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Jimmy soloing with his No. 1 ‘59 Gibson Les Paul during an iconic concert at the Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California. News Report: 50,000 See Led Zeppelin in Bay City The British rock group Led Zeppelin drew 50,000 rock fans who paid $320,000 at Kezar Stadium last weekend. Although the 2 ½ hour show Saturday was 6,000 short of capacity, listeners blanketed the football field and stands. Hundreds of others heard the music for free from rooftops in the surrounding neighborhood. A month ago, Led Zeppelin grossed $309,000 to shatter the Beatles’ mark in 1965. Organizers said the group netted better than $1,000 per minute during the show here. It was the second large rock concert in a week at Kezar. The only casualties reported were some bad drug trips, a broken leg and a security guard accidentally wounded with his own revolver. More than 250 cars were towed away from illegal parking areas around the stadium, police reported. (CBS News) Setlist: Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, (Bring It On Home intro) Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Moby Dick, Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love (incl. Let That Boy Boogie), Communication Breakdown, The Ocean. - June 2, 1973 #jimmypage #zoso #robertplant #goldengod #johnbonham #bonzo #johnpauljones #jonesy #ledzeppelin #70s #rock #70smusic #rockstar #rocknroll #performance #music #livemusic #guitar #guitarwaytoheaven #gibson #lespaul #telecaster #fender #classicrock #legend

A classic shot of Jimmy improvising the Stairway To Heaven’s solo with his 1971 Gibson EDS-1275 at Ahoy in Rotterdam, Holland (Netherlands) This was the first warm up show out of two to get ready for the upcoming 1975 US Tour. There’s a rare performance of ‘When the Levee Breaks’ in this concert, and since Jimmy had injured his finger, he had to drop the more demanding ‘Dazed and Confused’ and instead for the time being play ‘How many More Times’ which hadn't been played in a while in the following concerts. Jimmy starts off the show in the same clothes he wore at the last 3 shows in New York’s Madison Square Garden in July 1973. He then changes jackets just like he did at those 1973 shows after the first couple of songs. Then at the end when they come back for the encore he has changed into different pants. They would be playing for the first time ‘Sick Again’, ‘In My Time of Dying’, ‘Trampled Underfoot’, ‘Kashmir’ and ‘The Wanton Song’ (which unfortunately wouldn't last too far into the US '75 tour.) Setlist Likely includes: Rock and Roll, Sick Again, Over the Hills and Far Away, When the Levee Breaks, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Kashmir, No Quarter, The Wanton Song, Trampled Underfoot, Moby Dick, In My Time of Dying, Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog. - January 11, 1975 #jimmypage #zoso #robertplant #goldengod #johnbonham #bonzo #johnpauljones #jonesy #ledzeppelin #ledzep #zeppelin #ledzeppelinfans #60s #70s #70smusic #rock #rocknroll #livemusic #guitar #rockicon #gibson #rockstar #lespaul #guitarwaytoheaven #classicrock #music #stairwaytoheaven

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 #jimmypage #zoso #robertplant #goldengod #johnbonham #bonzo #johnpauljones #jonesy #ledzeppelin #70s #rock #70smusic #rockstar #rocknroll #music #livemusic #guitar #guitarwaytoheaven #gibson #lespaul #classicrock #nyc #msg

Jimmy performing the violin bow section with his No. 1 Gibson Les Paul during his dedicated part of the setlist, also known as the ‘Noise Solo’ in a rarer photo at the Tarrant County Convention Center in Forth Worth, Texas. During the ‘Noise Solo’ he would play around with his theremin, and also do pleasing guitar noises with an intense presence. This was also a way to trim down Dazed And Confused’s long improvisations and go straight to the violin bow parts. Bad Company's guitarist Mick Ralphs joined the band onstage for the final encore to play ‘It’ll Be Me’. Setlist The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, 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, It'll Be Me. - May 22, 1977 #jimmypage #zoso #robertplant #goldengod #johnbonham #bonzo #johnpauljones #jonesy #ledzeppelin #ledzep #zeppelin #ledzeppelinfans #60s #70s #70smusic #rock #rocknroll #livemusic #guitar #rockicon #gibson #rockstar #lespaul #guitarwaytoheaven #classicrock #music