BABY,
SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU
I'M ABOUT TO LOSE ,
LOSE MY WORRIED MIND
Led Zeppelin
Houston TX
The Summit
05/21/77
" THE DRAGON SNAKE"
The tape begins with a
brief soundcheck
before the
band launches into
The Song Remains the Same.
Things get off to a
somewhat shaky start
as Page's fingers
become entangled
in the strings
during the guitar solos.
Bonzo, however,
is ready and raring to go,
firing off a series of
machine gun snare
blasts and shouting
"pick it up!"
as they reach the
opening chords of
Sick Again.
The band gets a bit lost
following the
third verse.
As the song ends,
Plant apologizes
for the delay,
saying
"not much time to give you
a brief history of
the last two years,
it's been mostly spent
on our backs,
so we're just gonna
get on and play."
Page very briefly quotes
the old Boogie Chillen' riff
during the guitar solo in
Nobody's Fault But Mine.
Bonzo can be heard saying
"oh, we're falling apart tonight, ain't we?...
did you notice the bolt was comin'
out the hi-hat as well there?"
following a sluggish
In My Time of Dying.
Since I've Been Loving You
is absolutely fantastic,
resembling the versions
from the 1973
North American tour.
One of the best
in recent memory.
As the song ends,
Bonzo can be heard
repeatedly shouting
"over the hills!"
Plant tells the crowd
"this next piece features
the uncontrollable
bursting talents of
John Paul Jones"
before
No Quarter,
adding
"the mystery man comes alive!"
Jones's piano solo
develops into an
excellent extended
rock 'n roll shuffle
hard rock jam
as Page and Bonzo join in.
Bonzo experiments with a
vast array of rhythms
during the lengthy guitar solo.
Page shreds wildly
during the outro.
As the song ends,
Bonzo can be heard shouting
"Jimmy!... it's only rock and roll."
Plant introduces
Bonzo as
"the sort of Joan Baez of Led Zeppelin"
before
The Battle of Evermore.
Going to California
is beautiful.
Page and Plant hint at
Custard Pie
while waiting for Jones
to retrieve his standup bass
prior to
Black Country Woman.
There is a brief cut
in the tape during
the initial verses of
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp.
Bonzo is on fire during a
frantic
Achilles Last Stand,
thrashing wildly at
anything within reach.
Plant introduces
Stairway to Heaven as
"a song of continued positivity,"
adding
"we hope."
As the band returns
to the stage,
he tells the crowd
"it's been a great night... it's a new hall,
we haven't played here before, right?...
doesn't seem to matter
when there's a lotta people smilin'."
Page misses the first
few notes of
Rock and Roll,
apparently due to a
fall he took as
the song began.
The band plods through
the show-closing
Trampled Underfoot.
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