Get the Led Out - Ep2528 wk of 7jul

'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 forty five years ago. On July seventh, nineteen eighty,
led Zeppelin brought to a close their month long tour
of Europe. The final show they played was at the
Ice Sport Hall in Berlin. Members of the press may
have considered led Zeppelin pre historic and extinct, but whenever
Robert Plant referred to led Zeppelin as dinosaurs, he did

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so ironically. Usually, any dino talk from the led Zeppelin
stage would elicit a crowd response, but there was that
pesky language barrier in Germany.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
We've done sixteen towns in twenty one days. That's dino movement.
That is, we've got a good time. This is the
last concert, so we intend to have a better time
now perhaps than we have done before. And if that
doesn't bleed something out of a crowd, nothing will.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
On July eighth, nineteen ninety eight, Jimmy Page and Robert
Plant played at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater in the Southern
US on their Walking Into Everywhere tour. Robert sang in
one song about Gollum the Evil One, while in the
very next he sang of a Stranger at the Crossroads.
Now Gollum comes up in the j. R. R. Tolkien's

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writings and again in Ramble On from led Zeppelin I
Ramblean sat side by side in Patient Plants nineteen ninety
eight set list with Walking into Clarksdale, which mentioned the Crossroads.

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On July ninth, nineteen seventy three, Led Zeppelin played at
the Saint Paul Civic Arena in Minnesota. Four songs from
their latest album Houses of the Holy were in the
set list. Dancing Days was not among them. Despite Jimmy
Page teasing the opening guitar lick, the full song was

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a no go. Even though they had played Dancing Days
on their previous summer tour before the album was out.
Now their shows did not have time for the song anymore.
But the sole exception in America in seventy three came
just two shows later in Detroit. On July tenth, nineteen

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seventy three, Led Zeppelin played an arena show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
After Jimmy Page and Robert Plant sang the opening verse
of the rain song, John Paul Jones made his grand
entrance into the song. As always, he approached his melotron
keyboard instrument with trepidation, hoping it would be in tune.

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The tuning was flat in Milwaukee, but John Paul adjusted
it quickly. John Paul was bound to the melotron keyboard
instrument because flute and violin sounds were crucial to a
few Led Zeppelin songs, and at that time he knew

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of no other way of replicating those sounds live. Fifty
years ago, on July eleventh, nineteen seventy five, Eda James
performed in Europe for the first time ever that John
Paul Jones had gotten the call to sit in on
bass with her band. The rest of led Zeppelin attended
the Montreu Jazz Festival. What would their bandmate performing and all,

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Plus they got to tour the newly rebuilt casino with
fellow musicians Keith Emerson of ELP and guitar Story Gallagher.
For John Paul Jones playing in Eda James's band meant
not stepping on the tuba player's basslines. I'm a woman. Yeah,

(04:02):
this is Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting the let Out.
Check back next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast.