Get the Led Out - Ep2537 wk of 8zep

'Get The Led Out' Explores The Incredible History Of The Rock Band Led Zeppelin!

Episode Transcript

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Hi, this is Carol Miller. Welcome to our Get the
Letout calendar. On September eighth, nineteen sixty eight, Jimmy Page
kept up the pace of playing two shows per day
in Denmark on his second day of touring with his
newly overhauled lineup of the Yardbirds. Jimmy's previous tour of
Scandinavia had been with three of the original Yardbirds. Two
shows per day had been the norm then too. They

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even booked the same venues over again. Jimmy slogged it
out in Denmark with his three hand selected bandmates about
a month and a half before their name change to
led Zeppelin. Three hundred turned out to see their early
outdoor show at Reventlow Park fifty five years ago. On

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September ninth, nineteen seventy, Led Zeppelin arrived in Boston straight
off of an extended stay in Honolulu. Zeppelin sound system
had been flown from Dallas to Boston. Many in the
Boston crowd had been hoping to see led Zeppelin in
mid August until the Eagle Rock Festival was canceled. When
Led Zeppelin were good and ready at the Garden, radio

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personality JJ Jackson took center stage to introduce led Zeppelin.
They soon found out Jimmy Page's guitar wasn't ready a

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couple of seconds. That's while we changed guitars. On September tenth,
nineteen seventy one, Led Zeppelin played at the Onondaga County
War Memorial in Syracuse, New York. There's a persistent internet
age theory that led Zeppelin had an opening act, Black Sabbath. Well,
you'd think of Black Sabbath that actually opened for Zeppelin
and Syracuse somebody in the press at the time would

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have made a note of it. Well to the contrary.
One contemporaneous press review specifically states led Zeppelin started on
time at eight thirty in Syracuse without any support act.
Another contemporaneous show review claims led Zeppelin played from their
upcoming fourth album a song called Black Velvet. That author

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probably meant Black Dog or maybe Black Sabbath. On September eleventh,
nineteen seventy one, Led Zeppelin played a show with the
War Memorial in Rochester, New York. The Internet once again
had fueled to claim that Black Sabbath opened for Zeppelin
and upstate New York. No Black Sabbath and Zeppelin did
not play together in Upstate New York, but both bands

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had a few things in common at that point. Their
debut albums were both self titled Black Sabbath and led Zeppelin.
Both Black Sabbath and led Zeppelin released their first two
albums in the same year, and the third albums from
both Black Sabbath and led Zeppelin contained more acoustic material well.
Tommy Eomi's Orchid for Master of Reality compares to Jimmy

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Page's bronneror he had been playing live for the past year.
On September twelfth, nineteen seventy six, Led Zeppelin's only recording
sessions of the year wrapped up at Mountain Studios in Switzerland.
John Paul Jones wasn't there. Robert Plant wasn't either. In
led Zepp, we were pretty cool bomb because we kind
of didn't do anything the way that everybody else was

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doing it. We just did things when we felt like it.
We wrote quite prolifically at times, and then we'd have
periods when nothing happened at all. Bonzo's Montrue featured namesake
John Bonham on percussion instruments, with Jimmy Page applying production techniques.
Led Zeppelin did not get to release it during John
Bonham's lifetime. They put it out on CODA in tribute

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in memory of their departed bandmate. This is Carol Miller.
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