Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, live at Taormina

If, when I was fifteen, someone had told me “one day you will go to a concert of Led Zeppelin“, I would have laughed a lot certainly!

No, I haven’t gone to that concert and surely I will never go there (even if there are rumors about a reunion with the Bonham’s child), but what I have seen sunday evening at the ancient greek theater of Taormina is enough!

After two hours, in which three groups are alternated (particularly the magic Tinariwen), Robert Plant arrives with the amazing Strange Sensation.

Already with the first beautiful song I shiver: the voice seems really that of Robert Plant, the same that I listening for years. It is a little lower, deeper, but it doesn’t show some sixty years (or it perhaps shows them all, it depends on the points of view). The second song gives me the certainty.

Then, the madness: Robert screams “Hey hey mama, said the way you move gon’ make you sweat, gon’ make you groove“. It was the great Black Dog.

After amazing songs like Freedom Fries and Tin Pan Valley, that you can listen in the album Mighty Rearrenger, come the unmistakable sounds of Babe I’m Gonna Leave You and Going To California.

All the Led Zeppelin’s songs have almost been remixed together with oriental rhythms and with a cleaner rock, less ‘n roll, but of big effect.

But the best still had to come. Would you guess with which song Robert and the Strange Sensation had closed the concert? Perhaps it is banal, but the felt emotion is indescribable. The theater seems to collapse.

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