Comments on The Year of Led Zeppelin: Day 264: 7/5/1980 Munich, Germany

Plant and Bonzo give powerful and poignant deliver...

2011-08-30T14:13:05.269-04:00

Plant and Bonzo give powerful and poignant deliveries in Kashmir. Once again, the song has become a venue for Robert to channel and express his great emotional pain of that era.

Jimmy's solo drags on a bit in STH. It's not as heartfelt as other STH solos, even on this tour. Overall, though, it's a nice performance of STH. The crowd's singing along is beautiful. Even Robert's typical cynical and mocking delivery is subdued, given the strong positive energy coming from the crowd. I felt moved and inspired just listening to the crowd's singing. It's too bad that they couldn't inspire Robert more. Here was a positive, beautiful song that he had written, which had given hope and inspiration to so many people. Here, it was like these people were giving it back to those who had first given it to them. Unfortunately, Led Zeppelin was emotionally half-crippled in 1980, and at least Robert seems to have been blind to this notion at the time. He couldn't really feed from the crowd's gift to them.

Saw this show when I was 14 and just had gotten in...

2010-08-02T14:15:41.067-04:00

Saw this show when I was 14 and just had gotten into Zep in a big way - it was part of something they called "Munich Rock Summer", because they had four major rock shows in four days back then (Santana, Zappa, can't remember the fourth). I had a pretty good seat approximately 50 yrds from the stage above the arena with a very clean view of the stage. In the beginning I was slightly underwhelmed. The sound at least where I was sitting during "The Train Kept A Rolling" was so bad that it was almost impossible to make out which song was being played. I remember distinctly that I was taken slightly aback by the view of Page's very thin arms - he looked quite frail. But the show got better as it wore on. "Achilles Last Stand" - back then and still my favorite Zeppelin song - was amazing with its white lightshow, "Trampled Under Foot" was good as well with the rotating spots from the side. But "Kashmir" pretty much stole the show, ending Page's solo with a bang. I did get the tour poster after the show which I still have and should have bought the sweat shirt, too. I just didn't have enough money, being 14 and all. The ticket price was 22 marks - a little under 10 bucks at the time. Never got to hear a boot from the show. Then again I never bothered finding one. I'm just amazed that the show is still stuck in my memory a good thrity yrs later.

By your review, it sounds like the second best sho...

2009-01-11T12:47:00.000-05:00

By your review, it sounds like the second best show and you gotta love these audience recordings!!! the 8mm film is excellent.

Thanks a lot!!!