Get the Led Out - Ep2433 wk of 12aug

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 forty five years ago. On August twelfth, nineteen
seventy nine, radio personality JJ Jackson interviewed two members of
led Zeppelin the day after their second performance at the
Nebworth Festival in England. JJ tried to pin down whether
Led Zeppelin would tour in the US again, but Robert

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Plant and John Paul Jones had nothing to announce just yet. Well,
I don't know. It's like, when's it going to rain
in England? Really, it's just got to fit in with
the soccer season. There, efforts were underway to keep songs
short and crisp, unlike the extended piano improvisation. JJ Jackson
had seen John Paul Jones playing on Zeppelin's last US

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tour Los Angeles. Jones he went into a little bit
of rock Mononovs segues into a little bit of Miles
Davis's Stitches of Spain, and I flipped out. Yeah, after
a while, it gets boring, I mean not Jane to
get the Poor. Around August thirteenth, nineteen sixty eight, Jimmy
Page stepped into a tiny rehearsal room for the first
time with the three other musicians he had selected to

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be his bandmates in the New Yardbirds, John Paul Jones,
Robert Plant, and John Bonham. They've all said they recognized
right away that this lineup was special. Twenty two years later,
Robert Plant revisited that day. I remember the little room.
All I can remember was it was hot, and it
sounded good, very very very exciting and very challenging really

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because I could feel that something was happening within myself
and to everyone else in the room. You know, we
just found something that might to be very careful of
this thing that we'd found, because we might lose it.
But it was remarkable. Forty years ago, around August fourteenth,
nineteen eighty four, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were on
holiday on Ibiza when they made an unscheduled live appearance

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at Heartbreak Hotel. They sat in with the Pretty Things,
who were opening for soul singer Ben e. King. Ben
is best known for his nineteen sixty one hit song
Stay and by Me. However, the song Grooven, released in
nineteen sixty four, made more of an impact on led Zeppelin.
It was recorded live at the Apollo Theater in New York.
Towards the end of sixty three, Sweet Last Sweet, Las

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Sweet Can Be, You Don't Know what to Do? Tell Me?
Zeppelin renamed the song We're Gonna Groove, opened their shows
with it for the first four months of nineteen seventy,
and released a live version on their nineteen eighty two
album Coda fifty years ago. On August fifteenth, nineteen seventy four,
Bad Company performed with Edgar Winter at the La Forum.

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Led Zeppelin had played at that venue seven times themselves already,
but at the time they were taking a year off
from touring. Led Zeppelin had set up Swan Song Records
during their time off as a way of supporting other
creative musical artists, including Bad Company. The label's next album
release was coming from The Pretty Things, a group that
ultimately was not very popular in the States. As Jimmy

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Page said, quote, the Pretty Things were a band that
were really changing their music, and they'd done so because
they did well, and they probably had done one of
the best singles way back in the day with Rosalin
That's wild, that's serious. Whenever someone said, oh, some tapes
have come in, I was keen to hear what they'd
done because it was always so good. Thirty years ago,

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on August sixteenth, nineteen ninety four, Jimmy Page and Robert
Plant performed a revised version of the Led Zeppelin song
No Quarter. They were in the mountains of Wales, playing
with the band to whatever animals were nearby. They filmed
their session for MTV and No Quarter became the title
track of Phage and Plant's next album. On the same day,

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in another part of the world, another co writer of
the song No Quarter was performing live, and that was
John Paul Jones. His gig was playing piano, bass and
mandolin with the band Heart. John Paul Jones was unaware
of Page and Plant's reunion at the time. He found
out about it from third parties. This is Carol Miller.

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