Robert Plant last Saturday at The Barrowlands was absolutely awesome. I'm no kidding, my ears were ringing for about 24 hours after the gig and it wasn't from the music, ears still ringing from the thunderous applause, cheering and stamping of feet as soon as he walked onto the stage. I kid you not, it was almost deafening!!!! I've never heard anything like that in my life before - I think he was semi stunned at the welcome he got from Glasgow.
Doors opened at 7.30pm but we never got there till nearer 9pm as we were in Solid Rock. There was a support band but we missed them, so I dunno who they were. It was packed tight doon the front, managed to get about 7 rows from the stage, then this guy said I could stand in front of him and then another one said I could stand in front of him, so that was cool I was about 5th row, so that was close enough and got a pretty good view of Plant. He is still hot I'll tell you, slightly fat face, still got great hair (freshly permed like just moi) he's definitely still got it, fantastic voice, definitely still a rock god/sex god Truly a living legend. Took some pics but I'm afraid as I was sort of wrecked, only a handful are ok but will stick few on here later on today.
Think he started with Tin Pan Alley which was brilliant, then straight into Shine It All Around, now that song is fantastic anyway but hearing it live it sounded 50 times better and half way through Shine It All Around some lass down the front throws her bra at Plant which he catches. He's still singing the song holding the bra not too sure what to do with it. He said "thanks for the first bra of the night, it's a big big but I'll put it in my bottom drawer".
Third song was Black Dog (loved this slightly different version of it) it was terrific and by this time the whole hall was whipped up into a frenzy. Then a couple of post Zep songs I didn't know, then he did 7 & 7 Is, then Going to California, another couple of songs I didn't know, then What Is and What Should Never Be (superb). Another 2 songs I didn't know, then Mighty Rearranger and Gallows Pole. That Gallows Pole was mindblowing, 2nd fav song of the night. Back with an encore of another song I wasn't familiar with, then The Enchanter, finishing up with Whole Lotta Love . Whole Lotta Love starts off completely different version, sings 2 verses of it that way - then launches into it from the beginning again Zep style. Woooohoooooo all I can say was that it was pure bloody magic and it totally blew everyone away. Really thought the roof was going to come down and the floor was going tocollapse cos it was totally bouncing, the whole place was going crazy. And the last chorus of Whole Lotta Love seemed to last forever, well a good 10 minutes anyway - absolutely awesome. Whole Lotta Love definitely the best song of the night for me.
I'm sure he said he was coming back next year, so I'll be there again to see him, he was sensational. Glad he played quite a few Zep songs cos my knowledge of his solo stuff is minimal, apart from Mighty Rearranger. Youse missed a belter of a gig folks!!!!
Doors opened at 7.30pm but we never got there till nearer 9pm as we were in Solid Rock. There was a support band but we missed them, so I dunno who they were. It was packed tight doon the front, managed to get about 7 rows from the stage, then this guy said I could stand in front of him and then another one said I could stand in front of him, so that was cool I was about 5th row, so that was close enough and got a pretty good view of Plant. He is still hot I'll tell you, slightly fat face, still got great hair (freshly permed like just moi) he's definitely still got it, fantastic voice, definitely still a rock god/sex god Truly a living legend. Took some pics but I'm afraid as I was sort of wrecked, only a handful are ok but will stick few on here later on today.
Think he started with Tin Pan Alley which was brilliant, then straight into Shine It All Around, now that song is fantastic anyway but hearing it live it sounded 50 times better and half way through Shine It All Around some lass down the front throws her bra at Plant which he catches. He's still singing the song holding the bra not too sure what to do with it. He said "thanks for the first bra of the night, it's a big big but I'll put it in my bottom drawer".
Third song was Black Dog (loved this slightly different version of it) it was terrific and by this time the whole hall was whipped up into a frenzy. Then a couple of post Zep songs I didn't know, then he did 7 & 7 Is, then Going to California, another couple of songs I didn't know, then What Is and What Should Never Be (superb). Another 2 songs I didn't know, then Mighty Rearranger and Gallows Pole. That Gallows Pole was mindblowing, 2nd fav song of the night. Back with an encore of another song I wasn't familiar with, then The Enchanter, finishing up with Whole Lotta Love . Whole Lotta Love starts off completely different version, sings 2 verses of it that way - then launches into it from the beginning again Zep style. Woooohoooooo all I can say was that it was pure bloody magic and it totally blew everyone away. Really thought the roof was going to come down and the floor was going tocollapse cos it was totally bouncing, the whole place was going crazy. And the last chorus of Whole Lotta Love seemed to last forever, well a good 10 minutes anyway - absolutely awesome. Whole Lotta Love definitely the best song of the night for me.
I'm sure he said he was coming back next year, so I'll be there again to see him, he was sensational. Glad he played quite a few Zep songs cos my knowledge of his solo stuff is minimal, apart from Mighty Rearranger. Youse missed a belter of a gig folks!!!!
