12/20/03 Ruckus Pizza, Raleigh, NC
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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.

Thanks for visiting!

Custard Pie                    

The first track on the landmark double album Physical Graffiti, Custard Pie is an emphatic, boot-to-the-groin statement from Headley Grange that Zep was back to its roots of staggeringly heavy rock.  Taking inspiration from sources all the way back to Blind Boy Fuller's 1939 track "I Want Some of Your Pie", as well as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee's "Custard Pie Blues" in 1947, there's some additional influence from Bukka White's "Shake 'em On Down" as well as from Big Joe Williams' "Drop Down Mama" evident here, itself drawn from the 1935 Sleepy John Estes track "Drop Down Daddy".  John Paul Jones plays a mean clavinet on this one, and Page's piercing solo is processed through an ARP synthesizer.  Unfortunately never performed live until Page performed it on his Outrider tour, and again later at Jason Bonham's wedding in 1990, "Custard Pie" was actually rehearsed for possible inclusion in the 1975 concerts, but didn't make the cut.

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About Us

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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