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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Buzz Night, the host of the Take in a
Walk podcast music History on Foot, and I'm going to
have another look at this week in music history. This
is for the week.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Of May fifth, And what.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We decide to do when we look at music history
is we saunter over to the music history desk and
there is the one and only Harry Jacobs. Hello, Harry,
happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Buss for another week, the week of May fifth to
the eleventh, another great week for mainly classic rock.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Let me just imagine this one. I think is going
to have its fair share of the pillars of classic rock.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Zeppelin, Stones and Beetles are going to be covered this week.
A little teaser for the week. All right, let's bring
it on. Let's start nineteen seventy three. We talked about
the led Zeppelin Pontiac Silver Dome show from seventy seven
on last week's episode where you know, seventy nine thousand
or whatever they played at the Silver Dome.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
May fifth, nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Four years before that, Zeppelin played for over fifty six
thousand fans in Tampa at the Tampa Stadium and that
broke the Beatles attendance record at Tampa Stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let me thinking about it, right.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, just a crazy, crazy thing. I would love,
you know, I give anything to see led Zeppelin again.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Have you seen becoming led Zeppelin yet? Oh? Guy, into you?
I know you loved it. I loved it, and I
don't you know. As a rule, you're one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
By the way, for those listening, Buzz doesn't use his
phone much at night at home versus most of us.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Like, if you want to text me at nine o'clock
or ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know, I'll always respond, But you I think you know,
I don't know if you've got a rule in your house,
you and your wife, you're like, we're just going to
be and we're going to be present, which, by the way,
is good.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm condemning you. That's it. It's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
By the way, you might catch your response for me
at you know, one point thirty.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
In the morning too, you know, yes, yeah, I know,
the insomnia kicks in and I get I get emails
and texts at that hour. But yeah, so I texted
you it was late in your time. It was ten
o'clock your time. I had just gotten through watching Becoming
led Zeppelin, I thought, Buzz needs to find this immediately.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's a great, great documentary.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I will see it for sure. It's not going to
be as painful as me watching the Dylan one and taken.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
From no phenomenal footage and storytelling and the origins of
led Zeppelin.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And you know, Jimmy Page.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Was part of a group of people that played music
in the early days before he was in led Zeppelin.
It's crazy, you know, you get you get the truth
behind the led Zeppelin name, which was Keith Moon who
came up with that, which is crazy. So yeah, a
lot of good information. Well we'll have a maybe we'll
have a little episode or a little section of an
episode on that if you see it sounds good. In
(03:01):
sixty five, on May sixth, the Stones played their first
concert in Paris.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Big deal for them to play Paris. That's wild. I
wish I wish I was there for that, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Jimmy Hendrix in sixty seven released Are You Experienced in
the UK. Think about the tracks on that Foxy Lady,
Manic Depression, Are You Experienced? And Fire one of my
favorite Hendrick songs.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And I feel like he's one of those people. We
know of his great legacy certainly, but I think back
then he was one of those people that many folks
were like, Wow, this is like so out of nowhere.
This the way this guy tears it up, the way
he writes, the way he takes you through different emotional
(03:49):
swings in terms of his his songwriting and his music.
And you know, like many gone too.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So you know, he's one of, you know, really one
of the three guitar players that just stand out as
being so different than anyone else that ever picks it
up right. It's you know, it's Hendrix, It's Eddie Van
Halen and Stevie ray Vaughan.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
As far as I'm concerned, yeah, I would top of
the list.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Bob Seger was born on May sixth, nineteen forty five.
He's a guy, you know, I love love his music.
He has not aged well. You know, you look at
his peers. You know again, you look at Springsteen or
any of those people in that in that time period,
and Bob's.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Not looking good. And he's done now, he's done touring.
He's not gonna play again.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I was at a Springsteen show probably ten years ago
or so in Detroit, and I saw one of the
coolest things. From where I was sitting, I saw where
Bob was, and I witnessed Bob taking in the show,
and the joy that he experienced was so contagious to
(05:06):
watch because he was just in the zone, smiling, singing along,
and then later he would go out and join Bruce Fair.
I forget which song.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think I know which White Witch. I bet it
was Rambling Gambling Man.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Okay, yeah, that's that's a song that Bruce plays when
he's in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But it was very sweet moment. Yeah, that's that's neat
to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
In nineteen thirty seven, the Hindenburg Disaster occurred in New Jersey,
and I think a lot of people wonder about the
cover of led Zeppelin one, and that is actually a
picture of the Hindenburg Disaster. They just for the album.
They made a black and white, kind of distorted picture
of the Hindenburg.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Great cover. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
May seventh, nineteen seventy one, the Stones released Sticky Fingers
in the US, and Bill Krutzman from The Grateful Dead
was born in forty six.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't know either one of those you want to
talk about. I was never be Grateful Dead. Fan at all.
I never get into them.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
The hits I liked, but you know, Sugar Magnolia and
Truck and I enjoyed, But I wasn't a fan of
getting high and spending three hours at a dead show
we're standing in the parking lot or wearing sandals.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I just didn't it was my thing. Yeah, well I
only went to one. How was it?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It was a terrible experience because we rode a bus
from Dayton to Cincinnati and you know, arrived for the
show and pretty much the rest goes up and smoke literally.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And that was going to be my next question is
was there smoking goal already?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Then?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What up in smoke? So? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
On May eighth, the Beatles Another Beatles Story released, Let
it be in the US, we newly'd.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Had more Beatles there.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It is Curtain Call and Alex van Halen's birthday in
nineteen fifty three. In seventy four, Zeppelin on May ninth
launched a North American tour in support of Led Zeppelin four.
The album is given other titles by people, but it's
it's Led Zeppelin four.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah right, you know, once again just a killer you know,
killer album.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know, when govern and Cover, when the Levee Breaks,
Misty Mountain Hop, going to California, Stairway.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Goes on, list goes on, Yep, great, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
In nineteen sixty nine, The Who released Tommy double album,
The Story of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Kid that
became a pinball wizard and a religious leader, Tommy Walker.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh wow, there you go. Yeah ow. We said the
pillars of classic rock.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We can't forget about the Who when we talked about
the pillars and cussic rock.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Right. Took them a long time.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
They started recording that in September of sixty eight and
they didn't finish until March of sixty nine. And then
they're in seventy they did something. There was a symphonic
recording of it with a London Symphony, and then in
seventy five the film came out with you know, Elton
John in the film as well, and a number of
(08:11):
other people.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah. And in eighty or ninety three, rather it wanted
Tony for the Broadway. Oh I didn't know that. Well, yep,
big big deal.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
May tenth, nineteen sixty nine, The Beatles Get Back hit
number one on the US charts. Another Beatles story and
it's gonna be followed by another Beatles related story. In
sixty seven, Paul McCartney met Linda Eastman, who later became
Linda McCartney. They met at the Georgie Fame concert.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's pretty wild. I didn't know the Georgie Fame Concert
part of it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Do you know who Georgie Fame is?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I have no idea who Georgie Fame is.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
My only exposure to Georgie is there was a period
he was out with Van Morrison on the road fifteen
twenty years ago. So that's how I became exposed to
Georgie Fame. I love the name too, Georgia fan. Georgia
Fan's a guy or a band or a guy? Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Last story for the week, May eleventh, nineteen eighty one,
Bob Marley died of cancer at thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What a too soon?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Jeez?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like he would be a massive creative,
you know, well into his life if he was able
to have lived longer.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, without question, were you a reggae fan at all?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And you know, just in the right moment, Yeah, you
get it, Yeah, I know, I get it all right,
There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Anyway, that's this week from May fifth through the eleventh bus.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh Harry, thank you so much, a lot of fun
as always, and insightful too as you are the purveyor
of this week in music history. And thanks for listening
to the Taking a Walk podcast, available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
and Yes, iHeart podcast Network.
I'm Buzz Night, the host of the Take in a
Walk podcast music History on Foot, and I'm going to
have another look at this week in music history. This
is for the week.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Of May fifth, And what.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We decide to do when we look at music history
is we saunter over to the music history desk and
there is the one and only Harry Jacobs. Hello, Harry,
happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Buss for another week, the week of May fifth to
the eleventh, another great week for mainly classic rock.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Let me just imagine this one. I think is going
to have its fair share of the pillars of classic rock.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Zeppelin, Stones and Beetles are going to be covered this week.
A little teaser for the week. All right, let's bring
it on. Let's start nineteen seventy three. We talked about
the led Zeppelin Pontiac Silver Dome show from seventy seven
on last week's episode where you know, seventy nine thousand
or whatever they played at the Silver Dome.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
May fifth, nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Four years before that, Zeppelin played for over fifty six
thousand fans in Tampa at the Tampa Stadium and that
broke the Beatles attendance record at Tampa Stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let me thinking about it, right.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, just a crazy, crazy thing. I would love,
you know, I give anything to see led Zeppelin again.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Have you seen becoming led Zeppelin yet? Oh? Guy, into you?
I know you loved it. I loved it, and I
don't you know. As a rule, you're one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
By the way, for those listening, Buzz doesn't use his
phone much at night at home versus most of us.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Like, if you want to text me at nine o'clock
or ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know, I'll always respond, But you I think you know,
I don't know if you've got a rule in your house,
you and your wife, you're like, we're just going to
be and we're going to be present, which, by the way,
is good.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm condemning you. That's it. It's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
By the way, you might catch your response for me
at you know, one point thirty.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
In the morning too, you know, yes, yeah, I know,
the insomnia kicks in and I get I get emails
and texts at that hour. But yeah, so I texted
you it was late in your time. It was ten
o'clock your time. I had just gotten through watching Becoming
led Zeppelin, I thought, Buzz needs to find this immediately.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's a great, great documentary.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I will see it for sure. It's not going to
be as painful as me watching the Dylan one and taken.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
From no phenomenal footage and storytelling and the origins of
led Zeppelin.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And you know, Jimmy Page.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Was part of a group of people that played music
in the early days before he was in led Zeppelin.
It's crazy, you know, you get you get the truth
behind the led Zeppelin name, which was Keith Moon who
came up with that, which is crazy. So yeah, a
lot of good information. Well we'll have a maybe we'll
have a little episode or a little section of an
episode on that if you see it sounds good. In
(03:01):
sixty five, on May sixth, the Stones played their first
concert in Paris.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Big deal for them to play Paris. That's wild. I
wish I wish I was there for that, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Jimmy Hendrix in sixty seven released Are You Experienced in
the UK. Think about the tracks on that Foxy Lady,
Manic Depression, Are You Experienced? And Fire one of my
favorite Hendrick songs.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And I feel like he's one of those people. We
know of his great legacy certainly, but I think back
then he was one of those people that many folks
were like, Wow, this is like so out of nowhere.
This the way this guy tears it up, the way
he writes, the way he takes you through different emotional
(03:49):
swings in terms of his his songwriting and his music.
And you know, like many gone too.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So you know, he's one of, you know, really one
of the three guitar players that just stand out as
being so different than anyone else that ever picks it
up right. It's you know, it's Hendrix, It's Eddie Van
Halen and Stevie ray Vaughan.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
As far as I'm concerned, yeah, I would top of
the list.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Bob Seger was born on May sixth, nineteen forty five.
He's a guy, you know, I love love his music.
He has not aged well. You know, you look at
his peers. You know again, you look at Springsteen or
any of those people in that in that time period,
and Bob's.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Not looking good. And he's done now, he's done touring.
He's not gonna play again.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I was at a Springsteen show probably ten years ago
or so in Detroit, and I saw one of the
coolest things. From where I was sitting, I saw where
Bob was, and I witnessed Bob taking in the show,
and the joy that he experienced was so contagious to
(05:06):
watch because he was just in the zone, smiling, singing along,
and then later he would go out and join Bruce Fair.
I forget which song.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think I know which White Witch. I bet it
was Rambling Gambling Man.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Okay, yeah, that's that's a song that Bruce plays when
he's in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But it was very sweet moment. Yeah, that's that's neat
to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
In nineteen thirty seven, the Hindenburg Disaster occurred in New Jersey,
and I think a lot of people wonder about the
cover of led Zeppelin one, and that is actually a
picture of the Hindenburg Disaster. They just for the album.
They made a black and white, kind of distorted picture
of the Hindenburg.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Great cover. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
May seventh, nineteen seventy one, the Stones released Sticky Fingers
in the US, and Bill Krutzman from The Grateful Dead
was born in forty six.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't know either one of those you want to
talk about. I was never be Grateful Dead. Fan at all.
I never get into them.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
The hits I liked, but you know, Sugar Magnolia and
Truck and I enjoyed, But I wasn't a fan of
getting high and spending three hours at a dead show
we're standing in the parking lot or wearing sandals.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I just didn't it was my thing. Yeah, well I
only went to one. How was it?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It was a terrible experience because we rode a bus
from Dayton to Cincinnati and you know, arrived for the
show and pretty much the rest goes up and smoke literally.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And that was going to be my next question is
was there smoking goal already?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Then?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What up in smoke? So? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
On May eighth, the Beatles Another Beatles Story released, Let
it be in the US, we newly'd.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Had more Beatles there.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It is Curtain Call and Alex van Halen's birthday in
nineteen fifty three. In seventy four, Zeppelin on May ninth
launched a North American tour in support of Led Zeppelin four.
The album is given other titles by people, but it's
it's Led Zeppelin four.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah right, you know, once again just a killer you know,
killer album.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know, when govern and Cover, when the Levee Breaks,
Misty Mountain Hop, going to California, Stairway.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Goes on, list goes on, Yep, great, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
In nineteen sixty nine, The Who released Tommy double album,
The Story of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Kid that
became a pinball wizard and a religious leader, Tommy Walker.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh wow, there you go. Yeah ow. We said the
pillars of classic rock.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We can't forget about the Who when we talked about
the pillars and cussic rock.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Right. Took them a long time.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
They started recording that in September of sixty eight and
they didn't finish until March of sixty nine. And then
they're in seventy they did something. There was a symphonic
recording of it with a London Symphony, and then in
seventy five the film came out with you know, Elton
John in the film as well, and a number of
(08:11):
other people.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah. And in eighty or ninety three, rather it wanted
Tony for the Broadway. Oh I didn't know that. Well, yep,
big big deal.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
May tenth, nineteen sixty nine, The Beatles Get Back hit
number one on the US charts. Another Beatles story and
it's gonna be followed by another Beatles related story. In
sixty seven, Paul McCartney met Linda Eastman, who later became
Linda McCartney. They met at the Georgie Fame concert.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's pretty wild. I didn't know the Georgie Fame Concert
part of it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Do you know who Georgie Fame is?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I have no idea who Georgie Fame is.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
My only exposure to Georgie is there was a period
he was out with Van Morrison on the road fifteen
twenty years ago. So that's how I became exposed to
Georgie Fame. I love the name too, Georgia fan. Georgia
Fan's a guy or a band or a guy? Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Last story for the week, May eleventh, nineteen eighty one,
Bob Marley died of cancer at thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What a too soon?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Jeez?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like he would be a massive creative,
you know, well into his life if he was able
to have lived longer.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, without question, were you a reggae fan at all?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And you know, just in the right moment, Yeah, you
get it, Yeah, I know, I get it all right,
There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Anyway, that's this week from May fifth through the eleventh bus.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh Harry, thank you so much, a lot of fun
as always, and insightful too as you are the purveyor
of this week in music history. And thanks for listening
to the Taking a Walk podcast, available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
and Yes, iHeart podcast Network.
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