Robert Plant - Big Log - Toronto 1988

[20yrsyoungerful]

aww. I live here. how could I have missed one of my favourite songs

[TubeFreakJonas]

6:04 Plant has to fight some rough notes but here he's aging gracefully, hitting the A, then the C - really a fearless guy to just go for it, because his voice was already pretty road worn!

And I credit Boyle with getting a great sense of Blunt's original guitar theme, and later going out on a limb with it (almost Knopfler.) Check solos 5:39 near the end! He wanders out of melody a few times but he's playing it right on the edge.

[poohen223]

Wow, great performance...for a period of which I didn't expect such.

[BPDLSG]

At 5:50-6:00 you can see the guitarist breaks a string and needs a moment to figure out how to play through the rest of the song. I think he does a wonderful job considering the difficult nature of the song in the first place.

[purplehaze5562]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[Algorhythmiq]

I miss the talents of Robbie Blunt w/ Plant. Very unique player with his own recognisable style.

[Algorhythmiq]

@nickfame3021 - I realize that. That's why I miss him. ;)

[JustinPierce1226]

His voice seemed a bit weaker here compared to just back in 1985. His voice seemed to lose a little raw power from 1980 until this performance. But, to argue that its okay, he really was not hitting the notes he use to with Led Zeppelin. He mellowed out a little and thus, when you do not practice a singing technique in years, it will go away a bit.

[bigblockelectra]

sounded fine to me. doug boyle looks like he needed to be eating more though

[bertmanstein]

Doug Boyle was an awesome guitar player for plant to have. He must have loved have such a clean and tidey player after all those years with Jimmy's slop. Not that Jimmy wan't awesome in his own way.....

[RolandDeschainee]

I was at this show 5th row Stevie ray was totally amazing and so was plant I remember how great it was to finally here him play zeppelin live as on his previous tours he didn't touch any zep material. and I can verify a guitar string was indeed broken.

[diagreen]

sounds good

[Bezragoth]

great songggg *5

[Jarnomusician]

I think a string was broken! And this Song is hard to play! not easy! I Love this Song!!!

[Gtwkd]

Not the same without Robbie Blunt playing it...

[5177845]

@Gtwkd I agree.

Also, if it's not enough that the guitar playing sucks, so does Plant's voice. Sounds like he just played this song to shut up his fans but hurried through it because he wasn't really into it.

[Lazrid1]

I saw Robert Plant on this tour,the entire set was fantastic !! Plant had one guitar player live,when they recorded the CD they done alof of overdubbing...it is hard to do 2 guitar parts with one guitar player....fantastic song and very well done live performance!!

[beauty8116]

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE GUITAR SOLOS. He destroyed one of the most beautiful guitar parts ever. That just killed this one of a kind song. Wish a never heard it.

[fireflower5]

Its called playing live ,so its not going to sound like a perfect recording.

[beauty8116]

It's called playing live really bad with no feel and a terrible tone through a shitty Ibanez! Ps, 5:21 to the out is shameful! To play that bad standing next to to master is blasphemy !!!!!!!!!!! No feel or emotion whatsoever. Still an amazing piece of music.

[tredwest]

I agree with you completely.

I was at this show and left feeling ripped off.

The only good thing about the show was that Stevie Ray Vaughan was the opening act.

[MrRiptoff]

Actually it's called A BROKEN STRING.

[5177845]

@tredwest I saw him in 1990 and he didn't play this song in his set. After hearing this, I'm glad he didn't.

[poussyledzep]

i love it

[blacklightsociety]

Wow. What an epic song.