On This Day 18 October

Celebration Day is any day Jimmy Page is playing his guitar

On This Day published 18 October 2020

1999 18 October On This Day - Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes, Greek Theatre (day 1)
posted pre-2020

• 1968 Led Zeppelin - London, England at Marquee Club (as The Yardbirds)
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Detroit, MI at Olympia Stadium
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Montreal, Canada at Montreal Forum
• 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - Los Angeles, CA at Greek Theatre (day 1) 

1968 Led Zeppelin - London, England at Marquee Club (as The Yardbirds)

1969 Led Zeppelin - Detroit, MI at Olympia Stadium (Getty Images)

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin - Detroit, MI at Olympia Stadium (Getty Images)

1999:
Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes played two nights at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.  While the set-lists included songs from both, the double CD released didn't include any of The Black Crowes' material due to contractual constraints.  No loss, far as I'm concerned.  Jimmy Page's contribution to the partnership was more valuable to the band than their musical contribution was to him. He raised them up, not the other way around. Don't get me wrong - The Black Crowes put out some good music - Jimmy Page wouldn't have toured and recorded with them otherwise - but they were reaching hard to keep up.

Still, you can hear that Jimmy Page was having fun. That's worth a lot right there.

The double CD was released by TVT Records nearly a year later, with a different track order than the concert setlist.  It included a bonus extra song, a video, and still shots of the Greek Theatre performances.  A Japanese version of the album includes Misty Mountain Hop and In the Light, recorded in 2000.

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♪  Full set (Page & Plant, Montreal, 1995) YouTube

♪  Celebration Day (Jimmy Page/The Black Crowes Live at The Greek 18 October 1999) YouTube

♫  Mat Snow review (text from On This Day)

Ear-worms, Redux

I often wake up in the morning with music in my head. I don't always notice it right away.  I can go for hours with music on replay in my head before I realize what I'm doing.  Sometimes I also realize I can't identify what I've been hearing and let me tell you, that drives me nuts.

You would think that if it's a Led Zeppelin song - which it generally is - that I would immediately recognize it. But sometimes it's just a short musical phrase that's become an ear-worm through repetition. Sometimes there are no lyrics involved and I just cannot for the life of me pinpoint which song it's from. Not that lyrics would help.

I've said it before: I'm not into lyrics (I'm not into poetry either and I don't apologize for it). Not only do I not pay attention to the words of a song, I usually don't even understand them when I do pay attention. When it comes to music, words are simply musical sounds, like the notes of a guitar. This means that even if what I'm hearing in my head over and over and over has got a vocal line, I still don't always know what the words are.

I know, craziness. But truly, I hear the words as musical sounds, and I just can't put meaning to the words unless I really work to reconstruct them.

It would be so much easier if I could carry a tune. I've tried singing the melodic streams out loud. The dogs howl. The horses flee. Heck, I don't want to listen to that noise. 

I don't really care, anyway. There just doesn't seem to be a cross-over for me between music and words. Music communicates in a different way than words do. These ear-worms really bring home to me how the two come from different places in the brain - and the soul.

Meanwhile, when I stopped fretting over it the name of the song popped right into my head.

Ten Years Gone
Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, Live at the Greek