Bill Graham Interview on Led Zeppelin 1983
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- Bill Graham 1983 Interview on Led Zeppelin
KMEL
San Francisco
October 19, 1983
Interview with the late famed rock promoter Bill Graham about his relations and thoughts on Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant who he had booked at the Fillmore West back in 1969 through their Oakland 1977 shows. The interview was a done a few weeks after Plant's solo show at the Oakland Coliseum (indoors) on 9/28/83 and stirred memories of Zep's visit to the (outdoor) Coliseum from 7/24/77 which ended badly. At that gig Zep's goons pummeled a Graham employee after Peter Grant son was denied a dressing room sign. Anyway, might be interesting for Zep fans.
Very cool what he says about Robert Plant. Funny story. A friend of mine in high school in Montreal told me that her parents were visiting the UK on vacation in the 70s. They were traveling through the countryside at one point and went for a walk in a field or park of some kind. This tall blonde long-haired fellow with a big smile came walking up to the fence and said hello to them. He introduced himself as Robert Plant and they had no idea who he was. They had a good conversation with him and he invited them over for some tea. I guess they were right beside his yard. He was a very courteous host. He eventually told them that he sang for Led Zeppelin and they thought oh my gosh. This guy's a rockstar! LOL funny story. But Robert was incredibly friendly and a totally down to earth guy and very generous. Super cool. 🙂 as a young huge fan of Led Zeppelin I was very happy to hear that Robert was kind to my friend's parents.
Yeah. I hear he’s very friendly in those kind of random encounters, when he’s on “down” time: I saw comment posted somewhere on UA-cam by someone who was out and about in the countryside type location where RP lives in the country, and said he ran into RP and RP was very pleasant and gracious, not arrogant or stuck up at all, showing annoyance at being “bothered” by a fan.
I realize famous people need privacy and “down” time, but it was still nice to learn that RP is pleasant and friendly when you see him and just say “hello.” 😢
Could you imagine if they meet Keith Richards from the Stones instead? It would have been a completely different encounter 😂
Cool story mate.👍🏻 Cheers. Back in 2004 my mate and I walked passed Jimmy's house and we were smiling like a bunch of school birds..😅 beautiful home he has. Tower house here in the district of Kensington. It's sort of normal to see, if you live near or around famous people. A few times we walked pass and never saw him. I'm sure he owns plenty of homes.
@@raffisekzenian2746he’d be asleep
They must have paid off the victim of the beating surely. Grant later broke down in tears when he read Graham's book.
Grant changed big time after Bonham’s death, not just physically. Fuck it, Grant acted appropriately. The American promoters had a lot of disdain and resentment towards British acts (bands as opposed to solo acts ) who had begun to dominate the music scene. Limey , this and that and they (Dick Clarke , Rolling Stone etc ) all thought that they could make or break bands . Many bands got fleeced by the promoters over there .
There wasn’t a thing that the likes of Bill Graham wouldn’t sell or do for a dollar and he had no respect for a groups intellectual property when it came to merchandising and allowing those fucking bootlegs to be recorded in this venues . He wasn’t the only one. When the Beatles arrived in the US , the amount of crap that got sold with their endorsements eg whigs , plastic toy guitars etc .
There is plenty of footage of Grant berating some chancer backstage over skimming money over merchandise. Grant didn’t need to use force on that occasion. He did his best to stop the bootlegging too .
Fuck it , he knew that he was intimidating and it worked for the band . I’m not the biggest fan of the band but they had a good manager , unlike Epstein of the Beatles who was far far far too fond of being in the limelight and being interviewed himself .
Saw Zep in 1970,with jethro tull in SD,awsome.
That was awesome to hear, many of the shows I went to at Madison Square Garden and the The Meadowlands in the early 80's had Bill Graham's name on them as a promoter.
Most of what I got to see was shortly after John Bonham died. I had just become old enough to go to concerts, I saw Jimmy at the garden for the ARMS benefit, and his Outrider and Firm tours.
And a lot of Roberts solo tours, I went to Live Aid just to see them when I was 16, paid $80 a piece for 3 scalped tickets, a lot of money for a 16 year old back then.
I enjoyed hearing the positive comments given by Bill, what incredible times.
I was there, Oakland 1977. 17 years old.
Bill Graham's security guard allegedly slapped Peter Grant's young son.
I was there too, a little younger, but I was there!
✌️😎🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
I think hands-down, the best band of all time
The guy in question who got the beat-down at the hands of Peter Grant, Richard Cole and John Bonham had shoved Warren Grant, Peter Grant's 11 year old son. He's lucky they didn't kill him.
Wish Graham had written an autobiography. Fascinating man.
There’s a great book called “Bill Graham Presents - My Life in Rock and Roll”. You should check it out
I was at that concert July 23rd 1977. It was my first concert and I was going home and heard about the incident with Bonham and Grant. I was supposed to see the 1975 show also. After those 2 shows in Oakland Zeppelin never played in America again.
Bonham shot a hole through my friend's floor in SF in 1969. He didn't know if there were children in the floor below or care, and never apologized, not that that's something one could apologize for. An unpleasant individual.
I was also there for both shows Friday and Saturday Friday was great Saturday not so much
That’s cool. Did you get to see Van Halen in 1978, day on the green?
I was there July 24th, 1977. Unfortunately the last American show…
@@patricknunez8884that would’ve been great. My friend saw them the night ozzy passed out in the wrong room so it was only Van Halen at their hungriest time
Bill Graham is a pretty down to earth guy when is not blowing his top. . Hi Cynthia Fox 🎉🎉
Just watching the Fillmore West documentary where Graham is threatening to take the teeth out of one of the acts off-camera. Live by the sword die by the sword, this guy is the pot calling the kettle black insofar as violence is concerned.
The music business is very greasy.
He was known for this kind of thing.
Met Bill Graham numerous occasions he was a hypocrite
He lost almost all his family in German prison camps.. Hell I'd be hypocritical too..
@@parttime9070
*They control your life more than you could ever know. The WWII situation is always used as justification for doing whatever they want.*
So have I and I think you are full of crap.
@@parttime9070so fucking what ? How’s that in any way relevant ?
You dearly believe that his kind were the only victims of war . If someone wants to be a cunt and money crazy, let them be , own it , just don’t behave and let people think that you are something else .
Losing his family didn’t hurt him too badly. He made a better life in America due to it
“A lot of Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me, because they know that I am friendly to Israel and so forth. But they don’t know how I really feel about what they’re doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them.”
Billy Graham
1972
LOL!!! Not that Billy Graham.
@@johnnyd63 billys business was religion...
Garbage
@@amonduul2154That’s a grotesque statement. Billy Graham was a true man of God who brought the Gospel to millions around the globe. You’re a cynical idiot.
✡ - the big question, as always. They are just another, more subtle form of mafia.
Peter Grant was the man!!!
He certainly was . Those who skimmed money off the band whether through dodgy tickets, merchandise or those god damn bootlegs (thief) for sorted out when he caught up to them
Thankfully, in a lot of cases, most of those who bought bootlegs were über fans of bands who bought the studio albums and anything that a group did that was worth their while .
Oh some dickheads might say “oh but groups like Zeppelin etc were millionaires” or the worse one ,from the hippies of the 1960s “music should be free, man “
But that’s not the point. Other groups who were less commercially successful were getting fucked over by the bootlegs . That ain’t part of the t n c of concerts.
Bill Graham is painting one side of the stories as you’d expect. Self serving . He made a lot of money and forced bands to earn their appearance fee eg 2 sets a night and not to perform within 75 km of the area etc . That might be okay in San Francisco but it’s ridiculous in New York (Fillmore East) .
He tried to put the incident to the side because 1. His staff started it and 2. He wants to make money.
WRONG! The incident was instigated by Zep's manager and John Bonham. I know several of the people involved from the BGP side and there was nothing from the BGP side to justify the actions by the Zeppelin organization.
His guys may have “started it”, but the response of Grant,Cole and Bodin was way over the top. Beating someone to near death is in NO way justified by the actions of Grants kid. Those three punks should have been jailed but money was paid yadayadayada…
@@FYMASMD Who the blazes is Bodin? Dod you misspell Bonham somehow?
@@jerbear1601He meant Bindon, as in John Bindon. He was an infamous London gangster, who was employed to work that tour as part of LZ crew. When you take people like that on tour, it’s hardly surprising that incidents like that occur.
@@FYMASMDThat jack ass hit Grant’s kid. He deserved to have his ass kicked.
Zeppelin was wrong grant was a asshole that day 😮
You are absolutely right, I read many accounts of the incident and all Matsorkis did was snatch the door sign back off the kid, He had no reason to, and didnt hit the little brat.
@@theloaner4378 cole binden grant beat the shit out of him for taking the sign back and that was the last show for zeppelin in the USA and I lost all respect for them.
Can’t stand Zeppelin. Saw them at Winterland, 1972.
LOL... They didn't play Winterland in '72 🤣
Maybe that’s why he hated them, he saw someone else!
Taylor Swift is hiring.
They never played Winterland in 72. Get your facts straight.
Liar liar bums on fire 🔥
I still think Grateful Dead is the greatest rock band ever.
Is that sarcasm? Dumbest most boring crap band ever. Not one song rocks. Not one song is worth listening to. Pure garbage. Not even a rock band. Just a bunch of no talent folk musicians and all the fans are bums. Has to be sarcasm.
BOOoooooooo
You need to get out more…The Beatles and Led Zeppelin are the greatest rock bands ever. Full stop.
@@BBaldwin
_The Beatles were producers of music for children._
-Yeah sure. Keep fooling yourself lol. Grateful Dead is rubbish compared to Zeppelin and the Beatles..
start at the battery, maybe your people should not have slapped Grant's son?