Since 2003, Get the Led Out has built a touring operation around one distinguishing premise: performing Led Zeppelin’s studio recordings as they were actually made, vocal overdubs and layered guitars included, rather than approximating what a four-piece could pull off on a live stage. That argument comes to the Paramount Theatre in Rutland on Friday, November 6.
About the Show
The Philadelphia-based six-piece has been dubbed “The American Led Zeppelin” by media covering their work, though the band frames their mission with slightly more precision: they aim to bring the studio recordings of “The Mighty Zep” to life on the concert stage. No costumes, no affectations. When a Zeppelin recording features three guitars, three guitarists take the stage. Guitarist Paul Hammond plays the same guitar and amp models Jimmy Page used, down to the year of manufacture, with at least one instrument valued at $25,000. The band logs approximately 130 shows a year, almost all of them in theaters rather than clubs.
The six-piece (Paul Sinclair on lead vocals and harmonica, Hammond and Tommy Zamp on guitars, Seth Chrisman on bass, Derek Smith on drums, and Eddie Kurek on keyboards and guitar) covers the full range of Zeppelin’s catalog, from the bombastic and epic to the folky and mystical. The show includes a special acoustic set, with tracks like “Tangerine” representing the side of the catalog that rarely survives the volume requirements of the heavier material. Sinclair maintains a setlist database ensuring no two shows in the same city are identical — which may help explain why the band returns to certain venues year after year. Their 2026 schedule has already taken them through Red Rocks Amphitheatre, South Shore Music Circus, and Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas before the fall theater run arrives in Rutland.
Sinclair has described the source material in terms that leave little ambiguity about the band’s orientation: “Led Zeppelin are sort of the classical composers of the rock era. I believe 100 years from now they will be looked at as the Bach or Beethoven of our time.”
Venue & Logistics
The Paramount Theatre is a historic theater at 30 Center St in downtown Rutland, Vermont. It is the format Get the Led Out plays best: a seated theater with architectural presence, where the precision of what’s happening on stage has room to register. The north country offers few rooms that fit this description.
Tickets
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