Kashmir

24 /1/75,
10th USA Tour
Richfield Coliseum,
Cleveland,
Ohio,
USA



Rock And Roll
Sick Again
Over The Hills And Far Away
In My Time Of Dying
The Song Remains The Same
The Rain Song
Kashmir
The Wanton Song
No Quarter
Trampled Underfoot
Moby Dick
How Many More Times
Stairway to Heaven
Whole Lotta Love
Black Dog
Communication Breakdown incl. Lemon Song

A very good show except for Robert, whose voice is severely damaged by the flu. Jimmy's broken finger doesn't hamper his playing much at all and Jones and Bonham are as good as ever. The Wanton Song is very different from the record and sounds great. Kashmir is very powerful and heavy and sounds very much like the album version. No Quarter has no piano solo, Jones stays on the organ and it is quite good. How Many More Times, was the centerpiece instead of Dazed And Confused until Jimmy's finger healed and it sounds quite different in 1975. The bow solo is intact and it is pretty good. The encores have Robert's voice basically gone although he does manage a few good screams.

Talk about excitement! A group of us mailed in for our tickets. Since we could only get 4 tickets with each order, four of us each sent in an order. When the tickets arrived, we called the coliseum to see which group of tickets were the best seats. We ended up with excellent seats. The show was just awesome. I can still remember looking at Pages fingers with the binoculars and not believing how fast they were moving! And he supposedly had an injured finger! And it was great the way the house lights went off and wham they were there playing "Rock and Roll", one of my all time favorites! I also remember especially loving "Trampled Underfoot". I loved the record version and I was hoping that the live version, if they played it, would live up to my expectations. It exceeded all of my hopes. As a matter of fact the whole night exceeded my hopes. I can still remember thinking to myself every 5 minutes that "I can't believe that Led Zeppelin is right there in front of me"!!! The only bad thing about this show was that it ended. I had the post concert blues for 6 months at least.

Led Zeppelin stayed the night at Swingo's Keg & Quarter and were billed $13,000 for damages.
Swingo's was a hotel well-known to touring musicians.

I was at this show. We got bored during "No Quarter" and decided to take a walk around the, then new, venue. We heard a series of "Whack! Whack! Whack!" sounds followed by the sound of crashing glass. An usher we'd seen just a few moments before came rushing toward us, his face bloodied, shouting for us to "Get back inside!" As he shouted at us rocks and chunks of concrete started breaking through the large, plate-glass windows that made up the outside surface of the building. When we left later there were millions of shards of glass throughout the concourse and just about every window (they were about 3.5' sq) from the ground to about twenty-five up was broken. It made it quite cold in there. Contrary to the news article shown, the show had been sold out and apparently OVERSOLD for quite awhile and as I recall the people who were angry allegedly had legitimate tickets in hand but were refused entry by the fire marshall. The story at the time said that venue officials tried to get police from throughout the vicinity to help quell the violence but were refused because the locals didn't want the new arena there anyway. In all likelihood however the Richfield Coliseum, located in the countryside about halfway between Cleveland and Akron, was simply too far for any police to reach effectively.

I had just got out of the army and a friend of mine got us 4th row tickets to the show. It was awesome and the first time any of us heard Kashmir. I took a few pictures of the band playing and still have them.


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[imagemanRDCS]

I was there, but someone stole my ticket stub from my room when I was younger. Any more recordings from this show? I was on the floor about 25 rows from the front. I only have a few snapshots that I took with my mom's Instamatic.

[Bootleder]

The destroyer 1975!