CTWIF PODCAST Short: DANNY GOLDBERG - Discusses working with LED ZEPPELIN & PETER GRANT

[@johnledhalen2903]

Great story Danny ! The only mistake Peter made was not filming Zep more , like every tour.

[@Frip36]

Yep. That was a massive oversight.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

I feel they were pinching "pennies" and losing massive amounts of "pounds" ...

[@pewsterbaby]

There's lots of clips, bits and pieces, 8mm with sound reels too. I put together 4 hours '69-'80 just from here on You Tube. You just have to put in some time.

[@hazor777]

UK taxes at the time, and the drugs had everyone on cloud 9 , not really living with the end in mind cest la vie

[@zosomoso]

There’s still great unreleased material. Osaka on the 71 and 72 tours were both taped on multitrack.

[@BBaldwin]

They were, are and WILL ALWAYS BE the ultimate rock band.

[@treff9226]

Perfectly said! Led Zep is the pinnacle of rock and roll - musically, there was nothing they couldn't do, and do better than anyone else! Jimmy Pages musical EAR for sonics, songwriting and arranging is unparralleld!

[@josephfuller7008]

Yes indeed I remember hearing Physical Graffiti for the first time. I had already worn out several copies of the first five albums but when PG came along I was thoroughly floored! I remember being mesmerized by that album, both albums. I remember someone I worked with bragging about Frank Zappa. I said “come on out to my truck. We hopped in and I played Trampled Underfoot while we took a cruise around. When the song was over I looked over and he was just staring out of the windshield speechless. Pretty much says it all right there.

[@treff9226]

@@josephfuller7008 Joseph, that story filled me with the good stuff! ...just staring out the window! Yeah, Zep created musical stew of thundering sonics, deep blues, acoustic beauty and exotic textures....nice work giving that dude the gift of Physical Graffiti! Be well, brother!

[@brianhammer5107]

One of many ultimate rock bands - Hendrix Experience, Cream, Deep Purple, Sabbath, etc.

[@treff9226]

@@brianhammer5107 Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Rush, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Doors, CCR....

[@willdenham]

Zep was so undeniably good, they didn't need the press. Their tours sold out through word of mouth.

[@mariamuschajew2761]

I read Peter Grant's book several times. I loved everything about the book. One of the great books in history for me !

[@owenbradley3773]

Best rock group ever

[@mikegacek9182]

Not a doubt in the world.

[@billschwenke790]

Pink Floyd and UFO close to a tie for me, less sloppy live ... Sloppy drunk Page, God luck him!

[@billschwenke790]

Typo, luv him

[@christopherekin1747]

@@billschwenke790 Took chances no other band would ever dare to try. No other band caused that much fervor. They never could meet the demand for their tours.

[@davidburns6681]

delite the word rock

[@andrewSUN17]

Great interview...so many insights into what was happening as Zep exploded onto the world!

[@jodymills3138]

What a great Story thanks for sharing history with us. We love to hear these times that meant so much to so many fans.

[@SubPablum]

I would love to hear Danny tell Zeppelin stories all day.

[@bishlap]

yes, without the meathead sitting next to him just agreeing w/ everything Danny said.

[@SMC84601]

@@bishlap Yeah, his tongue is seriously brown. !

[@aarongreen7556]

What a life this guy has led. Humble too, he mentioned being at the NYC concerts that became The Song Remains the Same. I'm pretty sure he was actually in the movie as well. At least his voice was at one point when Plant is going on about Cosmic Energy and says to someone off camera "did you hear that?" And you can tell the other guy is like-- Jesus, you're high.

[@billschwenke790]

I got my other channel pulled which at one point had Entertainment Tonight talk about Hard Rock and Metal Grammy category newly added at the time I recorded pre-Internet, all rock musicians in it cited Led Zeppelin as the key to their career despite the Beatles, Who, Stones, Elvis, Buddy Holly, the Comets, etc

[@jerbear1601]

He was in the movie alright! He was the guy handing the promoters asses to them for fucking up the security and letting unofficial bootleg merchandise into the venue! You could tell they were afraid as he thundered his displeasure at them. It's a funny watch.

[@aarongreen7556]

@@jerbear1601 I know the scene you are speaking of. That was their manager Peter Grant. An ex wrestler and no one to fuck with

[@crungefactory]

Plant, "This is a song that sometimes takes a building in a manner of which our forefathers were very used to. Did you hear that?" He actually responded, "I know, I couldn't believe that." Before plant went into his cosmic energy spiel.

[@soshieopath7142]

“Everbody goes YEAHHHH!! BASH!!

[@williamking8033]

What an excellent interview!

[@thelonegr00ver]

Except for the interviewer- peter green really?

[@wileyjdraws7594]

Holy crap this guy interrupts more than Howard stern

[@rick6582CNCMedicalParts]

College radio & Allison steel 102.7 1970s played whole album sides back to back

[@AHowardAz]

Decent interview, but stop interrupting the guy. He's interesting so let him talk.

[@antarcticorb9197]

Totally agree! Whoever this interviewer was, he didn't do his homework, plus the interruptions we're annoying.

[@harrydarling1]

Agreed!!!! The less the interviewer talks, the better the interviewer comes across. Seriously.. I say that with respect.

[@ryananthony4840]

ABSOLUTELY!!! I'm only about 5 minutes in and COMPLETELY pissed off and annoyed already....

[@franklee2683]

Interviewer wants to present himself as an insider/relevant cool guy. Yeah...NO.

[@seanmurphy26]

This is the second time I have heard of this guy, the first time was a mark Lanegan interview that was unlistenable! The interviewer needs to realize that we click on his channel for the guests!

[@terrymoran8383]

Great stories about the GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME

[@davidcooper7339]

This host is embarrassingly bad while talking over Mr. Goldberg with foolish comments. Danny Goldberg on the other hand, was a wonderful, informative guest.

[@kiddynamite3931]

What an awesome job! This guy had!! Ok, I had never understood why Zep got bad press until just now They really were on top in 72-73. If not for the press we would have so much more footage.

[@marions.120]

Envy and jealousy? ✌️😎🎸🎶🎵🎶

[@billschwenke790]

Jimmy Page wishes there were more archive but they were not ones to follow music business models or advice and wanted as much control over their destiny as possible, sound was a big part of that and they stopped doing TV lipsync type promos

[@MrOctober44]

I don't know about that. They got some bad reviews very early on and held a grudge for years. I find it ironic that Jimmy laments their's so few footage of them. They were absolutely ruthless in making sure that no one ever filmed them

[@bubinga_basher]

@@MrOctober44 Such a shame. The media had a huge pt to do with the lack of Zep material out today.We can hope Page will release the makings of more iso tracks etc.. If Jimmy has the masters, who knows what else he has? Unfortunately the clock is running

[@surfshack2]

This was great. I enjoyed it. Thank You

[@davidburns6681]

Lovely man and a great interview

[@paulschnyder938]

The Peter Grant scene in the movie is actually from a concert in Boston. Grant himself told me this .

[@davidcooper6786]

What circumstance brought you in contact with Peter Grant as you allege?

[@michaelherriott9767]

I'm sure when I spoke with him he said it was Baltimore.

[@davidcooper6786]

@@michaelherriott9767 How and where did you get the opportunity to speak to Peter Grant as you allege?

[@Frip36]

I heard the Grant scene was from the basement of the Toledo Sports Arena during a minor league hockey game. It was all staged. The "actors" were all buddies from the Warner Brothers staff. The skinny guy who Grant is berating was actually Grant's sister's husband and godfather to Grant's first child Willem.

[@robertmurphy440]

Yea that verbal beat down Peter gives that guy in movie about pirates selling shirts at concert.. WAS NOT AT MSG OR IN NY....GRANT WOULD HAVE BEEN PIMPED ON 34TH ST

[@csaint6780]

Yup! Peter Grant, the MAN.

[@davidnorth3411]

My first was their last . They just released the album , “In through the outdoor “. Exploring rock and was enveloped with their music , It’s a journey from their on that you take . Great to hear from the other side

[@chrismineo6151]

I had tickets, Bonzo passed and it all went up in smoke.

[@kingbidenmypres]

Love this.. Love zeppelin... You can tell this guy's telling the absolute truth, no embellishment needed... On your knees mortals!! And worship the mighty ZEPPELIN

[@jeffl1879]

A lost art, interviewing. This could have been an insightful, interesting , informative interview.

[@Promark1980]

Best rock band of all-time and it isn't even close.

[@tthoy7338]

Awesome interview Mr. Goldberg

[@LzCoda]

Great interview. Sad how little the interviewer knows about Zeppelin.

[@Frip36]

He was born like 5 days ago, what do you want? It's like someone being mad at you or me for not knowing who the manager of Fats Domino was.

[@frankkolton1780]

@@Frip36 A good interviewer researches his guest and the topics/subjects that will most likely be talked about.

[@honoraryamerica5943]

Great interview, he is candid in his responses, some of the insider tidbits are gold. I know this is an older video but I had to add from memory from what I read that the members of the band held Danny with some level of respect because he was at least familiar with their music, he was prepared and serious. I also recall reading that Peter told the band to be on their best behaviour around Danny. For a band from the manager on down who viewed outsiders with disdain (Danny more eloquently expresses this in this interview, hah), this might be the biggest compliment for anyone at that time, even a publicist on their payroll.

[@bigblu4751]

Good Interview.. Sad not knowing the year of there last performance 2007 ..Cmon Danny

[@HadEnough745]

Maybe he was talking strictly about the four members playing together and not with Jason Bonham.

[@davidcooper3871]

@@HadEnough745no, he was referring to the O2 show in London.

[@Colstonewall]

"Goldilocks" was loved by Zeppelin. I can't remember why he was fired or quit but it was a sad day for Zeppelin.

[@davidcooper6786]

Who's "Goldilocks?"

[@leecook5626]

@@davidcooper6786 Danny Goldberg’s nickname from Zepp.😉🤓😎

[@patriciashearouse1449]

He refused to do something illegal.

[@derkommissar785]

Danny dismisses "underground" radio, when, in fact it was a low-cost promotion tool. ( It was also known as "freeform" radio, where the DJ could play whatever he/she wanted.) Grant asked Ahmet about promotion. He told him; you don't need promotion for LedZep. Just put the word out on FM radio. He did, and MSG sold out in 3 hours.

[@necessarymusicproductions7457]

They played for bill graham at fillmore east their 1st few tours of the us. They didnt play the garden until sept of 1970 the day after jimi hendrix was killed. #justthefactsmaam

[@carywest9256]

@@necessarymusicproductions7457 You have a conspiracy theory on Jimi? I know he took some sort of German downers, and the building he was staying in, it's claimed that one of those classical dudes had lived there. Maybe it was the classical dude's ghost that did him in out of jealousy!

[@titoramone4465]

Very interesting. I always wondered why AM radio was such a BIG thing back in the day. Now I know, until '67 FM radio really wasn't a thing.

[@ArtHoward]

AM radio waves carry further so when populations were thinner and more dispersed AM covered more people. FM existed in the 1940's but no one used it. In the '60's it became like watching a KZbin channel with 500 subs and in the '70's it became big business.

[@85dirtyd]

Hey Peter Criss let him talk damn dude

[@johnsoos6907]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Post KISS Peter Criss/early 80's!

[@timryan3023]

excellect awesome info and history for us, i lived "73 midnite show!

[@grassrootsorphanage]

Bravo!! 👏

[@georgeh2145]

I'd love to see a Danny-Robert reunion video...

[@davidestrada6171]

Fantastic!

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Great interview. ✌️

[@radiomindchatter7994]

Stop interrupting!

[@michaeldrasic7587]

The four dudes were meant to get together from the beginning to start Led Zeppelin. There wasn't four other cats who could have been picked from all the Rock musicians around that could have come close to what what they accomplished. It was MEANT to be and I seen them twice in early '70's to attest to that!

[@VonL]

The host & his buddy are both incompetent. They are unprepared & don’t know how to interview guests.

[@Frater_I.O.]

I enjoy listening to Danny Goldberg in this interview but get annoyed because the host constantly interrupts him and talks about things not actually related to Danny's stories. I think with Danny, the host is better suited to remain quiet.

[@davidcooper6786]

The host is a real looser; pissed me off to no end. How this flunky was able to interview Goldberg is astonishing. I thought perhaps he was unfortunately related to D.G. being that that would be the only way he could secure an interview. I'm grateful that I was able to learn some solid information though and for that, I'm content.

[@marions.120]

Loves to hear himself talk…sucks!

[@thetype85]

Where's the rest of the interview...???? It just cuts off!!

[@markbrown7103]

I never did care too much for hard rock. But there was something about this band that I dearly loved. Write down the Jimmy page‘s blues style rock style. This man is one hell of a rock guitarist. Absolutely one of my favorite guitars. He was another one who inspired me to play guitar. Thank you Jimmy page.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🎸😁😎☮️

[@mikeroden6631]

There will never be another band like led zeppelin. Good luck Greta van fleet lol.

[@HadEnough745]

Greta Van Fleet are a bunch of nice kids but they're not anywhere near the league of Led Zeppelin..

[@rick6582CNCMedicalParts]

@@HadEnough745 cover band with a few songs good ..never be Zep

[@jeffreyhuggins3074]

Great band and Big Time as it gets in Rock music 🎶🎶🎶🎶.

[@HonkIfYouLoveHonking]

I'm pretty sure the interviewer appeared on the cover of Foghat's Night Shift album.

[@jperryfan]

Pete Townshend & Jack Bruce disliked Zeppelin & were definitely jealous of their success

[@ulix4]

How can you not like Led Zeppelin?

[@darrenparkinson4576]

Pete Townsend hates EVERYONE.

[@gostrum1]

It’s not jealousy! Not everyone is a fan of theirs.

[@oldschoolhawking8191]

You could add Keith Richards to that list too. All three admitted they were jealous of Zep's instant popularity.

[@christopherekin1747]

@@gostrum1 It was total jealousy.. They could not handle their enormous success.

[@stevesaltered]

That was truly excellent. Might be time for a real Zep. movie like, like Queens and Eltons, while some of the folks that were there, are still around.

[@adamwatson6916]

Page and plant Wooldridge never allow a movie .

[@stevesaltered]

And that's kinda sad. Plant draws a line when it comes to Zep, unless it benefits him. Page, not so much. Just a non-rock stars opinion, but alot of folks spent alot of money on their records and have showed em alot of love over the years. Peter Grants dead, it might be time to lift the veil a fraction.

[@DaveH-10]

@@adamwatson6916 Plant kept the Zeppelin legend in tact by not selling out. He turned down huge amounts of money for a reunion tour. He knew the band died with Bonzo. IF it were up to page they would be playing state fairs and opening for the puppet show in Spinal Tap. Page only cares about the money.

[@SwampEye1]

He talks about the 2007 O2 London gig as if it were just a nother gig : and again, that broke all records in terms of ticket sales : more than 20 million ticket orders via Internet .... he's pissed of because they never thanked him for what ever ....

[@josepharthurofficial]

Gotta check this out! Thanks for sharing!

[@SwampEye1]

@@josepharthurofficial ... so what do you think, ... ?

[@tbc1809]

What's Swan Song .. You got to kidding me

[@Frip36]

Advice to the interviewer. When a guest is a good talker there is no need to toss in agreement signals or "wows". A few is ok. Too many here. Plus your mic is way boomier than his. So he gets drowned out. And it's just distracting. Goldberg is conveying how big Zepp were just fine. No need to thunder down all the sudden with "MASSSSIVEEE". Yeah, we get it. Sometimes it was good. Like when you said "CRUSHING IT". That summed it up well. Danny is a good interview. However he has that NY demeanor so he seems like he's bothered by questions. Note to 3rd guy. When a slightly ornery older dude is in the middle of a story, never suddenly pipe in with, "What year was this?" They can't remember and it doesn't effing matter. It throws off the story as the guy stutters around thinking of the correct year.

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

ROLLING STONE shot his own foot many times, trashing albums that we consider as classics now

[@Slipmahoney21]

Manager Peter Green?? WTF dude..at least learn a little about the band you are talking about.

[@paulbaldasare2700]

Fire your co-host... Who's Swan Song? Spends 5 minutes explaining how and why he got the VP title... co-host What did you do as VP at Swan Song?

[@davidmorgen4558]

Preety things signed to Swan Song,Kind of cool!.Phil may..

[@kevinparker9692]

Danny was also trying to help Iggy Pop,trying to make the new doors.To bad this interviewer didn't bring this up but he can't tell the difference between Peter Green and Peter Grant !

[@Amy-xw7sd]

Ugh. I’m sure interviewer has never heard a Greeny song! Glad Danny gave him kudos 💚🎸 These two are not good at this, Danny even seems annoyed at times!

[@lilmoe4364]

Haven't you ever heard of a slip of the tongue? You clowns lol

[@kensalazar5066]

Very very cool interview, Danny a lucky guy, seems a good guy too..I'd wager to say, standing at about 6ft 2 or so, Mr. Peter Grant was well over 3 hundg....it is The MLZ!!

[@avalondreaming1433]

The fans made Led Zeppelin!!

[@antarcticorb9197]

No, Led Zeppelin made Led Zeppelin.

[@Colstonewall]

American Fans "made" Led Zeppelin.

[@garygalowski9192]

@@Colstonewall 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👎 WITHOUT A FREAKIN' DOUBT...!!!!!!!

[@BBaldwin]

The fans wouldn’t have been there without the stunning catalogue…

[@antarcticorb9197]

@@Colstonewall define made then. If you mean popularity, yes. But even the members realized the first time they played together something was happening...

[@vintagevinylvets1187]

Danny Goldberg is a very interesting. guy, would love to hear more, but the interviewer kept interrupting like he was battling Danny over the mic. He did a horrible job.🙄🤬🎧

[@lucasdelaluz2159]

Interviewer needs to stop interrupting and laugh at his own jokes.

[@billschwenke790]

Esquire mag has online Page interview from 2020 talk about Zeps anniversary 50th, fans on KZbin couldn't wait for delayed response officially and put out new mixes of live 1970s Zep soundboards, just flat out amazing stuff! Jimmy Page says Good Times as their first exposure track changed drumming forever after that fateful day, in honor of 40th anniversary losing John Henry Bonham

[@adamwatson6916]

Page will only put put multitrack tapes . He will not release soundbaords . He does not the sound quality of Basic 2 track SB tapes. He can't edit them the way he likes and you can't really remix soundboard tapes . You can Eq them a little different and remaster them but you can't go back to the individual instrument tracks and rmrix because their are no tracks to go back.. they are just recordings of the house mix .

[@galileogalilei7782]

Danny belong to zepp Lore…like Richard Cole

[@seanmurphy26]

Second time that I have had the displeasure of listening to this interviewer! The first time was Mark lanagan, it is exactly the same. The interviewer's ego will not let the guest speak!

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Peter was the Guardian over Led Zeppelin. There are so many ways to get f'd over in the Music Business. What Peter's great failing was though, imo, was he admittedly didn't want other people selling photos and making money off of the band, yet he never found a way to really capitalize on the Millions of dollars that could have been made on Zeppelin merchandising their own brand. With t-shirts for example. There should have been a mail order business for that starting in 1973. And not filming more live concerts and releasing live albums back in the day. I don't know who decided to make TSRTS only a double LP, but that was big mistake. Other supergroups did very well releasing 3 and 4 album live sets: Chicago, ELP, Wings, etc.

[@brotherdaveseattle2791]

Interviewer needs to zip it

[@richardpusateri3667]

Did the interviewer ever consider giving it a rest and stop interrupting and distracting Danny from telling his great stories?

[@butterfly2604]

Does this Interviewer know Anything about Anything? He's talking to the Man ,just be quiet and learn something!

[@lstarrtna4288]

Guy with beard who is talking?

[@sdthrutheroof9161]

Goes to show what a POS Rolling Stone Magazine was and still is. Giving a Zeppelin album a terrible review?? This guy has seen shows and met famous Rock Stars that the rest of us can only Dream of!! Cool Interview!!

[@palacerevolution2000]

This could have been much better; if the host had kept his inane, mundane comments to himself. D.G. has been an insider of the rock world. Let the man tell stories.

[@issacrodriguez91]

LET HIM TALK!

[@steveshattah]

2:54 Effin radio had blossomed.

[@scottyj946]

Horrible, out of the know host! Clueless! How did he ever get this interview??

[@michaelknight4041]

They did things their own way. When you're led zeppelin you can write your own rules.

[@JoeJoe-ov1te]

According to 'Hammer Of The God's,' Bonham regularly badgered this guy...the brunt of a lot of pranks. Just that alone would be a cool thing to have on a resume'

[@DCB728]

"What's Swan Song"? Are you kidding me?

[@patrickmcelhone1446]

Very interesting guy

[@vultureculture4677]

Dude the Interruptions are annoying bro. Ruins the flow.

[@richardboughton8338]

These two guys have obviously not read the Joe Rogan playbook.. Shuddup and listen.

[@gregorygermann5975]

Interviewer's waaaay tooo stoooned

[@markcreamer4649]

Please STOP interrupting the guy Horrible interviewer

[@lennarthallberg9918]

Too many critics have liked to make themselves look important by lifting up somebody and by destroying somebody else.

[@kennethgambone5743]

What a life u must of had Mr Goldberg

[@josepharthurofficial]

A life, indeed!

[@robertwheatley2471]

4:46 ... right there. Which is why the critics hated Zeppelin because LZ wasn't "their baby" and they (critics) were completely irrelevant..

[@campcrafter4613]

Cool guy!

[@peterstone6405]

What's Swan Song? Guy is clueless

[@60zeller]

Rolling Stone always crapped on there albums just because they would not do interviews with them

[@anthonystrother2381]

Wow. Peter green? REALLY DUDE

[@ChasingTone666]

I could listen to him talk Zeppelin all day and night but the interviewer should just let him talk. For God sake stop interrupting and realize what a treat you have sitting in front of you.

[@willdenham]

I think it's funny that this guy managed Nirvana and was a promoter for one of the bands, probably on Kurt's shitlist.

[@icelandicat68]

led zip it man.

[@stephenreeds3632]

Rock music critics....got to be the most useless, pointless job. Not surprised that Zeppelin wouldn't talk to them.

[@peterstone6405]

Jees, will this guy let Danny talk, no one wants to here the host

[@mjh5437]

This interviewer should learn to just ask the question then keep his mouth shut until the interviewee has finished telling their stories,

[@josepharthurofficial]

It’s more a dialogue, but appreciate your input!

[@tombutler3598]

PLEASE stop interrupting the person in the middle of their stories. A great story becomes a mediocre story with your constant interruptions.

[@bishlap]

who's the UBER ANNOYING "host? He never shuts up and constantly interrupts.

[@richardl2268]

Interviewer looks like Bonzo twin doppelganger clone.

[@OCCUPIEDNATION]

100% loved this - DANNY GOLDBERG was definitely the perfect match as publicist.

[@frontman62]

Good apart from the sycophant interviewing him..

[@rickjason215]

Zeppelin came from the Yardbirds, who the critics liked. Ridiculous to give bad reviews.