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The Complete Plantations for Mar 04, 1975
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Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Over the Hills and Far Away
Dallas, are you receiving us? Cause if you ain't we gonna make sure that you will. We got two nights to do it too. Right, well first of all, it, oh yeah, first of all, oh yeah, first of all, we'd like to say it's great to be back here. Last time we came here we didn't feel quite as fit as we do now. So ah, that's one good thing, right? Secondly, we got a new album out that's, seems at last we've got an album. Some new material for you to listen to, which we intend to play bits and pieces from the six and a half year career, that we've managed to, managed to keep together all that time. Do you believe that constable? It's amazinf. ah So here we all are still the same people, more or less, give or take a brain cell. So we do some new stuff, some old stuff, and some pretty good stuff.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: In My Time of Dying
Thank you very much for that applause. I'd like to bid you all good health. I'f like to bid me self good health too. Let's, anyway, let's not get too attmospheric too quick. I mean don't get too vibey too quick, you know? ah So, anyway, this LP that we got together called Physcal Grafitti ah, really, the title representing ah, one of the many facets of our leisure hours when we're travelling around the, the world, or whatever. This is a track from it. It goes back to the roots of, of all music that English people took notes from, years and years ago, and strangely enough, it's called In My Time of Dying.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: The Song Remains the Same
Mr. John Bonham. Good evening. Well all we succeded in at the end of that number was getting totally tangled up. So if you'll excuse us for a minute. Shhh, hang on. It's coming. It's coming. Look at that, see? A band full of initiative. Now, what have I done? We're doing that, actually we're going straight from here to Vegas, where we do a summer season when Elvis finishes. So we said we we're gonna do some of the material from the past. ah Now, well, well naturally we can't do any from the future, can we? So, I mean, it isn't really, I mean we like you to applaud, but ah, there's times, you know? So we've had many many experiences, ah, if you'll shut up a minute I'll try to carry on. We've had many many xperiences around the world. Quite a few hairy ones, and a lot of good times, with a lot of good people. Hence The Song Remains the Same.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Kashmir
That was um, an honest to goodness, that was an honest to good ness song of love, and um, and love can be one of the most fulfilling things in the world. So amen. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. We;; without this turnign into a gospel meeting, this is a track from, another track from Physical Grafitti that takes is to a land far far removed from this western society that we scratch aorund in. It's a track called Kashmir.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: No Quarter
John Paul Jones played the mellotron. Avery cheap form of orchestra, and he doesn't cost much to rent either. John's been um, John Paul that is, since he's had his hair cut, he's taken to watching Liberace on TV, and um, and playing around with the piano a lot more, and so he insists that we, he also plays a blackpool on a summer season in England. Why don't you wake up? Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Perhaps, perhaps it's only, perhaps it's beacuase I only got up at half past four this afternoon. My morning is just beginning. This is a track that features John Paul Jones exercising the fingers, and looking rather groovy as well. He's a croupier in Vegas on his days off. A very serious change of mood, as we go down into the subconscience. No Quarter.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Trampled Underfoot
Let's hear it for John Paul Jones piano. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Right now, we've been down there, so it's time to move things a little bit ah, for anybody who made it to Ft Worth last night, for both of you in fact, here's a track off, off Physical Grafitti, which relates to the ah, to the motor car, and as you people from the, from the United States know that your musical herritage, a lot of it, the blues, which inspired we English folk in the early sixties, and so on, ah, there was a guy called Robert Johnson who wrote a lot of beautiful blues things. He was the forerunner of Elmore James, and, and all the blues bands. John Mayal, and all that sort of thing, you know? And he wrote songs about motor cars, and motor cars are relative. Imagine thumping of the pistons. Imagine the grinding of the valves. Imagine the relativity between the car and the human frame. If
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Trampled Underfoot
you'll leave your young lady alone please sir. This is called Trampled Underfoot.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Moby Dick
Thank you. We'd like to bid a good evening, and a nice warm welcome back to Toby Robert, our spiritual guidance and the man who falls asleep in the brothels in New Orleans. Thank you Toby. I'm sorry if we seem to be very happy, we have to keep apologizing. It's terrible to look out into an audience where everybody's very flat faced, you know? These days there isn't enought miling going on, you know that? So we intend, we intend to inject a little bit of it into you, but now for some precussion. Now for one of the finest, finest musical sights that you're likely to experience within the next fifteen minutes, and that is ladies and gentlemen, our precussionist. The man with only two cavities, John Bonham. Moby Dick.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Dazed and Confused
The human train. John is currently appearing in Ol' Calcutta in Briadway in New York. The only reason he played like that was cuase he fell in love last night, and that's a fact. Is that right John? Bonzo, did you , did you fall in love last night? Yeah, night before, right. Well you might gather by our attitude that six and a half years has not sort of flatteneded our incentive to play good music to a live audience, right? And neither has it flattened our desire to spend evenings with members of the audience after the show. It's just that the bromine that the doctor keeps giving us ain't no good at all. We gonna do something, a long time ago, when I was nineteen, and everyone else in the group was about thirty six, um.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: John Bonham
Before: Dazed and Confused
I was walking down a road out here.
Mar 04, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Dazed and Confused
We got together in a very tiny room. I'm sorry if anybody's stoned and having a bad trip man because I'm giggling me head off. Anyway, we, we all got together in a, we all got together in a tiny room being the cheap people that we are, we wouldn't ise a big one, and, and we started playing. As soon as we started playing we knew there would be no turning back, and this was, this was probably about the first thing that we really got off on together. Apart from the chicks.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Stairway to Heaven
Jimmy Page guitar. Orchestration by the man in the moon. Now don't get too excited. Would you be so kind as to just, thank you, well, that is what started it all off. That energy that really got us together in the first place, and then we , we went through several changes, as everyone is bound to do, and ah, we became wiser, and older, and we saw more. Just like you did, and one day we thought we saw a little gap through all the crap.
Mar 04, 1975
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Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Whole Lotta Love
Does anybody remember laughter? Well Dallas, it's nice to see you smiling. Thank you very much. Good night. Good evening. Why were'nt you like this when you came in? Is it that bad outside? Does anybody remember laughter? Good evening. Good evening.
Mar 04, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: Memorial Auditorium
City: Dallas, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Heartbreaker
Mala cum salaam. Thank you very much Dallas. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, devotion seems to be the, the tune of the day, and ah, wild thing, you make my heart sing.