Get the Led Out - Ep2511 wk of 10mar

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

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Carol Miller. Welcome to our get the
leadout calendar. Five years ago. On March tenth, twenty twenty,
the surviving members of led Zeppelin, for the second time
no longer had any looming legal woes regarding Stairway to Heaven.
A federal appeals court had just ruled on March ninth
to affirm the verdict of a trial jury in twenty sixteen.

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They agreed that Stairway did not infringe on an earlier
instrumental called Taurus. It was from Spirit's first album, which
came out in nineteen sixty eight, three years before Stairway
to Heaven. The appeals court upheld the jury verdict in

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favor of songwriters Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones.
This ended the copyright dispute that they had faced over
Stairway for most of six years. Fifty five years ago.
On March eleventh, nineteen seventy, Led Zeppelin played their second
straight night in Hamburg, West Germany. They had the same
closing song both nights, how many more times. When it started,

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Robert Plant introduced each of his bandmates and himself by name,
but only on the first night In Hamburg did Robert
use nicknames, It sounds like Johnny John. Paul Jones might
have suggested the name Jumping John Bottom just prior to
it being announced fifty years ago. On March twelfth, nineteen

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seventy five, led Zepplein played the second of their shows
at Long Beach Arena in California. While there were no
variations in the setlist from one night to the next,
popular demand on the second night was met with an
extra eleven minute encore. After Jimmy Page stretched out his

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guitar solo, he would have cured the next section of Heartbreaker. However,
John Bonham cut off Jimmy and started up a blue
shuffle beat. Robert Plant chimed in with Bo Diddley's I'm
a Man. On March thirteenth, nineteen seventy one, promoter Freddie

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Banister hosted a live musical performance at the Bath Pavilion
for the first time in about nine months. He had
even been surprised to have gotten a call from led
Zeppelin manager Peter Grant asking to book the show. There
had been a time for seven straight years in the
sixties when Freddy hosted live musical performances at the Bath
Pavilion weekly on Monday nights. Freddy had stopped booking shows

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at the Bath Pavilion in nineteen seventy, but led Zeppel
One really wanted to include it on their back to
the club's tour. Freddie eventually booked led Zeppelin's final UK
appearances at the Nebworth Festival in seventy nine. On March fourteenth,
nineteen sixty nine, led Zepplin gave two live performances in Sweden.
Before either of these shows, Zeppelin had a non musical

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performance with cameras rolling at a TV studio in Stockholm.
Led Zeppelin mimicked playing their own instruments along with their
own studio recording of communication breakdown. Robert Plant lip synced
and played up to the camera, showing off wild facial
expressions and gyrations. When it came time to play live
that day, Jimmy Page broke a guitar string during the

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first song, so while Jimmy went elsewhere to restring his guitar,
Robert picked up a harmonica and helped led Zeppelin to
carry on with a blues song by Otis rush K.
Carol Miller. Thanks for getting the let out. Check back

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next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast,