April 13, 1977
St. Paul, MN US
Civic Center (St. Paul)
Setlist:
likely includes: The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, Black Country Woman, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, White Summer ~ Black Mountainside, Kashmir, (Out On the Tiles intro) Moby Dick, Jimmy Page solo, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll, Trampled Underfoot.
Notes:
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My first concert also
I don't remember a lot about the 1977 Led Zeppelin concert at the St. Paul Civics Center. A friend told me he was going to get some tickets and wanted to know if I wanted to go. I said YES! I didn't know a lot about Led Zeppelin at the time. I was 20 years old and in to softer rock, but did know a few of their songs and liked them. I also wanted to take this certain girl there. She had seen them about 3 other times so I knew she'd love to go.
I had just quit my job of over 4 years so I broke down and sold my car stereo so I could afford to take this girl out. I believe the tickets were about $8.50 each. Wow! what a difference from todays insanity.
The concert was on a Tuesday. A couple days earlier, I got a call from a company I was trying to get a job at. They wanted to have me start Tuesday evening. Second shift of all things! The starting pay was good. But I asked if I could start the following day because I had plans for that night. They said no, but would I like to wait for another opening. I said yes. Probably not the smartest thing I ever did in my life. Not even close. They never did call me again. But, I got to go to the concert. Everytime a song would come on, I'd think, I know this one. It surprised me how many I actually knew.
I was so nervous about taking this girl out I don't remember a lot about the concert. I do remember people smashing bear bottles in the parking ramp and my date saying this was the rowdies concert she ever went to. And she had been to a lot. I also remember Robert Plants "Big Hair" I thought, "That looks like a rock star"!
When the concer was over my date discovered she lost her car keys. We took her 72 Chevelle since my 70 Challenger R/T had a bad tire. Didn't want to risk a flat on a date. LOL
We ended up taking a bus back to MPLS. and getting my car. Then we went to her old boyfriends house to get a second set of keys for her car. I never did get a flat!
It was an evenful night. I may have lost the chance a good job, but I saw Led Zeppelin. You can't take that away from me!
A few of my friends were at the Alice Cooper concert that was tear gassed. I guess it ended right then. It took me another 30 years to see Alice.