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HOUSES OF THE HOLY Tour 1973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 ticket stub courtesy of Dan Lampinski 

 

 

SET LIST

 

Rock And Roll
Celebration Day
Black Dog
Over The Hills And Far Away
Misty Mountain Hop
Since I've Been Loving You
No Quarter
The Song Remains The Same
The Rain Song
Dazed And Confused
Stairway To Heaven
Moby Dick
Heartbreaker
Whole Lotta Love
The Ocean
 

 

 

THE BAND

 

Robert Plant (vocals)

 

Jimmy Page (guitar)

 

John Paul Jones (bass)

 

John Bonham (drums)

 

 

Led Zeppelin - Providence Civic Center [07/21/1973]

 

 

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy (Deluxe Edition)

 

 

CONCERT MEMORIES:

*Note: if you were there and would like to share your memories, pictures or tape please send it info@rirocks.net

 

I was at The July 21, 1973 Led Zep Concert by Russell Allen

 

By Far one of the best Concerts I have ever seen and I'm so lucky to have been there. The Tickets came out on a Sunday I believe and they sold out in 1/2 a day. I paid with my ticket with 700 pennies, it was 6.50 with a .50 cent surcharge. I was in Section 232, and had a killer view. We had tele cameras and 10x50 Binoculars which were worth their weight in gold. At the beginning of the show when the band first went on the stage people were throwing 100's of Joints, Shirts, Bras, you name it. But one person threw a huge 1/4 lb. Joint that was wrapped in a Cheech & Chong Big Bambu rolling paper, Robert picked it up the crowd went nuts and he whipped it at a Security Guards Head. it was so funny.


Robert had about a dozen 44 gallon Rubbermaid Garbage Ice Filled Barrels with Bud & Heineken Beer. Robert would take a swig of a beer and then turn around and whip it at the cement wall in back of the stage and it would explode. One drink, Smash. One drink, smash. They had huge fans to cool off the stage and the largest dry ice (Smoke Show) I have ever seen in my life. When the Dry Ice (Cold Smoke) rolled off the stage it curled up like a wave off a waterfall and they turned the fans on and when the smoke reached us the temp dropped 30 degrees or more. It was like instant air conditioning. I will never forget it because it was so hot in there. They got on stage at exactly 8:00PM and played until about 11:30PM NON-STOP. No Warm Up Band, Just Led Zep. Some of the Concert was used in The Song Remains the Same Movie as they filmed it also. Near the end of the Concert the people outside busted the doors open and a small riot happened in the hallway that circles the arena. The State Cops were throwing out everyone in the hallway even if they had a ticket. because so many other people got in, it was well over crowded a major fire hazard. We saw State Cops Clubbing people and dragging them out. I went up to take a Leak and when I got to the stairs people told me not to go. So we all Pissed in the stairwell. I noticed dozens of spent needles, roaches everywhere on the stairs. It was one of the Best Shows I have ever seen, and I have seen over 100 Shows. The Light Show was great, when they were wearing the White Outfits and the Black Lighting would show patterns on the clothing, it was trippy.

 

I was 14 years old, my mom & dad said I could not go to the show. I went anyway, I took a bus for one hour and went to the Show. I was not going to miss this show. I kept my ticket under my rug for several months it seemed. I kept looking at it because I could not believe I had one. This was the hottest ticket in 1973. I saw several people waiting in line get best-up for the tickets. When someone asked me if I had a ticket I said, "No I don't do you have one for sale"? And they went away. The lines were 100 deep to get in.

Anyway, I wanted to share my memories so others that went may remember some of these details also.

In memory of my Friend Steven Benisch who bought the ticket for me, RIP Steven 1954-2009.

 

 

Only a dream.. by Mr.Droopy

 

Man I'm from Providence RI and I never even knew Led Zeppelin came here. I'm only 21 years old but I do know what good music is. Led Zeppelin is my all time favorite band. Jimmy Page is incredible. The whole band is excellent from Robert Plant's voice.. To Paul Jones sick bass and Dunham's drum skills.. wow amazing.. I wish I could turn back the hands of time and gone to the concert here in Providence.. Man that would always continue to be a dream.. to have gone to one of their concerts.. and hear them live..koo... Long live Led Zeppelin.. Legends of music not just rock!
 

Concert description by Argenteum Astrum

 

This show is simply hot! The whole band is on and plays incredibly powerful, beautiful music. Robert has recovered most of his range it seems, even letting some unearthly screams out in Dazed And Confused and Since I've Been Loving You. Jimmy is a man possessed and the rhythm section plays as if they were the lead instruments too! Highlights from this wholly excellent show include one of the best No Quarter versions ever, an amazing Dazed and the earth shaking Heartbreaker into Whole Lotta Love. Funny, after No Quarter, Plant is interrupted when a girl in the audience throws her phone number onstage. Amidst making a joke about giving it to the security guards.

 

Led Zeppelin concert in Providence (July 1973) by Charles Reilly

 

The July 21, 1973 Led Zeppelin concert at the Providence Civic Center (now the Dunkin Donuts Center) was the second and last time I attended one of their shows. The concert was near the end of their famous "Houses of the Holy" tour that had propelled the band to new heights, both financially and artistically. Their performance this night was certainly different from the one I witnessed a few years earlier in Boston (Sept. 1971). They weren't "up and comers" anymore but established stars. In other words, they had a lot more swagger in their collective attitudes and it translated itself in their performance. The show opened with the band charging on stage and ripping into an energetic version of "Rock and Roll." They followed that with "Black Dog" and "Misty Mountain Hop" and then opted to play most of the songs from their newly released album, "Houses of the Holy." One after the other, all the songs from that album (with the exception of "D'yer M'ker" and "The Crunge") were given their due. "No Quarter", "The Rain Song" and "The Song Remains the Same" were all played pretty much note-for-note perfect. "Over the Hills and Far Away" was given a more perfunctory rendition and the band didn't seem to have much enthusiasm for it. As usual, Robert Plant did all the talking and wondered aloud if the band had ever been in Providence before. They hadn't, although they had previously performed in Newport, Rhode Island during the 1969 Jazz Festival.


A long extended version of "Dazed and Confused" was a highlight of the second half of the show. There was no real intermission either although a few fans took a break during John Bonham's "Moby Dick" drum solo---which was actually quite good. "Whole Lotta Love" included the "Let That Boy Boogie" middle section and gave Jimmy Page a chance to show off his 1950's-style guitar licks. The band returned to the stage for a lively encore rendition of "The Ocean" and then left for good. All in all, it was a solid performance from the band expecially considering they were nearing the end of a lengthy and exhaustive tour. The show clocked in at about two and a half hours, which was typical for the band in those days.

 

 reviews courtesy of Led Zeppelin.com  

 

 

I missed the Led Zeppelin concert in Providence by Paul Fernandes

 
I've seen a lot of concerts but there are a few that still make me annoyed that I missed for my generation and Zep is on the top of list.  My mother made me go with her to visit relatives in Portugal for that summer in 73, while my friends got to see the Houses Of The Holy Tour at the Providence Civic Center.  As a teenager I was really pissed. Who the hell wanted to go anywhere that summer?

 

Years later I got a copy of the concert that someone recorded and all Zeppelin fans should hear it.  What's amazing about it was Jimmy Page.  I saw the movie "The Song Remains The Same" so many times and it was great, but for some reason the video in retrospect seems more produced and not as crazy like the audio from Providence.  Page with out a doubt was the BEST guitar player for that period. Second only to Jimi Hendrix in free form improv licks.  Page burnt the doors off the arena with solo after solo while playing power chords at the same time.  There was no other guitarist doing so much influential playing. On top of that Robert Plant sang with power and authority over everything.  Then you had John Paul Jones (underrated as a bass player) playing all different styles of bass lines, keyboards and just in tune to Page being all over the place. Last and not least John Bonham the Moby Dick himself, keeping the band on the beat and pulling it together when Page went off into the stratosphere. 

 

Don't get me wrong, I not a fanatic Led Zeppelin worshipper. They were just a monster band that wrote the book on how rock n roll needs to be done.  Ha! Ha! Ha! and I had to spend my summer somewhere else.

 

 

 

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