Countdown to the Celebration Day…20 days to go.

To mark the impending momentous worldwide screening of the Led Zeppelin Ahmet Ertegun 02 reunion concert on October 17th, we are counting down to the day with a daily Celebration Day Newsletter post. This will feature relevant news and updates plus the TBL Countdown Collection – a daily celebration of Zep moments, memories and artefacts.

ON THIS DAY:

As noted on Jimmy’s site today, on this day in 1971 Led Zeppelin performed a special benefit concert in Hiroshima. Here’s Mike Tremaglio’s tour log of this show as featured in TBL issue 30:

September 27, 1971 Prefectural Gymnasium, Hiroshima, Japan

Setlist (from three different audience source recordings):

Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Out on the Tiles (Intro)/ Black Dog, Dazed and Confused, Stairway to Heaven, Celebration Day, That’s the Way, Going to California, Tangerine, What is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love Medley (incl. Sing a Simple Song, Boogie Chillun’, Nine Times Out of Ten, Be-Bop-a-Lula, ?), Communication Breakdown (incl. ?)

The band performed a charity concert benefit for the victims of the atomic bomb.  They presented the mayor of Hiroshima with a check for 7,000,000 yen – their earnings from the show – and in return received a peace medal.

Once again, the band were very well received by the appreciative audience and delivered another typically stellar performance.  The Whole Lotta Love medley was the shortest of the tour so far (18 minutes), but the band continued to incorporate rarities into the feature.  They performed Cliff Richard and The Shadow’s ‘Nine Times Out of Ten’ (the only known performance of this track) and Gene Vincent’s ‘Be-Bop-a-Lula’ (performed only once before – in Helsinki on February 23, 1970).

There are three separate audience recordings of the Hiroshima concert.

Here is a listing of popular bootlegs of this show by audience source:

Source 1 (126 min.):  Live in Japan 1971 (LSD) and Peace (Tarantura)

Source 2 (111 min.):  Peace of Mind (Mud Dogs)

Source 3 (44  min.):  Love & Peace in Hiroshima (Bumble Bee – first 100 copies included two bonus CDRs sourced from the old vinyl LP Led Zeppelin 71-72 by Digger Records)

Other bootleg titles of this show (Live Peace in Hiroshima 1971 (Wendy), Zingi (Tarantura 2000), Message of Love (Lemon Song), and Love & Peace in Hiroshima (Bumble Bee)) are a combination of sources 1 & 2 to complete the show.

YOU TUBE CLIP OF THE DAY

Here’s another superb trailor from the Celebration Day film

Black Dog Trailer

THE TBL COUNTDOWN COLLECTION: NUMBER 9 WITH 20 DAYS TO GO:

Number 9 in the countdown to Celebration Day:

Today’s choice is the 4 track Remasters ten inch vinyl promo – this was distributed in the UK in October 1990 to tie in with the Led Zeppelin box set and Remasters releases. It features Stairway To Heaven, Immigrant Song,Whole Lotta Love  and Good Times Bad Times.

Until tomorrow…keep on celebrating…

Dave Lewis/Gary Foy

September 27, 2012

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