On this day 25 July

 "He was such a stylist.  I don't think anybody ever managed to play the same way as Scotty."

~ Jimmy Page, at Gibson guitar party for Scotty Moore, 1999

1999 25 July On This Day Jimmy Page presents Gibson Signature guitar to Scotty Moore
♪  Mystery Train (Jimmy Page) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Bath, England at Bath Pavilion
• 1967 The Yardbirds - San Francisco, CA at Fillmore Auditorium
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - West Allis/Milwaukee WI at Midwest Rock Festival 
• 1995 Page & Plant  Unledded Tour - London at Wembley Arena 

Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (1931-) is an American guitarist and recording engineer who backed Elvis Presley between 1954 and the beginning of the Hollywood years. Many of his performances are considered precedent-setting.  He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

Scotty Moore used a thumbpick (a flat pick with a loop to slip your thumb into) to create his own unique finger-picking style. He also used an EchoSonic guitar amplifier with built-in tape echo.  He started out with a Gibson ES-295. Gibson created a Scotty Moore Signature guitar that was presented to Moore at a private party at North London's Air Studios.  (At about 3:19 on the video hear Jeff Beck tell Jimmy Page to shut up!)

Associated Independent Recording (AIR) was founded in 1965 by Beatles producer Sir George Martin and his partner John Burgess.  The  studio has operated in three locations: Oxford Street, London (1970-1991), Montserrat Island, West Indies (mid 1970s-1989) and AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London (1991-present).  

1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - London at Wembley Arena

♪  White Summer/Black Mountain Side (Led Zeppelin, Midwest Rock Festival Milwaukee 1969) YouTube
♪  Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin, Midwest Rock Festival Milwaukee 1969) YouTube

♪  Orchestra soundcheck (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube
♪  Wanton Song (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube
♪  The Song Remains the Same  (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube
♪  Full show  (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube

On This Day 07 July

 Honoring Bonzo on this day

1980 07 July On This Day  Led Zeppelin, Berlin  Final show

1980 07 July On This Day Led Zeppelin Berlin

• 1968 Yardbirds -Beds, England at Student Union, Luton College
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Chicago at Chicago Stadium
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Berlin, Germany at Eissporthalle Jafféstraße ^^^
• 1998 Page & Plant - Washington, DC at MCI Center
• 2001 Page & Plant - Montreux Festival, with Bill Jennings and Mike Watts 

Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin  Chicago 1973

Led Zeppelin  Chicago 1973

2001 Page & Plant Montreux Jazz Festival

2001:
This night at Montreux was a tribute to Sun Records, founded by Sam Phillips.  Phillips was a DJ, radio engineer, producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the 1940s and 1950s.  In 1950 he started up the Memphis Recording Service for amateurs (then!) such as B.B. King, Junior Parker, and Howlin' Wolf.  Phillips launched the Sun Records label in 1952.  The Memphis Recording Service became the Sun Recording Studio, which was the first to record Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.  Phillips recorded what may be the first rock and roll record: "Rocket 88" (discussed previously in Mage Music).

At Montreux, Page & Plant were introduced by Claude Nobs and Ahmet Ertegun. The playlist below provides links to the original versions that Page & Plant covered, with the final link being the 2001 Montreux show.

2014 Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin Photo)

2014 July Guitar World cover (Ross Halfin Photo)

♪ Led Zeppelin (Chicago IL at Chicago Stadium, 07 July 1973)

♪ Led Zeppelin (Berlin Germany at Eissporthalle Jafféstraße, 07 July 1980)

Montreux 2001:
♪  Good Rockin' Tonight (Roy Brown) YouTube
♪  My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (Sonny Burgess) YouTube
♪  Heart in Your Hand (Page & Plant, Walking Into Clarksdale 1998) YouTube
♪  Candy Store Rock (Led Zeppelin, Presence 1976) YouTube
♪  Endless Sleep (Jody Reynolds) YouTube
♪  How Many More Years  (Howlin’ Wolf) YouTube
♪  My Baby Left Me  (Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup) YouTube
♪  Baby Let's Play House  (Arthur Gunter) YouTube

♪  Live at Montreux ( Page & Plant 2001) YouTube

On This Day 30 May

Page & Plant & Presley & Ellis and Jones & Bonham too!

1998 30 May On This Day Page & Plant - Tupelo, MS at Tupelo Coliseum

1998 30 May On This Day Page & Plant - tour book

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Riverside, CA at The Purple Haze
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Fillmore East (2 sets)
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Landover MD at Capital Centre
• 1998 30 May On This Day Page & Plant - Tupelo, MS at Tupelo Coliseum

1969 Jimmy Page backstage, Fillmore East

1977:
From Dave Lewis' The Concert File (p291):

Peter grant recalled: "I was invited to dinner at the Russian Embassy and all the guests came to the gig. I think it was Landover... they all want to sit on the side of the stage. Jonesy then plays variations from Rachmaninov during No Quarter and the Russian guests are just blown away.

1977 Jimmy Page at Landover  Photo credit: L Hensley

1977 John Bonham at Landover - just because it's a great shot  Photo credit: L Hensley

1998:
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo MS, where the Elvis Presley Birthplace & Museum is now located.  . Jimmy Page and Robert Plant visited the museum after their Tupelo show.

Elvis Presley as a young boy in Tupelo

2015 Jimmy Page and Royston Ellis

♪

♪ Tupelo (John Lee Hooker, 1960) SoundCloud
♪ I Can't Quit You (Led Zeppelin, Fillmore East 1969) YouTube
♪ Home movie (Vince Cavo and friends document their road trip from Utica, NY to Landover, with brief cuts from the 30 May 1977 concert)
♪ Full set (Led Zeppelin, Landover 30 May 1977) YouTube playlist

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube

On This Day 22 August

1969 22 August On This Day Led Zeppelin - Dania, FL at Pirates' World
♪ Keep a Knocking (Little Richard) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Malibu, CA - Dick Clark's TV Show Where The Action Is
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Dania, FL at Pirates' World
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Fort Worth, TX at Tarrant County Arena
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
• 1994 Page & Plant Unledded project - at London Studios setting up studio shoot and also orchestra rehearsals

I've never been into Elvis Presley's music. My stacks of 45 RPM discs were all Motown back in the day and those musical preferences haven't changed in all those years. Give me Little Richard, not Elvis. But give me Led Zeppelin before any other.   

1971 JimmyPage/Led Zeppelin - LA Forum (photo H Mylett collection)

2014 12 November, Jimmy Page/Chris Cornell interview (Jill Jarrett photo)
Wasn't on this day, but I like the photo

♪  8mm audience film (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1971) YouTube
♪  Long Tall Sally & Tutti Frutti (Little Richard 1956) YouTube
♪  Long Tall Sally (Elvis Presley 1956) YouTube
♪  Long Tall Sally (Led Zeppelin, Royal Albert Hall 1970) YouTube

On This Day 25 July

"He was such a stylist.  I don't think anybody ever managed to play the same way as Scotty."

~ Jimmy Page, at Gibson guitar party for Scotty Moore, 1999

1999 25 July On This Day Jimmy Page presents Gibson Signature guitar to Scotty Moore
♪  Mystery Train (Jimmy Page) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Bath, England at Bath Pavilion
• 1967 The Yardbirds - San Francisco, CA at Fillmore Auditorium
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - West Allis/Milwaukee WI at Midwest Rock Festival 
• 1995 Page & Plant  Unledded Tour - London at Wembley Arena 

Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (1931-) is an American guitarist and recording engineer who backed Elvis Presley between 1954 and the beginning of the Hollywood years. Many of his performances are considered precedent-setting.  He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

Scotty Moore used a thumbpick (a flat pick with a loop to slip your thumb into) to create his own unique finger-picking style. He also used an EchoSonic guitar amplifier with built-in tape echo.  He started out with a Gibson ES-295. Gibson created a Scotty Moore Signature guitar that was presented to Moore at a private party at North London's Air Studios.  (At about 3:19 on the video hear Jeff Beck tell Jimmy Page to shut up!)

Associated Independent Recording (AIR) was founded in 1965 by Beatles producer Sir George Martin and his partner John Burgess.  The  studio has operated in three locations: Oxford Street, London (1970-1991), Montserrat Island, West Indies (mid 1970s-1989) and AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London (1991-present).  

1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - London at Wembley Arena

♪  White Summer/Black Mountain Side (Led Zeppelin, Midwest Rock Festival Milwaukee 1969) YouTube
♪  Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin, Midwest Rock Festival Milwaukee 1969) YouTube

♪  Orchestra soundcheck (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube
♪  Wanton Song (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube
♪  The Song Remains the Same  (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube
♪  Full show  (Page & Plant, Wembley 1995) YouTube

On This Day 07 July

Honoring Bonzo on this day

1980 07 July On This Day  Led Zeppelin, Berlin  Final show

1980 07 July On This Day Led Zeppelin Berlin

• 1968 Yardbirds -Beds, England at Student Union, Luton College
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Chicago at Chicago Stadium
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Berlin, Germany at Eissporthalle Jafféstraße ^^^
• 1998 Page & Plant - Washington, DC at MCI Center
• 2001 Page & Plant - Montreux Festival, with Bill Jennings and Mike Watts 

Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin  Chicago 1973

Led Zeppelin  Chicago 1973

2001 Page & Plant Montreux Jazz Festival

2001:
This night at Montreux was a tribute to Sun Records, founded by Sam Phillips.  Phillips was a DJ, radio engineer, producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the 1940s and 1950s.  In 1950 he started up the Memphis Recording Service for amateurs (then!) such as B.B. King, Junior Parker, and Howlin' Wolf.  Phillips launched the Sun Records label in 1952.  The Memphis Recording Service became the Sun Recording Studio, which was the first to record Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.  Phillips recorded what may be the first rock and roll record: "Rocket 88" (discussed previously in Mage Music).

At Montreux, Page & Plant were introduced by Claude Nobs and Ahmet Ertegun. The playlist below provides links to the original versions that Page & Plant covered, with the final link being the 2001 Montreux show.

2014 Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin Photo)

2014 July Guitar World cover (Ross Halfin Photo)

♪  Good Rockin' Tonight (Roy Brown) YouTube
♪  My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (Sonny Burgess) YouTube
♪  Heart in Your Hand (Page & Plant, Walking Into Clarksdale 1998) YouTube
♪  Candy Store Rock (Led Zeppelin, Presence 1976) YouTube
♪  Endless Sleep (Jody Reynolds) YouTube
♪  How Many More Years  (Howlin’ Wolf) YouTube
♪  My Baby Left Me  (Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup) YouTube
♪  Baby Let's Play House  (Arthur Gunter) YouTube

♪  Live at Montreux ( Page & Plant 2001) YouTube

On This Day 30 May

Page & Plant & Presley.

1998 30 May On This Day Page & Plant - Tupelo, MS at Tupelo Coliseum

1998 30 May On This Day Page & Plant - tour book

Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo MS.  Page & Plant visited The Elvis Presley Birthplace & Museum after their Tupelo show.

Elvis Presley as a young boy in Tupelo

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Riverside, CA at The Purple Haze
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Fillmore East
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Landover MD at Capital Centre
• 1998 30 May On This Day Page & Plant - Tupelo, MS at Tupelo Coliseum

1977 Jimmy Page at Landover  Photo credit: L Hensley

1977 John Bonham at Landover - just because it's a great shot  Photo credit: L Hensley

♪  Tupelo (John Lee Hooker, 1960)  SoundCloud

♪  I Can't Quit You (Led Zeppelin, Fillmore East 1969)  YouTube

♪  Home movie (Vince Cavo and friends document their road trip from Utica, NY to Landover, with brief cuts from the concert May 30, 1977)