Get The Led Out - Ep2435 Wk of 26aug

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
Letout calendar. On August twenty sixth, nineteen seventy, led Zeppelin
got an early start on a performance at Public Hall
in Cleveland. The show was scheduled for eight thirty, but
radio announced a day of show adjustment. Zeppelin needed to
start the show three hours earlier at five point thirty.
John Paul Jones had to fly home to England to

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attend his father's funeral, so John started the show. After
John left, a female bassist emerged from the crowd. Deborah

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Smith today known as Deborah Kahan, helped led Zeppelin complete
the show as a four piece. On August twenty seventh,
nineteen seventy one, Led Zeppelin played at the San Antonio
Convention Center Arena. Both their show there and their previous
show in Houston had to be postponed by twenty four hours.

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The promoter, Concerts West, said they had been delayed in
shipping led Zeppelin's equipment from Portland, Oregon. Everything was back
on schedule again after this. An audience member in Houston
by the name of Charles Burwell had managed to capture
sixteen millimeters film footage of Led Zeppelin the day before.
Their opening number was Immigrants Song. On August twenty eighth,

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nineteen seventy, led Zeppelin returned to Olympia Stadium in Detroit,
where the arrangement had considerably improved in a year's time.
Zeppelin's first time at the stadium. Three other acts played
on the bill, Grand Funk among them. This time, the
stadium was led Zeppelins for the entire evening, but the
crowds at Engine didn't naturally come with it. Jimmy Page

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tested the limits of light and shade, as he called it,
within an electric guitar solo. There were loud parts, but
during the quiet parts, Robert Plant found himself on stage
shushing everybody. Fifty five years ago, on August twenty ninth,

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nineteen sixty nine, the Singapore Music Festival in Queens, New
York had been ongoing throughout the summer and was nearing
its conclusion. Led Zeppelin has shown up unannounced on the
first night July thirteenth, but their time was gonna come.
Led Zeppelin returned for the Guitar Virtuoso show, and they
got the summer's record crowd of ten thousand, five hundred

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the first night and They were supposed to get something
like that the second night with led Zeppelin and Buddy Guy,
but Zeppelin had to go to Dallas for another Labor
Day weekend festival. Had they been able to stick around,
they would have closed it with James Brown. Zeppelin manifested
his influence a few years later. Fifty years ago. On

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August thirtieth, nineteen seventy four, John Paul Jones's weekend plans
included Led Zeppelin. First he had a live performance and
then a studio recording session, all for Roy Harper. Harper
was the singer songwriter whose name made it onto a
Led Zeppelin three song title. David Gilmour of Ping Floyd
played guitar. On drums was Steve Broughton of the Edgar

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Broughton Band. They played a free open air concert at
Hyde Park, debuting Roy Harper's five park composition The Game.

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This is Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting the let Out.
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