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Boot
Led Zeppelin @ Reading Concert Hall, Blagrave Street, Saturday 28th
February 2004.
On
Saturday night 750 people were well and truly Zepped in the Reading
Concert Hall. The perpetrators? An awesome tribute band who, if
you shut your eyes, made you think you were listening to the real
Led Zeppelin.
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| Luke,
aka Robert Plant |
Luke
the singer has a vocal range so magnificent that were the original
Robert in the audience he might have felt completely supplanted,
if you'll pardon the pun.
And
Raff, aka Jimmy Page, could have rivalled the real one any day,
even coming out with a double-headed guitar for Stairway to Heaven.
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| Raff,
aka Jimmy Page |
The audience,
young and old, were enraptured - I caught some forty-something men
doing air guitar - and everyone clapped and stomped for an encore
after the three-hour set.
With
actual long hair (no wigs here) and a costume change in the second
half, Boot Led Zeppelin entertained the crowd with the mega-hits
and the lesser known tracks.
They
kicked off with We Gonna Groove, followed with Sick Again, Bring
it On Home, Battle of Evermore, and didn't stop until the tenth
song Kashmir.
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| "aaaa-aaaah" |
The
second set started with Immigrant Song, with the audience sufficiently
tanked up to screech the lengthy 'aaaa-aaaahhh' part. Then came
songs such as Black Dog, Since I've Been Loving You, Stairway to
Heaven, Misty Mountain Hop and Whole Lotta Love.
During
the gig Luke (Plant) threw ampules of glitter into the crowd, resulting
in some punters sparkling copiously throughout the night. He also
lunged the microphone towards the crowd at times and got them roaring
some of the popular parts of songs.
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band played in front of the Concert Hall's church organ. |
The
entertainment continued with keyboardist Steve at one point playing
the colossal church organ they performed in front of.
The sell-out
crowd knew the band couldn't leave before playing Rock and Roll, which
they did in the encore. Not one person was standing still, all were
cheering, singing, whooping - including myself.
Right,
I'm off to buy Led Zeppelin's greatest hits.
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| What
an outfit! |
Next
gigs are Friday March 5th at The Cartoon in Croydon,
Saturday March 13th at the Grey Horse in Kingston, and Saturday
June 12th at The Cauliflower in Ilford.
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