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The Complete Plantations for May 16, 1973
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May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Over the Hills and Far Away
Good evening. It's ah, it's more than a pleasure to be back again. It think it's been ah, two years, yeah? Well we don't seem to be two years older so, that's cool. This is a, this is a song off the fourth album. It's ah, no I'm telling a lie. I'm telling a lie. I tell a lot of lies.
May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Misty Mountain Hop
So what you been doing for two years? You've been boogying. If you haven't, we have, but I'm sure you have. This is a track from the fourth album. It's about what happens when you take a stroll on a Sunday afternoon with a packet of cigarette papers, and some good grass, and ah, I'm not advocating it. In this type of story, mean things take place. It's called Misty Mountain Hop.
May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: No Quarter
This ah, this next one is a new song. ah It took us five albums before we finally could get a title together for an album, and Houses of the Holy seems to be ah, not a bad title. This is a song from Houses of the Holy. It's about man's passage through life, and the trials. It's called No Quarter.
May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: The Song Remains the Same
Thank you. This ah, is another track from ah, the new album. It's about , I was talking to a friend last night in New Orleans, and we were saying that where ever you go, or where ever you travel, another county, another city, across the world, after two or three days you find that, apart from the language, everybody's the same. Everybody's cool. It all comes from the same common denominator, right? This is a track called The Song Remains the Same.
May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Stairway to Heaven
Something a little different.
May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Moby Dick
Thank you. Good evening. Well we been together now, I think some more top Rusty, we been together now for a long time, and ah, everytime we come to the States, we like to show just exactly what's going on. So our precussionist, the one and only, John Henry Bonham. Moby Dick.
May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Heartbreaker
John Bonham, John Bonham, John Bonham. Moby Dick. John Henry Bonham. Mick Hinton, Mick Hinton. The greatest road manager that ever hit the west. Mick Hinton.
May 16, 1973
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Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Communication Breakdown
Thank you very much Houston, and people, and Godd night. Good evening.
May 16, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: Sam Houston Coliseum
City: Houston, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
After: Communication Breakdown
Thank you very much. Good night.