The footage, which has appeared on the ledzepfilm YouTube account, was shot on June 28, 1970, at the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet, where Led Zeppelin joined a weekend lineup that also featured Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Pink Floyd, Johnny Winter, Fairport Convention, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa, the Moody Blues, The Byrds, Santana, Dr John and many more.
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Footage from the show in Los Angeles wasn’t seen until earlier this week when seven tantalizing minutes hit YouTube. Check it out rightbelow. (RS)
The footage was shot by a fan named Eddie Vincent, who snuck a Kodak Brownie 8mm camera into the arena. “When my friends and I got to the Forum, I tucked it under my jacket,” Vincent says in the introduction to the video. “There weren’t any problems at the door back in those days. The seats were excellent, first row behind the stage. We were behind John Bonham’s gong, so you couldn’t really see him much, but the sound was great.”
Led Zeppelin played the last of three nights at Madison Square Garden, (1973) New York at the end of a 33-date North American tour.
It was on this day that Led Zeppelin lost around $203,000 in cash after a thief made off with the receipts from the two Madison Square Garden concerts. The theft took place from the safe at The Drake Hotel in New York where the group were staying. Tour manager Richard Cole, who discovered the theft, was arrested as a suspect and questioned by police but was later released.
On July 29, 1973, Led Zeppelin had more than $203,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at their New York City hotel. Hardly a crippling loss, seeing as how it came near the end of a tour that grossed more than $4 million. But it was almost a sign that the legendary group's career had peaked and more troubles were on the way. (UCR)
But how did $200,000 mysteriously vanish from the band's not-so-safe-deposit box at the luxurious Drake Hotel sometime between the second and third concerts? According to tour manager Richard Cole, all of the money was accounted for when he checked the box around 1AM on July 29, but it was nowhere to be found when he next opened it around 7:30PM.
Neither police nor hotel detectives could find evidence that the box had been forcibly tampered with, and Zeppelin's management seemed almost reticent to press the matter further, given the nebulous origins of the vast amount of cash involved. According to newspaper accounts from the period, Cole told detectives that the money in question was proceeds from the current tour and was kept on hand because the band had "a lot of expenses to pay."
The robbery has never been solved, but whoever took it at least left the five passports inside the box so the band could make its way back to England and recuperate from the long trek across the states.
