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The Complete Plantations for Mar 25, 1975
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Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Over the Hills and Far Away
Good evening the Forum. A very aptly titled building. That spot light's gonna catch us sooner or later. In the light, everybody makes it through. Look at that, see? The guy's jerking himself off up there. We, last night we had a really really good time. We had a great concert here. ah It was one of the finest we had in California in a long time on our part and also on the part of the audience. So tonight we'd like to try and get it a little bit better. This is determined by us and you ah, we intend for those people who aren't already aware, to take, to take you down a sort of a road of Led Zeppelin music. Passing, passing all different areas, all different climates of, and feelings of music that we've performed in six and a half years, and we must start it like this. Looking into the distance.
Mar 25, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: In My Time of Dying
So you remember that one, yeah? ah Shut up. Shhh. I got something to tell ya. It can hardly be called news, but ah, it's important to us because it marks, I think five, six, fourteen sides of plastic in six and a half years. At last we got Physical Grafitti in the shops. A great hue and cry, I can imagine, but ah, I, we're gonna do some of the tracks tonight, and this is ah, this is the first one. It comes from, I suppose it's roots, long before we ever heard it, must have, have been used as an evening song after the chain gang had stopped for the day. It goes like this.
Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: The Song Remains the Same
I feel the ah, the attmosphere is starting to create itself between you and us. We must try to get a little bit warmer than it is though, you know? I want to see you sweat as much as me. Total satisfaction, you know? It's like you can't give a lady satisfaction, you get satisfaction yourself until giving it to the lady first, yeah? So we'd like to think that it's a male and female relationship where we should both sweat, you and us. Hey, try and work that one out. ah To enable us to try and take you to the point of, of ah, satisfactory climax, thank you very much madame, I'm on me way. I'm on me way. We'd like to do a thing that you might have heard before when we came here, I think we've been to California before. It's called The Song Remains the Same.
Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Kashmir
Good evening. That ah, was quite a simple, cut and dried, song of love. ah I don't think that it could have been appropriate the day after it was written or the day before. It's just that day was the day. Never again will it be like that until the next time, and as I only fall in love once a week, it's pretty hard to keep writing. This is ah, I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, this is another track that features John Paul Jones on mellotron, a very cheap form of orchestra, John Paul Jones. This is a song about the wasted wasted wasted lands, and it's not the lobby of the Continental Hyatt House either. It's Kashmir.
Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: No Quarter
Thank you very much. John Paul Jones mellotron. Right, now we intend to um, John moves across a neyboard or two, and takes to the piano and a piece which consists of a great deal of improvisation. It would be a good idea to have a brandy glass on top of the piano and pop a dollar in, you know? He's so cheap. Of course we're crazy. This is a track called No Quarter.
Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Trampled Underfoot
John Paul Jones grand piano, John Paul Jones. ah This next piece should be dedicated to all the good ladies of America who've helped us to get rid of the blues from time to time while on the road. That boils down to about two. This is a thing ah, if your starter won't start and you've got low compression, and maybe oil isn't circulating good enough, maybe you're just a little bit Trampled Underfoot.
Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Moby Dick
Thank you very much. Was that alright? It's amzing the similarity between a motor car and a human body. ah Are we still crazy, what a question to ask? That man in the second row asks are we still crazy. We ain't crazy. It's our road crew who are crazy. We're all very astute businessmen. I was training to be a chartered accountant. Jimmy was going to be a poet. Right now we bring you something, a show that should never be missed. The man who broke every window in ten, in room ten nineteen last night. The man who smashed wardrobes. The man who set fire to his own bed. The amazing man with only two cavities, Mr. Quaalude, John Bonham. Moby Dick.
Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Dazed and Confused
John Bonham. Mr. Ultraviolence. The only man who can purr like a cat and roar like a bear in three minutes. Mr. John Bonham's playing guitar, no? John Bonham. Very very happy little musical outfit. There's Mr. Peter Grant. Here's a song that um, gosh I feel quaint, just had a wonderful experience in the drum solo. um Here's a song that came to us about four hours after we got together. When we got through how do you do's amd shaking hands, and what sort of music do ya dig, and what sign are you baby, and as soon as we rolled our first joint, this was it.
Mar 25, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Stairway to Heaven
Jimmy Page, master guitarist. Here's ah, here's a song that should be dedicated to ah, the sweeter, more gentle moment in life, that can occasionally be experienced in the year of 1975. This is for you.
Mar 25, 1975
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Whole Lotta Love
Ladies and gentlemen, you've been a most aproving audience. We've had a good time. Thank you very much. Good night. Good evening. ah ah I said Good evening. Everybody needs it so bad. Everybody needs it so bad.
Mar 25, 1975
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
After: Black Dog
People of the Forum. thank youv ery much, ta. We've had a good time. It is the summer of all our smiles.