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On this day
1971
Led Zeppelin played the Berkeley Community Theatre

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:

  1. a) were contaminated by the negative press we had continually received from the locally-based Rolling Stone;
  2. b) were sitting in the remnants of the vibrant San Francisco music scene they had witnessed over the last 5 years;
  3. c) weren’t receptive to new music we played – material from the unreleased Led Zeppelin IV;
  4. d) were heavily stoned, or;
  5. e) were all of the above.
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