Get the Led Out - Ep2428 wk of 8jul

Carol Miller's 'Get The Led Out' Explores The Incredible History Of The Rock Band Led Zeppelin!

Episode Transcript

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Hi, this is Carol Miller.Welcome to our get the leadout calendar.
On July eighth, nineteen eighty,despite led Zeppelin's official European tour poster suggesting
otherwise, no second Berlin date wasin the works. Anybody who showed up
to Iceportown for the last show ofled Zeppelin's tour was a day late.
They had saved the longest show oftheir tour for Berlin. Trampled under Foot

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stretched to its longest record close totwelve minutes. Jimmy Page played his white
summer guitar solo for twelve minutes,twice as long as he had in Munich.
Thank you very much, You've beenbeen great. We've got a wonderful
tour with just about two and out. That's been fantastic. Thank you.
Two more songs lasted fourteen and seventeenminutes apiece, and their two hour show

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in Berlin was led Zeppelin's last jumpbonomin drums. On July ninth, nineteen
seventy three, Led Zeppelin were inthe skies again. Their gig was at
the newly constructed Civic Center Arena inSaint Paul, Minnesota. Both Minneapolis newspapers
the Tribune and The Star had journalistscovering the show. Hopefully they knew which

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instruments each member played. Robert Planthad recently spotted such an error in the
Chicago Sun Times. Here was hissong dedication to Chicago's press during Led Zeppelin's
ninth American tour. Well like tomake it familiar to the press. We
read a review of last night's concert. After six years, I still think

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that John Bonham plays the organ.They know Jimmy Pleasure guitars over. On
July tenth, nineteen seventy three,Led Zeppelin performed at Milwaukee Arena. Author
Louis Ray had heard every Zeppelin showever recorded, and he considers this to
be the fourth straight night that twentyfour year old Robert Plant's voice had shown

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signs of strain. Louis believes Roberthad sung too forcefully at a pre show
sound check in Chicago. Louis says, quote, this is one of those

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concerts where Robert overseings almost everything.The beginning is rather painful, though,
and he's pitted against the powerful,ponderous and deliberate instrumental machinery unquote. Fifty
five years ago. On July eleventh, nineteen sixty nine, Led Zeppelin headlined
the Laurel Pop Festival in Prince George'sCounty, Maryland. Jeff Rotal and Johnny

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Winter warmed up the audience of seventyfive hundred at that racetrack stage. The
Laurel Pop Festival's crowd of ten thousandthe following night had Sly and the Family
stoned Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention andJeff Beck. Those acts had all just
played the Spectrum Pop Festival in Philadelphia, where the other said of bands were

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headed. Thus, in the spanof eight days, Led Zeppelin appeared at
four American festivals. Their run offestival shows had begun in Atlanta fifty five
years ago. On July twelfth,nineteen sixty nine, Buddy Guy's Blues Band

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played at the Spectrum in Philadelphia,with appearances by Johnny Winter and Al Cooper.
Jeffro Tull also took a turn atthe stage, with Zeppelin performing as
the headliner there. In mind,one festival promoter had very recently tried to
unflug Led Zeppelin altogether. It hadhappened just in the past week. Rock

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fans overran Newport, Rhode Island,specifically because of Led Zeppelin, who went
on undeterred. John Bottom saved theseexpert drumming techniques for Zeppelin's final encore in
Newport. They were covering Little Richard'slong Tall Sally. This is Carol Miller.

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