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Originally Posted by Baron Von Zeppelin

When I saw them in Greensboro NC in 1977 it was Bonham's birthday.
The show was delayed due to him arriving to town late - on a private flight.
The rest of the band was on site , on time.

Evidently the previous night was a night off and he chose to celebrate .... too much and too long.

When he arrived and they hit the stage , the sold out coliseum sang Happy Birthday Bonzo in harmony.
Never heard anything else like that before or after. It was wild.
I was a 13 yr old 7th grader.

He was really moved and really pumped by that.
Then they kicked it wide open until after 1am

More to the story , but the end result was the Gboro Coliseum banned Led Zeppelin from ever appearing there again.
Although that turned out to be their last tour anyway.

One of my favorite stories to annoy one of my older sisters-
In ‘77 Zeppelin came to Chicago also. I was in 7th grade at the time, and lived in Chicago.
One day I get home from school and the phone rings. One of my older sisters, who was in high school at the time, figured it’s her boyfriend, so screams down that she’ll answer the phone. No big deal.
The next day at school my buddy asks very excitedly where I was after school. I told him I was at home. He said he called, my sister answered, and said I wasn’t home! Go figure.
Anyway my friends uncle was walking down the street in Chicago and found 3 Zeppelin tickets in an envelope for that night’s show. He called my friend and invited him, and said call a friend to come too! Well, I STILL rub this in my sisters face today, but jokingly. Back then, it was an ugly issue to bring up.
I also had tickets to their show in Chicago when I was in high school, but that’s the tour that got canceled because of John’s death.