Get the Led Out - Ep2437 Wk of 9sep

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 Zeptember ninth, nineteen seventy, led Zeppelin came
through with a live performance at the Boston Garden. Many
in the crowd had originally planned to see them at
the Eagle Rock Festival in August, until that show was canceled.
Now the Boston Garden show was about to take place,
but Robert Plant had to conduct some crowd control before

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led Zeppelin's first song. Those Aerosmith guys were probably standing
in the aisles.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Can you can you move the emotional? Okay? Just play there.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
On September tenth, nineteen seventy one, Led Zeppelin returned to
a venue in Syracuse, New York, known as the Onondago
War Memorial. Keep in mind, led Zeppelin had just played
their back to the Club Store in England on that
tour they revisited in seventy one, some of the small
venues they had played in sixty nine. Zeppelin pulled this

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move in Syracuse, where they had played in front of
six thousand their first time at the Onondaga War Memorial,
but this time led Zeppelin alone drew eight thousand in Syracuse.
The crowd there was the same size as Zeppelin's crowd
the night before in Virginia at the Hampton Roads Coliseum.

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On September eleventh, nineteen eighty, led Zeppelin announced the specific
dates for an American tour they were calling led Zeppelin
the Eighties Part One. Most of the venues along their
way were stadiums throughout the Midwestern and mid Atlantic states.
An epic song led Zeppelin plant to debut live was
named carous Alambra because John Paul Jones had more or

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less a whole calliope at his disposal, resulting in what
his bandmates considered borderline carousel music. After ten and a
half minutes of the song, it fades out on the album,
so they would have to plan a real live ending.
They had last rehearsed it two years earlier. On September twelfth,

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two thousand and seven, Led Zeppelin made an announcement like
no other on their website. They posted an image with
these words quote led Zeppelin live at London's O two Arena,
a concert and aid of the Ahmed Erdigun Education Fund unquote.
The three surviving members of led Zeppelin were reuniting for
one show. They would bring along Jason Bonham on drums

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to take his late father's place. The reason for this
was in posthumous tribute to Led Zeppelin's label boss omed Ergo.
Concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith confirmed the news. His website for
distributing eighteen thousand concert tickets to randomly selected applicants reportedly
crashed within minutes, getting twenty million requests.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Hey, armored, we did.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
It twenty five years ago. On September thirteenth, nineteen ninety nine,
John Paul Jones was becoming a solo artist. His album
Zuma was coming out the following day. This gave him
an opportunity to tour America, Europe, and Japan. He informally
nicknamed his touring band the John Paul Jones Orchestra. They
specialized in instrumental music for led Zeppelin songs. John's instruments

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carried the tunes, so no vocalist was needed. 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