First of all, check out The Soundtrack of Our Lives. They opened up the show and were excellent. I believe they are from Sweden.
OK, on to Mr. Plant. I will do my best to describe the experience, but I am still stunned at what I saw last night. We got in line around 3:30pm and only had about 15 people in front of us. Right before the doors opened at 7pm, they broke people off into 3 different lines (one much closer to the stage) and I started to raise hell. Despite that, we still ended up center stage about 4 people back. We were close enough to see the wrinkles. By the time The Man came on, we had moved even closer. In true Robert Plant fashion, not a single one of the Zep songs he did sounded like the original. Some were closer than others, but they all sounded awesome. I can't remember the exact set list, but the Zeppelin songs he played were: No Quarter, Black Dog, That's The Way, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Whole Lotta Love, When The Levee Breaks, and Heartbreaker. I think I might have liked his re-tooled version of Levee better than the original, and I love the original. As far as solo songs go, he played Tall Cool One, If I Were A Carpenter, Darkness Darkness, and Morning Dew (I'm missing some that I didn't know). The last two were off of 2002's Dreamland. Good stuff. The new songs he played (there were 3 or 4) sounded incredible, especially Tin Pan Valley and The Enchanter. You could really see that Plant was having a lot of fun. He had a huge grin on his face for most of the night, was joking around with the band, extolling the crowd to get even crazier, and he was very talkative. His voice can't reach the soaring heights it did some 30 odd years ago, but there was not a single missed note. He sounded spectacular. I met a guy last night who said that it was almost like a religious experience for him. There was no almost for me. It was a dream come true. Now if I only could have met him...
OK, on to Mr. Plant. I will do my best to describe the experience, but I am still stunned at what I saw last night. We got in line around 3:30pm and only had about 15 people in front of us. Right before the doors opened at 7pm, they broke people off into 3 different lines (one much closer to the stage) and I started to raise hell. Despite that, we still ended up center stage about 4 people back. We were close enough to see the wrinkles. By the time The Man came on, we had moved even closer. In true Robert Plant fashion, not a single one of the Zep songs he did sounded like the original. Some were closer than others, but they all sounded awesome. I can't remember the exact set list, but the Zeppelin songs he played were: No Quarter, Black Dog, That's The Way, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Whole Lotta Love, When The Levee Breaks, and Heartbreaker. I think I might have liked his re-tooled version of Levee better than the original, and I love the original. As far as solo songs go, he played Tall Cool One, If I Were A Carpenter, Darkness Darkness, and Morning Dew (I'm missing some that I didn't know). The last two were off of 2002's Dreamland. Good stuff. The new songs he played (there were 3 or 4) sounded incredible, especially Tin Pan Valley and The Enchanter. You could really see that Plant was having a lot of fun. He had a huge grin on his face for most of the night, was joking around with the band, extolling the crowd to get even crazier, and he was very talkative. His voice can't reach the soaring heights it did some 30 odd years ago, but there was not a single missed note. He sounded spectacular. I met a guy last night who said that it was almost like a religious experience for him. There was no almost for me. It was a dream come true. Now if I only could have met him...
