Long-lost promo video for Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times found in University of Georgia archive

[highplainsdem]

https://www.loudersound.com/culture/films-tv-shows/led-zeppelin-good-times-bad-times-the-now-explosion

A rare colour video of Led Zeppelin miming to Good Times Bad Times, the opening track on their 1969 debut album, has been found in the University of Georgia's digital archive.

The footage was originally captured in February 1969 at Thee Image Club on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida. A low-quality, black-and-white film of the band performing Communication Breakdown at the club has been circulating for years, but the Good Times Bad Times clip is in colour and has not been seen for over half a century.

Both videos were reportedly filmed for The Rick Shaw Show, an MTV-type show in Miami featuring the latest rock'n' roll songs being lip-synched by local performers and touring musicians. Hall would later become a VeeJay on The Now Explosion, a show in Atlanta, GA, that featured dancers performing to popular songs, with wild video effects employed to make the clips more psychedelic.

Footage from The Now Explosion has been archived by the University of Georgia's Walter J. Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection, where the Good Times, Bad Times clip was discovered by a Led Zeppelin fan, alongside film of Three Dog Night performing Try A Little Tenderness and James Brown miming I Got You.

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Jimmy playing his Dragon Telecaster...

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Pretty Cool

It would be even cooler if it were truly live, but the article is pretty transparent about artists lio synching their performances.
Man, do they look young there!!!

[highplainsdem]

2. I agree. Love this video of Baby Led Zep.

[Figarosmom]

3. Well that brought me right back

To 1969. Loved it. Thanks for finding that.