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Heart's Nancy and Ann Wilson are big Led Zeppelin fans and memorably covered "Stairway to Heaven" in front of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in 2012, but the first time the Wilson sisters ever saw the legendary band in May of 1969 they actually walked out of the show. Nancy recalled the story during a recent episode of Premier Guitar's 100 Guitarists podcast dedicated to Page.
Nancy remembered thinking "the singer, he’s so suggestive," when they saw Led Zeppelin at the Green Lake Aqua Theater in Seattle. "He’s got his shirt wide open, he’s got his bare chest and his jeans were really low riders and he was moving in this way that was so super-suggestive and we were kind of shocked. We’re like, ‘Oh, my God.'”
“We were in a little folk band at the time," she noted. "We were from the suburbs. So we were kind of square, square little hippie chicks to be unenlightened, let’s just say. And so, we were like, ‘Oh, they’re so loud. They’re just being so suggestive and loud.'"
When Plant started singing "The Lemon Song," it was all over. “Then, he sang about like ‘Squeeze My Lemon’ and we’re like, ‘Oh, we must leave, we must leave the premises’ because we were just shocked," Nancy confessed. "So, we actually walked out on at the Green Lake Aqua Theater. We were scandalized, and we walked away."
Watch the whole podcast episode below.