Led Zeppelin Scandinavian Tour 1968


The English rock band Led Zeppelin staged a concert tour of Scandinavia in September1968. The shows marked the band's first concert tour, though they were billed under the name "the Yardbirds".

Overview

Led Zeppelin's debut tour was an outstanding contractual commitment left over from The Yardbirds. The band's first concert at Teen Club, a school gymnasium in Gladsaxe, Denmark, was performed exactly two months to the day after The Yardbirds' final concert. The band's manager, Peter Grant, later said of this first concert: "Standing by the side of the stage, it was obvious that there was special chemistry."
Guitarist Jimmy Page recalled that "the tour went fantastically for us, we left them stomping the floors after every show." According to singer Robert Plant:
Plant also recalled the following:
For these early shows, the band was billed as the "Yardbirds" or "New Yardbirds", despite the fact that Jimmy Page was now the only surviving link with the previous band. Page later said:

Setlist

The setlists of the earliest shows are sketchy, as no recordings of these shows exist.
A likely setlist for this tour consisted of:
  1. "Train Kept A-Rollin'"
  2. "I Can't Quit You Baby"
  3. "Dazed and Confused"
  4. "How Many More Times"
  5. "White Summer"
  6. "For Your Love"
  7. "You Shook Me"
  8. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
  9. "As Long As I Have You"
  10. "Communication Breakdown"