Led Zeppelin Saturday, August 11, 1979 Knebworth Park, Stevenage, UK Special thanks to Sue Dounim for the matrix audio. White Summer 0:00 Black Mountain Side 4:12 Kashmir 5:45 Video remastered in Sony Vegas Pro 11.0
What a lot of people don't realize is that most of the songs on Physical Graffiti were performed live and in one take. It was like a live show in the studio, and it earned them a lot of respect by the the engineers who were doing the recordings.
well, half the songs on PG were already recorded. but yeah, the new songs were busted out pretty quickly, but not in one take. listen to the rehearsals for evidence thereof.
@@crungefactory I'm saying that they did that LP as a band as opposed to each one coming in separately. Sure, they had rehearsals, but when they played those songs, they did it as a band, most bands don't do it like that!
The eight new songs from ‘74 that made up half of Physical - would’ve been the perfect single album. To throw fans of Robert’s new and fragile voice, they added all the previous outtakes from years past. I can remember asking myself long ago: “why is his voice so powerful on some songs while others he sounds like a background singer…?” It all made sense once I learned what they did in the assembly of the double album set. I guess they had to do what they had to.
Some people say that around this time Jimmy Page had a month-long fast at his castle, the Boleskine House (Aleister Crowley's castle), which is why this show is so thin.
This was one of his shittiest performances, and that's not opinionated. Knebworth weekend 2 was extremely bad. Their equipment wouldn't work, and the band was exhausted. It was hotter than dogfuck the 11th, and you could obviously see John struggling.
I was at this show. The moment Black Mountain Side led into Kashmir was just amazing (as you can see here). And that's a particular memory from the show that stayed with me ever since. I watch this whole show on the appropriate August weekend every year. And even all these years later, I'm sure I must have a massive grin on my face whilst watching it. :-D
I can understand, why you're so happy to have saw them live, but, it's one of the worth concert of LED ZEP man, so calm down! Are you going to compare that shit concert, we're PAGE was unable to make 1 good solo, to THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 73? DENMARK 69? ROYAL ALBERT HALL 69? BBC 71? YOU'RE NOT SERIOUS GUYS! LISTEN TO THE LIVE PERFORMANCES AFTER THAT THE LAST TOUR, IN 80! IT'S RIDICULOUS!
@@julienmarquet8612 I agree that they're definitely not at their best with this show but, if myself or anyone else who wants to watch it (re-experience it), and enjoy it, then it's really nothing to do with you. By all means comment on the video but, maybe you shouldn't respond to other people's comments, the way you have.
I've been to a lot of their shows too, but I wasn't able to make it to England for this one. Wish I had been there man! This is one of their very best shows. I love that entire concert.
I remember PAGE PLANT 1995 they had a mobile memorabilia trailer. I was inside looking at the video of Jimmy and they went into Kashmir I never saw the video back then Knebworth was impossible to find. I almost passed out I watch Kashmir 3x s and pissed off my girlfriend they had a perfect quality version I never saw until the 2003 DVD when that came out i watched it everyday for a year
They have said numerous times Kashmir is their favorite song to play. And if you really want to find out the true meaning of it go to Wikipedia and do a search of Kashmir
This and Achilles: two best songs of the night! You can tell they really enjoyed performing these two. Although a good late career show, in the wings a slew of up and coming rock bands and the lingering punk groups. I often wonder how they’d have fared in the eighties had our beloved Bonzo not passed.
I wish there were more wide shots of the whole group rather than cuts between closeups of individual members. That way the viewer could see what the crowd saw - how majestic Zep looked together up on stage. Still, I'm still glad footage exists, of course. This must've been jaw dropping to see...awesome.
i feel like i have 5 years old again...I am 19 now...page is the reason that I start to play guiar when I was 9...and I made my first led zeppelin tattoo last week...this is the band of my life
This is why I grew up worshipping Led Zeppelin in my youth. No one ever understood me and my love for them lol it’s nasty transitions like this one and all throughout SRTS live NY 1973
..just found this video; matches what has been imprinted in my brain for 39 years, I was there somewhere in the audience, stage right, and the burst into Kashmir is the best rock moment I've ever witnessed. Thanks Randy, from me and my brother, for posting this. Fantastic.
@@kiwi5757---WOW! I love your story. I also just found this video. Where has it been? I saw Zepp in the U.S. on 3 different occasions. The 1st. time I was only 14 yrs. old.
that is making the guitar doing what you want it to do. such talent. too bad things like this can never happen again. so called concerts nowadays are more for just show. they lack the talent of music, and showing it to the crowd too.
Thx Dario for sharing. Without White Summer (Page's take on the old folk song She moved through the fair, inspired by Davy Graham), and Black Mountain Side (as I understand taught to Page by Al Stewart during session Page played for him, and mistakingly played in dadgad- or cia-tuning), there wouldn't be no Swan Song and certainly no KASHMIR! So to share this, and enjoy the development is gold! Thanks again bro 👍😁
I first heard this transition back in the '80s on my older brothers bootleg called "A Page on Led guitar." Bootleg's long gone in the history of my youth, but I've never forgotten this amazing transition. I with they had used it in the 2006 UK concert. It would have been epic.
@@allenroutson7732 *share - 3/4 of them are still alive. "Let them say I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die". -Odysseus
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To think Knebworth 1979 was the last time the quartet would perform together on home soil. I had a few bootleg LPs from Knebworth which were around in the early 80s. Its just amazing playing. Never got to see LZ live as I was too young when they toured Australia in the early 70s.
Page *really* needs to release a collection of live all improvisation stuff. Sitting in a rocking chair playing acoustic, whatever. We've all heard the pop hits, but the first 5 minutes-how do you even pigeon hole that stuff?
The initial first minute and half is a take off Davy graham's arrangement for White Summer (aka She Moves through the Fair) -Look it up here on RU-vid. Followed by Bert Jansch's arrangement for Black Mountain side.
Amazing how tight this is considering that the band hadn't played together in two years except the previous weekend. The Knebworth shows were uneven but as brilliant+tight as as tight but loose can be when it clicked... Hey must have felt a lot of pressure in front of 250,000 people having not play together and two years and having those be the first shows and the UK in 4 years. John Henry Bonham what a beast of a drummer nobody else comes close. ZEPPELIN remains The Best Band EVER.
I agree with that, although the 4th is mostly good enough for release and the 11th is mostly not good enough for release, Kashmir is better on the 11th.
Derek Jackson yeah. Kashmir is better here. But overall, (completely due to page’s subpar playing), the 11th show is in no way suitable for release. The 4th is somewhat suitably for release
