| North America Autumn 1969 | ||||
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Poster for Led Zeppelin's concert at the Winterland Ballroom, used to help promote its Autumn 1969 North American tour |
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| Concert tour by Led Zeppelin | ||||
| Start date | October 17, 1969 | |||
| End date | November 8, 1969 | |||
| Legs | 1 | |||
| Shows | 16 | |||
| Led Zeppelin tour chronology | ||||
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Led Zeppelin's Autumn 1969 North American Tour was the fourth concert tour of North America by the English rock band. The tour commenced on October 17 and concluded on November 8, 1969.
This tour is notable for the fact that Led Zeppelin were the first pop act to perform at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York since the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s,[1] and also for their three performances at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco (the alternate venue offered to those bands which pulled crowds too large for the smaller Fillmore West venue).[2]
Another significant concert which took place during this tour took place at the Boston Garden on October 25.[3] For this gig, the band performed to an audience of 15,000 and grossed $45,000.[2] It was a pre-cursor to the scale of concerts the band would perform on future tours, where they regularly filled large auditoriums and stadiums. The band's manager, Peter Grant, later commented:
This performance makes me realise that we can be bigger than the Stones and The Beatles [2]
The band released their hugely-popular second album on 22 October 1969, part-way though this tour.
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The fairly typical set list for the tour was:
There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour.