Get the Led Out - Ep2507 wk of 10feb

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 Caroen Miller. Welcome to our get the
Letout calendar fifty years ago. On February tenth, nineteen seventy five,
Led Zeppelin played at the Capitol Center in Landover, Maryland.
When it was time for John Bonham's nightly drum solo,
Robert Plant introduced him, but in doing so he dropped
the name of another percussionist direct from Monty Python's Flying Circus,

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a percussionist not Karen Carpenter, but JOm Bonhom Mommy Dick.
Karen Carpenter was in fact, not only the lude singer
of the Carpenters, but their original drummer. Playboy magazine had
begun ranking Karen among the top drummers worldwide, and they
even ranked her higher than John Bonham. Bonham was reportedly

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not pleased, spouting off to a reporter quote she couldn't
last ten minutes with a Zeppelin number unquote. On February eleventh,
nineteen seventy one, Jimmy Page added into led Zeppelin's archives
the so called quote alternate mix of Boogie with Stu.
In the title, Stu refers to the late Ian Stewart,

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who played piano. John Paul Jones played mandolin all throughout
the song, even prior to Robert Plant's vocal entrance. That's
the first characteristic that distinguishes the alternate mix from Sunset
Sounds Studios in La nineteen seventy one, when Jimmy revisited
the song for led Zeppelin's first double album, he as

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producer decided to delay John Paul Jones's entrance until after
the first two verses. It came out that way on
physical graffiti in seventy five, and that's the only way
we heard it until ten years ago. Fifty years ago.
On February twelfth, nineteen seventy five, a blizzard in the
New York area took place and led Zeppelin played as

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scheduled at Madison Square Garden. This was their final appearance
at the venue for their nineteen seventy five tour. There
was now an established routine on stage of using a
smoke machine during no quarter. However, it did not produced
the desired effect during the song, so when the song
was over, Robert Plant delivered the names of certain band

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and crew members who had to be recognized in front
of the audience. Chock bull to pay to leadership the
tong if Nis in charge of a smoke machine that
couldn't blow. Fifty years ago, on February thirteenth, nineteen seventy five,

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Led Zeppelin performed at Nassau Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale
on Long Island, New York. One news blurb in the
area made note of led Zeppelin's appeal with fellow musicians, saying, quote,
things are never dull when they're around Jagger, Bowie, Rod Stewart, Ronwood,
Leslie West, Johnny Thunder's Humble Pie on Carmine Appassy were

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some of the luminaries who turned up at various Zeppelin
gigs and after hours parties. However, none of these special
guests were appearing during Zeppelin's gig until this happened at
Nassau Coliseum fifty years ago. On February fourteenth, nineteen seventy five,

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Led Zeppelin played the final East Coast date of their tour.
The show was their last at Nassau Coliseum on New
York's Long Island. Next, they were heading west to make
up a date in Saint Louis that they had postponed
while Robert Plant had the flu. The beginning of a
tour was not a great time for their singer to
be catching the flu, especially because he was just getting

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used to singing some new songs. When Led Zeppelin took
Cashmir on the road, Robert developed a new vocal melody
to sing at the end of the second and fourth verses.
He had not sung it on the album. This way,

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