Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times (Danmarks Radio 1969)

The studio recording of this track was done in 1968 for their first album “Led Zeppelin”, however this introductory performance is a shockingly good, Live exposé of their individual artistry.

"I’d like to introduce Led Zeppelin to you" and rock ‘n roll was changed forever. This audience were typical of the day, very reserved, and you wonder if they understood what they were witnessing. This was 1969 for goodness sake! The drummer, John Bonham and Robert Plant the singer were just 20 years old, Jimmy Page lead guitar is 25 and John Paul Jones on base is 24. Already each one is a master of his art.

I personally feel incredibly lucky to be born when I was. At this point I had just turned 18 and starting out as a mature student. We had just lived our teenage years through the most incredible decade with The Beatles influence and here we were poised for the next Rock, Folk and Hippy revolution. For me, this started with a bang as in the early Summer of 1970 at Shepton Mallett, I attended one of the forerunners of Glastonbury, the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music

The Music Gods of the future were assembled in what seems now like an incredible set list that included Fairport Convention, Johnny Winter, Steppenwolf, John Mayall, Canned Heat, Pink Floyd, Santana, The Byrds, Moody Blues, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Led Zeppelin, Donovan(Guest) and Jefferson Airplane.

It rained apart from when Zeppelin came on and then the sun came out. They were late because Robert Plant got stuck in a Bath traffic jam, so the Hell’s Angels went to get him. Meanwhile, Donovan was in the crowd and to our rapturous astonishment went on stage and played a set!

Here is a silent clip of this ground breaking Festival

In closing, many of us will know and recognise Led Zeppelin's top, commercially successful tracks… “Whole Lotta Love” and “Stairway to Heaven” (I will post these at some point), but I wanted to lay down some of the early beginnings of Led Zeppelin first and also cover some of their lesser known work.