Led Zeppelin North American Tour Autumn 1969

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North America Autumn 1969
Tour by Led Zeppelin
LedZepAutumn69.jpg
Poster for Led Zeppelin's concert at the Winterland Ballroom, used to help promote its Autumn 1969 North American tour
Associated albumLed Zeppelin II
Start date17 October 1969
End date8 November 1969
Legs1
No. of shows20
Led Zeppelin concert chronology

Led Zeppelin's Autumn 1969 North American Tour was the fourth concert tour of North America by the English rock band. The tour commenced on 17 October and concluded on 8 November 1969.

This tour is notable for the fact that Led Zeppelin were the first rock act to perform at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City since the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s,[1] and also for their three performances at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco (the alternate venue offered to those bands which pulled crowds too large for the smaller Fillmore West venue).[2]

Another significant concert which took place during this tour took place at the Boston Garden on 25 October.[3] For this gig, the band performed to an audience of 15,000 and grossed $45,000.[2] It was a precursor to the scale of concerts the band would perform on future tours, where they regularly filled large auditoriums and stadiums. The band's manager, Peter Grant, later commented:

This performance makes me realise that we can be bigger than the Stones and The Beatles[2]

The band released their hugely popular second album on 22 October 1969, part-way through this tour.

Tour set list[]

The fairly typical set list for the tour was:

  1. "Good Times Bad Times" (intro) / "Communication Breakdown" (Bonham, Jones, Page)
  2. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon)
  3. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham, Page, Plant)
  4. "Dazed and Confused" (Page)
  5. "You Shook Me" (Dixon, Lenoir)
  6. "White Summer"/"Black Mountain Side" (Page)
  7. "What Is And What Should Never Be" (Page, Plant) (Added starting on 30 October)
  8. "Moby Dick" (Bonham)
  9. "How Many More Times" (Bonham, Jones, Page)

There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour. Also played at times were:

Tour dates[]

Date City Country Venue
17 October 1969 New York City United States Carnegie Hall
2 shows
18 October 1969 Detroit Detroit Olympia
19 October 1969 Chicago Kinetic Playground
2 shows
24 October 1969 Cleveland Public Hall
25 October 1969 Boston Boston Garden
30 October 1969 Buffalo Kleinhans Music Hall
31 October 1969 Springfield, Massachusetts Gansett Tribal Rock Festival
2 shows
1 November 1969 Syracuse Onondaga Veterans Auditorium
2 November 1969 Toronto Canada O'Keefe Centre
2 shows
4 November 1969 Kitchener Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex
5 November 1969 Kansas City United States Memorial Hall
2 shows
6 November 1969 San Francisco Winterland Ballroom
7 November 1969
8 November 1969

References[]

  1. ^ Led Zeppelin official website: concert summary[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b c Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4, p. 38.
  3. ^ Led Zeppelin official website: concert summary[permanent dead link]

External links[]

Sources[]

  • Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4.
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