Show #201: Doin' the Claw In Rockford

December 29th, 2009

(Photo from DreadZeppelin.com.)

This week’s show goes out to my buddy Pete who introduced me to Dread Zeppelin back in 1990 when we were in college. I recall sitting out on the lawn next to the dorm (Witte Hall) playing cribbage with my roommate’s speakers blasting their first album, Un-Led-Ed, out the window. Someone yelled, “What is this Zeppelin-Elvis shit?!” Good times, good times. I saw them at Club DeWash here in Madison back in 1994 or so as well as at Summerfest in Milwaukee a few years later.

What is there to say about Dread Zeppelin? They do Led Zeppelin in a reggae style with an Elvis impersonator as lead singer. OK, they do non-Zep songs too but they got their start covering them and they remain the core of their shows.

Here we have their set from 5 September 1999 in Rockford, IL. The band were opening for Joan Jett & The Blackhearts at the On the Waterfront Festival.

(Photo found at The OC Gazette.)

Setlist:

Immigrant Song
Doin’ The Claw
Whole Lotta Love
Ramble On
Friend Bob Marley
Q & A with Tortelvis / Buttboy song / C.C. Rider
Viva Las Vegas
What Is And What Should Never Be
Black Dog
The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair
Don’t Call Me Rasta, Fat Boy
Baba O’Riley
Going To California
Stairway To Heaven
Heartbreaker Hotel

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Here’s the boys doing “Houses of the Holy”:

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