Jim Morrison was in the audience. He wrote about it in one of his many journals. I don't remember exactly what he wrote, but it was how Zeppelin were taking music in a completely different direction.
I was at this show at the Whiskey. Page had reformed the Yardbirds and they were billed as the "New" Yardbirds. No one knew who these other 3 guys were on stage with him. But when they started to play, every jaw in the place hung open for 2 hours. They only had 3 or 4 new songs and everything else were Yardbird standards. Can you imagine John Bonham playing in such a small venue, not to mention the rest of them. A few months later they played in London and now billed as Led Zeppelin!!!!!!!!
i just love that Jimmy was disgustingly shreddable at this stage of his career, he was mature when he met the yardbirds, was a guru for zeppelin, for fucks sake he was ready to hit the stage at 15
sounds good. haha. robert is my favprite singer and member of led zeppelin. not just his singing but the way he phrases things. its just sooo good. aahh it just baffles me to imagin some one better. but sure lots of people can hit higher notes than him.
A perfect example of Zeppelin's sheer power. It's like a 4 headed monster, they all know exactly what to play/when/where. Nice and thumpy that's how I like it man
every artist stands on there influences that came before them! from music to photography. we are all influenced by the times and surroundings you grow up into.
I have this bootleg, and it's one of my most prized possessions in my music collection of over 25,000 songs and 170.56 GB. I think my favorite song off of this show is "Killing Floor". It's incredible how long Zep plays songs before they put them on a record. The audience must have shit their pants when they saw such a powerful band in a venue that could hold less than a thousand people.
I have just about every bootleg ever made of Zeppelin, and some I have 3 to 6 versions of. Soundboard, audience, different quality, etc. Can't get enough, always hunting for new 'legs if 'em. Nothin' like live Zeppelin. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
dude robert plant has one of the greatest voices of all time. and how are you gonna compare this to the future of zeppelin and even other bands. This was a jam pf the top of there heads. noboody else can do that, that well
haven't heard it before, thanks for uploading. yeah cool slower and heavier rendition, I like it. I think that Humble Pie's take on this song is also worth mentioning - even slower more soulful, acoustic version. They have cool video to this song , it's on YT.
this early bootleg stuff 68-69 when page had the tele is outstanding...fuzz sounds are incredible with a thin strat or tele...the boogie grooves they get into are sweet and one of a kind...raw and as a potent as a scorpions tail
@KSitz77: Eric Clapton was still with the Yardbirds when For Your Love was recorded. He quit in a huff almost immediately afterwards since it wasn't blues. OK, it was about a day and a huff - after Jimmy Page turned the gig down and recommended Jeff Beck. It was a win-win for both the Yardbirds and Clapton as it turned out.
I consider myself somewhat of a LED ZEPPELIN afficianado. In my opinion they are the GREATEST musicians ever assembled. This is just one of a thousand LZ bootlegs out there, however, this song, FOR YOUR LOVE, is pretty rare to hear on any format, Especially bootleg on YOU TUBE.
Great musicians are not afraid to experiment and take chances** - THANKS bootpoison!!! ** sure beats the digital cut-n-paste phony perfectionism of today's music, but, then again, what do you EXPECT from "musicians" who've never tuned an instrument by ear?
Very, very sweet raw version of a true Yardbirds classic. I had never heard this before - thank you for posting, bootpoison! Not the most polished live performance by Zeppelin, no doubt - however, this was of course very early-era Zepp, and their sound was still coming into its own (during the first year or so, Jimmy Page & Peter Grant weren't sure that Robert would be with the group long-term, until they finally agreed that old 'Percy' would improve with time, which he did :) ZEPP RULES.....
In the same vein about Keith Relf (usually) being slagged off on YT when performing "Dazed and Confused" on the Bouton Rouge French TV show!... Indeed, Robert was more in his element with "Dazed"... but so was Keith with "For Your Love"!... ;-)
We missed the introduction to the song, where Robert Plant made the mistake of mentioning his predecessor Keith Relf: "Anyone here remember Keith?" The crowd went crazy, probably garnering the biggest applause of the night! Poor Plant had to calm them down: "okay, okay, that's fair enough!" Apparently, Plant was about as popular a replacement as when Sammy Hagar replaced David Lee Roth! At least early on---I guess it took some time to get to know him!
The sound is not very good but the guitar player is quite innovative and creative. The drummer is also very interesting and the two seem to work especially well together. The solo guitar is really very creative and technically most proficient. Very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing this.
la voz se nota distinta se ve que esta grabación fue echa antes de su operación en la garganta, porque el cambio de voz antes y después de la operacion fue notable
those words arranged in such away, to be refering to robert plant, just blew my mind that you could type such blaspheme of the greatest front man ever, is outrageous.
Robert Plant's Voice is just..... It's Just Fucking Nice man. This is the sound that just made LZ what they are today.This song reminds me of How Many More Times when he says Ill give you diamond rings etc etc. Good song this version is just badass. Groove on it bitches
they played here too?! sick. '69 ey? this is bout the time The Doors released their like 2nd album or something. but tht's cool. never knew they played here too. and i read that led zeppelin also started out at a bar called rock n roll something i believe
at 3:42 is anyone else reminded of a black keys song? I cannot for the life of me remember what song it reminds me of but I swear that they play that part in one of their songs.
The song was actually written by Graham Gouldman of 10cc and given to The Yardbirds. The song was supposed to be given to the Beatles who were playing at the Odeon, but ended up with Jeff Beck, as the Yardbirds were playing at that same venue.
@caesarcerf To be fair, they took their "borrowings" to dizzying new heights, that would have not been reached otherwise. Jimi Hendrix borrows a few Albert Collins licks in "Drivin' South", Beethoven quotes a village band in his 6th symphony, & so forth.
Raw early zeppelin sound is a little boxy but good . those early. San Francisco concerts are the foundation of hard rock . listen to them all. Each night and performance are excellent and different
clapton was the first guitarist. then yeah they had a pop sound and clapton was (and still is) stuck in the buddy guy blues, so they tried to get jimmy page. page turned them down and recommended jeff beck. later on though page joined and beck quit and then the yardbirds broke up. jimmy page formed the 'new yardbirds' which is the 'led zeppelin' you're all used to. this recording was when they were the 'new yardbirds', though.
@KSitz77 Of course Zeppelin played Yardbirds numbers! The first tour they did was under contract as the Yardbirds (billed as The New Yardbirds), so that's what they started out with. They had to play some Yardbirds numbers in the first tour, so they threw them in as covers later.
Stealing? Anyone who says that is ignorant of rock history and Led Zeppelin and Yardbirds history particularly. Zeppelin gradually evolved from the Yardbirds as members quit leaving Pagey with the moniker Yardbirds and unprofitable contractual obligations to perform which they did as the New Yardbirds (briefly) before opting for Led Zeppelin as their name. Jimmy would have performed this 100s of times with the Yardbirds. In late 68 and early 69 audiences would have expected Yardbirds material.
