December 28, 1968
Vancouver, BC CA
Pacific Coliseum
Setlist:
These early North American dates include: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, As Long As I Have You, Dazed and Confused, White Summer / Black Mountainside, How Many More Times.
Notes:
Led Zeppelin (unbilled) open for Vanilla Fudge.
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Opportunity missed
I was an English teacher (25 years old) in North Surrey at Mary Jane Shannon secondary school. I recall one of my students telling me that a family member (dad I think?) was in rock promotion, and that he thought a visit by Led Zeppelin to the school might be arrangeable. This might have been imagination on his part because school would have been out by at least the 23rd (I don' think they had a full two weeks back then).
I wasn't a Zeppelin fan back then but I knew this was worth bringing up with the principal (Eric Tongue who was a good man but no rock fan). He gave me a strained look and asked who they were. I told him, "A rock band." He looked a little disgusted and said, "Tell them to rent a hall."
The student was not impressed. The visit may have been a teenage fantasy anyways, but the story has stayed in my mind for 40 years now.
Jim Bruce