Led Zeppelin - Georgia On My Mind ~ The Salt Palace: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA May 26th, 1973 (SBD)

Led Zeppelin
Georgia On My Mind - (Empress Valley ~ #EVSD 201/202) 2CD Set
The Salt Palace
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
May 26th, 1973
Stereo Soundboard
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: Silver CD > Flac 8

Disc 1
01 - Rock And Roll (cuts in) 1:18
02 - Celebration Day 3:47
03 - Bring It On Home / Black Dog 6:18
04 - Over The Hills And Far Away 8:40
05 - Georgia On My Mind 1:30
06 - Misty Mountain Hop > 5:06
07 - Since I’ve Been Loving You 8:34
08 - No Quarter 12:07
09 - The Song Remains The Same 5:44
10 - The Rain Song 9:36

Disc 2
01 - Dazed And Confused 32:07
02 - Stairway To Heaven 11:17
03 - Heartbreaker 7:44
04 - Whole Lotta Love 4:44

- "Rock And Roll" starts when the song is almost over.
- Jimmy Page breaks a string during "Over The Hills And Far Away" which delays the start of "Misty Mountain Hop".
- The transition between "Misty Mountain Hop" & "Since I’ve Been Loving You" is a little rough.
- Recording is missing "Moby Dick" and what ever the encore may have been.

It's been a little while since we posted any Led Zeppelin on the blog so here you are. This is a pretty good sounding recording from Zeppelin's 1973 Tour of North America. I haven't listened to any shows from this tour in a while so that's why I picked this show. The fact that "The Song Remains The Same" is not the show opener was weird but that's the way the 1973 tour went. I think it may have changed by the end but I may be wrong. John Paul Jones also keeps his solo vehicle, "No Quarter" to 12 minutes, kind of short. It remains my favorite song from the Houses Of The Holy album. The acoustic part of the show has also been side lined for this tour. No worries though "Dazed And Confused" is it's normal half hour beast.

The one thing that bothers me about Led Zeppelin is Jimmy Page & Robert Plant's complete disavowing of their influence on Heavy Metal. They point at some of the mindless dibble that posers put out during the Heavy Metal domination of the industry. As always there are a lot of bands that jump on a band wagon and put out sub par music. Happened to the Grunge and Alternative scenes. Rap and Country Music have not been immune to the same over saturation. But I digress, if Led Zeppelin had not been, Heavy Metal may very well have ended up the mindless dibble they pointed out. Because of Led Zeppelin Heavy Metal/Hard Rock has melody and texture. The light and heavy ethos of Zeppelin created the power ballad. Heavy Metal music can have texture if you will, such as Metallica slowing to a crawl in the middle of "Master Of Puppets" only to speed up to a face melting end. Every guitar player I worked with in my decades in Heavy Metal has given Jimmy Page as much credit as Tony Iommi. I don't want to forget that Led Zeppelin may have helped to invent Progressive Heavy Metal as much as Rush (since Rush was influenced by  Led Zeppelin), with "Kashmir" alone (not to mention "Achilles Last Stand").

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