Jimmy and Bonzo performing at Madison Square Garden in NYC during the 1977 US Tour.
The band was already planning the follow-up to 1979’s In Through The Out Door.
Jimmy talked about the details of a album that was never to be released, in a new interview with Rolling Stone. “Well, yeah, we were already doing stuff in 1980,” said Jimmy. “We did a tour of Europe. I think the way to put it is like this: ‘Presence’ was a guitar album. After that record, John Paul Jones had acquired a ‘Dream Machine,’ a Yamaha synthesiser.
Jimmy continued, “He’d written some stuff with Robert. I thought, ‘Well, that’s great.’ Obviously, at that time, I thought I knew how this album (‘In Through the Out Door’) is shaping up, but the next album was going to be a departure from the keyboard album.”
Jimmy added, “After the sessions for ‘In Through the Out Door,’ John Bonham and I were discussing how we wanted to do a sort of more riff-based entity, and harder and trickier. And then, of course, I know what sort of drums he liked to play. He liked to play, like, really hard; he liked to play stuff that people heard it, they’d go, ‘Wow, what’s that?’ I like to do that as well with the guitar parts.”
Jimmy then said, “We had a bit of an idea of what we might do, but basically, it was not going to be a keyboard album. There would be keyboards on it maybe, but it was going to go more into another vein. It would be different to anything that had been there before. We didn’t get a chance to do that, obviously, because we lost John.”
Setlist:
The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Over the Hills and Far Away, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, Black Country Woman, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, White Summer ~ Black Mountainside, Kashmir, (Out On the Tiles intro) Moby Dick, Jimmy Page solo, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love ~ Rock and Roll.
- June 13, 1977
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