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Sep 17, 2026
Jake BrennanHOST
Susan and Ron in the 615 write in, "Supergroups, hubby and I had to debate this one.
Jake BrennanHOST
My first choice, The Firm.
Jake BrennanHOST
Hubby's choice, Damn Yankees.
Jake BrennanHOST
But after much debate, we went with Cream or The Traveling Wilburys." Susan, uh, let your hubby know that The Firm was the first real concert I saw.
Jake BrennanHOST
I'd seen The Ramones in a club prior to this, but The Firm I saw at the Worcester Centrum in the fifth grade.
Jake BrennanHOST
My dad took me.
Jake BrennanHOST
Jimmy Page up there on stage.
Mike GaramGUEST
I, I mean, it's...
Mike GaramGUEST
Look, you even had, um, you even had The Firm with, uh, R- Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page, and as great as that first Firm album was, you know, it just kinda didn't go anywhere.
Mike GaramGUEST
So I sorta think that music was kind of not, it was gonna lose its luster with a new generation.
Eric SenichHOST
Similar to the Van Halen story, you know, I think what have happened is, uh, after, after that MTV era settles down a little bit, get to the early '90s maybe, somewhere around there, um, we have Plant coming back, because Bonham's alive in this scenario, that, uh, the band gets back together.
Alan CoxHOST
Thank you very much.
Alan CoxHOST
How about The Firm? Remember The Firm? Oh, yeah.
Alan CoxHOST
Paul Rogers and Jimmy Page.
Alan CoxHOST
Yep.
Jeff BlissHOST
Let me just name a couple.
Jeff BlissHOST
Carmen Rojas, who is David Bowie's bassist, and Scott Page, the saxophonist for Pink Floyd and Supertramp, and Tony Franklin, who played with the firm, and Liberty DeVito, who played drums for Billy Joel.
Jeff BlissHOST
I mean, and the list goes on.
Jeff BlissHOST
Bernard Purdy, probably one of the most famous drummers of the 20th century.
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Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
And then I brought in Will McFarlane from Bonnie Raitt's band and the Muscle Shoals Swampers, and he'd come out and played.
Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
And then I figured in, I think it was March or February of 23, I think it was March actually, I thought I would do it with a band.
Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
So I called our mutual friend Scott Page from Pink Floyd, and I called Tony Franklin, who played bass for The Firm, but Jimmy Page called Rockers.
Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
And I called our buddy Kenny Olson, who played guitar for Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band.
Martin PopoffHOST
Here's a good one.
Martin PopoffHOST
The firm mean business and the first firm.
Martin PopoffHOST
I said, well, I guess mean business mostly because this album cover is ambitious, classy, artistic, intriguing, everything the band isn't.
Martin PopoffHOST
The band is casual, crappy, bad songwriting, bad recording, just bad chemistry between these guys, a disaster, frankly.
JaredHOST
I've gotta l- I've gotta buy every Free album, every Bad Company album, even when they had alternative singers through the '90s.
JaredHOST
I gotta buy everything Paul Rodgers ever did, um, including his tribute to Muddy Waters and the work he did with Jimmy Page on The Firm.
JaredHOST
[laughs] I mean, it's just-
JakeHOST
Right
MarkHOST
I am Mark And this is my podcast.
MarkHOST
If this is your first time here, what I do is every week I play a live recording, also known as a bootleg, which is an unofficial, not released recording, not the kind of thing you can buy on Amazon or get in a store of Led Zeppelin or a Led Zeppelin adjacent project like The Firm or Robert Plant Solo or Jonesy, you know, stuff like that related to Led Zeppelin with Led Zeppelin people in them, but maybe not necessarily in the band.
MarkHOST
And I play some songs, give some context, we listen to some cool music, and then we all go on our merry way.
MarkHOST
And this week, what we are listening to is a super-duper cool demix remix by Chai166, who we have listened to before and think is pretty cool.
MarkHOST
Unofficial recordings usually made by people who sneak gear into the venue or people who abscond with soundboard tapes or something.
MarkHOST
In any case, it is a recording that of the firm jimmy page paul rogers tony franklin and chris slade in atlanta georgia on april 18th 1985 is it april 18th let me see april 18th there we go purple tulips for those who know yay and um Yeah, that's what I do.
MarkHOST
I play some songs.
MarkHOST
We talk about it.
MarkHOST
But the TLDR of it all is we hear some live music that otherwise you really wouldn't have an opportunity to hear or be very rare.
MarkHOST
I mean, you know, I'm assuming you guys all have free will so you can find this stuff.
MarkHOST
But This is particularly a lovely audience tape of the firm, Atlanta, Georgia, April 18th, 1985.
MarkHOST
Like I said, and the set list is as follows.
DanHOST
First to join was drum- drummer Cozy Powell, who played with Sykes in Whitesnake from '84 to '85.
DanHOST
Then he gets bassist Tony Franklin from The Firm.
DanHOST
We've done that album review.
AndyHOST
Yeah, yeah.
DanHOST
Uh, you know, Ben F- uh, Tony Franklin.
DanHOST
And The Firm was a supergroup as well.
AndyHOST
Yeah.
DanHOST
So the husband of Franklin's cousin was working at Sykes' studio.