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Led Zeppelin - Festival Hall, Osaka October 4, 1972 (1972)

Track listing:
  1. Rock & Roll 4:01
  2. Black Dog 5:29
  3. Over The Hills And Far Away 5:36
  4. Misty Mountain Hop 4:55
  5. Since Ive Been Loving You 7:35
  6. Dancing Days 4:43
  7. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp 4:55
  8. The Song Remains The Same 5:11
  9. The Rain Song 7:30
  10. Dazed & Confused 24:14
  11. Stairway To Heaven 10:27
  12. Whole Lotta Love Medley 23:00
  13. Heartbreaker 7:52
  14. Immigrant Song 4:21

Notes

7.5 AUD

Robert's voice is starting to show the strain of performing 3 days in a row - his voice is cracking up almost continuously. Bonzo appears to be in great forum tonight though, so perhaps that offset's Percy's bad vocals. Jimmy is also having a great night - no sticky fingers syndrome tonight. The tape is very good, but slightly distant. The audience is distant from the recorder as well, so one has to only guess where the taper was for this show. Great version of Dancing Days - even with Plant's damaged voice. Everytime I hear that song I think of the Stargroves photos with the band dancing around the truck during the playback of Dancing Days. There's a cut in the tape after Dancing Days that leads into "A song about a dog". There's a tape cut right after the Stomp that misses any Plantations that there might have been and the opening bars of The Song Remains The Same. For some unexplainable reason, there's what sounds like a heartbeat during a clip of The Rain Song. It does not sound real, as it's quite loud and if that was truly a heartbeat, the guy surely died as it sounded like it was ready to jump out of his chest. Dazed is in good forum tonight led by Bonzo's relentless drums. They sound really good - even from a distance. The Crunge includes some monkey business at the end and it's still lacking vocals. The next cut comes after Dazed and before Stairway - some Plantations are lost because of this. Whole Lotta Love is more "musical" and not so much "vocal" tonight, no doubt due to Roberts poor voice. The medley selections includes a lot of low sung Elvis tracks as well as You Shook Me. The tape cuts out right after Heartbreaker and comes back on in time for Immigrant Song. With Plant's voice so bad, I'm not sure I know why they didn't do something else besides this. (Steve Prendergast)

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