Previously unseen LED ZEPPELIN footage from 1973 in Austria

16 July 2024
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It's already been an excellent year for LED ZEPPELIN fans, with previously unseen clips from 1975 shows in Ohio and Montreal, plus film from performances in Chicago and Pontiac in 1977, unexpectedly emerging online. 

Now more footage has emerged, with a three-minute montage of footage from the band's March 16, 1973 show at the 16,000-capacity Wiener Stadthalle in Austria appearing on the YouTube account of LED ZEPPELIN archivists LedZepFilm.
 
The film was originally shot by Mead Eblan, who attended the American International School Vienna in Austria, while the footage was scanned by Nicki Coyle, a preservationist at The Negative Space in Littleton, CO. Colour work was completed by Nuff from another group of archivists, The Pink Floyd Research Group.
 
The footage is assembled from short clips, so the music is somewhat fragmented, but Robert Plant is clearly in a playful mood, pretending to break wind into the microphone and telling the audience that Vienna "even has good groupies". Meanwhile, John Paul Jones, who is suffering from colic, can be seen performing from a seated position.  
 
 
Source: loudersound.com