In 2021, I wrote an article on the great musicians who suddenly performed in my high school in Kansas City, in the sixties of the nineteenth century: crystals, diversities, and royalty T. . There were so much that I assumed that high school dances with great talent should be common in that era, but it turned out that this is the case. Tina Turner and Baker T. told me. Washington has never performed high schools, even when they started. The only similar example that I found at the Saint Kazavier High School, a Catholic School for the Well in Cincinnati. The Kazavier concert appeared in 1968 The Yardbirds, a group that had a wonderful series of major guitarists: Eric Kalpeon, followed by Jeff Beck, followed by Jimmy Beige. The Xavier concert occurred at a turning point in the history of popular music: just a few weeks later, Yardbirds separated, and the LED Zeppelin page formed.
I couldn’t find a way to include Xavier concert in an article on my high school, but I recently thought about it when my wife and I saw the new documentary “To become LED Ziplein”. The movie – which was directed by Bernard McMahon and his books and Alison McGora – did not mention, of course, but he fully describes the musical and cultural contexts in which a concert took place in 1968. The day after watching the movie, I found a phone number for Rip Pelley, Chairman of the Beginner Student Council in Xavier at that time. I called him, and asked him to remember.
He said: “We had two different concerts, a young concert and a big concert, and each had a typical boring orchestra.” “My idea was very simple: Let’s put two parties together and get a rock music band.” The young people were more enthusiastic than the elderly, who necessarily did not want children from the eleventh grade to spoil their great party, but the narrow majority voted for Saleh. On weekends, in those days, Pelley played the guitar in a coverage squad that was sometimes working as a local opening for Lemon Pipes, one of Oxford, Ohio, fifty miles north of Cincinnati. (One blow was “Green Tambourine”, which reached the first place, for one week, in February 1968.) The Billy Uncle Sam, an agent, had an agent, gave him a larger agent’s phone number, in New York. “I called the men, and we went through a list of the bands that were available and the type of price range for us,” Belly told me. They settled on Roots Grass, a rock music collection directed towards the people, which is unlikely to raise two large songs-“Let’s Live for Today” and “Midnight Contensions”-of warnings with the Jesuits who managed the school.
“So everything was great, and most people were happy and excited.” “But then I received a call from the agent in New York. I don’t remember the reason – someone in the band was sick, the guidance did not succeed, or the tour was canceled – but whatever it was, you could not fix it.” Pelly panic. A concert was a week away, and he knew that if the evening separated, he would be blamed. “But the agent said,” He grabs, holds. I have an alternative to you, and I think you will like it. “
Yardbirds was available because it is scheduled to be in Cleveland on the night before the party, to appear on “optimistic“A joint TV program at the national level aimed at teenagers, and they had nothing to do the next day.” I, like, the Holy Cow, “said Pelly.” I was jumping up and down. But I also realized that I had a problem. ”The popular roots were popular, and Japanese aircraft were not. Belly said:“ They were more exciting. ”
Many Xavier students, perhaps all of their officials, were not familiar with birds. They had two songs on Billboard’s Ten, “for your love” and “the heart full of spirit”, but both were released in 1965. One of the school’s governorates walked in the halls with Pelly and asked the students about their feeling of switching. Belly told me that opinions are mixed. “In a way, though, I convinced everyone that we had no choice, and we got final approval.” The only case imposed by the school was that the program was also to include what Pelly described as a “bubble group” – an orchestra like that that every week leads to “The Lawrence Welk Show”. The father of Billy – Patti Bordi, a student at Regeina Secondary School – had faded to be a group leader who could go to one of these, Dick Bordi Orchestra. They agreed to rotate forty -five minutes with Yardbirds, two groups each.
It was not long before the two parties, the local actor of Yardbirds, Epic Records, called Pelley and told him that she should get out of the city. “So you asked me, can you capture them at the airport?” He said. Billy Mustang led 1967. The entire band will not fit, so some friends recruited. He took Borddy Beige, who threw his guitar into the trunk and pressed in the back seat. Pelly was wearing a white dinner jacket, and Borde was wearing a long pink dress with short sleeves. “Jimmy’s first question was,” Why do you wear like this? “Bellly told me.” I said, “You are playing at our concert.” He said, “What is the curse of a concert?” “They got fine, invited the band to their room at the hotel, signing the dance party programs. Billy said:” They were very nice, very enjoyable youth. “She commented with them for fifteen or twenty minutes, then we went to the conference center.” The celebration hall there was decorated by the members of the dance party committee and their mothers.
Bordi told me: “The thing I remember more is that my father was playing at the same stage with Jimmy Beige.” “It was really loudly – although I was getting used to loudly because I would go to Rip’s performance.” Yardbirds was not what anyone calls the dance band. “People were not sure of what to do. You know, should we dance, or should we see like us in a concert?” Billy said. ” Page Air Conditioning from a similar song bearing the same name by Jake Holmes, popular guitarist And the songwriter who opened him to the village theater, in New York, in the previous year. (Holmes filed a lawsuit against LED Zeppelin for its violation, in 2010, and received an unannounced settlement.) During a part of that song, he played his guitar page with the violin bow, as he also did at a later time, with Lyd Zeppelin.
The page wore tight pink pants and a flowing shirt. He played a role in 1959 Fender Telecaster, which Beck gave in 1966. I stripped the page the body of the guitar to naked wood and then used the stickers paint to decorate it in a narcotic manner – a design that is repeated later in a limited period in a limited edition. When Yardbirds ended his first group, he told the priest of Pelly that he had a bottle of alcohol, and asked, “Do you think he would be fine if you give this to them?” The gesture was not necessary, because the band created a tape in the dressing room and was drinking alcohol since it started a concert. At some point, between groups, the king of a concert and a queen crowned.
Anyone in Kazavier could not know this, but just a few weeks before the dance party, Jim McCarte, a drama player in Yardbers, and Keith Rillif, the main singer, began that they wanted to quit, and it was not long after that Chris said Draiga. Al -Jahir player, he wants to quit smoking as well. (Play Dreja and McCarty later in many other music bands, and MCCARTY TOURS with a revival version of Yardbirds, which may be available for the party. College, in England, on July 7, ten weeks after the “Scarburu Gallery”.
Immediately after the outbreak of Yardbirds – a story that it tells “to become LED Zeppelin” Well – Page collected his new band, with John Paul Jones on Bass and Robert Plant on singing and John Bonham on drums. The four -way life stories are interesting. Jones’s father helped him learn the bright by telling him to watch his left hand playing piano. (He and his wife were Vodville.) As teenagers began, Jones and Beige started working as musicians in the studio and played together in the orchestra that supported Shirley Passi when she recorded the song “Goldfinger” in 1964. Plant. Plant. And whom his father wanted to be an accountant, he was tested for the band by accompanying the page on “Babeh I will leave you”, a popular song recorded by Joan Bayes. (Page and Plant version is the second track in their first album, “LED Zeppelin.”) A factory has been determined to the extent that John Bonham should be the Dram’s player to the extent that he was offered to Bonah’s mother. LED Ziplene’s name was proposed by Keith Moon, of the World Health Organization. (It was a joke signal to the fear of getting worse than the bullet balloon. Driving “A” so that people did not mistake it, it was the idea of another person.)