Noisy Audiences

[Visago95 <Visago95@xxxxxxx>]

I find that there is a fine line between a really good audience and a poor
one.  Take hte Glasgow show from 12-4-72.  What you have there is a really
good audience, with the band at every turn.  Also, I for one really like the
Danish clapping.  The 2-28-70 show is one of my all time favorites, because
the crowd is real quiet at first, then about after 4 songs turn into raving
lunatics!  I think when that happens it shows the true power of Zep.  They had
to win over the Danish audiences alot early on, like those performances form
March 69.  

On the difference between US and American audiences, something comes to mind.
Just this week I had to study an essay by EM Forster for my British Lit class.
He said the reason for the reserved English emotion was the simple fact that
they are alow witted.  Being English himself, he said he suffered from this as
well.  He went on to call Americans superficial, which I find to be true.  I
know people that have dropped 60 bucks on Stones tickets to hear Satisfaction.
This carries into Zeppelin recordings, where it is quiet by the microphone the
whole show until Stairway, and then all of a sudden you have screaming
lunatics all over the place!

Another reason it may seem there is a noisy audience is the simple fact Plant
is trying to keep people from getting knocked out by cops, and vice versa.
Zeppelin was met with very troubled waters when they hit the states, and since
the papers blamed the band mostly, Plant had to keep the peace.  No easy task.

Peter