Get The Led Out - Ep2612 wk of 16mar

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

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Carol Miller. Welcome to our get the
Letout calendar. On March sixteenth, nineteen seventy three, Led Zeppelin
returned to Vienna, Austria for the second time. Vienna had
been included on their first European tour three years earlier.
Vienna City Hall had room for sixteen thousand, four times
the size of the concert house. A review in The

(00:20):
Melody Makers at City Hall was used to hosting grand
operas by composers like Richard Strauss. Led Zeppelin's John Paul
Jones was in the press announced as suffering from his
stomach complaint, provided some superb orchestral effects on the mellotron.

(00:51):
On March seventeenth, nineteen sixty nine, Led Zeppelin spent a
second day in Copenhagen, Denmark, One day after opening for
Joe and the Fish at Tivoli Concert Hall, led Zeppelin
filmed a short set for Danish TV. Two crowds of
seventeen hundred people had seen the shows the previous day,
and this time they were surrounded on the floor by

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a small group of fans as well as a TV
crew filming them for a broadcast. In May, when Zeppelin
officially released this show on DVD thirty four years later.
Jimmy Page reminisced.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Danish TV is fun for what it is, but you
can see that the audience are absolutely terrified because they
never heard of anything like this before. And they're sitting
down and they can't get up, and it's.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
On March eighteenth, nineteen sixty nine, led Zeppelin had a
filming session for a second day in a row. They
had just performed in Denmark and they turned up at
a studio in Stains upon Thames for the film Super Show.
Led Zeppelin's part turned out to be rather limited. The
director said the one song from led Zeppelin was more
than an led Zepplin officially released Days and Confused. From

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these two consecutive nights, Jimmy Page said he never feared
its sounding repetitious.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, that's the thing about letter, you know, there's so
noticeably different. There might be subtle differences. It costs two nights.
Sometimes it costs two nights to be radical differences.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I told you why were time and Time and Time
ID fifty five years ago. On March nineteenth, nineteen seventy one,
led Zeppelin played Manchester University's Union Building backstage Robert Plant
told writer Georgina Mels about his farmhouse quote, I've bought
a horse and lots more chickens, and I'm really into

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the farming bit unquote. When Jimmy Page listened back on
tapes from led Zeppelin's Back to the Club's tour, he heard.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
For example, we're doing Stairway there and nobody's heard it
because the album hasn't come out. That's why the applause
is so right, because they really don't know what it's
all about.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Robert said at the time, quote, We've had some surprise reactions.
Sometimes an audience starts out screaming for old numbers, and
we give them new ones, and then they're screaming for
more of those unquote. On March twentieth, nineteen seventy five,
Led Zeppelin played in Vancouver, Canada for the second night
in a row. Reviewer Rich McGrath and Vancouver said Cashmir

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was the best of led Zeppelin's latest songs. Robert Plant
seemed willing to agree.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Kashmir was written on the road to Tantown in southern Morocco,
just off the Atlantic cause, and it's a place where
your mind can really dance and where your imagination is
way open. After a while, all the stuff you've ever
thought about has gone, and you've got this whole different
place that's giving you a sort of door into a
whole different youth. And so I set to work on

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this song that would bring an air of optimism and
an air of searching and an air of abstraction, epithet,
whatever it might be, HiT's very very proud music behind it.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
This is Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting the Letout. Check
back next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast.