‘73 rather than helping to find a parking space 😂 Kezar in case you didn’t know is at the end of Haight Street, yes just a few blocks from the corner of Haight/Ashbury which we walked by that day on our hang day there. I’ve always loved the bootleg from that show, haven’t heard it in a while. 🤔

Another Super Zepper Doc-Thanx Jose !

Another great one! Nice insight on this show. I curiously never had this bootleg or heard the show. Bonham on fire!

Thank you so much for this insight JCM. I've always been kinda fascinated by the Kezar show due to my poster of Plant with bottle of beer and cigarette in one hand, a white dove in the other. Still have the poster, although it now lies inside a cardboard tube with all my other posters( mainly of Page). I used to study that poster and the sea of the slightly out of focus audience faces, wondering what it must have been like to have been there. This documentary helped it giving me a taste off that fascinating concert. Many, many thanks, your the best. 👍

Thanks!

Prior to the buzzing sound heard in this video there was a loud, ear piercing feedback sound at the very end of Rain Song. That's what Plant was apologizing for.

Heavy on the head weights the crown of the Mighty Led Zeppelin !

Your work is absolutely amazing and it continues to get even better and better. Your attention to detail is astounding. I really really enjoyed this as I always thought this gig in 1973 was one of their finest. Are you considering perhaps looking into the Oakland 1977 show? Thank you for all you provide

Led Zeppelin played the Berkeley community theater, 1971

I think he really needed another guitarist with him. His multi-tracking on the records almost necesitates this. He said the songs never sounded better than when he had The Black Crowes backing him.

I've always loved this 6/2/73 concert and I like the audience recording even better than the partial soundboard recording. I think it actually sounds better. Neal Schon posted something on Twitter either in 2023 or maybe 2022 about this concert and being there. I think he said it was his first Led Zeppelin concert but I can't remember for sure. But he really enjoyed seeing at that 1973 show and made some comments about being in the audience at that show. And by the way, after seeing your video on the Santana and Buddy Miles 1972 album, I started looking for that one because I didn't have it. I picked it up for about $11 at an audio festival in Dallas last Saturday. I wanted to hear Neal's guitar playing at the Diamond Head Crater event and it did sound good. The whole record did! I didn't even know about this recording until seeing your video. So thank you! I always liked how the camera zoomed out in Dirty Harry after Clint Eastwood shot Scorpio in the leg with his 44 Magnum flipping him over on the football field. I thought that was real cool camera work as the camera zooms out in the foggy San Francisco stadium and the scene kind of fades away after the incident there in the movie. Thanks for another entertaining and informative video on another great Led Zeppelin show JCM! Brian in Fort Worth 🎶

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The famous two-record set called Persistence, was my introduction to this gig…back in the middle eighties. It is a grossly edited, abbreviated offering of this gigantic ‘73 gig. Moby Dick is not included on that set and through the years I’ve heard the rumor that a legendary drum solo was offered by Bonzo but it hadn’t surfaced as of yet. FF thirty years and this show has been reconstructed top to bottom by the Zeppelin audiophiles - including MD! At one point during John’s tympani part, he’s doing triplets on his kick drum, (included here!) I’m trying to visualize this as I hear it - it’s just incredible to listen to! What’s even more incredible is: the gig on the following night in L.A.! These guys must’ve been burned out and drained of energy but…that gig at the Forum the following night is in my opinion THE highlight of the entire first leg! The energy is just overflowing…and I hope we get a segment on it. Thank you Jose for this surprise video! Excellent detective work, as usual.

Okay, that joke at 8:20 got me going 🤣🤣🤣🤣!!

I was there, in the army at ft ord

This show should’ve been filmed IMHO. Plants voice changed after this gig.

Formidable! Un doc sur leur tournee du Japon serai formidable. Merci pour tout ces anecdotes😊

talking about the 1973 tour, when are you going to do the MSG one? that would definitely be a banger, probably 3 chapters or more, i love your research man, keep it going

Fans were in for a treat in 1973 if Robert's voice was on point. Great stuff JCM.

Great video! Jimmy page had too much fun at that hotel in L.A. As a band, they sure loved L.A. and all it’s offerings. Magical performances though! Ever see that one video of those shows, filmed from a fan up in the seats? You get a good feeling of being there and anticipating what will come.

My favorite Zepp boot, "The Vibes are Real"....right after "Flying Circus".

Un concierto muy interesante!

You're the Ken Burns of Led Zeppelin. 😅 You're either going to be working for them or Netfix someday. God bless 🙏

Yhe Tubes had only been together for a little over a year and were two years away from releasing their debut album , so no wonder Graham wasn't thrilled to have them on a bill with Zeppelin. However, he came to love the group over the next few years and booked them regularly at Winterland and other West Coast venues.

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Recuerdo haber visto las fotos de este concierto por primera vez hace muchos años cuando recién comenzaba entrar al internet, que esa época solo se podía entrar en los famosos cafes internet, el sitio en el que las vi era una especie de base de datos de "todos" los bootlegs de Led Zep, y recuerdo muy claramente que al ver las fotos de la banda en plena luz del día era una sensación realmente extraña, era como que daban más ganas de poder estar ahí entre esos muchachos, en medio de miles y miles escuchando a la bestia de mil cabezas sonando bajo el sol !! Recuerdo que otro concierto que me dio el mismo sentimiento fue el de el Bath Blues Festde 1969, en el que igual las fotos eran de día y tan vívidas que uno casi podía sentir que estaba ahí !! Si no me equivoco hace muy poco aparecieron imágenes en video filmadas profesionalmente nunca antes vistas de dicho festival que luego fueron sincronizadas por un youtuber con una muy buena grabación del concierto y el resultado es realmente electrizante y alucinante !! Excelente video e investigación como siempre José !! Un abrazo y gracias !!

I think Graham Promoted Zeppelins 1970 Oakland show.

That was an epic battle of two bad ass real men. Peter Grant and Bill Graham. Too bad. They couldn’t work it out. RIP both of them.

Led Zeppelin had a show in between the Fillmore West and kezar show at the indoor Oakland coliseum to promote Led Zeppelin three album Bill Graham was also the promoter.

The last hour of Kezar is outstanding. But the first 2 thirds are Uneven and Page is in Stticky finger mode but he turns it around for the last hour .

I have the poster of Robert Plant holding that dove.

Do Seattle 75. Great series. Very well done

do Cobo 1973.. check out the soundboard ending of the show plus crowd recordings..they played as great in Motown as LA

I love listening just to Bonzo. I love how he includes tympani. Are there any other rock drummers out there who have included tympanis?

Page's sketchy playing here was due to serious tendinitis and this is why there was a six week break afterwards, with the Madison Square Garden shows being postponed until mid-July: "It was a strained tendon, I had all manner of treatment and injections but nothing worked and it was fucked up for six weeks", he said in an interview featured in "Led Zeppelin in their own words", (Omnibus Press)

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1973 was peak. Cant believe they played in Dirty Harry's city/time lol. What an era.

🌠oh yeah ..good surprise ..I'll watch this later ..I'm doin a zepparella zoom ..I'm seeing kk's priest 2 morrow

Minute 9 shows a photo of Plant, among Bill Graham, the promoter, and Steve Weiss, the NY lawyer, a busy tough man... According to some testimonies, Steve Weiss was the business brains behind LZ, not Peter Grant. He supervised the Atlantic Records deal. Weiss came up with the 90/10 split, starting with Jimmy Hendrix - most of the deals available were 60 percent artist, 40 percent promoter. Weiss always gave the credit to “the Leds”, as he called them, but the guy was a genius and could squeeze every last nickel. Peter Grant fed off that - his hired gun pulled the trigger for him. Grant had a quite false reputation for being intimidating, but he wasn't... He was big. Steve Weiss was intimidating. Peter let Steve be the asshole. His father supposedly worked for Meyer Lansky. Many attributed his effortless move into music due to his business relationship with Vanilla Fudge’s manager, Phil Basile. Phil was a mob guy, according to Carmine Appice, Fudge’s drummer. Weiss not only was the mouthpiece, he provided the roadway into the executives. He managed to be respected by those guys, whether it was Ahmet or Mo Ostin or Jerry Greenberg. And he wasn't outrageous in his demands beyond possible. He was who really ran the LZ show for five years, 68' to 73', with a couple of assistants. That was all it was needed... that, and Richard Cole for tour entertainments, of course. Needless to say Swan Song and Steve's firm were all together in the same office. He held the power of Peter Grant and Led Zeppelin in America. Steve Weiss was also the guy who got everybody out of trouble, with presumed connections to DEA, FBI, CIA, private detectives... The contact presumably was intermediated by an ex-cop who was Steve Weiss’s mate. Not a single mention from Jimmy Page nor Robert Plant to Steve Weiss in their official autobiographies.

Bonham man. Damn

Pretty sure the green and white tent over the stage was also used at Watkins Glen?

The Tubes opened the show.

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Zeppelin truly showed the hippies how the west was won at this show. PLAY LOUD

A friend of mine said at the beginning of a Led Zeppelin show there was a huge cloud of white smoke coming from the stage, then there flew out hundreds of white doves! Of course, he had indulged himself with a micro-dot! He said it was like speaking to God himself. Lol

Do you know the length of the Zeppelin concert itself? I think this is the one my cousin attended.

Neil Schons fro was the real MVP

Kind of looked like the white style clothing that guitarist extraordinaire John Mcclaughlin wore around that time(i.e. early 1970's 1973). The clothes Jimmy Page is wearing, for example.

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Peter Grant vs Bill Graham; Ali vs Frazier.

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This is gonna be cool…brb

Cow Palace . damn

I was there. Never really did like concerts in the daytime, but it was cool. Kezar. Dirty Harry got laid there. 😅😊 LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

This show should have been filmed.

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FYI, it's pronounced KEE-zarr, not KEE-zurr... I was there, 13yo...