Dude, you deserve at least 1,000 patreon subscribers for the quality of work you put out. Thousands of people enjoy your work, to be a patreon is only 10 dollars a month recurring. And i will say that for the amount of pleasure you have given me all these past years, it is HANDS DOWN the best money im happy to spend. Your knowledge is off the charts. And if someone doesn't want to ve locked in, they can make a one time donation on paypal. Everybody listening here can part with a few dollars roll the intensive research an enjoyment you have given us, as always keep up the great work and I wish you all success.
Dear JCM First of all, thank you so much for your excellent crafted videos of Led Zeppelin! Your work is nothing but astonishing and I really appreciate it! Since I discovered your channel I’m always excited watching a new video!
I’m a huge concert fan and when I like a band (or singer) I always look for live recordings ever since I was a young teenager! Though I like well produced studion versions of songs, I only admire bands (or singers) when they are able to generated a special atmosphere/excitment in concert. I don’t exspect them to replicate their studion versions as so many do, no, I like when the interact with the crowd and improvise with their songs or even rearrange them completely. Though many don’t appreciate the ‘77 tour of Led Zeppelin that much, it’s setlist-wise my favorite tour and in my opinion so much better than the one from ‘75 (Robert’s voice & the setlist). The ‘77 tour-setlist has so much to offer! From the very exciting opener TSRTS to the into of The Rover for Sick Again, Nobody's Fault but Mine, No Quarter (what a musical journey!) of course, the acoustic set, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven (yes, I still like it very much after hearing it hundres of times) and last but not least the great finale. I listened to almost all available recordings (audio and footage) of the 77 tour. Unfortunately, born in 1972, I wasn’t able to attend a Led Zeppelin concert and missed the whole 70s concert period. What a great rock music decade! Therefore I appreciate all the work & effort of countless people for preserving those recordings and making them available for a wide range of people. It always feels like a trip with a time machine and closing your eyes while listening those live-recordings you get the feeling of actually attending that very concert. Now I’m awaiting your final episode of «The Making of 6 Nights at The Forum 1977» with great anticipation! Wish you all the best & keep on rockin'! Pascal
I was lucky enough to see Zep in 77’ in San Diego! Obviously that tour had more ups and downs than any other Zep tour by far. JCM says Bonham was off the night I saw them but it was so LOUD I wouldn’t have known one way or the other. I remember many things about that show even though I was only 20 at the time. As the years go by I treasure the fact that I was lucky enough to see them!!
@JCM - Led Zeppelin Stores THANK YOU! This series has special meaning to me, I was at the second night, in really good seats, the best show I have ever seen! I could never understand why people said the '77 tour was terrible. I'm happy you picked the second night as the best of the six nights in LA!
What was so good about Zeppelin was that no two shows are the same, they always pushed hard to explore all the possibilities within the framework of the studio songs. I always felt their studio compositions were ideas for exploration when they played live.......they were one of the few bands that dared to take their songs to new heights live....Great series and here we have these shows showing they could deliver, they were such amazing musicians and really exercised their musical intelligence and ability to keep things fresh and interesting. These are the best 1977 shows they did, the standout for me was the 25th....
Wow! What a treat it was to go back in time to these fantastic shows in LA. In my view these were the last truly great shows that Zeppelin played. Thanks so much JCM! You are a treasure among the biggest fans of this timeless band. 🌹
Just wanted to send a thanks to you for making these videos. I found your channel a few months ago by chance, right around the time I began having a bad bout of anxiety and panic attacks. These series have been a great distraction for me, and a very entertaining and informative way for me to relax and reconnect with my love for music, specifically this band. I got into Zeppelin around the same age that you did, and they have always been a mainstay in my personal taste as not only a listener, but a player. It’s great to find people who really get it and come at this stuff with the level of enthusiasm and appreciation you do (the American Psycho pics you insert from time to time are hilarious and spot on 😂). You truly do justice to the history and intrigue of such a prolific group. Thanks for all your hard work, and keep it coming! Ernie
This was a stellar series, JCM. I will watch each episode multiple times because of all the information you pack into these things. You're really good at this. I really enjoy your ad libs and commentary when you break down what's going on musically, as accompaniment to the concerts. Keep on rolling along, and may the force of Zeppelin be with you at all times!
Way to go, Zep Man; this is so well-done and compelling; the live audio mash-ups are awesome and your Writing talent is Superior; so interesting and passionate. Gracias, mi Amigo!!
Nice wrap to the series and a great look at an incredible run. Can anyone, even in the seventies, match a run of six out of seven nights with three hours shows? I doubt it!! The 77 tour has always been my favorite and this was a fantastic documentation sir. And night six’s guitar solo at 24 minutes? Heaven!!
Thanks Matt! Man i agree, no one matched THIS level of performance. I was exhausted aftewards but well worth revisiting, this band just never cease to amaze me damn it! I believe i will cover the entire 1977 tour at some point. Dude thanks for your email btw, i can see how the drum heads made a difference!!!
Thanks for another great show! I will be checking out these shows. I loved that you took the time to rank the shows near the end. This was a wonderful series.
Great again, JCM. What a crazy tour 1977 was. Possibly the blueprint of how not to do it in terms of excess and the sheer number and dates and the length of the shows. The band must have been exhausted. It's a miracle Page got through all of it. The man looked sick again and again and again. This tour was good and bad, but is endlessly fascinating to me. As John Paul Jones said "“Even at our very worst, we were better than most people." The greatest band ever.
I saw Zepplin at the LA Forum three times! I was there in 1977! I’ll never forget it!! I didn’t get a badge! Wish I did. I bought T-Shirts! WOW what a rockin good time!
I was at one of the middle shows and it was loud and distorted! The best part of the show was the acoustic set! This video is great as usual and we'll put together! Great respect for JCM and his dedication to Zeppelin ❤ The background info given here is extraordinary! What a great time to be alive 🎉
I have always totally loved this version of it'll be me! The Zeppified version! The drums, the groove, the vocals. So awesome! I've commented on other zeppelin videos all over the internet to say if you're not listening to the bootlegs and hearing all of the versions of this band you're not actually getting a complete understanding of led zeppelin at all. I have a book that details their every concert.And it lists which ones have been bootlegged and says which ones are good and I've checked them out and made favorites and they are incredible.This was when giants walked the earth.
I was at this show. It was my first night to see Zeppelin on this run… It was shocking how 80% of the magic was gone from the previous show I saw in San Diego in 1975. Even Plant mocked the crowd’s relative indifference during the It’ll Be Me encore “Oh wow, they’re recording again!” having grown accustomed to the thunderous ovations they received after every song during their previous tour.
Great work!!! I appreciate and really enjoy your musical observations which make each performance unique. Your Zep series are by far my favorite “shows” to watch.
Hi Jose! Even though I’m self-employed (sort of). I too, get a little depressed on Sunday evenings. However, one particular Sunday night in June of 1977, my local FM radio rock station aired a *Led Zeppelin Special* featuring a then brand-new interview with Jimmy Page! Earlier in that month of June in 1977, my teacher & school class took a field trip to an amusement park, and the girl from kindergarten that I mentioned last week (the one that I most had a huge crush on) blew my mind - again...by wearing an indelibly, über-sexy, butterfly sleeve Kelly Green mini dress - à la English actress, Jenny Agutter (as her character, Jessica 6) in the 1976 motion picture: *Logan’s Run* directed by Michael Anderson. The film also co-starred Michael York and 1970s sex symbol, Farrah Fawcett. 🎡🎞🍃 I do regret not showing up for the last day of school - I was busy...(selfish really) listening to Led Zeppelin non-stop and staying up all night gazing at the stars with my high-power binoculars. In between albums, when changing LPs - for fun, I would have the AM radio tuner playing in the background and would hear Elvis Presley singing. When I’m not listening to Led Zeppelin, you can usually find me listening to Steely Dan - I had rather diverse and sophisticated tastes - even at the age of 12. LOL! PS: I don’t know if you can see it the same as I do from where you are in the southern hemisphere, but up here in the northern half - if you look up towards the north-eastern sky in the month of June, you will see - and please pardon the pun - an astronomical amount of stars in the sky! It is truly overwhelming! 🔭🌌🛸🛰🌠
I was there for 2 of the 6 Shows - Day 3 and Day 6. Back when the ticket said "Show starts at 7:30 p" and actually started about 10:00p and went on until after 200a - Well, you certainly got your money's worth !
That's great you got that nice LZ badge, Jose! You are now an official badge badgeholder! I loved what you said about the suitcases, lol. Peace, from Jacksonville, Florida USA.
You know you are officially a Led Zeppelin fan when your phone’s auto-correct stops trying to replace “led” with “LED” (acronym for light emitting diode) …and you are officially a Zeppelin MEGA fan when your phone starts trying to replace “LED” with “led” 😂
Hi Jose, Led Zeppelin performing complete shows on twelve nights in June 1977 - for me, represents the 1970s to the max...if you count and include the six Madison Square Garden shows in New York - and speaking of which - check this out, Jose: The first night in New York, 7 June 1977 is a performance for the ages that aims for the stars...and that sound - like OMG! - just listen to Jonesy play his Alembic electric bass guitar as he plucks the low E string during the intro to ‘The Rover’ as the song segues into ‘Sick Again’ - HOLY JAMAIS VU, BATMAN! 🦸 A little bit of trivia: Anita Pallenberg was in attendance that night along with her hubby Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones! Anita was a huge fan of the band, and I remember reading an article about her raving how great the show was in Rolling Stone magazine. I always prefer to listen to the raw soundboard aka audio mixing console-sourced recordings of Led Zeppelin, because that gets you as close musically to the band as possible - plus, the bass, drums & percussion usually have the best fidelity with great live dynamic range and impact. 🎛🎚🎧 At any rate, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/Dxn4Jh_m8L4/w-d-xo.html
'77 was such a special year and your vids are SO DAMN GOOD. Can I ask some how-to questions? Your harmony analysis is so impressive... assume you know the studio track cuz yr a guitarist, but how are you clocking the exact variations in the show? Do you play along til it sounds right, bounce it off friends, run it thru an app, and/or …? What's the process for sorting out all their spontaneous variations? Not to mention the comparisons to past performances, that's gotta be hours upon hours of intense work. The mind boggles at how long these eps take, what number would you put on it in terms of average hours? BTW you should run it all by Jimmy, Bob, and Jonesy, they would love this. Audience boots can be rough on the ear, us intermediate fans would love if you put the song title up during your show analysis, I personally miss several sets of comments just figuring out if it's the same song or not. "Anything but" is opposite of "All but," English is wack af. Kashmir is in 6/4 not 4/4 (two vids now!). Steven Seagal joke had me howling, keep the jokes coming! (PS I have that PF '77 Boston Garden boot on vinyl it's sooo tasty)
@JCM, I've read that Led Zeppelin performed a grand total of about 600 concerts. If accurate, this means that just this 6 night stand in LA stood up as a staggering (if you think about it) 1% of ALL their performances. Also, when you consider that the first 4 years were very tour heavy, the years from '72 through '80 featured only about 200 shows. Further considering that most of their early shows were done in small venues, it's possible that more fans have witnessed Taylor Swift live than Led Zeppelin! I'm not sure but I'm sure someone will do the math. Witnessing a Zeppelin performance may just be the musical version of winning a Wonka Golden Ticket lol.
I recently found your channel. Great stuff. I'd love to hear a show on the destroyer show. Keep up the good work. Thanks again and rock on. Cheers 🍻 from Cleveland
Welcome Christopher! Glad you found this Zepp community. From a Zepp fans to Zepp fans, all about admiration for the band's history and legacy! CHEERS!
The sit down acoustic songs at a live concert is another sign of how ahead of their time Jimmy page and the boys were. Just imagine that first time they played together with "train kept'a rollin" when they actually hesrd how good they were and saying, "man, we are going to make millions" then they all laughed saying "yeah right, ha ha" But Jimmy was thinking yes, yes we are!.
37:30 - That "Layla" bit was awesome. Also reminiscent of "Sultans of Swing" and possibly "Expresso Love" also by Dire Straits. Wish they would have jammed it out a little more. Always wish they did more "minor funk". I also especially liked the touring map. Nice to see Chicago headline! I realized I just missed Sun King mention Chicago 1977, which was a little like Zep in ways, not having the extraordinary energy they had just a few years earlier. King Biscuit Hour 1974 for example. I love all the other context with other music, and what was happening in general. I will watch this again.
Robert Hilburn bugged the hell out of me. Unless it was U2 or Springsteen he had no appreciation for your music. He described Zep live as “primitive pyrotechnics” when they were doing all this complex music.
J.C. another great experience from the Mighty Led Zeppelin...thank you! I wanted to ask you why are their restrictions on Stairway to Heaven on you tube?
As I said before I quite like the June 26th show. I don't find it at all a lazy Sunday performance. Bonzo is en fuego! I think it has some of Robert's best vocals of the '77 tour. Yeah, it was not perfect, this was 1977 after all, but it's very good. I have a copy of the very bootleg you showed. Sundazed, that one I had to order from Japan. The recording gets better as it goes.
Robert himself has stated about the ‘77 tour that they were “showboating a bit.” Let’s face it, they were senior superheroes now approaching or just about in the latter part of their career at this point. You can just sense it. Critics love to put targets on them with their venom-filled pens but that’s what they get paid for. It’s kinda sick. Keep in mind that Zeppelin were made up of four geniuses who were in a constant state of evolution. The crappy critics couldn’t keep them in a box. Zeppelin always returned, delivered and conquered - sending the would-be journalists home…humbled. These Forum shows would’ve been the perfect ending for this ill-fated outing as we all know the unevenness - sadness of the third and final leg. We can just feel the pressure building…not knowing if Jim would be up to task or not on any given night. The D&A usage was rife and out of control this year and something eventually had to give. They always seemed though to deliver while in LA. At the end of the day…they were still taking chances and had some gas left in the tank at this point…but it was running near E…they’ve achieved everything already…where to go now?
Very odd, but exciting, setlist additions and omissions for 6/26/77 (my 14th birthday btw) What do you suppose inspired them to add "That's all Right" and "It'll Be Me"? What was the reason for them doing that?
I believe they were tired and based on the concert review for the 23rd i think they were pissed on the 25th. Because they had one more show to go, they chose a different route. The date itself, is very strange, almost as if THEY KNEW, it would be Elvis last time on stage....some energies move in mysterious ways!
Great job again as usual. But you keep mentioning that they stayed at the Hyatt on Sunset for the 77 tour as I pointed out to you previously this is not true. They did not stay at the Hyatt on Sunset. They in fact stayed in the Beverly Hilton. I thought maybe you would’ve had corrected this for the new one
It’s not really Mystery. I already sent you this but I will send it again. “They Stayed at The “Riot House” in 72, 73, and 75. In 1977 they stayed at The Beverly Hilton. When speaking of the 1977 tour On page 283 of “Hammer of the Gods” Stephen Davis said ….“ In Los Angeles Led Zeppelin abandoned the Riot House and checked in to the less tainted Beverly Hilton.” Keith Moon joined them at their hotel there before the Forum shows.( Keith Moon’s assistant Dougal Butler spoke about meeting them there). Also Jimmy did a famous interview with “Trouser Press” which was done at the Hotel. Sorry for correcting you as I am a big fan of your content.”
At this point maybe i should delete my videos and redo them haha. These are great references. Not sure i believe Hammer of the Gods though...nothing there seems true. I still think the Hyatt hotel was the place. The Beverly Hilton seems a low key and not safe enough :) Food for thought you gave me here. Thanks for tuning in!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories there is much more evidence that they didn’t than they did. So you actually have an inaccuracy by just assuming they did. Oh well I do enjoy your work! Thanks
Hey man, what's the problem with Bat out of Hell??? My ranking of the shows would be 6-22, 6-25, 6-23, 6-21, 6-26, 6-27 but even the 27th is a damn fine show.
Hi Jose! By a happy coincidence, YT recommended me a post today from a channel I didn't know, the person posted this show from June 27, 1977... recorded by the legendary Mike Millard. I loved it, and was glad to watch this episode next. I can't say which one was better, I usually say that Zeppelin reinvented themselves with each show, that was their magic. Thanks again for the amazing work, bye 👋
@@robmcvaigh796 laughing at the critic throwing the boss at Led Zeppelin. It's uncalled for. Even Springsteen would agree.... :) Bruce may be the King for many but he is in no way shape or form what Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham did for Rock and Roll.
I'll never understand that a band with Zep's hefty touring income wouldn't spring for a state-of-the-art FOH sound system a la Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead and Zappa. More times than not you hear from those that saw them live, that it was "very loud" or "muddy, and bludgeoningly loud".
Let's be honest, Jose. TSRTS was good when it was all we had of official live Zep. But years later we got more official live tracks that were FAR better and showed the true sound of the Mighty Zep. PS DOn't think that Fifth of Firth got by me. It didn't ;)
The pieces that made the '77 shows seem excessive were the three showcase songs; No Quarter, Jones, Over the Top for Bonham, and Jimi's effect pedal noodling thing. A show without those three songs would feel much less excessive.
I concur! And toss White Summer….it was usually unfocused and boring compared to 69/70 versions. Scale down NQ to 12-14 minutes like 73. Also,have Plant do all the vocals for Battle Of Evermore….JPJ voice sounded terrible for this glorious song. Cheers
Much of the criticism of 1977 fully justified, solos much too long & self indulgent. Punk revolution under way in London & they should have realised times they were a changin'... Page (as per EVH) regularly played erratically. RP, JB, JPJ not as committed as previously (probably fed up with JP unreliability) and it shows in the performances. Destroyer bootleg truly dire (as with many of the shows). Great video series Jose. Many thanks
Have you put out any feelers in an attempt to obtain any Page memorabilia from Lori Maddoxx? His (ahem) young, and favored American groupie GF? OR...some Lori Maddox memorabilia from Jimmy??
72 A tier, 73 S tier, 75 B tier and 77 C tier. Kinda a toss up in some respects between 75 or 77. There a a few things that really make up for the long uninspired solos. Healthy plant, monstrous bonzo but a stumbling page and playing over each other isn’t my fave. 75 was closer to 73 level but with a sick plant and stumbling page here and there .
Yeah Plant's voice really suffered in 75. I mean, his voice was not 100% ready to record Graffiti if you ask me, so touring was a stretch i believe but they had to...
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories yeah I mean who knows how many takes he took but you can hear his new voice esp on TYG, TUF, SA. But I think it was also in Kashmir, in the light too., basically the instrumentals they recorded while he recovered
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories I read somewhere he said he sang the belters first before surgery. I assume custard pie and wanton but wasn’t sure if there was an instrumental wanton out there. I have to revisit the deluxe Ed
I at 1st Oakland show..tighter than Seattle..they should have maybe dropped No Quarter which kinda put the crowd to sleep..otherwise a good show..the press were never kind to them in The Bay Area
Dude, you deserve at least 1,000 patreon subscribers for the quality of work you put out. Thousands of people enjoy your work, to be a patreon is only 10 dollars a month recurring. And i will say that for the amount of pleasure you have given me all these past years, it is HANDS DOWN the best money im happy to spend. Your knowledge is off the charts. And if someone doesn't want to ve locked in, they can make a one time donation on paypal. Everybody listening here can part with a few dollars roll the intensive research an enjoyment you have given us, as always keep up the great work and I wish you all success.
Dear JCM
First of all, thank you so much for your excellent crafted videos of Led Zeppelin! Your work is nothing but astonishing and I really appreciate it! Since I discovered your channel I’m always excited watching a new video!
I’m a huge concert fan and when I like a band (or singer) I always look for live recordings ever since I was a young teenager! Though I like well produced studion versions of songs, I only admire bands (or singers) when they are able to generated a special atmosphere/excitment in concert. I don’t exspect them to replicate their studion versions as so many do, no, I like when the interact with the crowd and improvise with their songs or even rearrange them completely.
Though many don’t appreciate the ‘77 tour of Led Zeppelin that much, it’s setlist-wise my favorite tour and in my opinion so much better than the one from ‘75 (Robert’s voice & the setlist).
The ‘77 tour-setlist has so much to offer! From the very exciting opener TSRTS to the into of The Rover for Sick Again, Nobody's Fault but Mine, No Quarter (what a musical journey!) of course, the acoustic set, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven (yes, I still like it very much after hearing it hundres of times) and last but not least the great finale. I listened to almost all available recordings (audio and footage) of the 77 tour.
Unfortunately, born in 1972, I wasn’t able to attend a Led Zeppelin concert and missed the whole 70s concert period. What a great rock music decade! Therefore I appreciate all the work & effort of countless people for preserving those recordings and making them available for a wide range of people. It always feels like a trip with a time machine and closing your eyes while listening those live-recordings you get the feeling of actually attending that very concert.
Now I’m awaiting your final episode of «The Making of 6 Nights at The Forum 1977» with great anticipation!
Wish you all the best & keep on rockin'!
Pascal
I was lucky enough to see Zep in 77’ in San Diego! Obviously that tour had more ups and downs than any other Zep tour by far. JCM says Bonham was off the night I saw them but it was so LOUD I wouldn’t have known one way or the other. I remember many things about that show even though I was only 20 at the time. As the years go by I treasure the fact that I was lucky enough to see them!!
@JCM - Led Zeppelin Stores THANK YOU! This series has special meaning to me, I was at the second night, in really good seats, the best show I have ever seen! I could never understand why people said the '77 tour was terrible. I'm happy you picked the second night as the best of the six nights in LA!
What was so good about Zeppelin was that no two shows are the same, they always pushed hard to explore all the possibilities within the framework of the studio songs. I always felt their studio compositions were ideas for exploration when they played live.......they were one of the few bands that dared to take their songs to new heights live....Great series and here we have these shows showing they could deliver, they were such amazing musicians and really exercised their musical intelligence and ability to keep things fresh and interesting.
These are the best 1977 shows they did, the standout for me was the 25th....
Wow! What a treat it was to go back in time to these fantastic shows in LA. In my view these were the last truly great shows that Zeppelin played. Thanks so much JCM! You are a treasure among the biggest fans of this timeless band. 🌹
Have you listened to the 7/24/1979 Copenhagen show?
@@promark5317 I will check it out.
@@promark5317I will check it out.
I made a documentary on Zeppelin's shows in Copenhagen 1979! It's here on the channel.
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories All of your Zeppelin docs are fantastic my man. 🎉
Just wanted to send a thanks to you for making these videos. I found your channel a few months ago by chance, right around the time I began having a bad bout of anxiety and panic attacks. These series have been a great distraction for me, and a very entertaining and informative way for me to relax and reconnect with my love for music, specifically this band. I got into Zeppelin around the same age that you did, and they have always been a mainstay in my personal taste as not only a listener, but a player. It’s great to find people who really get it and come at this stuff with the level of enthusiasm and appreciation you do (the American Psycho pics you insert from time to time are hilarious and spot on 😂). You truly do justice to the history and intrigue of such a prolific group. Thanks for all your hard work, and keep it coming!
Ernie
This was a stellar series, JCM. I will watch each episode multiple times because of all the information you pack into these things. You're really good at this. I really enjoy your ad libs and commentary when you break down what's going on musically, as accompaniment to the concerts. Keep on rolling along, and may the force of Zeppelin be with you at all times!
nice job as usual man.
Looking forward to wherever you feel like leading us next
What an incredible series this was. Thank you for all your hard work,Jose. We all really appreciate it! Cheers ✌️
Thank you Tim!!! I need to travel to the Sunset Strip now and get some of those L.A vibes. One day i'll do that! Thank you for all the support man!
Way to go, Zep Man; this is so well-done and compelling; the live audio mash-ups are awesome and your Writing talent is Superior; so interesting and passionate.
Gracias, mi Amigo!!
Thank you MiloMartin for tuning in! More to come!
Nice wrap to the series and a great look at an incredible run. Can anyone, even in the seventies, match a run of six out of seven nights with three hours shows? I doubt it!! The 77 tour has always been my favorite and this was a fantastic documentation sir. And night six’s guitar solo at 24 minutes? Heaven!!
Thanks Matt! Man i agree, no one matched THIS level of performance. I was exhausted aftewards but well worth revisiting, this band just never cease to amaze me damn it! I believe i will cover the entire 1977 tour at some point. Dude thanks for your email btw, i can see how the drum heads made a difference!!!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories any time! Appreciate the work you put in on your videos 🙏🏻
Thanks for another great show! I will be checking out these shows. I loved that you took the time to rank the shows near the end. This was a wonderful series.
Great again, JCM. What a crazy tour 1977 was. Possibly the blueprint of how not to do it in terms of excess and the sheer number and dates and the length of the shows. The band must have been exhausted. It's a miracle Page got through all of it. The man looked sick again and again and again. This tour was good and bad, but is endlessly fascinating to me. As John Paul Jones said "“Even at our very worst, we were better than most people." The greatest band ever.
I saw Zepplin at the LA Forum three times! I was there in 1977! I’ll never forget it!! I didn’t get a badge! Wish I did. I bought T-Shirts! WOW what a rockin good time!
Just watching now-Thanx in Advance for the Awesome Zepness Jose !
Great as ever. Especially enjoyed the summary in the last 5 minutes.
Another masterpiece for the ages Jose. Thanks
Well done JCM . As usual !!!
Thank you JAY! Editing all six nights, was daunting let me tell you haha.
I was at one of the middle shows and it was loud and distorted! The best part of the show was the acoustic set! This video is great as usual and we'll put together!
Great respect for JCM and his dedication to Zeppelin ❤
The background info given here is extraordinary!
What a great time to be alive 🎉
Loved this series JCM! Thanks so much for all your hard work on these 🙌
I have always totally loved this version of it'll be me! The Zeppified version! The drums, the groove, the vocals. So awesome! I've commented on other zeppelin videos all over the internet to say if you're not listening to the bootlegs and hearing all of the versions of this band you're not actually getting a complete understanding of led zeppelin at all. I have a book that details their every concert.And it lists which ones have been bootlegged and says which ones are good and I've checked them out and made favorites and they are incredible.This was when giants walked the earth.
Damn shame there won't be an official release of any of the 77 tour.
I was at this show. It was my first night to see Zeppelin on this run… It was shocking how 80% of the magic was gone from the previous show I saw in San Diego in 1975. Even Plant mocked the crowd’s relative indifference during the It’ll Be Me encore “Oh wow, they’re recording again!” having grown accustomed to the thunderous ovations they received after every song during their previous tour.
Luvit as always just Fantastical!!! YOU are the BEST Thank YOU ever so ya will never know how much these Documentaries mean to me
Great Job JCM. Enjoyed your work putting together this series. Will have to seek out the bootlegs now.
Great work!!! I appreciate and really enjoy your musical observations which make each performance unique. Your Zep series are by far my favorite “shows” to watch.
My pleasure! I will keep these coming! Thank YOU for tuning in!
Hi Jose!
Even though I’m self-employed (sort of). I too, get a little depressed on Sunday evenings. However, one particular Sunday night in June of 1977, my local FM radio rock station aired a *Led Zeppelin Special* featuring a then brand-new interview with Jimmy Page!
Earlier in that month of June in 1977, my teacher & school class took a field trip to an amusement park, and the girl from kindergarten that I mentioned last week (the one that I most had a huge crush on) blew my mind - again...by wearing an indelibly, über-sexy, butterfly sleeve Kelly Green mini dress - à la English actress, Jenny Agutter (as her character, Jessica 6) in the 1976 motion picture: *Logan’s Run* directed by Michael Anderson. The film also co-starred Michael York and 1970s sex symbol, Farrah Fawcett. 🎡🎞🍃
I do regret not showing up for the last day of school - I was busy...(selfish really) listening to Led Zeppelin non-stop and staying up all night gazing at the stars with my high-power binoculars.
In between albums, when changing LPs - for fun, I would have the AM radio tuner playing in the background and would hear Elvis Presley singing. When I’m not listening to Led Zeppelin, you can usually find me listening to Steely Dan - I had rather diverse and sophisticated tastes - even at the age of 12. LOL!
PS: I don’t know if you can see it the same as I do from where you are in the southern hemisphere, but up here in the northern half - if you look up towards the north-eastern sky in the month of June, you will see - and please pardon the pun - an astronomical amount of stars in the sky! It is truly overwhelming! 🔭🌌🛸🛰🌠
I was there for 2 of the 6 Shows - Day 3 and Day 6. Back when the ticket said "Show starts at 7:30 p" and actually started about 10:00p and went on until after 200a - Well, you certainly got your money's worth !
Best Zeppelin docs ever!
Thank you very much Scott!
That's great you got that nice LZ badge, Jose! You are now an official badge badgeholder! I loved what you said about the suitcases, lol. Peace, from Jacksonville, Florida USA.
great series on this set of shows. thanks JCM
You know you are officially a Led Zeppelin fan when your phone’s auto-correct stops trying to replace “led” with “LED” (acronym for light emitting diode)
…and you are officially a Zeppelin MEGA fan when your phone starts trying to replace “LED” with “led” 😂
Hi Jose,
Led Zeppelin performing complete shows on twelve nights in June 1977 - for me, represents the 1970s to the max...if you count and include the six Madison Square Garden shows in New York - and speaking of which - check this out, Jose:
The first night in New York, 7 June 1977 is a performance for the ages that aims for the stars...and that sound - like OMG! - just listen to Jonesy play his Alembic electric bass guitar as he plucks the low E string during the intro to ‘The Rover’ as the song segues into ‘Sick Again’ - HOLY JAMAIS VU, BATMAN! 🦸
A little bit of trivia: Anita Pallenberg was in attendance that night along with her hubby Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones! Anita was a huge fan of the band, and I remember reading an article about her raving how great the show was in Rolling Stone magazine.
I always prefer to listen to the raw soundboard aka audio mixing console-sourced recordings of Led Zeppelin, because that gets you as close musically to the band as possible - plus, the bass, drums & percussion usually have the best fidelity with great live dynamic range and impact. 🎛🎚🎧
At any rate, here is the link:
th-cam.com/video/Dxn4Jh_m8L4/w-d-xo.html
'77 was such a special year and your vids are SO DAMN GOOD. Can I ask some how-to questions? Your harmony analysis is so impressive... assume you know the studio track cuz yr a guitarist, but how are you clocking the exact variations in the show? Do you play along til it sounds right, bounce it off friends, run it thru an app, and/or …? What's the process for sorting out all their spontaneous variations? Not to mention the comparisons to past performances, that's gotta be hours upon hours of intense work. The mind boggles at how long these eps take, what number would you put on it in terms of average hours?
BTW you should run it all by Jimmy, Bob, and Jonesy, they would love this.
Audience boots can be rough on the ear, us intermediate fans would love if you put the song title up during your show analysis, I personally miss several sets of comments just figuring out if it's the same song or not. "Anything but" is opposite of "All but," English is wack af. Kashmir is in 6/4 not 4/4 (two vids now!). Steven Seagal joke had me howling, keep the jokes coming! (PS I have that PF '77 Boston Garden boot on vinyl it's sooo tasty)
The proto-carouselambra was epic.
Thanks!
Epic
@JCM, I've read that Led Zeppelin performed a grand total of about 600 concerts. If accurate, this means that just this 6 night stand in LA stood up as a staggering (if you think about it) 1% of ALL their performances. Also, when you consider that the first 4 years were very tour heavy, the years from '72 through '80 featured only about 200 shows. Further considering that most of their early shows were done in small venues, it's possible that more fans have witnessed Taylor Swift live than Led Zeppelin! I'm not sure but I'm sure someone will do the math. Witnessing a Zeppelin performance may just be the musical version of winning a Wonka Golden Ticket lol.
BTW, I was lucky enough to see the great Silverdome show earlier in this tour.
Best Rock Band of the Era, period.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
I recently found your channel. Great stuff. I'd love to hear a show on the destroyer show. Keep up the good work. Thanks again and rock on. Cheers 🍻 from Cleveland
Welcome Christopher! Glad you found this Zepp community. From a Zepp fans to Zepp fans, all about admiration for the band's history and legacy! CHEERS!
The sit down acoustic songs at a live concert is another sign of how ahead of their time Jimmy page and the boys were. Just imagine that first time they played together with "train kept'a rollin" when they actually hesrd how good they were and saying, "man, we are going to make millions" then they all laughed saying "yeah right, ha ha"
But Jimmy was thinking yes, yes we are!.
37:30 - That "Layla" bit was awesome. Also reminiscent of "Sultans of Swing" and possibly "Expresso Love" also by Dire Straits. Wish they would have jammed it out a little more. Always wish they did more "minor funk". I also especially liked the touring map. Nice to see Chicago headline! I realized I just missed Sun King mention Chicago 1977, which was a little like Zep in ways, not having the extraordinary energy they had just a few years earlier. King Biscuit Hour 1974 for example. I love all the other context with other music, and what was happening in general. I will watch this again.
Robert Hilburn bugged the hell out of me. Unless it was U2 or Springsteen he had no appreciation for your music. He described Zep live as “primitive pyrotechnics” when they were doing all this complex music.
What! So soon? My Zep mug runneth over! PS love the intro music.
Loved the Star Wars references. Same year ❤👍
J.C. another great experience from the Mighty Led Zeppelin...thank you!
I wanted to ask you why are their restrictions on Stairway to Heaven on you tube?
As I said before I quite like the June 26th show. I don't find it at all a lazy Sunday performance. Bonzo is en fuego! I think it has some of Robert's best vocals of the '77 tour. Yeah, it was not perfect, this was 1977 after all, but it's very good. I have a copy of the very bootleg you showed. Sundazed, that one I had to order from Japan. The recording gets better as it goes.
You know you’re screwed when you buy a platinum record of the stairway to heaven single.
Robert himself has stated about the ‘77 tour that they were “showboating a bit.” Let’s face it, they were senior superheroes now approaching or just about in the latter part of their career at this point. You can just sense it. Critics love to put targets on them with their venom-filled pens but that’s what they get paid for. It’s kinda sick. Keep in mind that Zeppelin were made up of four geniuses who were in a constant state of evolution. The crappy critics couldn’t keep them in a box. Zeppelin always returned, delivered and conquered - sending the would-be journalists home…humbled. These Forum shows would’ve been the perfect ending for this ill-fated outing as we all know the unevenness - sadness of the third and final leg. We can just feel the pressure building…not knowing if Jim would be up to task or not on any given night. The D&A usage was rife and out of control this year and something eventually had to give. They always seemed though to deliver while in LA. At the end of the day…they were still taking chances and had some gas left in the tank at this point…but it was running near E…they’ve achieved everything already…where to go now?
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Have you ever thought that the backing vocals on Bat Out Of Hell sound like The Muppets?
Robert Hillbore always had to mention his boss brucie in each review of somebody else's show 😂
Hahah yeah....that cracked me up! Thanks for watching!
Very odd, but exciting, setlist additions and omissions for 6/26/77 (my 14th birthday btw) What do you suppose inspired them to add "That's all Right" and "It'll Be Me"?
What was the reason for them doing that?
I believe they were tired and based on the concert review for the 23rd i think they were pissed on the 25th. Because they had one more show to go, they chose a different route. The date itself, is very strange, almost as if THEY KNEW, it would be Elvis last time on stage....some energies move in mysterious ways!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories and on my 14th Birthday!
✌🏻 Very groovy
Like a tank running over copies of Bat Out of Hell...😂😂😂😂
Great job again as usual. But you keep mentioning that they stayed at the Hyatt on Sunset for the 77 tour as I pointed out to you previously this is not true. They did not stay at the Hyatt on Sunset. They in fact stayed in the Beverly Hilton. I thought maybe you would’ve had corrected this for the new one
Do you have evidence for this? I'd be the first person interested in solving this mystery. Let me know!
It’s not really Mystery. I already sent you this but I will send it again.
“They Stayed at The “Riot House” in 72, 73, and 75.
In 1977 they stayed at The Beverly Hilton. When speaking of the 1977 tour On page 283 of “Hammer of the Gods” Stephen Davis said ….“ In Los Angeles Led Zeppelin abandoned the Riot House and checked in to the less tainted Beverly Hilton.” Keith Moon joined them at their hotel there before the Forum shows.( Keith Moon’s assistant Dougal Butler spoke about meeting them there). Also Jimmy did a famous interview with “Trouser Press” which was done at the Hotel. Sorry for correcting you as I am a big fan of your content.”
At this point maybe i should delete my videos and redo them haha. These are great references. Not sure i believe Hammer of the Gods though...nothing there seems true. I still think the Hyatt hotel was the place. The Beverly Hilton seems a low key and not safe enough :) Food for thought you gave me here. Thanks for tuning in!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories there is much more evidence that they didn’t than they did. So you actually have an inaccuracy by just assuming they did. Oh well I do enjoy your work! Thanks
Hey man, what's the problem with Bat out of Hell??? My ranking of the shows would be 6-22, 6-25, 6-23, 6-21, 6-26, 6-27 but even the 27th is a damn fine show.
@@tedwojtasik8781 i can see more than one problem with that album lol.
Anybody seen Richie !? Why did Richie do Bobby Lupo !?
Hahaha, classic Seagal, he was serious about it!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories there ain’t nobody upstairs !!!!!
Hi Jose! By a happy coincidence, YT recommended me a post today from a channel I didn't know, the person posted this show from June 27, 1977... recorded by the legendary Mike Millard. I loved it, and was glad to watch this episode next. I can't say which one was better, I usually say that Zeppelin reinvented themselves with each show, that was their magic. Thanks again for the amazing work, bye 👋
Bonham powerful.
Page leadership
Plant swagger
Jones masterly
I like your definition of each one, agree 100%
Was waiting for a John Paul Jones or Bonham on the cover. What happen 😄
Since they left L.A i thought this made sense hehe. Maybe i will change it. Episode Two has half the views Episode One Has !
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories looks good though🤟🏼.
Thanks man! Final nights at the Forum, plenty of surprises!
Nobody could touch them when they were on
Why didn't they just play the Rose bowl and called it a day ?
They were going to in September 1975 but plans were cancelled because of Robert's car accident in August.
Don’t laugh the boss bro!
@@robmcvaigh796 laughing at the critic throwing the boss at Led Zeppelin. It's uncalled for. Even Springsteen would agree.... :) Bruce may be the King for many but he is in no way shape or form what Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham did for Rock and Roll.
I'll never understand that a band with Zep's hefty touring income wouldn't spring for a state-of-the-art FOH sound system a la Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead and Zappa. More times than not you hear from those that saw them live, that it was "very loud" or "muddy, and bludgeoningly loud".
Let's be honest, Jose. TSRTS was good when it was all we had of official live Zep. But years later we got more official live tracks that were FAR better and showed the true sound of the Mighty Zep. PS DOn't think that Fifth of Firth got by me. It didn't ;)
"Like a tank crushing copies of Bat out of Hell" Ha! Love it! Most overrated album of all time.
Just imagine all those records beind destroyed, Good Times hahah!
6/26 is better than 6/25 and 6/27. Id say its even better than Badgeholders.
Performance-wise
The pieces that made the '77 shows seem excessive were the three showcase songs; No Quarter, Jones, Over the Top for Bonham, and Jimi's effect pedal noodling thing. A show without those three songs would feel much less excessive.
I concur! And toss White Summer….it was usually unfocused and boring compared to 69/70 versions. Scale down NQ to 12-14 minutes like 73. Also,have Plant do all the vocals for Battle Of Evermore….JPJ voice sounded terrible for this glorious song. Cheers
Much of the criticism of 1977 fully justified, solos much too long & self indulgent. Punk revolution under way in London & they should have realised times they were a changin'... Page (as per EVH) regularly played erratically. RP, JB, JPJ not as committed as previously (probably fed up with JP unreliability) and it shows in the performances. Destroyer bootleg truly dire (as with many of the shows). Great video series Jose. Many thanks
Have you put out any feelers in an attempt to obtain any Page memorabilia from Lori Maddoxx? His (ahem) young, and favored American groupie GF? OR...some Lori Maddox memorabilia from Jimmy??
72 A tier, 73 S tier, 75 B tier and 77 C tier. Kinda a toss up in some respects between 75 or 77.
There a a few things that really make up for the long uninspired solos. Healthy plant, monstrous bonzo but a stumbling page and playing over each other isn’t my fave. 75 was closer to 73 level but with a sick plant and stumbling page here and there .
Yeah Plant's voice really suffered in 75. I mean, his voice was not 100% ready to record Graffiti if you ask me, so touring was a stretch i believe but they had to...
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories yeah I mean who knows how many takes he took but you can hear his new voice esp on TYG, TUF, SA.
But I think it was also in Kashmir, in the light too., basically the instrumentals they recorded while he recovered
Yeah. Many takes i think. The ending for The Wanton Song...man those vocal chords are really pushing it.
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories I read somewhere he said he sang the belters first before surgery.
I assume custard pie and wanton but wasn’t sure if there was an instrumental wanton out there. I have to revisit the deluxe Ed
Sf Cronicles headline after Oakland 77 first show..I tend to agree.."Big..Loud..and Boring.."
It depends where they listened the show from, it wasn't a boring show!
I at 1st Oakland show..tighter than Seattle..they should have maybe dropped No Quarter which kinda put the crowd to sleep..otherwise a good show..the press were never kind to them in The Bay Area
Thanks!
Thank you John!