26 June

 

1977

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Paris, France at Le Weekend Club
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Portsmouth, London  at Portsmouth Guildhall
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Vienna, Austria at Weiner Stadthalle
• 1998 On This Day Page & Plant - Auburn Hills, MI at The Palace at Auburn Hills
• 2000 On This Day Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - Auburn Hills, MI at The Palace at Auburn Hills

1980

JP was hit in the face with a firecracker in Vienna. Read about it at https://jimmypagemusic.blogspot.com/2015/06/on-this-day-26-june.html

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♪ Led Zeppelin (Inglewood CA at The Forum, 26 June 1977)

♪ Led Zeppelin (Vienna Austria at Weiner Stadthalle, 26 June 1980)

♪ Page & Plant (Auburn Hills MI at the Palace at Auburn Hills, 26 June 1998)

♪ Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes (Auburn Hills, MI at The Palace at Auburn Hills, 26 June 2000)

13 May

 

2022 JP with Meters headphones, gift from Ross Halfin

• 1969  Honolulu US/ Civic Auditorium
• 1973  Mobile, Al US /Municipal Auditorium
• 1986  The Firm St. Louis, Missouri @ St. Louis Arena
• 1995  Page & Plant - San Diego, California @ San Diego Sports Arena
• 2014 Carol Miller WAXQ-FM New York, 104.3 interviews Jimmy Page

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Mobile AL at US /Municipal Auditorium, 13 May 1973)

♪  Page & Plant (San Diego CA at San Diego Sports Arena, 13 May 1995)

29 April

 

1985

• 1985 The Firm - Madison Square Garden, New York City NY USA
• 1986 The Firm - Purdue University Elliott Hall of Music, West Lafayette IN USA
• 1995 Page & Plant - Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont IL USA

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♪ The Firm (NYC at Madison Square Garden, 29 April 1985) 

♪ Page & Plant (Rosemont IL at Rosemont Horizon, 29 April 1995)

26 April

 

Jimmy Page 1968 [Herb Greene photo]

♪ Led Zeppelin (Lyon France at Palais des Sports de Gerland, 26 April 1973)

♪  Most High (Page & Plant, Elstree England at Elstree Studios BBC TV, 26 April 1998)

♪  Crossroads (Page & Plant, Elstree England at Elstree Studios BBC TV, 26 April 1998) 

Jimmy Page, NYC 2017

On this day 15 February

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JP's website is down today, too!

Thee Mage Musician

1969 15 February On This Day Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL (day 2) 

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Miami, FL at Thee Image Club
• 1984 Jimmy Page - New York City at Glyn Johns’ 42nd Birthday 
• 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Osaka, Japan at Castle Hall

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL

1969 Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL

1984:
Glyn Johns is an English musician, recording engineer and record producer, and is the author of Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles , Eric Clapton, The Faces . . . On this day Jimmy Page celebrated Johns' 42nd birthday jamming with Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts, John Entwistle, and Louis Bertignac.

"I’d known Jimmy [Page] forever. We came from the same town, Epsom, Surrey, and we’d even had a little band together for about five minutes. I’d got him a few sessions in the past, and when eventually he decided to put Led Zeppelin together he asked if I was interested. The sessions were actually booked under the name of The Yardbirds and I had no idea what it would sound like, but when they started playing I was completely blown away. I don’t think I’ve come down yet from the buzz I got from being in the room, it was utterly inspiring and incredibly simple to record. They were well rehearsed and masters at what they did, which is why it took only nine days, including mixing.
~ Glyn Johns, Uncut interview

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♪  You Shook Me (Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin I 1969) YouTube
♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975) YouTube
♪  Ten Years Gone (Page & Plant, Osaka 15 February 1996) YouTube

On this day 13 February

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Another day, another award, more glorious music

1972 13 February On This Day Led Zeppelin tourist stopover in Bombay
Jimmy Page's VIDEO (YouTube) 

• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Uniondale, NY at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
• 1992 Jimmy Page with Harry Connick Jr. for encore at James L. Knight Center, Miami
• 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour – Tokyo at Nippon Budokan
• 2005 Led Zeppelin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

1975:
An exciting show with some surprises:  an epic, 42 minute length Dazed and Confused, and a bit of theremin between Whole Lotta Love and Black Dog. Ron Wood joined Led Zeppelin for an encore of Communication Breakdown and Robert Plant sang a few lines from Roll Over Beethoven while the guitars got sorted out.

1975 Jimmy Page, Ron Wood, Peter Grant, Uniondale NY
(I always first think Ron is in handcuffs when I see this photo)

1992:
It's uncertain whether Jimmy Page, who was reportedly living on Florida's exclusive Jupiter Island at this time, attended  Harry Connick Jr's gig at the James L. Knight Center in Miami on 13 or 14 February - but it was definitely one of those two days.

"I'd been listening to his music, and I was keen to see what his concert would be like," says Page, 48, who was in Miami working on a new album. "We met before the concert, and Harry said, 'You should come up and play,' and I laughed. But I was sitting in the audience, and he suddenly said, 'We've got a really good friend here.... C'mon, Jimmy, come up and play with us.' I went up, and he put a guitar in my hands and said, 'Go ahead, it's your band.' So I did an improvised blues in B flat. I was so nervous! And he went over to the brass section and started singing these licks and cued them in." Would Page consider an encore? "Oh, yes, but I'll bring my own guitar the next time."
~ Jimmy Page interview

2002:
The Grammy Lifetime Achievement is a Special Merit Award, presented by vote of The Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording. John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Zoe Bonham and Jason Bonham accepted the award for Led Zeppelin.

2005 John Paul Jones & Jimmy Page at Grammy Awards

2005 John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Zoe Bonham and Jason Bonham
accept Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award from Neil Portnow,
president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Uniondale NY at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 13 February 1975) 
♪  Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin, with Ron Wood 1975) 

♪  Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Tokyo at Nippon Budokan, 13 February 1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FyxCUM7Ls&list=PLf62FjbXtD1LDupHDsQYI3arCDZ2klemr&index=22&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB
♪  Rain Song (Page & Plant, 13 February 1996, Japan) YouTube
(Just a cute brief clip of a funny moment)

On this day 12 February

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"Ladies and gentlemen of New York ... you're too much ... and we ain't so bad ourselves!"
~ Robert Plant, MSG 12 February 1975

1965 12 February On This Day Heinz and the Wild Boys release Digging My Potatoes
AUDIO: Digging My Potatoes (Soundcloud)

• 1975 Led Zeppelin - New York, Madison Square Garden
• 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour – Tokyo at Nippon Budokan 

1965:

Heinz Burt, a protégé of record producer and song writer Joe Meek, was the bassist for The Tornados, the band that released the multi-million dollar instrumental, Telstar, in 1962. With Meek's encouragement, Heinz Burt launched on a solo career, touring with Jerry Lee Lewis, but never quite successful on his own. Heinz asked Jimmy Page to do an overdub solo  on‘Digging My Potatoes’. It was recorded at Joe Meek's home studio in London. Two years later, Meeks was dead by suicide.

1975:
This was Led Zeppelin's third show at Madison Square Garden in February.  Robert Plant told the crowd that the band had to come four blocks through the snow to get there.  It might have been cold outside but the music was hot in MSG that night. Check out the awesome work when Jimmy Page takes off around 3:58 of Sick Again (below).

1975 12 February Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden

1975 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden

2005:
American record producer Clive Davis hosted a pre-Grammy Awards party in Beverly Hills on this day. Led Zeppelin would be awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award the next night at the Staples Center ceremony.

2005 Jimmy Page & Ahmut Ertegun at pre-Grammy party (Ross Halfin photo)

2005 Jimmy Page at pre-Grammy party

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♪  Diggin' My Potatoes (Heinz and the Wild Boys feat Jimmy Page 1965) 
♪  Sick Again (Led Zeppelin, MSG 12 February 1975) YouTube
♪  Led Zeppelin (New York NY at Madison Square Garden, 12 February 1975) 
♫ 2005 Jimmy Page interview Grammy Awards party

On this day 09 February

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Jimmy Page walks onstage and the place erupts.  As it should.

2002 09 February On This Day Jimmy Page
with Paul Weller's band at Teenage Cancer Trust, Royal Albert Hall
AUDIO: Wild Wood - Paul Weller (Soundcloud)

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Cardiff, Wales at Top Rank Ballroom
• 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour – Tokyo at Nippon Budokan
• 2002 Jimmy Page with Paul Weller's Band - Teenage Cancer Trust at Royal Albert Hall  

2002:
On this day Jimmy Page and Robert Plant appeared separately at the Teenage Cancer benefit at Royal Albert Hall. The event was billed as "The Paul Weller Band with guests Jimmy Page, Gary Moore, plus Robert Plant & Strange Sensation".

This was Robert Plant’s first London appearance in over three years and Jimmy Page’s first for over two. Furthermore, while it had been seventeen years since Jimmy Page had last performed at RAH for the ARMS shows in September 1983, Robert Plant had not performed there since the Led Zeppelin days: 09 January 1970.

Dave Lewis' take on Jimmy Page at the 2002 show:

"[it was] as if someone had picked up the remote and switched the TV over everything changes.
"You can see the Gibson…Weller goes off, his band mates mill around, lights flash down…and there on stage is Jimmy Page.
"Cherubic smile, well cut shirt, slimmer than in very long time, low slung Gibson Les Paul and sure enough it’s Dazed And Confused the instrumental…
"The place erupts and throughout the eight minute performance there is no doubt that we are in the presence of a living legend..."
~ Dave Lewis, TBL

2002 Jimmy Page, Teenage Cancer Trust benefit at Royal Albert Hall (Freda Hyatt photos)

2002 Jimmy Page, Teenage Cancer Trust benefit at Royal Albert Hall (Freda Hyatt photo)

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♪  Dazed And Confused (Jimmy Page with Paul Weller band, RAH 2002) 

I forgot to post this the other day
♫   NBC News report with a brief comment by Peter Grant 07 February 1975

On this day 08 February

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Please listen to the song. And I don't mean the "popular" version.

2009 08 February On This Day a Grammy for Please Read The Letter
AUDIO: Please Read The Letter (Soundcloud)

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Chicago at Kinetic Playground
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Philadelphia at The Spectrum
• 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Tokyo at Nippon Budokan 

1969 Led Zeppelin at Kinetic Playground, Chicago

1975 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at The Spectrum, Philadelphia

1996:

Jimmy Page kind of bumbled his way into the two songs I've linked to below from the Tokyo show on this day. As Robert Plant said, though, about Tea for One it wasn't a song that Led Zeppelin had every played live in its entirety, and it was the first time that Robert Plant had performed it with Jimmy Page on guitar. 

Back in 1976 when Tea for One was recorded for Presence, Robert Plant's leg was still in a cast. Two versions were recorded at that session, one with a guitar solo and one without. I'm soooo glad that the one with the solo is the one that ended up on the album.  

2009:
I've provided links below to two versions of Please Read the Letter.  I fail to see why the Plant/Krauss version was the one that got the acclaim, but then, I am into rock music not syrupy folk love songs. No accounting for taste.

2010 January Ross Halfin and Jimmy Page

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♪  Rain Song (Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy 1973/2014) 
♪  Rain Song (Page & Plant, Tokyo 08 February 1996) 
♪  Tea For One (Led Zeppelin, Presence 1976)  
♪  Tea For One  (Page & Plant, Tokyo 08 February 1996) 
♪  Please Read the Letter (Page & Plant, Walking into Clarksdale 1998) 
♪  Please Read the Letter (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss) 

♪ Led Zeppelin (Philadelphia at The Spectrum, 08 February 1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a31SIfygbfM&list=PLf62FjbXtD1JI5oPg0Xe4aZnxtokP5Xl-&index=95&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

♪ Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Tokyo at Nippon Budokan, 08 February 1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wr5_HJn7bw&list=PLf62FjbXtD1LDupHDsQYI3arCDZ2klemr&index=28&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

ON this day 05 February

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1965 05 February On This Day Marianne Faithfull's Come and Stay With Me, feat. Jimmy Page
AUDIO: Come and Stay With Me (Soundcloud)

• 1965 "Come and Stay With Me (Marianne Faithful feat. Jimmy Page) released
• 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Tokyo, Japan at Nippon Budokan 

1965:

According to a Wikipedia article, Marianne Faithfull's former manager Tony Calder told Mojo magazine in September 2008 that the song was written in Los Angeles, where he was with Jimmy Page who was then having an affair with Jackie DeShannon: "One night I couldn't get into our hotel room because Jimmy and Jackie DeShannon were shagging. So I yelled, 'When you've finished could you write a song for Marianne?'" DeShannon came up with this song plus, with Page, an album track, "In My Time of Sorrow." 

2002 Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin photo)

2015

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♪ "Come and Stay With Me (Marianne Faithful feat. Jimmy Page)
♪ Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Tokyo, Japan at Nippon Budokan, 05 February 1996)

On this day 30 January

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1995 30 January On This Day Led Zeppelin receives American Music International Artist award
VIDEO

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Christchurch, New Zealand at Theatre Royal
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Preston, England at Preston Guildhall, Grand Hall
• 1995 Led Zeppelin American Music International Artist award 

1973 Preston UK

1973 Preston UK

1973 backstage, Preston UK

1995:
The American Music International Artist Award for Led Zeppelin was accepted by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Jason Bonham in London, and by John Paul Jones in Los Angeles. Black Dog had been recorded five days previously in London.

1995 Jimmy Page accepts AMA International Artist award

1995 Page & Plant / Black Dog recorded for AMA

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Preston UK at Preston Guildhall's Grand Hall, 30 January 1973)

♪  Black Dog (Page & Plant, prerecorded for AMA awards 1995) YouTube