Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song - Long Beach CA 6-27-1972 Part 3

Led Zeppelin 3rd Night Long Beach Arena Long Beach CA 6-27-1972
Welcome Back To How The West Was Won Part 3
Wild Beach Party
Immigrant Song
The band return to the standard setlist with “Black Dog” following. Afterwards, Plant introduces the new song “Over The Hills And Far Away,” as “this is something I think we did once before, and that was the night before last [forgetting the Seattle performance on the nineteenth]. We played at the Forum, and that was too much. That was really great. This is a thing called Over the Hills and Far Away, which is a good place to be sometimes.”

He has a curious fight with someone throwing firecrackers. One explodes and he scolds him: “I’ll tell you what, we really must cut that out. I don’t want to hear no more firecrackers cause that’s not really no good. I mean, the Fourth of July’s soon, but it’s not now. It just breaks the continuity.”

After yet another explosion, he says: “Look at that. That’s really clever. I mean really really clever, and the guy who did that really feels good, right? That’s really clever.” He then dedicates “Over the Hills and Far Away” for “the freak.” Among the early versions, this is the shortest and sloppiest. Page is obviously still learning the breaks.

Very strong performances of “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and “Stairway” follow. It’s obvious why they were used for the official release.

The acoustic section is low key compared to the previous night. Plant refers to Muhammad Ali before “Going To California” and introduces “That’s The Way” as one where “all the parents can join in the chorus.” There seems to be some kind of commotion during the latter which prompts Plant to change the lyrics in the final verse, singing: “I don’t know what to say about it / With some people throwing flares in the night / But now’s the time to look and look again at what you see / Babe, would they say that that’s all right?”

After “Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp” they follow with another great “Dazed And Confused.” It’s a bit more rough than than the LA recording (Page, for example, stumbles into the violin bow episode). It contains the same “Walters Walk” and “The Crunge” passages. Plant jokingly renames “The Crunge” as “The Mud Shark,” referring to the Frank Zappa song about their own exploits in 1969.

Both “What Is And What Should Never Be” and “Dancing Days” were utilized on How The West Was Won (with minor edits). The show ends with the long “Whole Lotta Love” medley with a rare performance of “Blueberry Hill.”

The evening ends with “Rock And Roll,” the only encore, from a poor audience recording.