1973 LED ZEPPELIN HOUSES OF THE HOLY TOUR PITTSBURGH CONCERT TICKET STUB B5

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LED ZEPPELIN
HOUSES OF THE HOLY
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
CONCERT TICKET STUB
ON JULY 24, 1973
AT THREE RIVERS STADIUM
IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
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Setlist:
Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, (Bring It On Home intro) Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Moby Dick, Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love (incl. Let That Boy Boogie), The Ocean.
Led Zeppelin’s ’73 Pittsburgh concert brought music and a melee
One of the more memorable rock concerts in Pittsburgh history happened on July 24, 1973, when Led Zeppelin drew 40,000 fans to Three Rivers Stadium. At the time, it was largest crowd ever to attend a musical event in the Steel City, and, for a while, things got out of hand.
This was not Led Zeppelin’s first appearance in Pittsburgh. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and company performed in January 1969 at the Hunt Armory, across the street from Sacred Heart Elementary School in Shadyside. The fact that Zeppelin played a venue better known for hosting boat shows speaks to their status at the time.
The early days of stadium rock concerts weren’t always pleasant. The combination of young fans unable to contain their excitement over seeing their counterculture heroes in person, and police acting on behalf of the establishment to control them, sometimes led to violent clashes between kids and cops.
A 1970 Zeppelin show at the Civic Arena foreshadowed what was to come when they eventually got to the big stadium across the Allegheny River.
In their book “Whole Lotta Led: Our Flight with Led Zeppelin,” Ralph Hulett and Jerry
wrote that the fans at the Igloo “stood on their seats and went wild with enthusiasm, but baton-wielding cops ran into the crowd and pushed people off the chairs.”
Upon seeing this, Led Zeppelin refused to perform. Page summed up the reaction of the band by defending the fans.
“The police act tough with crowds out of fear but if they just left people alone and didn’t get all worked up and scared, I’m sure nothing would happen,” said Page. “I mean, you see a cop waving a stick and you get shaky — and how can we carry on playing when the cops are roaming among an apparently peaceful audience, anticipating trouble? That’s what’s happening.”
Whether or not the police were anticipating trouble when Led Zeppelin returned to Pittsburgh in 1973, trouble is what they got.
By this time, the band was one of the biggest in the world. Fans desperate to see them converged on Three Rivers Stadium not only from the Pittsburgh area, but also from surrounding states and, reportedly, as far away as Florida.
All tickets were sold by the day of the concert, including 6,000 spots in the infield in front of the stage. Some fans without tickets broke through chain-link fences at Gates A and B to force their way into the show. Others were held back by the spray from high-pressure fire hoses. Guards and fans pushed and shoved one another and a dozen teens were treated for minor injuries.
Meanwhile, 55-gallon water-filled barrels had been placed two deep along the first and third base walls to keep those who didn’t have infield tickets away from the field.
It didn’t work.
Pittsburgh Press reporter Pete Bishop described a chaotic scene.
“At 8 p.m., when the show was supposed to start, the migration began and, as more and more youths ignored requests to stay where they were, scooting over the railing and dugouts, barrels were knocked over and one irate guard, sans cap, picked up an empty barrel and slugged a boy on the back,” wrote Bishop.
“The concert was delayed 53 minutes until some semblance of ordered had been restored.”
Fortunately, the show went on. The 15-song set included tunes like “The Song Remains the Same,” “Stairway to Heaven,” and “Whole Lotta Love.”
Film footage of the performance shows lead guitarist Page tearing it up on the opening song “Rock and Roll,” resplendent in an all-white suit next to the bare-chested Plant, whom Bishop referred to as “an incredible leather-lunged yowler.”
Some fans reportedly came away saying it was the best concert they had ever seen.
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