Twenty-eight years ago this week, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant brought their post-Led Zeppelin touring act to the Fargodome — one of the more unlikely stops on a rock-and-roll circuit that had spent 1998 working through arenas across the country.
InForum flagged the anniversary on June 14, 2026, as part of its ongoing “Today in History” feature covering notable North Dakota moments.
The Fargodome show
Page and Plant had been touring together since the mid-1990s, following a celebrated 1994 MTV Unplugged session that reintroduced the two to a generation of listeners who’d grown up on Led Zeppelin records. The Fargodome run put Fargo on the same itinerary as larger markets — no small thing for a building that opened in 1992 and had spent its early years better known for Bison football than rock concerts.
The pair weren’t traveling as Led Zeppelin. Bassist John Paul Jones wasn’t part of the lineup, and drummer John Bonham had died in 1980 — the event that effectively ended the original band. Page and Plant toured instead with a rotating cast of musicians, including players drawn from North African and Indian musical traditions, a sound that set their mid-’90s shows apart from a straight nostalgia act.
Their 1998 tour supported the album Walking into Clarksdale, released that spring. It was the first studio record the two had made together since Led Zeppelin’s final LP in 1979 — and it arrived to mixed reviews, though the live shows drew steadier crowds than the album’s reception might have suggested.
InForum didn’t provide a ticket count, an exact date within 1998, or a setlist for the Fargodome appearance. Those details weren’t available in the anniversary item.
