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The Complete Plantations for May 22, 1977
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May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Nobody's Fault But Mine
Good evening Fort Worth. First of all we must apologize for the delay. Sorry about that, but um, we'll try not to make it ah, a regular thing. A few bangs in the sky between here and New Orleans. Here's one from the last studio album we did. It goes something like this.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: In My Time of Dying
Well that was a blues based ah, piece of music that I guess came, something very similar to that has been sung around these parts for about, I don't know, maybe a hundred years. This is another piece that comes almost from the same time period and it's kept its credibility through to now so dig it. I tell you what we'll do. We'll start it again. There's a few clowns on the stage too.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Since I've Been Loving You
Well this is another ah, blues based thing, but this time we managed to get it together ourselves. You might know this one.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: No Quarter
Since I've Been Loving You.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Ten Years Gone
John Paul Jones piano. It's ah, it's pretty widely known that for two years we were'nt able to do too much, on the sort of physical side of things. So when we started rehearsing for this ah, we decided to look through some of the stuff that we ah, had previously decided maybe we couldn't do on stage, and so this incorporated John Paul coming forward with a most amazing instrument, which encompases the ability to play three things at the same time. The only problem being that he's only got one pair of hands. So he's only able to do one thing at a time. So this is a song from the first step back from Physical Grafitti. It's about the love that you always cherish in your heart, and never forget. It's called Ten Years Gone.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Going to California
I guess this has got more, more guitars in the monitors, picking it up. We have some strange troubles when we switch from electric to acoustic. We can't hear a thing that's going on. Anyway, this is I guess for America, at least in it's reflections, especially right now.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Black County Woman
Hot diggity. I learned that today. So carrying on in an acoustic vain, this is something that we did on a lawn outside a house in sussex in about 1970 something, and it ended up on Physical Grafitti. You can hear a plane at the beginning, but unfortunately we can't simulate at the toilet so I'm sorry John. This is called Black Country Woman. God help us.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Moby Dick
Thank you very much ta. Before we move right along ah, we'd like to have a little bit of suspended ah, spiel before we bring to you ah, one of the calmest men who's ever taken to the road. A gypsy. The man who only last night was standing in a wardrobe when a fist went straight through the door and hit him on the nose. The one and only, the warm, the very firendly, the joyous, sweet, charming, John Bonham. Over the Top.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Noise Solo
How bout that? John Bonham. John Henry Bonham. John Bonham. Moby Dick. John Bonham. John Bonham.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Stairway to Heaven
Thank you very much, and thank you very much. What do I do with this, within reason? Well that was of course Achillies Last Stand, but things turned out better than we expected. We should dedicate this song to all the people who've made our stay really pleasant, and all the people who wished they could have come.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: Whole Lotta Love
Thanks a lot, Ft. Worth. Good night. Good evening. Well hot diggity, we're gonna try something we haven't done for about four years so you got to bear with us.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
Before: It'll Be Me
Thank you very much Fot Worth. You've been wonderful. Thank you. Good evening. I said good evening. Well we've had such a good time, and one of our pals is here tonight, and it's not like us normally to ah, extend the warm hand of musical friendship to anybody, but tonight we'd like to bring a friend of ours out, Mick Ralphs from Bad Company. A man who actually comes from the same part of the world as me and Bonzo, so home from home. We come from what you might call, the sticks. This is an old, we're gonna try something that ah, god knows how it's gonna sound, but I hope you'll understand. It's waht they call a jam. It's called, it's a Jerry Lee Lewis number. It's called ah, well it's very appropriate Mick, It'll Be Me.
May 22, 1977
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Venue: Convention Center Arena
Locale: Tarrant County Convention Center
City: Ft. Worth, TX
Speaker: Robert Plant
After: It'll Be Me
Thank you kndly. Mick Ralphs. Mr. Mick Ralphs. Raymon Thomas respnsible for the bad leads. Led Zeppelin are now gonna get it on. Good night.