Immigrant Song

September 19, 1970

Afternoon show:
Immigrant Song,
Heartbreaker,
Dazed and Confused,
Bring It On Home,
That's Way,
Bron-Yr-Aur,
Since I've Been Loving You,
Organ solo / Thank You,
What Is and What Should Never Be,
Moby Dick,
Whole Lotta Love (medley incl. Let That Boy Boogie, For What It's Worth, Honey Bee),
Communication Breakdown.

Evening Show:
Immigrant Song,
Heartbreaker,
Dazed and Confused,
Bring It On Home,
That's Way,
Bron-Yr-Aur,
Since I've Been Loving You,
Organ solo / Thank You,
What Is and What Should Never Be,
Moby Dick,
Whole Lotta Love (medley incl. Let That Boy Boogie, Dust My Broom, Bottle Up and Go, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Some Other Guy, Train Kept a Rollin', I'm a King Bee, Baby Don't You Want To Go, C.C. Rider), Out On The Tiles, Communication Breakdown (incl. Gallows Pole), The Girl Can't help It (medley: incl. Talking About You, Twenty Flight Rock),

Notes:

The band return from England where they top the Melody Maker Poll Awards, dethroning the Beatles after eight years. A press conference is held the day before the show, with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant speaking to rather mundane reporters.

Two shows are scheduled: 2pm & 8pm, where Robert Plant also pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix who had just died. The evening's performance is widely considered one of their best ever.

PRESS REVIEW: With no fatigue showing following a gruelling six-week U.S. tour, Led Zeppelin filled the Garden for their second show. Saturday (19). With a good crowd for the first show, the group grossed over $200,000 and were the only act on the bill, unless you count disk jockey Scott Muni's minimal duties in introducing the group.

The second concert finished in just under three hours, with no sign of lagging enthusiasm from either audience or group. Drummer John Bonham walked off with the top ovation with his long feature, "Out on the Tiles" but the difference in the reaction to other members of the group was marginal.
The group flies off in several directions, covering the progressive and the rock world - "Blueberry Hill" yet, by Robert Plant. An undoubted assist is Plant's visual appeal which works on the assumption that a moving target is harder to hit.

This time round, the quartet featured a quiet time with Page doing an acoustic bit and a set with just Plant and John Paul Jones on electric mandolin. (J. RADCILIFFE, SEPT. 1970)
How Many More Times (medley incl. Cadillac, Blueberry Hill).

I was at both the 2:00 and 8:00 shows. At this time I was working at The Fillmore East, as an assistant stage manager. That weekend, The Grateful Dead were playing at the theatre. I worked their Friday night, and watched one of the most boring shows ever. I was scheduled to work the Saturday show, but lucked out when Concerts East (the promoters for the Zeppelin show at the Graden) sent 10 comp tickets to the Fillmore early Saturday morning. 5 for the early show and 5 for the evening show. Since I was one of the first ones to get to the Fillmore on Saturdays, guess who got the tickets.

Two co-workers and myself headed to the Garden around noon, the seats were on the first tier (loge area) just to the left of the stage. A perfect view of John Paul Jones and Bonhams footwork behind the monster bass drum.

Awesome show, can only remember 2 songs "Immigrant Song" as an opener, then "Heartbreaker" which was the best song played at the show. The first show was about 2/3 full (suprisingly not sold out) with about 12,000. Still not bad for an early Saturday matinee. What I can rememember is, the band was much more re-fined than earlier performances, and much louder.

I saw the band perform before at The Fillmore (opening for Iron Butterfly in early 69' and as a headliner later that year). The band now had a couple of staple songs to carry them through the longer sets. The only other band that could match Zeppelin in loudness was "Blue Cheer". After the first show ended, we headed to Club 82 for a few shots, then back to the Garden.

The evening show was even better. More songs and a longer show. Again "Heartbreaker" was the best song performed, and "Out on the Tiles" was played as an encore song. A packed house of 20,000 for the evening show. I remember calculating that about 32,000 fans saw Zeppelin perform that Saturday, with an average ticket price of $7. meaning Zeppelin took in $224,000 for one day I dreaded going back to the Fillmore, to get my $85 a night.

That night though was one of my best days, 1 to see Zeppelin and 2, not forced to hear The Grateful Dead. Paul C

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[zeppelinn]

Oh dude, this is AWESOME! Can please post Thank You? Thank you. :-) And WLL with For What It's Worth!

[Conneyfogle]

@zeppelinn sure thing

[bcledfoot]

This is the evening performance-not the afternoon. Plant clearly says "Good Afternoon!" on the afternoon set.

[jesse0192]

Oh yes, yes........INCREDIBLE

[deejaybee]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONNEY!!!!!!!!!

YOU BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks again man! You've made a happy man very old.........or is it.....

Anyway, you did it again man, thank you so much. I've heard tales of this gig over the years, just didn't realise HOW smokin' the Zep were on the night.....phew!

Amazing stuff indeed. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is indeed your stash of Zeppelin. Mercy!