The songs that Led Zeppelin have never played live

According to what was reported on the official website dedicated to Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played for the First time together live on September 7, 1968 in Gladsaxe, in Denmark. At the time, the group still used the name of the previous band of Page, the Yardbirds, and would have officially debuted as LED Zeppelin just over a month later, the 25 October. Twelve years later, tragic death of “Bonzo”, which took place in September 1980, marked the end of the historic training. The surviving members continued to perform in sporadic situations, but have never taken a complete tour like Led Zeppelin. In just over a decade, the band came to dominate the Rock ‘N’ Roll scene in the late sixties and seventies: a heavier blues approach, powered by the strawberry drum of John Bonham and from the ecstatic guitar of Jimmy Pagewith the refinement of John Paul Jones to build the harmonic and rhythmic foundations, supporting that powerful and dynamic voice of Robert Plantsculpted something unprecedented. In twelve years of live activitythe Zeppelin LEDs matured an iconic character, which also consolidated in the studio thanks to eight albums that documented their musical odyssey and became milestones. The band members showed that they were creative without constraints and, while touching the shores of pretension, they never pulled back in the face of complexity. It is not surprising that, by analyzing their history live thanks to the archives of Setlist.fm, perhaps precisely because of the complexity of some, it turns out that they are almost 20 Songs that LED Zeppelin have never played live.

By opening the card dedicated to the band, making the contrary reasoning, it is immediately discovered that the song that the four musicians have performed live several times is “Dazed and confused“, originally written by Jake Holmes and reread by Led Zeppelin for their debut album, among the most loved songs of the group. After”Since I’ve Been Loving you“from the album” Led Zeppelin III “of 1970,”Whole Fight Love” And “Moby Dick“The third and fourth most played respectively, although the latter is an instrumental song designed to highlight Bonzo. In fifth place there is the classic”Stairway to Heaven“, one of his most epic and long -lasting songs, which fixed the tone for the complexity of the future material. This song, however, is not at all the most complex trace technically conceived by the Led Zeppelin. From the same album,” Led Zeppelin IV “, the irregular”Black Dog“It can certainly keep them head, and”Four Sticks“It was a song that really put the band in crisis when he was to reproduce him live as in the studio. The band played him only a couple of times live, while he was in Copenhagen in 1971 in Copenhagen, and then definitively excluded him from the stairs.

There are not few songs that the band played live only once or twice, and – according to the research conducted in years passed by “Loudwire”, limited to the songs present on their albums in the studio, with the exception of a song published as a single and then inserted in a compilation – There are 19 songs that Led Zeppelin have never played live. Here is below the list:

From “Led Zeppelin II”
“Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)”
“La la”

From “Led Zeppelin III”
“Hats off to (Roy) Harper”

From the single “Immigrant Song”
“Hey, Hey, What can i do”

From “Houses of the Holy”:
“D’yer Mak’er”

From “Physical Graffiti”:
“The Rover”
“Houses of the Holy”
“In the light”
“Down by the Seaside”
“Night Flight”
“Boogie with stud”

From “presentce”
“Royal Orleans”
“Candy Store Rock”
“Hots on for now”
“Tea for One”

From “in through the out door”:
“South Bound Suarez”
“Fool in the Rain”
“Carouselambra”
“I’m Gonna Crawl”