Event Details |
Venue |
References: | ||||
04-Aug-1979 |
Knebworth Park ![]() |
Official Web Site: | Confirmed | J | ||
Recorded Time: 3:17:41 | Stevenage, England | The Complete Concert Chronicles: | Confirmed | J | ||
May 1978 - Knebworth 1979 |
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Led Zeppelin Reference: | Confirmed | J | ||
Led Zep Concerts: | Confirmed | J | ||||
Wikipedia: | Confirmed | J | ||||
Review(s) | ||||
A pretty good show but nothing compared to the standards Zeppelin had set in the past. The first 45 minutes or so sound good and strong, and Ten Years Gone is very pretty, but towards the middle section, the individual performances, though good, don't quite gel into a good ensemble performance. "Well, it's nice to see you again" said Plant to the audience at the beginning of the show, in fact they not played in the United Kingdom for the last four years! The crowd roared. Achilles Last Stand is aggressive and In The Evening is intense, but Stairway To Heaven sounds timid and tired ... Robert's introduction is so lackluster it is obvious he didn't want to play it. The encores are energetic and good, and Whole Lotta Love features the new arrangement first tried in Copenhagen in July. A short Heartbreaker finishes the event. After the last note, Plant said: "All you people that have come so far. It's been kinda like a blind date. Thanks for eleven years!" |
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Generation | Length | Source | Comments | |||
vinyl | aud | 1st source, original tapes have been lost | ||||
1st gen | 175 | aud | 2nd source, runs fast (1st gen cassette was copied in 1979) | |||
master | 181 | aud | 3rd source | |||
master | 175 | aud | 4th source, taped by Steve Thacker (recorded from just right of Center ~ 100 yards back) | |||
1st gen | aud | 5th source, taped by Dave C. (cassette, runs slow - correct speed is ca. almost 164 mins.) | ||||
master | 177 | aud | 6th source, cassette | |||
master | 120 | aud | 7th source, cassette | |||
unknown gen | 169 | aud | 8th source, cassette 2 x C90 | |||
1st gen | 165 | aud | 9th source, 1st gen cassette was copied in 1979 | |||
master | 179 | aud | 10th source, taped by Phil Tattershall (Hitachi GhettoBlaster>master cassette) | |||
master | 177 | aud | 11th source, taped by Steve C. (single point stereo mic>ITT Studio720 Rec>master cassette). The taper recalled that he went to the show with his "...new ITT Studio 720 tape recorder and the single point stereo mike ... I ended up sat about 100 metres(?) f | |||
1st gen? | 197 | sbd | only old source tape available as video soundtrack, new transfers only as silver pressed bootlegs | |||
unknown gen | 6 | aud | 1st source, taped by Andy Banks (color amateur video without actual sound?) | |||
unknown gen | aud | 2nd source, snippets used on the official DVD in menu section | ||||
unknown gen | 193 | vid | Color professional video with actual sound shot to feed the large screens and possibly for an official release. The seven tracks included in the official DVD feature a different camera edit than the bootlegs. |