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...Here is The Original Article from which Las Vegas mystery concert Fanviews extend...
Sunday, September 09, 2001
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
COLUMN: Mike Weatherford
Readers remember The Doors
Jim, be careful how you undulate on that ice! Hey Kurt, can you sign my dressing room?
Last Sunday I claimed Madonna was the last active music star who hadn't played Las Vegas, and asked readers to share memories of rare shows by icons now in rock 'n' roll heaven.
There were plenty of responses, many centering on The Doors playing the Ice Palace skating rink in Commercial Center.
Review-Journal alumna and Preferred Public Relations President Michele Tell referred me to her uncle, Mike Tell, who promoted the concert.
He couldn't confirm the date, listed on some Web sites as Nov. 1, 1969. But he remembers that because Jim Morrison had been arrested for lewd behavior in Miami, both performer and promoter were threatened with arrest.
"There were more security guards and policemen around that stage than you've ever seen," Tell recalls. Morrison was "so intimidated that when he sang, he didn't move."
Michele Tell met Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek a few years ago. He remembered the show for a different reason: "Because they just put flat boards down on the ice, it was freezing," he told her.
What's striking now is how rock concerts were treated by local authorities as a suspicious enterprise, miles removed from the "legitimacy" of the Strip, which was focused on Eddie Fisher and Phil Harris the night of The Doors' visit.
Jon Jacobsen writes that Janis Joplin was "one that got away" in 1969.
"The city and Sheriff Ralph Lamb would not give the promoter a concert permit, saying that the city would be invaded by the Hell's Angels and the youth of Las Vegas corrupted."
Readers Dan Kempf and Sherrill Denley are convinced Led Zeppelin also played the Ice Palace, though a scholarly Web site lists no date.
"Led Zepplins," as the Las Vegas Sun called the band, canceled an April 1970 concert after Robert Plant collapsed onstage in Phoenix the night before.
Some high school students had planned to protest the $6 ticket price.
Do you think any of them paid $75 to see Plant and Jimmy Page at the MGM in 1998?
In the modern era, Nirvana was the rare group not to play here after its landmark "Nevermind" album.
But Craig Alan Boyle, who managed Calamity Jayne's on Boulder Highway, remembers the band opening for Sonic Youth on Aug. 16, 1990. "They were booed offstage by the restless crowd," Boyle recalls. "I personally was in the dressing room watching Kurt Cobain throw a fit
following his set. Before their performance, Kurt and the rest of the band signed the walls of the dressing room.
"Unfortunately," he reports, "new owners not realizing the historic significance, painted the walls in the mid-'90s."
Mike Weatherford's entertainment column appears Tuesdays and Sundays.
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Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
Richard Cole with Richard Trubo
Originally Published: New York:HarperCollins Publishers, 1992
Excerpt - Page 95 - Summer 1969 Tour
....The Zeppelin wives joined us for a few days during that tour, including some of the shows in Las Vegas and other West Coast cities......On this particular tour, I figured that by pulling a few strings, I could get us some front-row seats to Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel.....That afternoon, I had called Bill Miller, the entertainment director at the International,....My name is Richard Cole, "I told him." That night, we had front-row tables. It was the first time any of us have seen Elvis performed......
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Maureen Plant is present during the Seattle Pop Festival...... July 26, 1969
Robert Plant watched with his wife Maureen during the Doors' set, eventually weighing in on it during an interview with Ritchie Yorke for the New Musical Express.
http://onthisdayinledzeppelinhistory.blogspot.com/2009/07/ol-blue-eyes-mudsharks-and-heavyweight.html
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Promoter in question, Michael Tell's family/siblings influence extends highly into Caesar's Palace in the year of 1969...for hospitality services...
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