Former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant has been giving his old band’s catalog a workout on his current tour.
While performing in Toronto, Ontario, September 15, he presented a set full of Zeppelin classics. You can see three videos below in which he and his band, the Sensational Space Shifters, perform “The Lemon Song,” “Whole Lotta Love” and “Rock and Roll.”
“The Lemon Song” opens with Plant introducing the band, while “Whole Lotta Love” begins with a bluesy rendition of the Willie Dixon tune “I Just Want to Make Love to You,” first recorded by Muddy Waters.
The full set list from the night reveals plenty of other Led Zeppelin tunes. (Gotta wonder what Jimmy Page would make of this, after all his attempts to get Plant back for a Led Zeppelin reunion.)
“Trampled Under Foot” “Turn It Up” “Black Dog” “Rainbow” “Black Country Woman” “Spoonful” “The Rain Song” “No Place To Go” / “Dazed and Confused” “The Lemon Song” “Little Maggie” “Crawling King Snake” “Whole Lotta Love” / “Who Do You Love” Encore: “Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down” / “In My Time Of Dying” “Rock and Roll”
Plant’s tour wraps up this month. The remaining dates are:
September 17 The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY 18 Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY 20 Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA 22 Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, Indianapolis, IN 23 FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Chicago, IL
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Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.
