Jimmy Page Recalls Terrible Led Zeppelin Concert: Maybe They Were Heavily Stoned!
Jimmy Page, the former Led Zeppelin guitar player, uses his Instagram account mainly to share interesting and behind the scenes stories that happened during his career. The guitarist has shared incredible backstage stories from his days with Led Zeppelin and also very curious details about moments and situations that happened as a solo artist and guest musician for other artists. These days, Jimmy chose to share a fun story about one of the worst gigs Led Zeppelin had to do in the 1970s. This gig happened at the Berkeley Community Theatre and, according to Jimmy, the audience wasn’t really interested in anything Led Zeppelin related.
Jimmy shares this story below.
Jimmy Page wrote on his official Instagram account:
On this day in 1971, I played with @ledzeppelin at the Berkeley Community Theatre and the seated, uni-like audience seemed pretty non-plussed.
It wasn't a very good communion that night.
Maybe that evening they: a) were contaminated by the negative press we had continually received from the locally-based Rolling Stone; b) were sitting in the remnants of the vibrant San Francisco music scene they had witnessed over the last 5 years; c) weren't receptive to new music we played - material from the unreleased Led Zeppelin IV; d) were heavily stoned, or; e) all of the above!
Photo © Jim Marshall Photography LLC 1971
See the full Instagram post below:
I guess the correct answer is probably e)… All of the above!
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