On this day
1971
I played Berkeley Community Theatre with Led Zeppelin
On this day in 1971, I played with Led Zeppelin at the Berkeley Community Theatre and the seated, uni-like audience seemed pretty non-plussed. It wasn’t a very good communion that night.
Maybe that evening they:
- a) were contaminated by the negative press we had continually received from the locally-based Rolling Stone;
- b) were sitting in the remnants of the vibrant San Francisco music scene they had witnessed over the last 5 years;
- c) weren’t receptive to new music we played – material from the unreleased Led Zeppelin IV;
- d) were heavily stoned, or;
- e) were all of the above.
Jimmy Page
Robert Plant
John Paul Jones
