Get the Led Out - Ep2429 wk of 15jul

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 fifteenth, nineteen seventy three, led Zeppelin played at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
for well over two and a halfhours. The length of their shows was
becoming relevant as a pattern was playingout gradually as individual songs grew, the
shows took longer every tour. Iremember at the end of the tour.

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Okay, this time we're going tocut the songs, like keeping everything shortened
Crispin to the points of sweet it'san hour and a half. We're to
do an hour and a half show, maybe on three quarters. The first
two nights will be that, thesecond two nights have gone to two and
a half hours, and by thetime of the tour had ended you around
flat three and a half four hoursagain. At this point in their seventy

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three tour, led Zeppelin had twoweeks to go before they would come to
the conclusion that to trim their showsdown again might be a good idea.
On July sixteenth, nineteen seventy ledZeppelin appeared for the first time in the
West German city of Cologne. Eachof the next two nights zeppelinan's live debuts
were in Essen and Frankfurt respectively.Zepp were becoming more well traveled by the

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day, playing far beyond the capitalcity Berlin, but led Zeppelin's most thorough
German tour was ten years later innineteen eighty. They played the same venue
in Cologne, which was Sport Hall. They updated the locals on what they
had been up to over the pastdecade. Thank you having time, I

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believe lotta. On July seventeenth,nineteen seventy seven, led Zeppelin played in
Seattle, a town they did notoften miss on us tours. This time
around, there was a bigger venueto play. They had played to enough
crowds of sixteen thousand in Seattle,it was time to pack seventy thousand into
the Kingdome. Giving the third leg, or the third part of what's preved

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to be the longest true that we'veever done. Led Zeppelin show at the
Kingdome was three and a half hourslong. It's safe to say this is
on the longer side. For singleact performers in general, led Zeppelin didn't
often perform very much longer than that. Whenever they did, it tended to
be towards the end of a tour, Jimmy's gonna touch a sleep in sickness.

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I'd so, what we're going totry and do is play and play
and play long the start fifty fiveyears ago. On July eighteenth, nineteen
sixty nine, Led Zeppelin played inChicago to a crowd of around five thousand,
with another crowd the same size comingagain the next day. This was
the kind of stuff led Zeppelin wouldhave written Home about, but that was

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June Harris's official job. June Harriswrote a press release highlighting led Zeppelin's club
dates quote on the first two dates, they broke existing box office records at
the Kinetic Playground in Chicago, playingto ten thousand and two days. So
successful was this first engagement that oneend of North Clark Street, in which
the club is situated, was barricadedoff from the crowds by the police,

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and the promoter presented each member ofthe group with engraved gold watches from Tiffany's
forty five years ago. On Julynineteenth, nineteen seventy nine, promoters announced
some of the supporting acts led Zeppelin'sfans would be seeing in a couple of
weeks, at the Nebworth Festival inEngland. Both weeks promised sets from Todd

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Rundgren and Utopia with Southside Johnny andthe Asberry Jukes. Given led Zeppelin's own
inclinations towards British folk music, itwas appropriate they were giving an opening slot
to the band Fairport Convention. Atthe second Nepworth show, however, that

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slot belonged instead to the New Barbarians. This was Ronnie Wood's all star backing
band featuring his fellow Rolling Stone KeithRichards. This is Carol Miller. Thanks
for Getting the let Out. Checkback next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast