Get the Led Out - Ep2519 wk of 5may

'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 count. On May fifth, nineteen seventy three, Led Zeppelin
were on their second show of an American tour, and
already they had played to over one hundred and six
thousand people in two days, nearly fifty thousand in Atlanta, Georgia,
and the rest in Tampa, Florida. It had been eight
years since the Beatles had fifty five thousand at a

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show of Theirs, and that had been at New York
Share Stadium. Led Zeppelin broke that record at Tampa Stadium
in Florida, playing to nearly six percent of the metro
area's population of one million. A syndicated report quoted Robert
Planter saying, I think it was the biggest thriller I've had.
It was a real surprise. Tampa is the last place

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I would expect to see nine on sixty thousand people.
It's not the country's biggest city. It was fantasticote thirty
five years ago. On May sixth, nineteen ninety, MTV Unplugged
aired its tenth episode. This was the first in the
series to include the music of led Zeppelin. Four years
before the Unlettered appearance by Page and Plant. The first

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season of Unplugged saw guest band Great White covering Babe,
I'm Gonna Leave You in an acoustic setting. Great White
faithfully executed the arrangement from Zeppelin's debut album minus electric guitars.
In particular, their lead singer of the late Jack Russell,
memorized every vocal line of Robert Plants and delivered each

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utterance on Cannilly. On May seventh, nineteen seventy three, Led
Zeppelin played a sold out show at Jacksonville Coliseum. The
Florida Times Union newspaper in Jacksonville caught up with promoter

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Sidney Drashen twenty years ago, and Sidney said, quote, I
sold out every ticket, including probably two hundred to the bathroom,
and we actually probably had a couple of thousand more
people than should have been in there, really because I
explained to the authorities it would be safer to have
them in here than outside, and they let me have

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another one thousand in and then they stopped it, and
so the kids started throwing beer cans through the colosseum windows.
They were just mad. They wanted to get in, you know. Unquote.
On May eighth, nineteen seventy two, a supply of thirty

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two eight hundred tickets went on sale for two Led
Zeppelin shows at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York.
The Colosseum box office reported selling about nine thousand tickets
on that first day of sales. Sales there were supposed
to begin at eleven in the morning, but hundreds of
fans had shown up at the coliseum the night before,
so sales the box office began two hours ahead of schedule.

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Around one hundred other ticketron locations at brick and mortar
stores throughout the New y York metro area, we're selling
those Nassau Coliseum tickets too. The most expensive seats were
six fifty piece. Mid level seats cost five fifty the
chief seats cost four to fifty. Yeah, I remember it well.
On May ninth, nineteen sixty nine, Led Zeppelin were in

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Canada for the third time. Previously, Zeppelin had played gigs
in Vancouver and Toronto. This time, ahead of their return
to Vancouver, they played in Edmonton at Edmonton Gardens. Let
Zepline got something else out of this particular visit to Canada,
because they had been traveling with their multi track tapes.
On that tour, they continued making progress on their second album.

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Robert Plant recalls when we were in La we wanted
to try and use the studio gold Stop, but they'd
taken only equipment ad so we ended up going to
Delphi Studio. I think we did Moby Dick there. Then
we did a ramble on in New York on bits
to bring it on home in Vancouver. I think Robert
overdubbed harmonica parts for bringing on Home at the Vancouver

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hut known as R and D Studios. This is Carol Miller.
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