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Get the Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the World
Get the Led Out is the ultimate book for the ultimate fan of the ultimate band—Led Zeppelin. This lushly illustrated volume begins with a unique day-by-day timeline based on Carol Miller's radio show of the same name, and it provides a behind-the-scenes view, revealing quirky details, achievements, and adventures big and small. Twenty-seven rare, unguarded interviews feature the band members themselves, as well as other musicians and insiders who witnessed it all, including Jason Bonham, Chris Squire (Yes), Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Alice Cooper, and music industry legends Danny Goldberg and Ron Nevinson. The book ends with a comprehensive discography.
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256 pages, Hardcover
First published November 6, 2012
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January 10, 2015
I found this book fascinating ~ full of anecdotal stories about the band and their music. It has three sections: a month-by-month (sometimes day-by-day) record of the development and events in the band's career, then a series of interviews of people who worked with/were close to Led Zeppelin, and finally a chronological synopsis of every album. This ended up being quite a beautiful book ~ an oversize hardback with tons of full-color pictures of the band, some of them integrated with trippy art in super-saturated colors. There are lots of pictures of tour memorabilia (tickets, posters, etc.) My husband ordered this book off of my Amazon wish list, so I had assumed it was a little text-only paperback ~ a nice surprise for Christmas.
March 24, 2015
A good coffee table book, but nothing more. Great looking, but hardly definitive.
February 17, 2022
Take a road trip throughout the history of Led Zeppelin.
Well researched with loads of facts and pictures to quench the thirst of any die hard fan.
A beautifully written book about this diverse band.
Well researched with loads of facts and pictures to quench the thirst of any die hard fan.
A beautifully written book about this diverse band.
February 16, 2013
How hard is it to write a solid, well-researched, carefully edited book on Led Zeppelin? Apparently its very hard...as I've yet to find one single book that truly honors how great a band Led Zeppelin was, and still is. LZ 75 by Stephen Davis was an insulting embarrassment,and Mick Wall's "When Giants Walk The Earth" was littered with shameful errors, and poor judgement. Now comes this coffee table book that looks great on the outside, yet (for the most part) crumbles on the inside.
First off, more than a few of these interviews are old...going back as far as 1977. Other interviews are very dated...with comments that no longer have any relevance. I loved the Plant, Bonham and Jones interviews...as all three seemed to be patient with Somach's juvenile questions. The Jimmy Page interview doesn't involve Somach at all...and is from 35 years ago!
Somach makes great pains to make sure that everyone knows all of the songs Led Zeppelin ripped off from other artists. In case you didn't realize this, he states it again ten dozen other times throughout the book. Forget about what Led Zeppelin DID with those songs...all Somach cares about is the theft, and the resulting lawsuits. To mention as such, is fine...yet don't hit us over the head with it in a book that is supposed to honor Led Zeppelin, not trash them.
Though his enthusiasm for Led Zeppelin is duly noted...as well as his access to some great interview subjects (including Robert Plant, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Chris Dreja, Paul Rodgers, Chris Squire, Atlantic's Phil Carson, and more...) author Denny Somach is a poor writer, and a worse interviewer. Instead of thoughtful, well-researched, intelligent questions...Somach instead interviews his victims as if he was an uneducated child. Typos abound, including very misinformed and misguided information...Upon reading Somach's collection of interviews, one gets the sense that Somach clearly had been absent-minded at the time, or had literally no clue what he was talking about. I commend Mr. Somach for publishing a book about Led Zeppelin, and did find some of it valuable and informative...yet that does excuse the sloppy editing, and the complete lack of fact-checking on Somach, or the editor's part. I mean, c'mon guys...how is it I know more than what is offered in this book...and found myself constantly correcting Somach's mistakes.
According to Somach in the book:
- In Through The Out Door was recorded at Abbey Road studios in London...as opposed to ABBA's Polar
Studios in Stockholm, where it actually was recorded
- Simon Kirke played drums at Zeppelin's last ever show...except it wasn't.
- the term "Leslie" is a reference to Leslie West, not the Leslie speaker that Jimmy Page favored.
..don't make me go on.
If one were to use "Get the Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the World" as a reference book, one would be in serious trouble. Yet what are facts anyway? It's just trivia, right? WRONG. To Denny Somach, and the folks at Sterling Publishing...shame on you all.
First off, more than a few of these interviews are old...going back as far as 1977. Other interviews are very dated...with comments that no longer have any relevance. I loved the Plant, Bonham and Jones interviews...as all three seemed to be patient with Somach's juvenile questions. The Jimmy Page interview doesn't involve Somach at all...and is from 35 years ago!
Somach makes great pains to make sure that everyone knows all of the songs Led Zeppelin ripped off from other artists. In case you didn't realize this, he states it again ten dozen other times throughout the book. Forget about what Led Zeppelin DID with those songs...all Somach cares about is the theft, and the resulting lawsuits. To mention as such, is fine...yet don't hit us over the head with it in a book that is supposed to honor Led Zeppelin, not trash them.
Though his enthusiasm for Led Zeppelin is duly noted...as well as his access to some great interview subjects (including Robert Plant, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Chris Dreja, Paul Rodgers, Chris Squire, Atlantic's Phil Carson, and more...) author Denny Somach is a poor writer, and a worse interviewer. Instead of thoughtful, well-researched, intelligent questions...Somach instead interviews his victims as if he was an uneducated child. Typos abound, including very misinformed and misguided information...Upon reading Somach's collection of interviews, one gets the sense that Somach clearly had been absent-minded at the time, or had literally no clue what he was talking about. I commend Mr. Somach for publishing a book about Led Zeppelin, and did find some of it valuable and informative...yet that does excuse the sloppy editing, and the complete lack of fact-checking on Somach, or the editor's part. I mean, c'mon guys...how is it I know more than what is offered in this book...and found myself constantly correcting Somach's mistakes.
According to Somach in the book:
- In Through The Out Door was recorded at Abbey Road studios in London...as opposed to ABBA's Polar
Studios in Stockholm, where it actually was recorded
- Simon Kirke played drums at Zeppelin's last ever show...except it wasn't.
- the term "Leslie" is a reference to Leslie West, not the Leslie speaker that Jimmy Page favored.
..don't make me go on.
If one were to use "Get the Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the World" as a reference book, one would be in serious trouble. Yet what are facts anyway? It's just trivia, right? WRONG. To Denny Somach, and the folks at Sterling Publishing...shame on you all.
February 14, 2013
Basically a coffee table book that chronicles the history of the band, the first section lists important dates in the bands history. The second section is a series of interviews with members of the band as well as those in its inner circle as well as those who were influenced by the band. The final section is a discography of the band. Pretty mundane stuff overall, with the interview section supplying most of the interesting material.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 12, 2015
This book give you a chronological journey from the start as the New Yard birds to the untimely death of John Bonham. Complete with interviews. Can't believe a ticket was only $7.50 back then.
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