| Orchestra or Band | Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant - vocals, Jimmy Page - guitar, John Paul Jones - bass, organ, John Bonham - drums)
The Liverpool Scene (Adrian Henri, Mike Evans - sax, Bryan Dodson - drums, Andy Roberts - vocals, guitar, violin, whistle, kazoo, Percy Jones - bass)
Mick Abraham's Blodwyn Pig (Mick Abrahams - guitar, Andy Pyle - bass, Ron Berg - drums, Jack Lancaster - sax, flute, violin, bass clarinet) |
| Set List | Mick Abraham's Boldwyn Pig
The Liverpool Scene
INTERVAL
Led Zeppelin:
'Communication Breakdown',
'I Can't Quit You Baby', W Dixon,
'Dazed and Confused', J Holmes,
'White Summer/Black Mountain Side',
'You Shook Me', W Dixon,
'How Many More Times
ENCORE
'Long Tall Sally', Little Richard (with the Liverpool Scene and Blodwyn Pig) |
| Performance Notes | "The Albert Hall has been taken next Saturday for a week of Pop Proms, with three or four different groups every evening, and Sunday night's concert promised well. It was a Blues based occasion with Blodwyn Pig veering towards jazz, the Liverpool Scene drawing on pop poetry and Led Zeppelin leaning heavily, on the Blues itself.
Of the three groups it was the oddly named Blodwyn Pig that probably provided the best music - their two main soloists, tenor saxophonist Jack Lancaster and guitarist Mick Abrahams, varied things well, especially in one fine duet - because Led Zeppelin, altough top of the bill and cheered to the rafters or rather, the new acoustic devices, seemed too melodramatic and ferocious to be quite convincing. Admittedly Jimmy Page's guitar work was stunning in it's virtuosity, but the group as a whole seems to provide more bulk than nourishment. As for the Liverpool Scene, they were led by plump Pop poet Adrian Henri in a set that was nearly as funny as they thought it was, culminating in a contrapuntal attack on Enoch Powell.
(The Times, 1 July 1969) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1969/78) |