High-quality footage of Led Zeppelin playing in Amsterdam in 1972 has emerged online – check it out below.
The rock icons played in the Dutch capital in May 1972, just six months after the release of their classic fourth album, at one of two warm-up shows for their US tour later that year.
Footage of the show was captured for the Dutch music TV show Popzien but has only previously appeared online in low quality – but now a high-resolution four-minute clip has surfaced.
It shows the band arriving at the airport in Amsterdam, where they are greeted by the rock promoter Lou Van Rees, and then shows the opening of their show at the 10,000-capacity Oude RAI Amsterdam, including the first song of the gig, ‘Immigrant Song’.
Watch the rare footage here:
After the Amsterdam show on May 27, they played in Brussels the following night, before kicking off the US tour in Detroit on June 6.
Elsewhere, bassist John Paul Jones auctioned off a range of studio equipment last month, incljuding an amp that was blown after being left at Dave Grohl’s house.
Among the items up for grabs were a rare Simmons SDS V electronic drum kit, a pair of AKAI digital samplers, a pair of Yamaha NS-10M speakers, and a sought-after Arbiter Soundimension mechanical echo unit that dates back to the ‘60s.
Robert Plant, meanwhile, played a career-spanning set for NPR’s Tiny Desk last year, including the 1970 Zeppelin track ‘Gallows Pole’.
The animal rights group PETA also reached out to Plant last year, urging him to temporarily change his name to ‘Robert Plant Wool’. With November considered Plant Wool Month, the push for the name change was done in an effort raises more awareness for plant alternatives to sheep’s wool.
In a letter to the singer, PETA noted that the short-term name change would make more people aware of plant-powered yarns, including those made from hemp, cotton, orange waste, and more. It also would help the push to have people turn away from animal wool and cashmere industries, which it criticises as environmentally-destructive and sometimes abusive.
