AboutMike Caldwell Expertise Fortunately, or unfortunately, there are no Led Zeppelin questions I can't answer. My immediate specialty (or proclivity as it may be) has to do with concert performances and lyrical interpretations.
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Expert: Mike Caldwell Date: 5/30/2008 Subject: Filmed Shows
Question QUESTION: How many shows and which shows were professionaly recorded for the band?
ANSWER: I'll assume you mean which shows had professionally shot video footage involved, as opposed to what was "filmed" only.
They are:
March 14, 1969 - Swedish TV
March 17, 1969 - Danish Television broadcast
March 25, 1969 - Supershow, Staines, England (only D&C)
March 27, 1969 - Beat Club - Germany
June 26, 1969 - Appearance on "Tous En Scene", Paris
January 9, 1970 - Royal Albert Hall, London
February 27, 1972 - Sydney, Australia (just two cameras, couple songs)
July 27-29, 1973 - Madison Square Garden, NYC
May 24, 1975 - Earls Court Arena, London
July 17, 1977 - Seattle, WA
August 4 & 11, 1979 - Knebworth Festival, U.K.
QUESTION: Well, apparently there are some other shows professionaly-shot that aren't available as bootlegs, the most famous beeing the 1970 bath festival and many concerts from the 1977 tour however can you tell me many more of this shows?
Answer Yes, the Bath Festival was filmed, then promptly lost, and wherever it is, well that's anybody's guess. For that matter, high quality soundboard recordings of the entire festival are rumored to still be locked away somewhere, and hopefully they'll see the light of day soon.
As for 1977, don't be too misled here. They weren't making a point of "filming" those concerts for any polished release, per se. Anything that has been out there was the result of their performing at large venues, like the Kingdome in Seattle, or the Silverdome in Detroit. For those especially large venues, they'd employ a camera crew to capture the action onstage and then display it on a big screen above/behind the stage. That's the only reason anything significant was captured for the Seattle Kingdome show. But there wasn't a big effort to "film" shows from that tour, other than using cameras for their big screen. They didn't really do much for filming these shows, despite what you might've heard.
