Led Zeppelin - Los Angeles 1973

© 2010 WMG. Rare 8mm film clips of Led Zeppelin performing at the Los Angeles Forum 1973. LedZeppelin.com

Concert info: http://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/june-3-1973

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[LedZepfilm]

@ledzeppelin This is May 31st 1973.

[percypage74]

@Ozzybeans He started developing problems as early as mid 71. Listen closely to bootlegs of shows after Aug 21 and you will hear occasional cracks that were never there before. What is your source for him having an operation in mid73?? The general consensus is that he had an operation following the end of the 73 tours, sometime before 1975. Hell, just listening to the difference in his voice, between the Song Remains the Same movie and the Earls Court footage on the DvD is impossible to miss

[zofo666]

I actually think Page,s tone from 68-73 was fantastic,just enough compression and sustain (no quarter srts solo etc),i think he then used those marshall majors which were boosted to 200w,like ritchie,s,BUT he played them under performing,hence too clean and very "clanky".Also up to 73 they were playing all the time and were on their game,after this,tax breaks etc,personal habits and strains took over and they never really got back to their peak live due to ilnneses and unfortunate events!

[ccaig]

@Matthew9444 why would they drop it ?

[AllysWorld05]

@Ozzybeans

What you're saying about Page using his number 2 Les Paul in 1975 is true, however it wasn't a present from Joe Walsh, that was his number 1. Page bought the number 2 in 1973.

[NateageIV]

would have been nice to see the rest of the dazed and confused solo:D

[hadjicrack]

@Ozzybeans yeah i realised that to. because from 68-69 jimmys tone was fuzzy. 1970 tone was heavy. the 1971 tone was a little bit heavier than the 70's tone. the 1972 tone was like a combo everything before and the 1973, 1975-1980's tone was cleaner

[Ozzybeans]

As for Robert, he did a lot of screaming in the early days which caused polyps to form in his throat in the autumn of 1972. He struggled with it through the Japan and UK tours, and got it operated on in mid-1973, sometime before the American tour.

[Ozzybeans]

Throwing in my two cents for Jimmy's tone and Robert's voice:

In 1975, Jimmy used a different Les Paul for a lot of songs, including No Quarter, Dazed and Confused, and Kashmir. It's his number 2, the gift from Joe Walsh. That could have something to do with it. It also seems he didn't turn his volume pot all the way up most of the time.

[LedZeppelinisgod100]

@Sold07 ohh right, i forgot about 75. :P the 73 tone was pretty cool, but i liked the midrange crunch he got from the two plexi's running at around 5-6 on volume. (treble: 10, mid: 2, bass: 0, presence: 7). and the 75 tone was sort of a digression from what sort of tone Page normally plays with, it was cleaner, and he got a really funky (and extremely cool) middle position switch tone.