Showing posts with label I Can't Quit You Baby. Show all posts
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Monday, November 6, 2023

On this day 06 November

 Don't go - I can't quit you!

1964  06 November - Baby Please Don't Go released

  • 1964 Baby Please Don't Go, by Them with Van Morrison feat. Jimmy Page  released
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Bartlesville, OK at Bartlesville Civic Center
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Tulsa, OK at Tulsa Assembly Center Arena
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, CA at Winterland Ballroom (day 1 of 3)
  • 1998 Page & Plant -  London, England at Wembley Arena 
1964:
The band Them was a Northern Irish group formed in 1964 with founding member, Van Morrison.  They released a number of songs you've no doubt rocked to over the years, including Gloria and Here Comes the Night.

1969
Jimmy Page..."understands the role of accompanist  (to vocalist or instrumentalist) and yet can turn on a tough, biting solo in old style blues or electronic head music with no apparent change of pace." [P.Elwood/Examiner/Nov. 1969]

A double encore at the Winterland Ballroom: Eddie Cochran's C'mon Everybody and Something Else.

1969 Winterland



1998
The second song of the first of Page & Plant's two encores was Ramble On, which Led Zeppelin had never played live in its entirety.

1998





♪  Baby Please Don't Go (Them with Van Morrison, feat. Jimmy Page guitar 1964) 
♪  Led Zeppelin (San Francisco at Winterland,Ballroom 06 November 1969) 
♪  Page & Plant (London, England at Wembley Arena day 2, 06 November 1998)

Sunday, May 29, 2016

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

Saturday, March 19, 2016

On This Day 19 March

Over the years and far away
1969 19 March On This Day Led Zeppelin recorded at BBC Maida Vale
AUDIO Country Line Special (Cyril Davies R&B Allstars)

  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - London at Maida Vale,Studio 4
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Manchester England at University of Manchester
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - Berlin at Deutschlandhalle
  • 1975 Led Zeppelin - Vancouver Canada at Pacific Coliseum (day 1 of 2)
  • 1986 The Firm - Largo MD at Capital Centre 

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, BBC Maida Vale 
1969:
Although this was a BBC recording of Alexis Korner's Rhythm and Blues Show, it wasn't included in the Led Zeppelin BBC CDs.
1971 Led Zeppelin, Manchester

1973 Led Zeppelin, Berlin
1975:
Jimmy Page "... has always been an innovator going back to his Yardbird days and enjoys skirting the peripheries of accepted sounds and forms."
~Press review, CMS, March 1975

1975 Led Zeppelin, Vancouver Canada
1985:
“The main aim is to play some rock ‘n’ roll and have some fun.”
~ Jimmy Page, Page On Stage '85. Interview by Chris Welch, Creem, April 1985



♪  Sunshine Woman (Led Zeppelin, Maida Vale BBC session 1969) YouTube
♪  I Can’t Quit You Baby (Led Zeppelin, Maida Vale BBC session 1969) YouTube
♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin Berlin 1973) YouTube
♪  Over The Hills And Far Away (Led Zeppelin, Vancouver 1975) YouTube
♫  Jimmy Page & Paul Rodgers - Entertainment Tonight interview 1985

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





Tuesday, March 15, 2016

On This Day 15 March

Hot. HOT. HOT!!
1993 15 March On This Day Coverdale/Page released
AUDIO: Shake My Tree (Coverdale Page)

  • 1967 The Yardbirds – Offenbach ,Germany at Stadhalle, Beat Beat Beat TV Show
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Gladsaxe, Denmark at Egegard Skole,Box 45 Teen Club and Brondby,Denmark at Norregards-hallen,Brondby Pop-Club
  • 1985 The Firm - Oakland, CA at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
  • 1986 The Firm - Hollywood, FL at Hollywood Sportatorium
  • 1993 Coverdale/Page album released

1993:
It's no secret I'm a Coverdale/Page fan. I've written about the duo in this blog before HERE and HERE. People who profess to be Jimmy Page fans tend to get stuck in the Led Zeppelin years, dismissing his later work as mere add-ons. I believe Coverdale/Page is an excellent example of why thinking that way is a mistake. 

It's fascinating to follow how Jimmy Page's guitar work has changed over the years. While his earliest work was crisp and technical, the more Mr. Page matured the more emotion he put into the guitar and the deeper, darker and more nebulous the playing got. He pushed the envelope as he plumbed the depths of his psyche and higher meaning. 

Coverdale/Page brings in a maturity to the music that could not exist with Led Zeppelin - the boys were just too young still. Years of living change a person. Fans clamor for more Led Zeppelin but there's no need to hang on to the past when there is so much to reveal about the now. The added layers of experience, of new understanding of what has been lived before, and of knowing that the past is gone forever, gives an emotional depth and poignancy to the collaboration of David Coverdale and Jimmy Page that raises this music to new levels that Mr. Page had not been able to achieve before. 

Plain truth:  Athough Coverdale/Page has been relegated to "imitation Robert Plant", in fact Robert Plant has never tried, as a mature musician, to bring to Jimmy Page what David Coverdale did. 

1993 Coverdale/Page promo photo

Listen to Take Me For A Little While and weep for what has slipped into the past. Listen carefully to this whole album, my friends, because it bears a truth that should truly shake your tree: The best is yet to come.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

On This Day 23 February

He just satisfies!
1965 23 February On This Day Jimmy Page's She Just Satisfies/Keep Moving released

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Coventry, England at Coventry Locarno Ballroom
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Helsinki, Finland at Kulttuuritalo
  • 1998 Page & Plant Europe Spring Tour - Budapest, Hungary at Sports Hall 

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Helsinki Finland

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Helsinki Finland




♪  She Just Satisfies (Jimmy Page, 1965) YouTube
♪  Keep Moving (Jimmy Page, 1965) YouTube
♪  I Can’t Quit You (Led Zeppelin, Helsinki 1970) YouTube
♪  Full set (Page & Plant, Budapest 1998) YouTube

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




Friday, November 6, 2015

On This Day 06 November

Don't go - I can't quit you!
1964  06 November - Baby Please Don't Go released

  • 1964 Baby Please Don't Go, by Them with Van Morrison feat. Jimmy Page  released
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Bartlesville, OK at Bartlesville Civic Center
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Tulsa, OK at Tulsa Assembly Center Arena
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, CA at Winterland Ballroom (day 1 of 3)
  • 1998 Page & Plant -  London, England at Wembley Arena 
1964:
The band Them was a Northern Irish group formed in 1964 with founding member, Van Morrison.  They released a number of songs you've no doubt rocked to over the years, including Gloria and Here Comes the Night.

1969 06 November Led Zeppelin at Winterland




♪  Baby Please Don't Go (Them with Van Morrison, feat. Jimmy Page guitar 1964) YouTube
♪  I Can't Quit You (Led Zeppelin, Winterland 06 November 1969) YouTube

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

On This Day 14 April

Led Zeppelin appeared on BBC Radio's Top Gear 14 April 1969

Led Zeppelin at BBC Radio's Top Gear 14 April 1969

  • 1967 Yardbirds - Vesterhavshallen Fredericia Denmark
  • 1967 Yardbirds - Teatersalen, Ringkjobing Denmark 
  • 1968 Yardbirds - Sun Island Park, NY USA 
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - BBC Radio
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Civic Center, Ottawa ON

1969

This was probably the first Led Zeppelin version of Dazed & Confused recorded for BBC radio, and certainly the first audition panel for Led Zeppelin. 
The setlist is:
  • I Can't Quit You Baby
  • Communication Breakdown
  • Dazed & Confused
The trial broadcast was then sent to the production panel.  Audition report.

These studio sessions and a live concert recorded for the BBC resulted in the multi-disc album, the BBC Sessions released November 1997, which was compiled and mastered by Jimmy Page.  The first disc contains material from four different 1969 BBC sessions; the second contains most of the April 1971 concert from the Paris Theatre in London; the third disc was only included in a limited run of album releases and features interviews from 1969, 1976/1977, and 1990.

Session one
John Peel's Top Gear
Venue: Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London
Recording date: Monday 3 March 1969
Original broadcast: Sunday 23 March 1969 (in a show with sessions from Free, the Moody Blues and Deep Purple)
Tracks: Disc 1; 1, 2 and 4. Also included a version of "Communication Breakdown".
Producer: Bernie Andrews
Engineer: Pete Ritzema
Tape operator: Bob Conduct

Session two
Alexis Korner's Rhythm and Blues, (BBC World Service)
Venue: Maida Vale Studio 4, Delaware Road, London
Recording date: Wednesday 19 March 1969
Original broadcast: Monday 14 April 1969
Tracks: "I Can't Quit You Baby", "You Shook Me" and "Sunshine Woman". The session was wiped or lost by the BBC, although recordings survive on bootlegs. The show was re-run later in 1969, adding the recording of "What Is And What Should Never Be" from the June 16 session.
Producer: Jeff Griffin

Session three
Chris Grant's Tasty Pop Sundae (although originally commissioned for Dave Symond's Symonds On Sunday show)
Venue: Aeolian Hall studio 2, Bond Street, London
Recording Date: Monday 16 June 1969
Original Broadcast: Sunday 22 June 1969
Tracks: Disc 1; 3,5 and 10. The session also included a prototype version of "What Is and What Should Never Be".
Producer: Paul Williams

Session four
John Peel's Top Gear (Double recording session)
Venue: Maida Vale studio 4, Delaware Road, London
Recording date: Tuesday 24 June 1969
Original broadcast: Sunday 29 June 1969
Tracks: Disc 1; 6-9. (track 8; Travelling Riverside Blues, is the same version that appears on the reissued/remaster of Coda as a bonus track)
Producer: John Walters
Engineer: Tony Wilson

Session five
One Night Stand
Venue: Playhouse Theatre
Recording date: Friday 27 June 1969
Original broadcast: Sunday 10 August 1969
Tracks: Disc 1; 11-14. Also included a version of "Dazed and Confused", plus "White Summer"/"Black Mountain Side" (which was released on the 1990 Led Zeppelin boxed set.)

Session six
In Concert (Emcee John Peel)
Venue: Paris Theatre, Lower Regent Street, London
Recording date: Thursday 1 April 1971
Original broadcast: Sunday 4 April 1971
Tracks: Disc 2; all tracks. Also included a version of "Communication Breakdown" and "What Is and What Should Never Be". The "Whole Lotta Love" medley has had "For What It's Worth", "Trucking Little Mama" and "Honey Bee" edited out, shortening the medley by about 7 minutes.
Producer: Jeff Griffin
Engineer: Tony Wilson

 ♪ BBC Sessions - YouTube