Thursday, September 17, 2015

On This Day 17 September

"This is my invitation, I want to change your destination..."
~ Cadillac, from The Firm's Mean Business album
1984 17 September On This Day Jimmy Page with The Firm – finished recording Long Black Cadillac at The Sol
  • 1968 Led Zeppelin - Malmo, Sweden at Folkets Park 
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Honolulu, HI at Honolulu Civic Auditorium
  • 1984 Jimmy Page with The Firm – finished recording Long Black Cadillac at The Sol
  • 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Mesa, AZ at Mesa Amphitheatre
  • 2013 Jimmy Page attends Queens of the Stone Age concert

1971 Led Zeppelin - Honolulu, HI at Honolulu Civic Auditorium (day 2)
1984:
Given the experience of all the members of Jimmy Page's band, The Firm, it's no wonder they were able to record songs in one take. Recorded and mixed at Jimmy Page's Sol Studios in Berkshire, England, Cadillac appeared on The Firm's second album released in 1986, Mean Business.  There, it is just plain Cadillac, not to be confused with various versions of The Long Black Cadillac performed by other artists, light-years different from The Firm's song. Jimmy Page's Cadillac is dark and dirty. Magick oozes from his guitar.
As far as that version of "Cadillac" goes, we were lucky to get it. Because it was a live number and you can't do that in a room with a couple of takes because it has to be alive...
~ Jimmy Page, Guitar World July 1986, page 87
The Firm and Mean Business never did take off, though they were decently high on the charts. People still were expecting the Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, when in fact there was - and is - much more to Jimmy Page than that. A shame, to be so blind to that lovely musical Magick.

2013 Jimmy Page backstage at Queens of the Stone Age (Ross Halfin photo)

2013 Jimmy Page with Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen backstage at
Queens of the Stone Age concert (Ross Halfin photo)

2013 Jimmy Page and Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age


♪  Cadillac (Jimmy Page The Firm, Mean Business 1986) YouTube
♪  Cadillac (Jimmy Page The Firm, Birmingham England 1985) YouTube
♪  Full set (Jimmy Page Outrider Tour, Mesa 1988) YouTube


 

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