Chords for Led Zeppelin accept award Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions 1995

Thank you very much.
It says please speak six inches from the microphone.
So I've finally got some technique.
_ _ Thank you for _ bringing us here.
And being English, it's quite daunting.
I'll just have to change this a minute.
Oh no.
It might be another TV set.
_ _ _ I _ _ can't follow Neil.
He's had his manager here, you see. _
_ And also, I don't have an invisible group. _ _
_ _ _ We're honoured to have with us Jason and Zoe Bonham. _ _ _ _ _ _
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We've got to split the award between them.
It's going to be interesting.
And all that stuff that everybody was saying, I can't remember much about that, Amit.
_ _ _ _ The thing is that because we didn't really work after about 1969 much,
I can't remember very much at all.
But I do remember, _ _ _ _ I'm getting a bit more comfortable,
I do remember _ Amit travelling around with us quite a lot
and coming to see us in a sort of pre-recording state one time in London.
I never wanted to do this.
I always thought we'd always be rebels.
_ _ Eddie's right. _ _
Actually, Eddie's lucky.
_ _ Amit came all the way from New York to London to see us.
We were doing some of the last final touches for, I think, Physical Graffiti.
He came to a rehearsal place in London.
A lot of pomp and circumstance.
And just like Neil said, when Amit came, you had to be really good, you know.
_ So it was a pretty shitty place.
It belonged to Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
_ _ But _ we got a good rate on it. _ _ _
And so we got a big catch on the stage and we started to show off to Amit.
We had a big PA.
We were playing away furiously.
We were really proud.
I think it was the Wanton Song, some lurid piece of music.
It was as if we were playing in front of 20 or 30,000 people.
We were doing all this stuff and the place was empty.
There was nobody there except for Amit on the couch.
And we spun around.
And _ Amit was snoring.
_ _ _ _ _ And _ there's a lot of other stories like that.
I've taught myself right up a blind alley.
Our relationships over the years have been wonderful.
_ _ Led Zeppelin was with Atlantic Records from start to finish.
And I've been with Atlantic from 1968 to now.
And I always consider that _ _ _ Amit_
And his faith in us, despite the fact that the music scene was changing
and that commerciality at one point became the _ _ hallmark of success alone.
Amit was very _ strong in our favor and so too was Doug Morris.
And I think we should mention _ [C#] Peter Grant, who's already been mentioned quite [N] colorfully.
We did have some fun, didn't we, Amit?
_ I'm not going to be as explicit as one of your better friends earlier on. _ _ _
And you said groupies, I didn't.
_ But looking at American music from England,
we have to say that _ _ _ being English and having to put up with Herman's Hermits wasn't much fun. _ _ _ _
Even though John Paul Jones did play with them for a bit. _ _
Oh, New York Times a day?
No.
And so we looked to America from an early age
and we admired the work of Howlin' Wolf _ and the writing of Willie Dixon
and the playing of Muddy Waters and _ _ _ the singing of the Capris, Jive Five, Raul Donner.
So much American music that really formed our musical personalities.
And whether it be the much maligned and desperately in need of help Moby Grape, Arthur Lee,
the whole form of American music was such an impression and so _ _ important to all of us.
Whether it was Bonzo listening to Bernard Purdy or Alphonse Mouzon or Lee Michaels,
the whole scene in the late 60s and the early 70s was so amazingly musically varied and articulate. _
I suppose it's the words of an old fart, _ or whatever I might be now,
but in those times that music was so amazing.
And to be in America at that time and to be a contributing _ _ _ _ factor to American music
and the American music scene was a great honour.
And I think probably the inspiration given to us by the American public was phenomenal.
And I shall never forget us playing with Janice and the Doors
and so many amazing artists and hanging out with the aeroplane
and seeing Jonesy and Jack Cassidy disappearing up the corner to discuss the inner movements of a bass guitar.
It was a wonderful time and all the way through our career we had a good time
and I don't remember a single television set going anywhere.
_ _ Thanks.
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_ _ Well, for my part of this I must say it's a great honour to be inducted.
Actually it's the second time for me because actually earlier on I was inducted with the Yabas.
It's almost like inducted, induced and this time it's the Fawcetts.
_ _ Some of you will get that.
But anyway, thank you very much everybody. _ _ _ _
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Yes, thank you.
I'd just like to add also my thanks to Peter [A] Grant
who gave us the freedom to do what we did.
[D#] And also thank you my friends for finally remembering my phone number.
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I'd just like to _ obviously thank everyone for _ _ making Led Zeppelin to me
one of the most important bands in the world.
And listening to them and obviously my father for being one of the greatest rock and roll drummers of all time
and this one's for him.
He'd be very proud.
Thank you very much. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Before we swap phone numbers _ I must also say _ a big thanks over the last few years to the_
Why am I doing all this Armin?
To Bill Kirbyshley who's helped us tremendously _ and helped _ _ _ renovate_
_ Renovate?
_ Rectify?
Do something for us anyway.
Thanks a lot Bill Kirbyshley and thank you all our friends in New York and America.
I've never been up so late for years so I've got to go to bed in a minute. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Thanks a lot. _
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