The original promo for “Good Times, Bad Times”, the opening track on Led Zeppelin’s debut LP, has been found in the archive of the Atlanta TV show ‘The Now Explosion’.
The colour footage, which shows the band miming on stage at Thee Image Club in Miami, Florida on February 14, 1969, was unearthed in the Walter J. Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia when band fanatic ‘Zep Head’ submitted a request for a digital copy of anything in the archive mentioning his idols.
It is believed the promotional video was filmed for “The Rick Shaw Show”, which aired on Miami network WLBW, now known as WPLG. Rick Shaw later hosted “The Now Explosion” which began broadcasting on March 14, 1970.
This video is now a companion piece to another, more well-known, grainy black & white video of the band performing ‘Communication Breakdown’ during the same visit.
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Source: Led Zeppelin News
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