Whole Lotta Love video analysis - Part One.

[Tomislaw Czarnecki <tomislaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whole Lotta Love video frame-by-frame. Part one of three. Or four :)

by Tomislaw Czarnecki


After two days of chasing the new WLL video which was told to be showed on=
 MTV a couple of times a day, on September 13th I=92ve finally managed to=
 tape that. It was on 21st position of Hit List UK.

I was totally blown away. The Earl=92s Court footage looked so great and the=
 material for the entire video was chosen very carefully. Every frame of it=
 would easily be a great poster.=20

It was a thousand times better than OTHAFA and Travelling Riverside Blues=
 videos.

The video doesn=92t include any surprising footage - maybe except those=
 Atlanta 5/4/73 bits with Page wearing white suit and a few shots possibly=
 from Bath.


Since it was shown by MTV, the music starts before the image and also ends=
 that way, so I don=92t know what happens during the first and last seconds.=
=20


=84From right" means that the shot is from the right side of musician.=20

=84=9277"  means that the footage is definitely from 1977, but I=92m not=
 sure whether it=92s from Seattle (except for one shot which is known from=
 MTV Rockumentary). It=92s not obvious that the other =9277 shots are from=
 7/17/1977 because they seem to be more pale that Seattle one.


Footage listing:

3/19/1969 Copenhagen, =84Danish TV Special", pro-shot

3/25/1969 Staines, =84Supershow", pro-shot

6/19/1969 Paris, =84Tous En Scene", pro-shot

1/9/1970 London, Royal Albert Hall, pro-shot.

6/28/1970 Shepton Mallet, Bath Festival, amateur. Not sure about the date,=
 but these shots are definitely from 1970.

2/27/1972 Sydney, Sydney Showground, pro-shot

5/4/1973 Atlanta, Braves Stadium, amateur.

1973 Unknown footage with Bonzo wearing red t-shirt. It may be from Atlanta=
 too.

7/27-29/1973 New York, Madison Square Garden, pro-shot

1/20-21/1975 Chicago, Chicago Stadium, amateur

5/17-25/1975 London, Earl=92s Court Arena, pro-shot

7/17/1977 Seattle, Kingdome, pro-shot

1977 Other pro-shot (?) footage

8/4, 11/1979 Knebworth, pro-shot


Okay, let=92s start the VCR now.


Frame #1: Colour footage (from where??? I haven=92t seen the Texas=
 International Pop Festival documentary - is that from there?) of=
 festival-people walking, with a woman in bra and sunglasses/Texas=
 International Pop Festival poster closing;

#2: Earl=92s Court: Jonesy with bass;

#3: A helicopter landing in the background/Earl=92s Court poster in front;

#4: EC poster/=9277: Page from right;

#5: Electric Magic poster/TSRTS: The crowd at the beginning of Rock And=
 Roll;

#6: Electric Magic poster/EC: Page and Plant with Jonesy behind them;

#7: Royal Albert Hall, Plant singing =84You need coolin=92";

#8: Paris TV: Page and Plant;

#9: Seattle =9277: Page kneeling with the doubleneck during TSRTS (footage=
 known from MTV Rockumentary);

#10: EC: Robert singing =84...send ya";

#11: EC: The band from left, Page jumps up (Rock And Roll);

#12: EC: Plant singing WLL =84back to schoolin=92";

#13: TSRTS: Bonzo and Page. Jimmy=92s duck-walking and is wearing his black=
 suit with stars on it;

#14: EC: Plant singing =84way down inside";

#15: Page duck-walking in the white suit;

#16: EC: Plant singing =84...you need it";

#17: EC: Page and Jones;

#18: EC: Plant singing =84I=92m gonna give you my love";

#19: EC: Plant from left;

#20: EC: Plant singing =84I=92m gonna give you my love" again;

#21: Supershow: Bonzo from left;

#22: TSRTS: Bonzo close-up from behind the hihat (Moby Dick);

#23: EC: Bonzo from left;

#24: Chicago: Plant turning right, Page behind him;

#25: EC: Plant and Page singing =84Wanna whole lotta love?";

#26: Supershow: Page scratching the strings with the pick;

#27: Danish TV: Bonzo;

#28: EC: Plant and Page singing =84Wanna whole lotta love?";

#29: =9277: Plant;

#30: RAH: Bonzo from right;

#31: RAH: Closeup on Pagey=92s Black Beauty Les Paul;

#32: RAH: Plant singing =84Wanna...", closeup shot;

#33: RAH: Plant singing =84...whole lotta love?", more distant shot;

#34: RAH: Bonzo from right rear;

#35: RAH: Jonesy;

#36: RAH: Plant singing =84Wanna whole lotta love?", more distant shot;

#37: RAH: Plant, more distant shot from right;

#38: EC: Page and Plant, Jonesy behind them;

#39: EC: Plant turning around;

#40: EC: Page raising the doubleneck up/EC: Bonzo;

#41: EC: Bonzo filmed from up;

#42: EC: Bonzo from left;

#43: EC: Bonzo from up, great footage of him crossing the sticks while=
 playing;

#44: EC: Bonzo from left;

#45: TSRTS: Closeup of Jonesy=92s bass (WLL medley);

#46: EC: Plant singing =84Way, way down inside";

#47: EC: Tilted and distant shot of Robert;

#48: EC: Page;

#49: Danish TV: Jonesy;

#50: EC: Page, Plant and Jones;

#51: Bath? That=92s Robert, sporting the beard and the moustache, wearing=
 the same shirt as in Bath... He=92s on black background - isn=92t that too=
 dark for Bath? Was it already dark when they were finishing their set=
 there?

#52: TSRTS: The crowd after Since I've Been Loving You;

#53: EC: Page and Plant;

#54: EC: Plant and Page singing =84Whole lotta love?";

#55: EC: Page duck-walking;

#56: EC: Plant and Page singing =84Wanna whole lotta love?";

#57: EC: Plant with his head back, raising hands;

#58: EC: Plant and Page singing =84Wanna whole lotta love?";

#59: EC: Robert, Jimmy jumping up, filmed from left (Rock And Roll);

#60: EC: Bonzo from above;

#61: EC: Plant and Page singing  =84Wanna whole lotta love?";

#62: Chicago: Page raising his Les Paul/RAH: Bonzo from left;

#63: The crowd... RAH?;

#64: RAH: Bonzo from right, doing the cymbal work in WLL;


Enough for now, I=92ve transcribed notes from 4 pages but there=92s 10 left!=
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"Bonzo had a German belly. He had eaten, well, three thousand bananas!"
</italic>- Robert Plant explaining Bonzo's collapse during<bold> Led
Zeppelin </bold>show in Nuremberg, 6/27/1980.

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<color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>Tomislaw The Zephead
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