Ep. 277 – The Heart of Markness Led Zeppelin Podcast
Jan. 18, 1973 – Led Zeppelin play Bradford UK on their tour of smaller UK venues, before launching on their epic European tour, which gave us all those great shows. This show is on par with those high water marks like Vienna or Essen.
I play a raucous and frenetic Whole Lotta Love with joyous medleys aplenty. The rhythm machine is in high gear here. I also play an unorthodox encore performance of the Immigrant Song.
This show is brilliant and so much fun. You can download the full soundboard recording, which has Dazed, Whole Lotta Love and the Immigrant Song, right here: https://mega.nz/folder/r8lXhSxZ#AzdvYiQ1Nj-kKFV-HptN7Q
This show has my favorite version of WLL. This is the tightest they got in 73 imho. While the Euro shows are great, Plant is actually in better voice at a lot of January shows. And Jimmy is a bit sharper, as is Bonzo. The Euro shows get wild and a bit loosey goosey during WLL, in an excessive way to the songs detriment.
I think they peaked with WLL in Jan 73, just as they peaked with Dazed in July 73.
A full soundboard of Bradford is a grail for me, as is the Aberdeen show from one week later in the tour.
This WLL is amazing, for sure. This is a great sleeper show. Thank you for listening!
You bet! It’s nice to visit this page on occasion to hear some hidden gems I ordinarily might have dismissed out of hand or even completely missed, like tunes from the recent posts of San Diego 73 and the Gorge 95.