Get The Led Out - Ep2523 wk of 2jun

'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 June second, nineteen seventy three, Led Zeppelin
performed to a crowd of fifty thousand at Keysar Stadium
in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Grocery septs were a
record breaking three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. It was
already seventy degrees out when gates opened at ten o'clock
in the morning. Solo acts Lee Michaels and Roy Harper

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joined rock band The Tubes in playing warm upsets. The
temperature was closer to eighty when Zeppelin played at the
end of Stairway to Heaven, some doves were released on stage.
All but one flew away. Farm Boy Robert Plant coaxed
one down to land in the palm of the sand.
And you've seen this photo. I'm pretty sure it's so famous.

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On June third, nineteen seventy seven, Led Zeppelin performed at
Tampa Stadium for as long as they could good in
front of seventy thousand fans. It had been sunny all day,
but led Zeppelin had promised their performance would begin just
after sunset. On the positive side, led Zeppelin did manage

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to play for about twenty minutes or three songs in
their entirety, before Mother Nature edited her own natural light show.

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On June fourth, nineteen ninety eight, Jimmy Page and Robert
Plant played at Oklahoma City's Myriad Convention Center. They're Walking
Into Everywhere tour, so Jimmy and Robert playing songs from
their latest collaborate album Walking into Clarksdale, but the sets
also contained many of the led Zeppelin songs fans wanted
to hear. No record books were officially altered on this night,

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but after two led Zeppelin songs is encores and with
unrequired calls for Stairway, Robert had these parting words on
stage in Oklahoma City in the lightest crowd in the
Holy Last Lake. Around June fifth, nineteen sixty nine, Led

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Zeppelin had completed their second American tour and returned to England.
Progress on their second album was ongoing. Zeppelin's latest location
in midtown Manhattan was Juggie Sound Studio on West fifty
fourth Street and Eighth Avenue. A rough mix of ramble
On had only one vocal take from Robert Plant, and
he had yet to sing over top in his own voice.

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There were already multiple guitar tracks from Tommy Page at
this point, both electric and acoustic, but he envisioned further
layers of electric guitar being added. Such overdubs were very
aspects of Rambalan that effectively rendered it impossible to pull
off live at fifty seventh Street and Seventh Avenue otherwise
known as Carnegie Hall fifty years ago. On June sixth,

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nineteen seventy five, two different Rolling Stones albums were released.
Made in the Shade was an official release on Rolling
Stones' records collecting recent hits, all of which were previously available,
and then there was another one called Metamorphosis for some
unreleased early studio outtakes. The demo version of Heart of
Stone was over ten years old. It had additional guitar

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from a twenty year old session musician named Jimmy Page.

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Aryl Miller, thanks for Getting the let Out. Check back
next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast