On this day 18 August

 Keep that train a rollin', Mr. Page!

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival
♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Tulsa, OK at Tulsa Assembly Center Exhibit Hall
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile
• 1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith - Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England at Monsters Of Rock Festival

1969:
"The most amazing thing was the improvement in the group since its first appearance here last February, when it was a fledgling blues band. It had the ideas and the dynamics, but the expertise was yet to develop."
~ (Richie Yorke, The Globe and Mail, Aug. '69)

1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile (first show) (D Richardson photo)

1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile (second show) (D McClement photo)

1990:
Monsters of Rock was an annual rock and heavy metal music festival begun in 1979 at Castle Donington, England. It branched out to other countries and then fizzled out in the late 1990s. Castle Donington has hosted the Download Festival since 2003.

In his autobiography, Joe Perry wrote about his introduction to rock and roll when he was a teen: "This band called the Yardbirds...had guitars that sound like nothing I'd ever heard before." By Donington in 1990, Perry had been a huge Jimmy Page fan for decades.

In 1990 Whitesnake was back at Monsters of Rock Festival for the third time, and Aerosmith was to perform there for the first time. David Coverdale, of course, was/is the frontman for Whitesnake. Coverdale had been giving some thought to breaking up the band. He was tired of the music business, tired of touring, and was having problems in his personal life.  He told interviewers that he wanted time to reassess his live and career.

As it turned out, his retirement was brief. Both he and Jimmy Page were signed up with Geffen Records, and by the following year the two had collaborated on the Coverdale/Page album.

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival

♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Toronto - second show 1969) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times (Page & Plant, MGM Grand Las Vegas 1998) YouTube
♪  Onstage and backstage (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith, Donington 1990) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe, recorded during Outrider sessions 1988) YouTube

On this day 05 August

Can you imagine Jimmy Page playing in a department store?  Those were the days...

1966 05 August Jimmy Page with Yardbirds in Minneapolis
♪  Psycho Daisies (The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page bass 1966) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Minneapolis,MN at Dayton Department Store,8th Floor Auditorium 

1966

Or maybe 1966 wasn't the only time.. Jimmy Page played "Whole Lotta Love" at the New York Stock Exchange opening bell on May 11, 2005 in support of Warner Music Group. Not a lot of difference between that and a department store, I think. 

Looks like not a lot of noteworthy stuff was going on in Jimmy Page's life on this day, so I'm taking the day off, too. The music links below are not necessarily from 05 August.

1966 Jimmy Page with Yardbirds in Minneapolis

Jimmy Page July 2015 Toronto (Moe Doiron photo for Globe and Mail)

♪  Psycho Daisies (The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page bass 1966) YouTube
♪  Baby Come On Home (Led Zeppelin  Coda) Dailymotion
♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Royal Albert Hall 1970) YouTube

On this day 28 June

Splish splash takin' a Bath

1969 and 1970 28 June On This Day - Led Zeppelin at Bath Festivals

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Bath, England at Bath Pavilion Recreation Ground
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Shepton Mallet, England at Royal Bath & West Showground
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Tucson, AZ at Tucson Community Theatre
• 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Stockholm Sweden at Maritime Museum
• 2000 Jimmy Page - The Black Crowes - Pittsburgh, PA at  Star Lake Amphitheatre

1969:
The Bath Festival of Blues was held at the Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England, on 28 June 1969. The headline act was Fleetwood Mac. The festival was produced by Wendy and Freddy Bannister, London club show promoters. All 30,000 tickets were sold out in the first week. Led Zeppelin had only played their first show nine months before, and this was the band's biggest UK audience to date. As we know, things would be drastically different very quickly.
Bath got its name from the hot springs that were shrines in prehistoric times and later developed by the Romans and others into public baths. Bath is said to have been where King Arthur's defeated the Anglo-Saxons.

1970:
The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was held at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England on 27–29 June 1970. Led Zeppelin was the headline act. This location, about 20 mi (32 km) south of Bath, allowed for a much larger crowd. The logistics were not so great - some of the bands' equipment trucks couldn't get to the site due to the country lanes being blocked by cars. Donovan showed up on the stage on Sunday morning, providing an unscheduled 2½ hour performance because the scheduled band wasn't there yet.

Peter Grant had arranged for Led Zeppelin to hit the stage as the sun was setting. They played to an audience estimated at 200,000 for three hours and performed five encores. The show is considered one of the most important performances of their career.

Plastic bags and raincoats were de rigueur in the audience. A bearded Jimmy Page wore a rain hat and his long overcoat during the show.

"ANOTHER ENCORE – at 10:50pm Zeppelin had won. They had made all the hang-ups worthwhile and given the crowd a night to remember – whatever else happened."
~ MelodyMaker, July 1970

1970 Bath Festival (Photo Terry Farebrother)

1970 28 June Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Bath Festival (Photo Michael Putland)

1972 28 June Led Zeppelin at Tucson (Photo D. Ford)

2000:
The venue for this show has changed names over the years.  Originally it was the Star Lake Amphitheater and it was called the Post-Gazette Pavilion when the Page/Black Crowes show took place.  It is currently named the First Niagara Pavilion.  Burgettstown is a suburb of Pittsburgh.

2000 28 June Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes at Pittsburgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv23iF6jusM&list=PLf62FjbXtD1JSD82WQeT-kGBisk_S49_V&index=28

♪ Led Zeppelin (Tucson AZ at Tucson Community Theatre, 28 June 1972)

♪ Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes (Pittsburgh, PA at  Star Lake Amphitheatre, 28 June 2000) PART 1

♪ Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes (Pittsburgh, PA at  Star Lake Amphitheatre, 28 June 2000) PART 2

On This Day 09 April

1969 09 April On This Day Led Zeppelin, Tolworth England at the Toby Jug

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Miami Beach FL at Thee Image Club (day 2 of 3)
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Tolworth England @ Toby Jug
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Tampa FL at Curtis Hixon Hall
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Chicago IL at Chicago Stadium (day 3 of 4)
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Boston MA at Boston Gardens

1970:
Check out how Jimmy Page handles Becks Bolero at approximately 7:00 in the How Many More Times medley in Tampa. What an extraordinary show that was.

1977:

Day three of Chicago, after a break due to the hockey game at the Chicago Stadium, and this night's show was cut short because our Mr. Page was sick with probable food poisoning.  "If I hadn't sat down I would have fallen over," he said. Various accounts have Jimmy Page swaying, dropping his pick, collapsing onto the drum riser or into a chair that a roadie had brought out for him, throwing up, and/or passing out. No wonder he looked so grumpy in the photos.

The show was to be rescheduled for August, with a promise by Jimmy Page published the next day in Circus to do an "all-request show", but it was not to be.

1977 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Chicago

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♪  White Summer/Black Mountain Side (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) YouTube

♪  Thank You (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) YouTube

♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) YouTube
♪  Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) YouTube

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

NOTICE: April 11 will be the last daily On This Day post as that will be a full year's worth.  I won't post any more unless Jimmy Page's website offers some new ones. Stay tuned for new posts here on the Mage Music blog about the music and Magick of  JIMMY PAGE and previews of new Mage Music projects!

On This Day 30 March

Ooh la la!

1968 30 March On This Day The Yardbirds at Anderson Theatre, NYC

• 1968 The Yardbirds - New York NY at Anderson Theatre
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Southall England at Northcote Arms Farx Club
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Pittsburgh PA at Pittsburgh Civic Arena
• 1998 Page & Plant - Paris France at La Cigale

1968:

Unfortunately for us today, The Yardbirds' shows weren't officially recorded by the band, and what there is out there of audience recordings is usually terrible quality. On this day in 1968 The Yardbirds did two shows at the Anderson Theatre, and Train Kept A-Rollin was recorded for Epic Records. The video link is below.  You won't want to look at it - the video part is not only not synced with the audio, but the video is at a faster speed. Unfortunately also there is fake audience applause dubbed onto the audio. Ewwwww.

1968 Jimmy Page / The Yardbirds, NYC

1968 Jimmy Page / The Yardbirds, NYC

1969:
As reported by Dave Lewis in his amazing reference book, Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, the band's contract for the Farx Club gig included a fee of £75 or 60% of the door, whichever was greater.  Those bargain days didn't last long.

1998 Ooh La La bootleg from Page & Plant at La Cigale, Paris 

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♪  Train Kept A-Rollin (The Yardbirds, New York Anderson Theater 1968) YouTube
♪  When I Was A Child (Page & Plant, La Cigale Paris 1998) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times (Page & Plant, La Cigale Paris 1998) YouTub
♪  Whole Lotta Love (Page & Plant, La Cigale Paris 1998) YouTube

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

On This Day 29 March

Whole lotta is still not enough.

1965 & 1975 29 March On This Day Whole Lotta Page

• 1968 The Yardbirds - West Hartford CT at Conard High School, Senior Class Concert
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - London at Bromley School Of Technology
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Houston TX at Holfheinz Pavillion
• 1986 The Firm – Rochester NY at Rochester Community War Memorial

1986 Jimmy Page / The Firm, Rochester NY

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♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Houston 1970) YouTube
♪  Partial set (The Firm, Rochester 1986) YouTube

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

On This Day 10 March

Please Mr. Page: let it be instrumental, let it be all you!

1967 10 March On This Day Jeff Beck released Hi Ho Silver Lining & Beck's Bolero
AUDIO: Beck's Bolero

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Paris at L'Olympia Music Hall and at a private party for the head of Barclay Records, Eddie Barclay
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Hamburg, Germany at Hamburg Musikhalle
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Canterbury, England at Rutherford College
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - San Diego, CA at San Diego Sports Arena
• 1981 Jimmy Page with Jeff Beck - London, at Hammersmith Odeon, encore
• 1985 The Firm - Denver, CO at McNichols Sports Arena
• 1995 Page & Plant - New Orleans, LA at U.N.O. Lakefront Arena

1967:

I've always wanted to hear a version of Beck's Bolero that was Jimmy Page solely. I think he could put even more majesty into a work that is already majestic. Jimmy Page wrote the piece for Jeff Beck's first solo release and no doubt Mr. Page meant it to showcase what Jeff Beck could do, but we know who could do better because we've heard Mr. Page play snippets of it here and there over the years. The 1967 recording includes John Paul Jones on bass.

Read more about Beck's Bolero in a Mage Music post from 2012. 

1971 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Canterbury

1975 John Paul Jones & Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, San Diego
(Gary Morgan photo)

1981:

On this day Jimmy Page stepped onstage with a guitar for the first time since John Bonham's death to join his friend, Jeff Beck, in an encore number at Beck's show at the Hammersmith Odeon. If there is a recording of the song he played, I'm Going Down, I haven't come across it, but someone must have recorded it and I wanna hear it!

1985 Jimmy Page / The Firm, Denver

1995 Jimmy Page / Page & Plant, New Orleans

2005 Jimmy Page at Jeff Buckley photo exhibit, Proud Gallery, London

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♪ Becks Bolero (Jeff Beck Group 1967) YouTube
♪ How Many More Times medley (Led Zeppelin, Hamburg 10 March 1970) YouTube
♪ Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin, San Diego 1975) YouTube
♪ Full Set (Page & Plant, New Orleans 10 March 1995) YouTube

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

On This Day 09 March

Days of the dragon

1968 09 March On This Day The Yardbirds  Paris, France at Baton Rouge TV show and Faculte D'Assas

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Paris, France at Baton Rouge TV show and Faculte D'Assas
• 1970 Led Zeppelin -Vienna, Austria at Konzerthaus
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Leeds, UK at Leeds University 

1968 Yardbirds, Paris at Faculte D'Assas

1968 Jimmy Page / Yardbirds Paris

1968 Dragon Tele

2009 Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin photo)

2011 Royston Ellis and Jimmy Page, London

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♪  Train Kept A Rollin', Dazed and Confused, Goodnight Sweet Josephine (The Yardbirds, Paris Baton Rouge TV show 1968) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times medley (Led Zeppelin, Vienna 1970) YouTube

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

On This Day 28 February

Hang on to your heads!
~ Robert Plant, Baton Rouge 1975

1970 28 February On This Day Led Zeppelin in Copenhagen

• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Copenhagen, Denmark at K.B. Hallen
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Baton Rouge, LA at LSU Assembly Center
• 1985 The Firm - Dallas, TX at Reunion Arena
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Atlanta, GA at The Omni 

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Copenhagen
(Jan Persson photo)

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Copenhagen
(Jan Persson photo

1975 Led Zeppelin in Baton Rouge

2009:
Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis recorded Whole Lotta Love for broadcast.  On this day Jimmy Page was at Olympic Studios working with Guy Pratt (bass) and Geoff Dugmore (drums).  Philip Sheppard was the producer for London's sequence in the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for this recording session.  The orchestra members were not told that the "James" that Sheppard was talking to on the intercom in the control room was the one and only Jimmy Page, though given the music they were playing they certainly should have suspected.

2009 Guy Pratt, Jimmy Page & Geoff Dugmore at Olympic Studios
 to record Whole Lotta Love with Leona Lewis

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♪  How Many More Times medley (Led Zeppelin, Copenhagen 1970) YouTube
♪  Full set/part 1 unavailable (Led Zeppelin, Baton Rouge 1975) YouTube
♪  Full set/part 2 (Led Zeppelin, Baton Rouge 1975) YouTube
♪  Full set/part 3 (Led Zeppelin, Baton Rouge 1975) YouTube
♪  Full set/part 1 (Page & Plant, Atlanta 1995) YouTube
♪  Full set/part 2 unavailable (Page & Plant, Atlanta 1995) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube