Get The Led Out - Ep2628 wk of 6jul

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

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Carol Miller. Welcome to our get the
Letout calendar. On July sixth, nineteen sixty nine, Led Zeppelin
played at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. No,
they were in a jazz group, although they did improvise
like jazz musicians. The festival wanted to attract a wider

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audience by booking rock and soul acts. Jazz artist Dave
Rubek supported Sly and the Family, Stone and the Miles
Davis Quintet supported Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Ann.
The festival succeeded in overrunning the town of Newport with
young hippies and tried to cancel led Zeppelin to send
the hippies home early. On July seventh, nineteen eighty, led

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Zeppelin played the final concert of their summer tour in Europe.
This show in Berlin wound up being John Bonham's last
live performance. There weren't any drum solos on led Zeppelin's
final summer tour after Kashmir. When Robert Plant normally shouted
out John Paul Jones for his orchestral string work, Robert
instead shouted out John Bonham's drum work as the tour

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was coming to a close. Robert also mentioned they'd be
back home in England the very next day. John bonhaman drums,
It's been a truly pleasing time. If it's as warm
as this in England, we got ten good times tomorrow.
We would like now if we could just to play

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for you. On July eighth, nineteen sixty seven, The Yardbirds
were originally scheduled to perform at Vancouver, Canada, a set
of shows they made up at the end of the month.
July saw the release of their album Little Games, the
first to feature Jimmy Page as the sole lead guitarist.
The album included White Summer, which Jimmy continued playing in

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his next band, Led Zeppelin. The Yardbirds were originally scheduled
to headline four shows in Vancouver between July seventh and eighth,
taking place at the Pacific National Exhibition's Garden Auditorium. When
their tour of North America was postponed, the four shows

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consolidated into two, taking place July thirty, first at Kerrisdale Arena.
On July ninth, nineteen seventy three, Led Zeppelin were on
stage at the St. Paul cific Center Arena for the
better part of three hours. Robert Plant said good night
to the crowd at the end of their scent before
led Zeppelin returned for an encore. What it was going

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to be, nobody could tell, especially when the song started
off with an improvised jam as some audience members figured out.

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Led Zeppelin's encore in Saint Paul wound up being communication
breakdown from the first led Zeppelin album twenty five years ago.
On July tenth, two thousand and one, the Montreue Jazz
Festival was underway and Switzerland. That day's lineup at Stravinsky
Auditorium included performances from The Black Crows and Neil Young.

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Three days earlier, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were on
the same stage. They were part of the festival's all
star tribute to Sun Records, the nineteen fifties rockabilly label
out of Memphis, OH thirty years in non Favdhu Pomi
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Their eight songs, set backed by a rockabilly rhythm section,
included Candy Store Rock from the Zeppelin years. Page and
Plant also revisited Heart in Your Hand from their Walk
Looking into Clarksdale album. This is Carol Miller. Thanks for
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