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The Complete Plantations for Jan 31, 1975
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Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Over the Hills and Far Away
Good evening. Good evening. It's our great pleasure to ah, be just about back. Well, tonight we intend to ah, cover the spectrum of a lot of the varrying music that we've been doing for the last seven years, and ah, and as we go through the spectrum, we want to include some of the new stuff from ah, Physical Grafitti, the LP which comes out soon. WEll, this is something that's just a little bit older than newer.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: In My Time of Dying
Thank you. Right, we said we were gonna do some new stuff. Stuff that you haven't even heard, right? Stuff that even the venerable FM stations haven't even got their hands on yet. So ah, I suppose it's new to you. It's pretty new to us. This is what you might call, traditional.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: The Song Remains the Same
Jimmy Page steel guitar. Here's a song that ah, came to us after we left America about three years ago, and started travelling the around parts of the world where people don't always go for their holidays, or parts of town where people don't always go when they go shopping, you dig? And re went right round the world in a big circle, and we came to the conclusion that after meeting all these different people, colors, creed, languages, and everything. Communication always had a basic elemental structure, and The Song REmains the Same.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Kashmir
And just to let you know how versatile John is, he's gonna play another song. This is a new track. It's off of Physical Grafitti. ah It's called Kashmir.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: No Quarter
A new one. Well that was a song about ahabout Kashmir, and alittle bit of what it holds for the traveller. This is something else. It's another story about the traveler, but this one's called No Quarter.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Trampled Underfoot
Thank you. John Paul Jones on keyboards. Jimmy Page guitar. Thank you. ah Better tell you this. It's a bit of a sad story actually. We decided to do some gigs after eighteen months of getting the record label together, and doing starting work on a movie and all sorts of real posey things, you know? And just as we started rehearsing, Jimmy caught his finger in the door of a train, and this doesn't really help if you're a guitarist. So the bone, the top bone on his wedding ring finger is bust, and that's a real drag because if he was to get married now he couldn't get a ring on. I doubt if he'd do that. So he's come back on his self with two and a half fingers, can you dig it? This is a new one. This is another thing off Physical Grafitti. It's ah, it's got some sexual connotations. It's called Trampled Underfoot.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Moby Dick
So that was another new one. This ah, this next thing is like, so this is what America's all about? ah Yeah, this is an evergreen really, and so is the gentleman featured in it. ah The man who made LEd Zeppelin a legend. Mr. Ultraviolence, John Bonham. Moby Dick.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Stairway to Heaven
You have been listening to John Bonham. John Bonham. John Bonham. Moby Dick. John Henry Bonham. The man with only two cavities. ah Yes, excuse me. This is ah, we said at the beginning that we wanted to try and play a spectrum, cut across the spectrum of the stuff that we've written in the last six and a half years. We've gone from the new stuff that you haven't heard, to the stuff like How Many More Times, that's really really really old, and this is just a pretty one.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: How Many More Times
We're having a good time tonight. I've never seen us laugh so much actually, and let's face it, everything reall is about laughter, right? Here's something that we decided about a week ago that we should start doing this again cause we hadn't done it for about six years. It's called jerking off, I mean, it goes something like this.
Jan 31, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Olympia Stadium
City: Detroit, MI
Speaker: Robert Plant
After: Black Dog
Thanks very much. You've been great. Thank you.