Civic Hall - December 19, 1968

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December 19, 1968
Exeter
United Kingdom
uk
Setlist

Setlists during these early tours include: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, You Shook Me, Dazed & Confused,  White Summer / Black Mountain Side, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown,

Note

The band are paid £125 for the gig.

Support Acts: West Country based band The Empty Vessels, featuring Martin Turner (vocals, bass) and Steve Upton (drums), who evolved into Wishbone Ash.

"We opened for Led Zeppelin a couple of times when they were very first starting. They still had to put ex-Yardbirds underneath Led Zeppelin. We played the Exeter town hall, and all those farm boys showed up. Some girls were watching us at the front, and the farm boys marched the front and said, 'why you watching them faggots.' You have to remember, back in those days, once you got out of the major cities, long hair and velvet and all the rest of it was... you were immediately prejudged homosexual and treated accordingly. Which sometimes would amount to something close to lynching. So these fistfights started and the cops came, and we scurried back into the dressing room after beating our way off the stage, the roadies sort of fighting a rear guard. Physically fighting any people with microphone stands, and Plant and Page are laughing their heads off, going, 'god, you must have been awful.' And they went on to exactly the same reception." - Mick Farrant of the Deviants, Perfect Sound Forever .

Notes

The band are paid £125 for the gig.

Support Acts: West Country based band The Empty Vessels, featuring Martin Turner (vocals, bass) and Steve Upton (drums), who evolved into Wishbone Ash.
 

Setlists

Setlists during these early tours include: Communication Breakdown, I Can't Quit You Baby, You Shook Me, Dazed & Confused,  Babe I'm Gonna Leave You and How Many More Times.

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