Get the Led Out - Ep2447 wk of 18nov

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

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Carol Miller. Welcome to our Get the
Leadout calendar. On November eighteenth, nineteen seventy one, Led Zeppelin
returned to the University of Sheffield in England and played
a sold out show at the Lower Refectory for a
crowd of fifteen hundred. Well that's how many is the
university newspaper noted at the time, quote only a relatively
few people will be able to get tickets to see

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the act, so it's very much a case of first come,
first serve unquote. Tickets went on sale five days before
the show. On the night, former Cream singer and bassist
Jack Bruce performed there as a solo artist. Back when
Cream's farewell tour was expected at the Royal albert Holme
in London, led Zeppelin had made their first appearance at
the University of Sheffield. Zeppelin's original ticket price was much

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less five bob also known as five shillings, which was
only one quarter of Zeppelin's one pound ticket price. Only
three years later, on November nineteenth, nineteen seventy one, the
latest issue of the weekly newspaper Disc and Music Echo
was reaching its readers across the UK. A headline presented
this question quote Zeppelin, good, bad or indifferent. In the article,

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writer Stuve Bennett said, Zepplin quote were for me at
least awful. Maybe it was the whole, Maybe it was
the mic. I tried desperately to convince myself that it
was the notorious City Hall acoustics that daunted Plant. Unquote.
Stuve Bennett reported Jimmy Page's greatness on guitar came through
quote only spasmodically, and that led Zeppelin's performance of Celebration

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Day was mediocre. Well a tape has surfaced, you decide.
On November twentieth, nineteen seventy one, led Zeppelin played to
a crowd of nearly ten thousand at the Wembley Empire
Pool in London. This was the first of two nights

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a pair of shows called Electric Magic Circus. Acts like
Dancing Pigs, trapeze Artists, trampoline Experts and saucer Jugglers did
not go over well. Led Zeppelin were much better received,
but they insisted on sharing the spotlight with other bands.
This included an opening set from Bronco. Some of Bronco's
members had already played in the Band of Joy, with

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Robert Plant and John Bonham, and future collaborations with Robert
were still in store. Another band managed by Peter Grant,
also performed at Wembley, earning a spot both nights at
the Electric Magic Shows. This was the act Stone the Crows,
featuring lead singer Maggie Bell and guitarist Les Harvey, thirty
five years ago. In November twenty first, nineteen eighty nine,

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the former members of led Zeppelin stumbled their way into
a reunion of sorts for a very exclusive audience. Robert
Plant's daughter Carmen was celebrating her birthday, so she had
a party at Hen and Chickens in Old Berry, England.
The guest list happened to include six professional musicians her dad,
two of his then current touring band members Chris Blackwell

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and Phil Johnstone, plus John Paul, Jay Zones, Jason Bonham
and Jimmy Page. So when the six of them joined
forces to play a limited set, they picked led Zeppelin
songs that made ample use of keyboards and second guitar parts.
They settled on Trampled under Foot, Misty, Mountain Hop and
Rock and Roll. On November twenty second, nineteen eighty two,

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Led Zeppelin released their posthumous album coda. The coda of
composition is its concluding passage. Led Zeppelin had indeed concluded,
and this collection of leftover tracks was understood at the
time to be their final release. Even as Jimmy Page
remastered led Zeppelin's music in the late eighties, his goal
was to improve how they sounded on compact disc. Jimmy

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had not yet discovered any new studio material to release,
and all of led Zeppelin's nome excess studio material with
John Bonham had come out on CODA. Everything that was
left over, that was completed in other words, with vocals, etc.
You know, they came out on Coder. And that was
in nine of the fact that they've been so boot
links out of live performances and we thought, well, it

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would be a good idea just to put those things out.
Then this is Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting the Letout.
Check back next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast.