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The Complete Plantations for May 31, 1973
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May 31, 1973
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Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Over the Hills and Far Away
Thank you. Good evening. Is everybody sufficiently in the state of mind to have a good time? Then I think that's what we should do. Look what I found. We finally, after five albums, we were able to , I shouldn't do that again, it's ah, Happy Birthday Bonzo, over there. Put the spotlight over there Bonzo. Today John Bonham is twenty one ladies and gentlemen. Every year, he's tenty one. Far out. This is a track from the album with a title. This is a track about mankind I suppose.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Misty Mountain Hop
Thank you. I think this is gonna be more of a vibe of a, we'll call this gig Bonzo's Birthday Party. Right, this is ah, a little more subdued. This is what happens when you go walking in the park, and things don't go so well. You got a packet of cigarette papers, and you got a bit of good Californian stuff, and it all, and ah, the problems could escalate. And we've got a guitar that's out of tune. So if you could hang on a tic. John Bonham, I;ve known ah, a Henry ah, the birthday baby for about fifteen years, and he;s been a regular bastard all the time. This is called Misty Mountain Hop.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: No Quarter
Thank you. Rusty , you'll have to turn the piano down in the monitors. It's ah, it sounds too loud. This is a, this is a song from Houses of the Holy. It's a song that, in fact ah, we've been kicking around for quite a while, and it seemed that Houses of the Holy was the right concept in which to put it out. It's a thing called No Quarter.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: The Song Remains the Same
John Paul Jones played the piano, and ah, somebody else fucked up the monitors. Have to get these monitors under control girls. This is another track from ah, Houses of the Holy. It's, it's relative to the fact that we've travelled and travelled all the way around Hong Kong, Bangkok, Thailand, all sorts of places, and after a few days in any place we find that the people are always able to be equated to roughly the same, and because of that, this is called The Song Remains the Same. Thank you.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Dazed and Confused
John Paul Jones was the Henry Mancini orchestra. Well as it's been ah, as it's been about a year since we got here last time, and ah, and we've been doing quite a lot of new things, as you can hear, we're gonna do something that's as old, as old as we are. This ah, I believe in your country, this is what they call a far out heavy trip, that's it. An oldie, but goodie.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Stairway to Heaven
Good evening. I tell you what. There's been some nasty, some weird feedbacks coming from these monitors, which really doesn't interest you a bit, but it makes it sound really ah, like it's , like everybody's talking with their fingers through their noses, like that. This is a special sing for ah, it's a special song period. How come the feedback on that? What's it all about? But, it's a special song today because it's, we're gonna dedicate it to Bonzo, who is in fact, who is in fact twenty five years old today, and this is it.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Moby Dick
Thank you. Well, considering it's the gentleman's birthday, I think it's only fair that we should let him bang his balls out, right? Our precussionist, John Bonham. Moby Dick. Moby Dick.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Heartbreaker
How bout that? John Bonham,John Bonham,John Bonham,John Bonham,John Bonham,John Bonham,John Bonham. Happy Birthday to you. happy birthday dear bonzo, happy birthday to you. Far out.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: The Ocean
Good evening. Well, it's been really nice. We've had one or two problems, which I'm going to tell you about now. Jimmy sprained his finger two days ago. We had to cancel last night, and he's playing tonight and keeping his hand in a bowl of cold water to keep the swelling down, and so I think that's great. I really do. When he was playing, when he was playing that bit in Hearbreaker, if you'd have felt what he must have felt. We're Rock and Roll veterans, so we're gonna do a song about you. It's called The Ocean, and it's about you.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: John Bonham
Before: The Ocean
We've done four already, but now we're steady, and then they went, one, two, three, four.
May 31, 1973
Setpage: View
Venue: The Forum
City: Inglewood, CA
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Communication Breakdown
Thank you. Thank you very much. See you again. So what's happening? This is one, this is a song about one thing that we don't have much trouble with.