Led Zeppelin Gonzaga 1968

Led Zeppelin open for Vanilla Fudge, billed as “Len Zefflin“ in an advertisement for the show. Set List: Train Kept a Rollin’, I Can’t Quit You Baby, As Long As I Have You (incl. Fresh Garbage, Shake, Mockingbird), Dazed and Confused, White Summer / Black Mountainside, How Many More Times, Pat’s Delight Spokane was an early step on ’Len Zefflin’s’ stairway to stardom How obscure was the opening band for Vanilla Fudge at Gonzaga University on Dec. 30, 1968? Well, the ads in both The Spokesman-Review and Chronicle read, “The Vanilla Fudge, with Len Zefflin.“ The ad copywriter misheard the name and thought it was some guy named “Len Zefflin.“ Little did anybody know that old Len would turn out to be Led Zeppelin, one of the most popular and influential rock bands of all time, whose reunion concert this month made worldwide news. That 1968 show at Gonzaga’s Kennedy Pavilion would later assume a historic status in Zeppelin lore – al