On Christmas Eve, 1968 Led Zeppelin flew to Los Angeles ahead of their first American tour, funded, with their own money, by manager Peter Grant, band leader/guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones. The tour kicked off in Seattle on December 26, with Zeppelin playing in support to Vanilla Fudge, but it was their headlining club shows, and specifically their now-legendary four-night stand at the Boston Tea Party club from January 23 to 26, which truly set the quartet up as the hottest new rock band in the world. Famously, on the final night of their engagement, the audience reaction was so rapturous that the group played all their own songs, then kept playing for hours, throwing in covers of songs by The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran and more.
In a new post on Instagram, Jimmy Page casts his mind back to the shows, of which he clearly has fond memories.
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