#23 - The Nobs - 05-26-73 - Georgia On My Mind

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Bootleg Album: A Memento of Salt Lake
Date: May 26th 1973
Song: Georgia On My Mind

Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham jam to a bit of Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles.

CONCERT INFO:

Like four British Caesars Led Zeppelin came, saw and conquered a frenzied, sold-out Salt Palace audience Saturday night.

Easily the most elaborately staged rock performance ever seen in Salt Lake City, it will be remembered for years to come.

Messrs. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham are in the midst of a $3-million nationwide tour and the 11,000 plus fans here probably will be the smallest crowd they encounter. But it didn't seem to affect Zeppelin in the least. In fact, they seemed to enjoy the audience contact - something you don't encounter before 58,000 people in a baseball stadium.

LIGHTS, MIRRORS

The Salt Palace stage was a collage of lighting scaffolds, spotlights, huge banks of speakers, various light-reflecting devices, 14-foot-high mirrors and, of course, the four stars themselves. Super-singer Robert Plant and Jimmy Page fronted the band and drew most of the attention while the rhythm section of bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham supplied the music's foundation.

*Rock and Roll* one of Zeppelin's better recent songs opened the two-hour show.

It's a song that really moves - but sets a pace that's impossible to maintain. So they slipped into some slower material from their new *Houses of the Holy* album.

PATTERN CONTINUES

The band continued the fast-slow pattern through most of the night -alternating older, familiar tunes with new album cuts. Also in the format were Page's guitar breaks of varying lengths during almost every song. Most of the time, he carried it off admirably, but inevitably he began to repeat himself.

But preciseness wasn't the object. It was the flash...the excitement...the theatrics...the total audience involvement that Zeppelin was after. They succeeded - and then some.

It was remarkable that a concert which generated such advance excitement - and was performed before such an enthusiastic audience - was kept under such control. Most of it was due to restraint on the part of the audience. They were exemplary.

20 MINUTE SHOWCASE

*Dazed and Confused* was stretched out to a 20-minute showcase for Page and the special effects staff. Using a violin bow on his guitar and a delayed-echo system, Page had the sound bouncing from one side of the stage to the other. At times, it circled. When it began to be redundant, they moved quickly into *Stairway to Heaven,* one of the finest songs they've ever written. John Paul Jones' work on the synthesizer was beautiful throughout the concert but especially on this number.

Whole Concert Setlist:
Rock and Roll
Celebration Day
Black Dog
Over the Hills and Far Away
Jimmy Breaks A String
Georgia On My Mind
Misty Mountain Hop
Since I've Been Loving You
No Quarter
The Song Remains the Same
The Rain Song
Dazed and Confused/If Your Going To San Francisco
Stairway to Heaven
Heartbreaker
Whole Lotta Love
Communication Breakdown

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[TheLiviaFernandes]

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THIS?!?!?!?!?!

[pepperc2900]

@TheLiviaFernandes bittorrent, to tapecity.org

[Ipleadthafif67]

Was Ray like in the audience or something?

[pepperc2900]

@Ipleadthafif67 that would have been sick!!!

[divinehammer1]

Was this in Utah or New Mexico /

[pepperc2900]

Salt Lake City, Australia

[enther7]

god roberts vioce is like heaven

[joescout]

john paul is the shit he owns

[ldsjfdslakfjdsa]

I live in Georgia!

[WoodFloorBoards]

@pepperc2900 salt lake city isn't in Australia.. plus Led Zeppelin only toured Australia in 1972.

[LedHeadTillDeath]

My heart skipped way too many beats to be healthy!

[JDurden33]

PUTTING UP A FLAG: anyone know where you can get copies of this bootleg stuff, cd or VYNIL? pure fucking gold obviously - any heads up appreciated. cheers+thanks.

[dant471]

I'm surprised to have found this! It turns out that the guy who my wife and I asked to perform our wedding ceremony was the recorder of this show at the now long gone original Salt Palace here in S.L.C., Utah. He was somewhat of a surrogate father to her during her teens. He is a great person and still travels the western U.S. recording shows. I love hearing his excited hoots and hollers in the background of this show when I hear it.

[Seanwashere6]

Nice boot, was just listing to it before I went on youtube