Very good. I liked the strings. Interesting beat and good drummer. The congas at the start were nice. I think this is the first time I've seen Page use a whammy bar. And it looked as if he had before. 

I saw them the first time in the early 1970's with Led Zeppelin and they were loud and hot. Page was smoking good. Used a violin bow some on his guitar. 

The second time they were TOO LOUD!! My ears rang for several days. The loudest show I've ever been too. John Bonham's bass drum would almost knock you backwards it was so loud. 

@robertdee  At the time of the release of the movie, "Forest Gump", the author of the novel (Winston Groom) released a book called, "Gumpisms" - which was basically a listing of quotes from the title character (not used in the movie).  Among them:  "If you can't sing good - sing loud."  I'm not saying that Zeppelin didn't play good, but I am not a big fan of volume/loudness just for the sake of volume/loudness.  I have known a couple of people whose hearts literally got knocked out of rhythm at LOUD shows (especially Van Halen, Mountain and a couple of others).  That three-day ear-ringing following shows - really just not good for you!  In the old days (1970s) the only way that bands (especially guitarists) could attain the level of breakup and distortion that they desired was to play at ear-splitting volume.  Some still pursue it at this route.  There are effects, stomp boxes and other means to achieve this without causing ear damage to listeners.  Of course, in the old days people didn't talk incessantly at shows ... probably because they had no hope of hearing each other.  😉

Even though I probably had more lovin' to Whole Lotta Love, which kinda tells you about the rest of my life, I got to the point whenever I hear Jimmy, I just can't unhear those stories of Jimmy Page and his fourteen year old, true or no, or when you hear that those rapid fire notes were caused by a swirling tape machine, I think maybe called an Echoplex, true or no, or worse ever those deaf YouTube commentators who insist Jimmy was the number 1 over old Duane. Bah Humbug.

That said this is an effing masterpiece.

I tried like hell to get tickets for this show, tried to call in a favor as I was friends with the head of marketing for Palace Sports & Entertainment (they own the venue), called my brother who knows a lot of people in the Detroit area, everything I could but I struck out. 

The only time I saw any of them was in 1990 when Plant released Manic Nirvana which is a great album. But I believe at the time he refused to play any Zep stuff and he didn't that night. Great show but no Zeppelin. 

If I recall John Paul Jones was pissed at the two for what he felt was an exclusion of him. Seems like he made some comment at an awards show or something to that effect. 

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If I recall John Paul Jones was pissed at the two for what he felt was an exclusion of him. Seems like he made some comment at an awards show or something to that effect

Yeah I do remember him saying something, and rightly so. See below.  I highly recommend his solo release Zuma.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OoH7iDLkJrY

Lee - if you saw Plant's Manic Nirvana tour, he played about 6 Zeppelin songs each night.

https://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/robert-plant-3d6b19b.html?tour=53d6e7ad

It was his first & second tours in '83/84 and '85/86 that he didn't play any Zeppelin.   I saw him in '86, '90, '98 on the Page/Plan tour, 2011 at Wanee (with his Band of Joy band consisting of a bunch of Nashville alt-country Allstars) and again 2017 with one of his hippie mostly acoustic psychedelic bands.   He played some Zep songs at all but the first time I saw him.

I also saw Page on the 2nd The Firm tour in the 1980s.   

I finally saw JPJ with the Dave Rawlings Machine 9 years ago, which was spectacular.

@hotlantatim 

Looks like you are correct. Well I dug through the website and they played five Zep songs that night. I may have heard of one at the time, Communication Breakdown. If it wasn't a radio song I wouldn't have heard of it then. I thought he refused to play Zep songs. 

I remember the show well. Alannah Miles opened. She had one big hit, "Black Velvet".

Cool website.