Get the Led Out - Ep2431 wk of 29jul

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. Fifty years ago. On July twenty ninth, nineteen
seventy four, a British band on Swansong Records began a
tour of the US with their opening show with the
Agora in Cleveland. That band was Bad Company, and the
bosses of their record label were led Zeppelin. A future

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film starring led Zeppelin was in the works at the time.
They had just changed directors because there were gaps in
the footage from Madison Square Garden in New York. Zeppelin
shows a stage in London that could be made to
look like the garden. Zeppelin needed to look like they
were playing so that the new film crew could get
extra footage for the movie. John Paul Jones remembers, I

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got the call, John, We're going to Shefferdan. You're going
to fill in these little holes in this number, that number.
Anything you need? I went, yeah, six inches of hair.
I just cut it all off. Fifty five years ago,
on July thirtieth, nineteen sixty nine, led Zeppelin played a
couple of shows at the Terrace Ballroom in Salt Lake City. However,
they were the opening app at both shows. First was

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a seven o'clock show. Zeppelin played their opening set, which
meant they had to end at some point and then
give the stage over to the main attraction. Tim Bogert,
basist for The Vanilla Fudge, got on stage to say
there's no way we can follow that. Somehow, The Fudge
indeed proceeded to play, and then both bands did it

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all over again for the nine thirty show, but only
one band was named in a headline in the next
edition of the Utah Daily Chronicle quote Salt Lake resounds
with rock. Led Zeppelin scores heavy hit. On July thirty first,
twenty fifteen, Led Zeppelin completed their remasters series. Jimmy Page

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had overseen the process that resulted in releasing bonus discs
for every album in the led Zeppelin catalog. The final
release day was for Presence in Through the Outdoor and Coda.
The expanded and remastered edition of Coda was the first
of any album to include not one, but two bonus
discs of outtakes. Some things were alternate versions of songs

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from other albums, while others were the rarest of the rare,
like the previously unheard instrumental jam Saint Tristan's Sword fifty
five years ago. On August first, nineteen sixty nine, Jimmy

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Page returned to the Santa Barbara Fairgrounds Arena. This was
a venue he had played twice as a member of
the Yardbirds. Now he was able to return with led Zeppelin,
with Jethro Tull opening for them. Page's first time at
the Santa Barbara Fairgrounds Arena had been three years earlier.
Also in August, Jimmy's final US tour with the Yardbird's

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four piece band saw his second Fairgrounds Arena appearance. One
supporting act was Turquoise, whose latest side of Pop's Psychoedel
was called Flying Machine to fifty five years ago. On

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August second, nineteen sixty nine, Led Zeppelin played at the
Albuquerque Civic Auditorium as part of their third US tour.
News of led Zeppelin's success in America was already reaching
their home country. The issue of the New Musical Express
in England dated August second, describes a special honor given
to led Zeppelin. In New York, Jerry Wexler had signed

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led Zeppelin to the recording contract for Atlantic Records. Within
a year of that, Jerry found himself presenting led Zeppelin
with their first Gold Record award, representing one million dollars
in sales and half a million records sold. This is

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Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting the let Out. Check back
next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast