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Led Zeppelin: Discovery of Rare Led Zeppelin Performance, and Songs of the Lord

By Bill Broadbent

The discovery of a previously unknown recording of Led Zeppelin’s 1970 tour-ending show has fans everywhere excited.

Led Zeppelin is legend. One of the greatest rock bands of all time, and when a recording emerges from the past, long thought lost, it is truly exciting. Such a thing was recently revealed, a one of kind recording from their 1970 tour-ending-show at Madison Square Garden in New York.

“For sometime now, a recording of the matinee show from the same date, has been circulating on the Internet. A fan who made the night recording thought he basically had the same show on tape and decided to offer it up as an upgrade to those available recordings. However, much to everyone's delight, he had put to tape a very rare performance which is now considered one the best ever from Led Zeppelin,” explained Chad Koch from T-Shirt King.

The company is currently featuring t-shirts of Led Zeppelin, and fans everywhere are updating their collection, according to Bill Broadbent, owner of T-Shirt King.

“The matinee performance had been good, but the night show was stellar,” said Broadbent. “The band was in top form and offered up a setlist like none other. The show contained some truly surprising oddities, including hard hitting covers of Little Richard's ‘The Girl Can't Help It,’ and Eddie Cochran's ‘20 Flight Rock.’”

“The band was electric with tunes ranging from ‘Out on the Tiles’ and ‘Blueberry Hill’ to ‘Lawdy Miss Claudy’ and ‘I'm a King Bee.’ The crowd went wild and at one point, Robert Plant shouts out, ‘We didn't expect you'd shout that loud. Thanks very much.’ No, thank you, Led Zeppelin for serving up the best rock has to offer,” said Koch.

J.R. Tolkien's tales have captured the hearts and minds of many fans and the members of Led Zeppelin are no exception. So it should be no surprise that there are many direct and indirect references to The Lord of the Ring's in Robert Plant's lyrics. The songs that have a clear link to Tolkien are "Over the Hill and Far Away," "Misty Mountain Top," "Battle of Evermore," and the hit, "Ramble On."

"Ramble On" is perhaps the best-known song with clear references to "The Lord of the Rings", it is believed this song is about Frodo and his departure from Rivendell which begins the journey to Mordor. The members of Led Zeppelin were true die hard fans of the trilogy and most likely enjoyed the recent film adaptations as much as the rest of the world.

One of Led Zeppelin's most famous images is their use of the "Hermit" tarot card. It is possible that the band saw similarities between this tall white figure with his guiding light and the character of Gandalf. See the t-shirt at http://tshirtking.com/.

Their song, "The Battle of Evermore" is based around the events leading up to and encompassing the famed Battle of Pelennor Fields near the finale of "The Return of the King." The song pays references to Aragorn's departure for The Paths of the Dead and details many events of the battle, including direct use of the term "ringwraith."