Get The Led Out - Ep2621 wk of 18may

'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. Sixty years ago, on May eighteenth, nineteen sixty six,
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones had just worked as
session musicians on two consecutive days at IBC Studios in London.
This was for guitarist Jeff Beck's first solo recording session.
The other hired musicians were drummer Keith Moon of The

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Who and pianist Nicki Hopkins. They formed the studio lineup
playing bex Bolero, the B side of Jeff Beck's debut single.
John Paul Jones remembers they abstractly considered becoming a touring band.
Keith Moon had a name picked out.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The name that jeffyin was coined by Keith Moon, which
was originally going to be for a band that recorded
bex Bolero, and then they thought it had all going
on the road. I was very horrific that never came about,
but we remembered the name and ast if you could
use it.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Fifty five years ago, on May nineteenth, nineteen seventy one,
Led Zeppelin had a mixing session at Ireland Studios in London.
They made a mix in progress quote of the song
when the levee breaks. Though they were mixing it for
a second time in London, led Zeppelin ultimately chose to
release the earlier mix from Sunset Sound in Los Angeles.

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Jimmy Page was very proud of it and said the
following quote. The whole idea was to make Levy into
a trance. If you notice, something new is added to
every verse, the phasing of the voice changes, lots of
backward stuff is added, and at the end everything starts
moving around except for the vocal, which stays stationary. Unquote.

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Forty five years ago, on May twentieth, nineteen eighty one,
the Honeydrippers played for an exclusive crowd at the college
then known as North Staffordshire Polytechnic and Stoke on Trent, England.
Little did anybody know Robert Plant was the frontman on
the honey Drippers. In his first live appearances after led Zeppelin,
they were playing small clubs, just as he had hoped.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
How many people I meet who are in a similar
position to myself are always moaning about I wish I
could get back to the clubs, and whatever level you're on,
you can do it. In fact, I seem to have
achieved a degree that with a pickup bank called Honeydrippers,
and we've played all around the clubs in the north
of England. Obviously I had a name, a reputation. So
what we did was we build the band of honey Drippers.
No advertising beyond club members, no admission except for club members,

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no mention of my name, and it was back to
virtually where I started.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
On May twenty first, nineteen sixty nine, Led Zeppelin brought
with them to New York their secret master tapes, which
they had just brought back from Hawaii. They had previously
recorded in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and London. New sessions at
A and R Studios in Midtown Manhattan had them continuing
to work on the song Heartbreaker. Jimmy Page suddenly decided

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he would play an unaccompanied guitar solo before the final verse.
The rough mix, included on the companion disc of Led
Zeppelin two, contains an all alternate guitar solo. It was
previously unheard until twenty fourteen. On May twenty second, nineteen

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seventy seven, Led Zeppelin show in Fort Worth, Texas was
the first on that tour to include a song they
hadn't played live in a while three days short of
two years. As a matter of fact, Led Zeppelin omitted
Whole Lot of Love for the first twenty shows of
the nineteen seventy seven US tour. Four nights into the
tour's second leg, they restored the song to encore status,

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but gave it the one minute treatment, just as they
had in nineteen seventy five. They would play one solitary
verse and allow John Bonham to drum and segue into
a different song. This is Carol Miller. Thanks for Getting

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the let Out. Check back next week for another Get
the Letout Calendar podcast.