Get The Led Out - Ep2616 wk of 13apr

'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 forty five years ago. On April thirteenth, nineteen
eighty one, the locals in Derby, England who turned up
to the Blue Nult Club to see the honey Drippers
learned that their singer was Robert Plant. Soon after led
Zeppelin dissolve due to John Bonham's death, Robert played low
Key Giggs, sitting in with Rocky Cool and the Rialto's,

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who came to be known as the Honeydrippers. The band
name was rooted in classic blues lyrics and led Zeppelin
fans also recognized it from a led Zeppelin lyric forty

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years ago. On April fourteenth, nineteen eighty six, the firm
released a promo single in the US, their final release
for Atlantic Records. The song on the A side was
Live in Peace. This Paul Rogers original had previously appeared
on his debut solo album, nineteen eighty three's cut Loose.
The new version closes with a minute's worth of Jimmy

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Page soloing on guitar. The B side was a collaboration
between Paul and Jimmy called Free to Live. The firm's

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previous US single, All the King's Horses, was just now
being released in the UK. On April fifteenth, nineteen seventy seven,
Led Zeppelin performed at the Arena in Saint Louis, Missouri.
The only tape we've heard from the show has very
poor sound quality, so we're not gonna bother playing it here.
Suffice it to say that it sounds like it was
recorded from the inside of a jacket pocket stored away

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in the co check. From the portion of the show recorded,
the audience enjoyed Zeppelin's acoustic songs slightly more listenable than
Saint Louis Is their Chicago finale five days earlier. On

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April sixteenth, nineteen seventy difficulties with the sound system affected
the early portion of Led Zeppelin's show at Roberts Stadion
in Evansville, Indiana. Joe Flanders reported in the Evansville Courier quote,
although the group was hampered by technical sound difficulties at
the beginning of the show, the group still had lived
and joked on stage with complete ease that prepared the

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onlookers for a night of fantastic sounds and frantic fun.
Unquote Eileen Sue, who wrote in the Evansville Press that quote.
In the last thirty minutes of the two hour concert,
any of the thirty four hundred fans, mostly high school students,
left their seats and pushed towards the stage area if
you wanted to jump up on the stage with led

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Zeppelin and dance. On April seventeenth, nineteen seventy, led Zeppelin
played in Memphis, Tennessee for their first and only time.
They didn't perform there again after manager Peter Grant was
held at gunpoint backstage. Led Zeppelin were performing and going
over too well with the audience for the concert promoter's liking.

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He threatened to shoot Peter if he didn't pull the
band from the stage. At mid South Colisseum, Robert Plant
pleaded with the audience to behave themselves and to sit
down on the chairs instead of standing on them so
the heat would be taken away from their manager. Say
everyone must get up his chairs. They're taking away please

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the chances true of the wild. This is Carol Miller.
Thanks for Getting the let Out. Check back next week
for another Get the let Out Calendar podcast.