Get the Led Out - Ep2513 wk of 24mar

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 fifty years ago. On March twenty fourth, nineteen
seventy five, Led Zeppelin opened their tour, ending three nights
stand at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood, California. As for
the nightly routine, each instrumentalist in Zeppelin performed solos. John
Bonham's twenty minute drum solo included five minutes on timpani,

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Jimmy Page spent eight minutes wielding a violin bo and
during a twenty four minute no quarter, pianist John Paul
Jones alluded to the adagio movement from I'm not sure
the pronunciation joa Queen Rodrigo's Aronuez Concerto fifty years ago.

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On March twenty fifth, nineteen seventy five, Led Zeppelin played
the second of three nights at the La Forum. Reporters
from The Daily Review in Heyward, California, got John Bonham
to specify which show was his favorite of the tour,
and this was the show he picked. John said, this
was quote our best gig where everything clicked. The people

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were so great that attended the show. They made us
play harder unquote for a second week in the row,
Jab on drums was playing rhythms straight out of Clyde
Stubblefield's playbook. Clyde had been the drummer for JB. James
Brown and Robert Plant kind of liked quoting James Brown

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forty years ago. On March twenty sixth, nineteen eighty five,
one of the latest LP and cassette releases on Atlantic
Records was an album called Music from the film Scream
for Help. This album from John Paul Jones featured the
talents of his fellow ex Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page. They
co wrote craw Back and Spaghetti Junction, two hard rock

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compositions without vocals. For another song, Jones used folk baroque
guitarist John Renborn, who died ten years ago in March
twenty six, twenty fifteen. Back in nineteen sixty five, John
Renborn played guitar on Dars Henderson's version of a song
called Hangman. Led Zeppelin recorded it as Gallows Poll in

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nineteen seventy fifty years ago. On March twenty seventh, nineteen
seventy five, Led Zeppelin played the last date of their
US tour, just because this was their thirty fifth time,
playing roughly the same set list. They didn't plan out
everything in advance. They seemed to be writing Achilles Last
Stand in real time on the fly in front of audiences.

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While Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones played the chords, Robert
Plant tried out different sets of lyrics. His chosen lyrical
insert for the last night of the tour was a
new one from the song Old Man, found on the
nineteen sixty seven album Forever Changes by the American West
Coast band Love fifty five years ago. On March twenty eighth,

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nineteen seventy, led Zeppelin played in Dallas. That was one
of several dates presented by Concerts West to promote individual
shows in Dallas and Houston. Concerts West produced a run
of handbills incorporating the British flag, also known as the
Union Jack. The British flag was also featured on the
cover of a new album, Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends.

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The flag's design was painted onto a Rolls Royce, alluding
to the song titled Union Jack. Carr, Jimmy Page, and
John Bonham had played on that studio recording the year before.
Thinking they were playing on a Chuck Berry song. The
final track, came together after their participation was through and
long before John owned a Union Jack motorcycle. This is

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