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To book The Levee, call us at 919-957-1329, 919-942-3449, or write us an e-mail.

The best-selling live Led Zeppelin DVD and CD releases have energized The Levee, and we're ready to put on some fantastic shows.  We've learned a lot of great new songs, and we hope you can join us soon to hear the results of all the fun we've been having.  

Keep an eye on our site as we announce new developments and additional live appearances in 2003 and into 2004.

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The Rain Song              

Legend has it that this song was composed in response to a conversation that John Bonham had with George Harrison, who was a big fan of Led Zeppelin.  Harrison's only negative comment was that Bonham's band never wrote any ballads.  One of Robert Plant's more sensitive lyrics, this is another fine example of the "light and shade" approach that provides so much texture across the Zeppelin catalog.  An early application of the Mellotron provided the synthesized string sounds on stage, and some dramatic work by Bonham is often the highlight of the live versions.  Page worked out the melody in his Plumpton studio, and an early outtake exists of Page playing just the melody on an acoustic guitar.  In the studio Page played a Danelectro guitar, but on stage he wielded his famous doubleneck to perform this one, usually after "The Song Remains the Same", as on the album.  "The Rain Song" was first performed on the Japan tour of 1972, and was performed steadily until the end of the 1975 tours.  It reappeared again in 1979 and was performed until the end of Led Zeppelin's performing career.

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The Levee is a Led Zeppelin tribute band from Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
With the help of a collection of hundreds of hours of Led Zeppelin concert recordings, we concentrate on reproducing the live experience of Led Zeppelin.  We think that Led Zeppelin's stage performances come closer to capturing their essence.  We hope you will enjoy visiting our site, and that you will come back often to keep up with our continuing evolution.
Led Zeppelin forever!

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