April 23, 1977
Atlanta, GA US
The Omni
Sound Quality ~ Poor 4
The Song Remains The Same,
(The Rover intro) Sick Again,
Nobody's Fault But Mine,
In My Time of Dying,
Since I've Been Loving You,
No Quarter,
Ten Years Gone,
Battle of Evermore,
Going to California,
Black Country Woman,
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp,
White Summer ~ Black Mountainside,
Kashmir,
(Out On the Tiles intro) Moby Dick,
Jimmy Page solo,
Achilles Last Stand,
Stairway to Heaven,
Rock and Roll,
Trampled Underfoot.
A very good early 1977 show. Sick Again is really heavy and rocks hard, and Since I've Been Loving You contains some tortured guitar soloing from Jimmy. No Quarter contains some truly great improvisations and some interesting keyboard variations by Jonesy. Achilles Last Stand brings the house down as always and Trampled Underfoot is an excellent version to cap the event.
This Led Zeppelin concert at the Omni in Atlanta, GA, April 1977, is one of the best I ever saw. I loved Bron-Y-Aur Stomp on acoustic and Moby Dick and Rock and Roll were my two favorites of all Zep tunes. I must add with this concert, The Allman Brothers Band with Duane Allman at the Atlanta International Pop Festival on Friday afternoon, July 3, 1970, and AC-DC at the Omni in Atlanta, GA on January 21, 1982 as a close 2nd to Led Zeppelin and The ABB with Duane.
Had been a Zep fan for years and had seen plenty of other shows, but nothing like this. Sure... I was high (along with everyone else) but with what those four guys on stage were doing, I thought I was tripping. The laser show spinning around Page during Whole Lotta Love was awesome. The sound was excellent and now (over 30 years later) I still remember it as one of the best shows ever.
Pink Floyd did play 3 days later (I heard that it was Incredible also) but I could only afford one of the two (WOW, at only 10.00 a ticket) I think that made the right choice.
The Omni Rocked.
I was a senior in high school, and tickets were beyond impossible to get for this...on the day of the show, a friend got two tickets, I couldn't believe I was going....funny thing is, I don't remember it being all that. Incredibly smokey, "Going to California" lasted for days. i was more into ELP and Yes, but these guys were the gods, no doubt. My husband grew up in LA, and saw them about 6 times. He can recall just about every detail of those concerts.
Four of my friends and myself were lucky enough to get tickets. I heard Alex Cooley the promoter, saved the floor tickets for friends, etc. This was a great show, especially when your are 16 and seeing your favorite band live for the first time. Page coming out with the white dragon suit, sailor cap, cigarette and Les Paul down to his knees made quite an expression on a young guitarist wanna be. I remember Page's laser show as one of the highlights. Another was the acoustic set. The crowd was so loud and so was the music. I have seen most everybody and this show remains my favorite. Pink Floyd played three days later at this same venue and were booed for not being loud enough.
This was my first concert ever. It was not a great performance, but nevertheless it was a great show. I had a chance run in with Robert before the show at their hotel, I was too stunned to say hello. I was 15 years old at the time. They were my inspiration for taking up the guitar. I haven't put it down since. Thanks for the music and the muse.
I was 16 and this was the first concert I ever went to. What a way to start.
I remember It rained that night in Atlanta and people wanted to run inside to the concert when the guards let their guard down. Lots of marijuana smoke. The laser show was fantastic. Would love to see that again too.
My wife Cindy and I had only been dating a few months when we went to see Led Zeppelin at the Omni in Atlanta. To this day she tells me that was the night that she fell in love with me. (Whole Lotta Love)
We've been married now for 28 years and I never stopped loving her or Led Zeppelin. In fact we loved the show that night so much we drove to Birmingham, Alabama the next month to see them again. What a great band...what great memories.
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The tags are wrong The International Atlanta pop festival was in july 1970 they wee not part of it Got it
carlox1 3 years ago
I think he was comparing the concerts, saying that the 77 gig was equal to ABB at the pop festival
Conneyfogle 3 years ago