Led Zeppelin — Bath Festival 1970
Recorded June 28, 1970
Bath and West Showground · Shepton Mallet · 
England
Setlist
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Latest album at the timeLed Zeppelin II1969It is the most recent album on the date of the festival and supplies Heartbreaker, Thank You, Moby Dick and Whole Lotta Love.“To see the debut of Immigrant Song at Bath, six days after the trip that inspired its lyrics.”
Context
Six days after playing in Iceland, Led Zeppelin arrives at the Bath and West Showground with something new to open the show. On June 28, 1970, Immigrant Song debuts in front of the Shepton Mallet crowd. The band is moving between the second album and the songs that will form the third.
On stage, Robert Plant shares the space with Jimmy Page's guitar, John Paul Jones's bass and organ and John Bonham's drums. That's the Way opens an acoustic front, with acoustic guitar and mandolin. Moby Dick makes room for the drummer; the encores flow into a rock and roll medley.
Peter Whitehead and Ernie Vincze's cameras also gather waiting, conversations and faces away from the stage. The project is never finished, and the film stock prepared for daylight loses definition when night falls. Decades later, the material resurfaces in viewing copies. What survives does not rebuild the whole concert: it preserves a change of phase in fragments.
- That's the Way debuts with Jimmy Page on acoustic guitar and John Paul Jones on mandolin.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Robert PlantVocals and harmonica
- Jimmy PageElectric and acoustic guitar
- John Paul JonesBass, organ and mandolin
- John BonhamDrums
Trivia
Immigrant Song makes its live debut six days after the band's show in Iceland, the trip that inspired its lyrics.
That's the Way also makes its live debut at Bath.
The crew brings film stock suited to daylight, which compromises the footage shot after dark.
Peter Whitehead and Ernie Vincze film the festival on 16 mm.
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