Get the Led Out - Ep2515 wk of 7apr

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. On April seventh, nineteen seventy seven, Led Zeppelin
returned to Chicago Stadium for their second show out of four.
Part of the nightly set was Jimmy Page's electric guitar
instrumental White Summer. Jimmy inserted a bit from the first

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Zeppelin album's Black Mountain Song, then Jimmy solo transitioned into
a full band rendition of Led Zeppelin's song with the
same dad gad dad dad guitar tuning, Cashmere. On April eighth,

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nineteen seventy Led Zeppelin were late arriving at North Carolina
State Fairgrounds in Rawleigh for their eight pm scheduled start
at Dornton. The built in forty five minute wait was
just another part of the routine for a touring band
with no opening acts. A few songs into their show,
Bring It On Home, included a guitar drum battle between

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Jimmy Page and John Bonham. They went on for a
minute like this, definitely not part of the album version.

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On April ninth, nineteen seventy seven, Led Zeppelin played for
about an hour at Chicago Stadium, that's as long as
they could play on the third night of four until
Jimmy Page became ill with food poisoning. When he couldn't continue,
the show was called off early. One of the songs
they managed to play that night without any hitch was
sick again at that rare shortened led Zeppelin show. It's

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no wonder Sick Again was also chosen as the title
of an unofficial live release. On April tenth, nineteen sixty nine,
Led Zeppelin returned to Olympic Sound Studios in London. They
had recorded their first album there, which had just been
released in England. Now they had some fresh ideas to
try out in the studio. Jimmy Page wanted the verses

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of this song to have a totally different feel from
the choruses, and they do. It's a great example of
light and shade in Zeppelin's work. But what give them
what should be? On April eleventh, nineteen seventy, for Led

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Zeppelin's first appearance in Saint Louis, tickets had been printed.
Reading an evening with the led Zeppelin. The crowd of
Keelle Auditorium was about nine thousand strong. As Harper Barnes
wrote for the Saint Louis Post dispatch at the time. Quote,
it was interesting to watch members of the audience try
to dance to the led Zeppelin. A strong surgeon blues

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beat would come in, and then there would be delighted
wiggling and scraping of feet. The dancers would keep going
for a minute or so, and then begin to slow
down and look at each other with puzzlement the beat
had fled. Unquote, this is Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting

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the let Out. Check back next week for another Get
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