your experiences, I guess, uh originally, how it was 20, 30 years ago in terms of putting the marketing plan together for a band for like a Led Zeppelin and um and well, you said you didn't for Nirvana, but and then you know, some of your obviously I think youjust talked about the way it is today.
Stones had been on the cover of Newsweek the year before and Truman Capot had gone on tour with them and it irritated Zeppelin . They wanted to be perceived and recognized as having dethrown the Stones and and the press was sort of the
They bestowed upon us new music that made my mother's small record player judge her in the swelter of those white heat waved nights-- Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd, The Ramones, The Doors-- such a change from the music we had habitually listened to up to them. They gave us new ways of looking at the world, broke us out of our Irish slumber.
This is an example of, I'm gonna give you some context for your brain to reconstruct the reality of the backwards song. [Led Zeppelin singing "Stairway to Heaven" played in reverse]
I don't know -- I couldn't name -- yeah. Led Zeppelin . Nathaniel: Britney. Daniel: Britney. Nathaniel: Only I listen to Britney. Daniel: No. I wouldn't -- Edwin: You have the weirdest musical taste of anyone I've ever met, Nat.
Yeah, I'll tell you, we've had incredible moments. We brought the Zeppelin concerts. We brought a bunch of Pink Floyd concerts, never seen before, to YouTube.
And I got an agent through a showcase. Any Led Zeppelin song.
it's like Mitchell Loeb says. It's Led Zeppelin with an orchestra. And then also I think it separates the art form, as well.
Thank you. Yeah, thank you. And the Led Zeppelin ones were like so ordinated, it was so masterfully crafted.
living sort of working through like kind of living inside my mind you know so you're going to leave it up to chance or whatever Led Zeppelin got terrible reviews but people loved them they were the most important band from that period
1,440. OK, there are 1,440 minutes. to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
A friend of mine said, you have to meet them, or go see this band. They play Zeppelin really good. And I'm like, OK.
And then Van Halen when I saw them in '77, '78. But Led Zeppelin , Blue Oyster Cult, those kind of bands influenced me a lot. Hello. How do you even have the memory to write a book?
What was the best and the worst part of celebrity? I was playing Led Zeppelin yesterday.
with cussing or cheap nudity or something like that that I could get away with outside of my parents house at a slumber party or something, you know. You can kind of see the little Led Zeppelin logo back there. I was into comics and, you know, rock 'n' roll and rap and heavy metal and punk rock, and sort of what I cut my teeth on. That should have come out actually but, I left the comfort of my parents home when I went to, decided to study art in KU. And so, um, I included this slide because it's my first art show
acknowledge a mere businessman. But I soon discovered that he had also worked with Otis Reading, Artha Franklin, Saman. had been the person at Atlanta who actually signed Led Zeppelin . My awe at his resume was reinforced by seeing his house in Great Neck, Long Island, which had an entire room filled with gold records and a living room with original lees. Amidst thick marijuana smoke, he played records
what these young people know. They don't know what real music is. You know, a real blues influence band is the Stones or Cream Zeppelin or you know these new you know kind of they're too derivative as if like all of the other rock bands weren't derived. So, so they were ridiculed and and when Houses of the Holy came out, uh, which was the fifth album, the one that I started working
Sergey was really interested in Zeppelins , you know, blimps. And so there was a Zeppelin for a while. And Sergey didn't want to stick a Google sticker on it.
And I got an agent through a showcase. And my favorite band is Led Zeppelin .
And I got an agent through a showcase. So I look up to Led Zeppelin .
I mean, those were my doorways into music. It was definitely Rush and Led Zeppelin . And then, I mean, all kinds of different stuff, all kinds of progressive rock.
your sweats listening to Le Zeppelin When you have like hours and hours before you're going to see another human
Stones had been on the cover of Newsweek the year before and Truman Capot had gone on tour with them and it irritated rock writers were too old to understand Zeppelin . And so, he got a high school kid to interview them for the Los
Stones had been on the cover of Newsweek the year before and Truman Capot had gone on tour with them and it irritated guy to call about Led Zeppelin and they were going to sell. He called me and says, "Look, you know, we know they're
Sergey at this time-- I don't know who's been here for how long. Sergey was really interested in Zeppelins , you know, blimps. And so there was a Zeppelin for a while.
and that means everything from the engineers like Ferdinand von Zeppelin who actually created our flying machines to the visionaries like Jules Verne who imagined us
And then I think there was a Led Zeppelin song that was used in a commercial.
you started getting bands like the Beatles or Led Zeppelin and they really start thinking bigger and different and just doing things that set them apart from the norm.
Patty Smith, Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, Kiss, Kurt Cobain, and Nirvana Hull, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raid, Steve Earl, Led Zeppelin , and more. Please help me in welcoming Danny Goldberg.
some of the others? Sure. Yeah. There was a review in the Guardian in London last week where the guy said, "How could he say this? Zeppelin is much more important than the history of rock and roll." What what what I mean by it is he did so many different things. Well, for example, just in the context of the band, he was the lead singer and the
uh you know, the idea of trying to uh be healthier, you know, was something they struggled with. Yeah. Okay. And then the last question that I that I had was uh Led Zeppelin , you think it's going to happen? That's definitely the the the question that obviously the true answer is I have no idea. The the person who's going to
development of trends. You know my knowledge of Led Zeppelin is mostly when I worked for them. You know I I don't pretend to have you know chart the whole history of Led Zeppelin . I like 73 through 76. That's what I write about because that's when I was there. and when I can offer some some personal observations that a typical journalist, you know, couldn't couldn't give because
The Faces and The Who and The Stones and The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top and on and on and on,
So we put a 23andMe sticker on it. And it got a lot of press that there was a giant Zeppelin flying around town. TechCrunch had all these articles.
And thus are born the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin .
And I realized that my fascination with music was never only based on one instrument. When I would listen to-- when I was growing up listening to Zeppelin or Rush or Queen, I was always listening to really big music with a lot of stuff going on.
Thank you. Yeah, thank you. The other time I saw a picture where it had the lyrics from a Led Zeppelin song compared to lyrics from I don't know, a nowadays indie artist,
We arrived at one summit on a plane we borrowed from Led Zeppelin .
Yeah, he was a good guy, Milty. But I'm from old school listening to like I say the Stones or mostly Zeppelin .
he probably would sell a few more tickets if people know he was from Led Zeppelin , right?
historical contribution to the music business. I was lucky enough to find myself in many situations that would make rock history. I had the press pass at the Woodstock Festival, worked for Zeppelin from 90 from 1973 to 76. Managed Nirvana when Never Mind came out and Bonnie Rate when she won her four Grammys. Did PR for Kiss Electric like
And um so you know when the Jefferson Airplane first came out, I mean the the writers were the people who told all us hippies about them. But by the time Zeppelin came out, it was just on the radio and like in 48 hours all over the country, people had heard uh Good Times, Bad Times, and some of the other songs on the first Zeppelin album. So So the
Stones had been on the cover of Newsweek the year before and Truman Capot had gone on tour with them and it irritated they sold out Sha Stadium. Not because Led Zeppelin was more popular than the Beatles because there were more seats in Tampa Stadium than there had been in Sha
So anybody who likes rock music, I don't care if it's Led Zeppelin , the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Metallica, Twisted Sister, Ozzie Osborne,
And he was, like, listen to Led Zeppelin , and here's Boston.
There's a lot of musicians that get accused of theft or rip offs, like Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven." Do you think there's a concrete distinction between what
And I got an agent through a showcase. He's fantastic. I can play a lot of Zeppelin songs.
I was playing in clubs when I was 13, playing Led Zeppelin .
So I'm wondering-- I play guitar in classic rock music, Led Zeppelin , that kind of era stuff, right?
What kind of music were you listening to back then? Oh, Rush, Led Zeppelin . I mean, those were my doorways into music.