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Led Zeppelin - Beast Of Toronto (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Communication Breakdown 4:46
  2. I Can't Quit You 7:24
  3. Heartbreaker 5:38
  4. Dazed And Confused 18:28
  5. White Summer 12:51
  6. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 6:57
  7. Moby Dick 12:11

Notes

Audience recording

O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada

Led Zeppelin was in a great transition period at this time... It appears that Led Zep's setlist was morphing into what would become their standard concert setlist for the next couple of years: Opening Number -> Heartbreaker -> Dazed & Confused (the standard pattern, Aug '70 through summer of '72.) Seems Led Zeppelin was in the midst of deciding on an appropriate opening number for their concerts. On the Oct/Nov '69 dates, they employed a great version of Communication Breakdown with a Good Times, Bad Times intro tease. By January '70, it would be We're Gonna Groove for a brief time before Immigrant Song earning opening number status the following June. This show also features what may be one of the band's final live performances of Babe I'm Gonna Leave You...this is the birth of what would become the Hammer of the Gods... unfortunately, the source tape is incomplete and a chunk of it is drum solo.