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He Could’ve Joined Led Zeppelin — But Said No [Highlight From Episode 357] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of rock history.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a snippet from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Denny Somack, the author of Get to Let Out, how
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  Speaker 1: led Zeppelin became the biggest band in the world. The
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  Speaker 1: updated edition is out now.
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  Speaker 2: You'll find stuff in here. It's not that other people didn't.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't know it because, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: very hard to find these these details out. But I
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  Speaker 2: dug like, there's an interview in here with Nicky Hopkins,
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  Speaker 2: who was a session, well known session musician. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: he just got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame last year as the you know, not as
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  Speaker 2: a as a special Mention nominee, because he played keyboards
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  Speaker 2: for Jefferson Airplane, jeff Beck, Stones, the Stones Feels everybody.
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  Speaker 2: He was the most successful. There's a documentary that just
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  Speaker 2: came out, by the way, and Jimmy originally went to
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  Speaker 2: Nicky this is in the book, and he said, I
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  Speaker 2: would like you to play piano and with Zeppelin, and
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  Speaker 2: Nicky said no, He said, I want you to play
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  Speaker 2: piano in my new band. And NICKI said to Jimmy Page,
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  Speaker 2: are you kidding? I don't want to be in the Yardbirds,
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  Speaker 2: the New Yardbirds, that's ridiculous. I'm gonna go. I got
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  Speaker 2: an offer from Jeff Beck. I'm gonna go play with him,
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  Speaker 2: and then he goes the biggest mistake I ever made,
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  Speaker 2: because remember you know they were called the New Yardbirds.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knew what they were. It's the same thing. But
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  Speaker 2: they tried to get Terry Reid as the singer and
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  Speaker 2: also Steve Marriott of the Small Faces. Terry Reid had
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  Speaker 2: just gotten a solo deal and had the shot to
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  Speaker 2: open for the Stones in America, so he said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: between that and joining the Yardbirds, which didn't mean much
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  Speaker 2: in England. Their hits were in America. They put out albums,
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  Speaker 2: some of their albums didn't even come out in England.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they were a good band, they played live
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  Speaker 2: and all that. But the whole thing about Zeppelin, it's
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  Speaker 2: based on the Yardbirds and the Yardbirds, which I point
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  Speaker 2: out to people are behind the Beatles and the Stones,
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  Speaker 2: the most important British act ever. Main reason. Three guitar
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  Speaker 2: players in that band, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page
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  Speaker 2: all went through the Yardbirds. So you know that's why
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  Speaker 2: they're the third, you know, the third on the list.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody else can can close. I tell that to people
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  Speaker 2: and they go, oh yeah, I could see that. All
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  Speaker 2: three of those guys I said, they were all in
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  Speaker 2: the Yardbirds.
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