Get the Led Out - Ep2516 wk of 14apr

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 April fourteenth, nineteen sixty nine, Led Zeppelin
completed another recording session at Olympic Sound Studios in London.
They had just released their debut album, but their mission
was now to capture a different sound. What they created
that day was different alright. There were several sections of

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contrasting music crammed into four cheerful minutes. This recording didn't
have any vocals or lyrics. It had no harmonica or
any participation whatsoever from Robert Plant. They labeled it a
backing track, implying that Overdubbs would be coming up soon. However,
progress on La La stopped right there. This unfinished Zeppelin

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II era backing track sat on the shelves for forty
five years before its official release in twenty fourteen on
the companion disc for led Zeppelin. Two April fifteenth, nineteen
seventy seven, Led Zeppelin performed at the Arena in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Writer Patty Dooing reviewed this show for The Melody Maker
and found one particular song quote soul wrenching. Led Zeppelin

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had begun to perform since I've been loving to you.
While Janis Joplin was alive and actively influencing their sound,
there was still enough Janie in Robert's vocal delivery seven
years after her death that the writer took notice. In
The Melody Maker, Patty referred to quote Plant's purgative bleeding
cries so reminiscent of Janis Joplin and the taunting, almost

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brutal exchange between his voice and the instruments unquote fifty
five years ago. On April sixteenth, nineteen seventy, led Zeppelin
played Roberts Stadium in Evansville, Indiana, where the old National
Events Plaza is currently located. Newspaper accounts note that the
crowd included thirty four hundred fans, with enough still sneaking

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into the stadium during the show that police called for backup.
Police and security also dealt with fans pushing their way
toward the stage and even onto the stage. Articles in
the Evansville Press on April seventeenth and Courier on April
eighteenth both credit Robert Plant for calming the frenzied audience
once they broke loose with roughly half an hour to go.

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We're all going to show we are not going to
all rush on stage and cause trouble, but that we're
all out to have a good time. They don't know
that people can have a great time. Unquote. Fifty five
years ago, on April seventeenth, nineteen seventy, led Zeppelin played
at mid South Colisseum in Memphis, Tennessee. After John Bonham's
twenty minute drum solo and all throughout a half hour,

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how many more times Medley fans became too rowdy for
the venue manager. Backstage, a pistol aimed at led Zeppelin.
Manager Peter Grant demanded led Zeppelin go. Peter scoffed at
the gun and mentioned there would be a riot if
led Zeppelin will prolled off the stage. So suddenly has prevailed,
and Robert Plant directed nearly eleven thousand people to sit down.

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Led Zeppelin departed Memphis, playing an encore before sit at
because it's really I'm sorry, I really have years lease.
Fifty five years ago, on April eighteenth, nineteen seventy, led
Zeppelin played to about fourteen thousand in Phoenix at Arizona

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Veterans Memorial Coliseum. They'd been performing two hour shows nightly,
but After five tours of America, Robert Plant's voice was
shuddered for the night. Led Zeppelin cut about thirty minutes
out of their usual routine. Robert sounded rather convincing when
he delivered this sentiment in Phoenix, Pain Pain Pay. Sometimes

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don't feel so good. No, well, everybody hoped for an encore.
Jimmy Page walked on stage alone to bum everybody out personally.
He said the show was over because Robert had collapsed.
This is Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting the let Out.
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