On this day 13 October

 JP Anthology...

On this day for 13 October published 2023

On This Day for 13 October published 2020

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Tampa, FL at University of Tampa
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Chicago, IL at United Center
• 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - New York, NY at Roseland Ballroom (day 2)

1988

Jimmy Page, October 1988 Guitar World

1995:
Setlist and alternate for Chicago. 

Setlist	Alternate
1. Egyptian Intro/Immigrant Song/The Wanton Song	1. Thank You
2. Bring It On Home	2. Bring It On Home
3. Over The Hills and Far Away	3. Ramble On
4. Thank You	4. Shake My Tree
5. No Quarter	5. Lullaby
6. That's The Way	6. No Quarter
7. Hurdy Gurdy solo	7. Gallows Pole
8. Gallows Pole	8. Levee Breaks
9. Since I've Been Loving You	9. Hey Hey
10. The Song Remains The Same	10. Song Remains
11. Going To California	11. Since I've Been Loving You
12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You	12. Friends
13. Four Sticks	13. Calling To You
14. Whole Lotta Love/Spoonful/Break On Through/Dazed and Confused	14. Four Sticks
15. In The Evening	15. In The Evening
16. Black Dog	16. Black Dog
17. Kashmir	17. Kashmir

2020  

Jimmy Page: The Anthology was released on this day in 2020. It's the inside story of Jimmy Page's career, from the viewpoint of the artifacts that are most meaningful to him. Photos and text. Even if you think you know everything about the man, you probably don't.

Note: I get teensy tiny commissions for purchases made through links in this post but the commissions are NOT added to the listed price.

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♪  Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Chicago IL at United Center, 13 October 1995) 

♪ Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes (New York, NY at Roseland Ballroom day 2, 13 October 1999)

On this day 07 October

 Man of many surprises and talents, who, at 15 years old, is playing one support spot Cliff [Richard] and the Shadows

1966 07 October On This Day Jimmy Page sessions for Cliff Richard

2013 07 October On This Day, Led Snooppelin (2008 Led Zeppelin / Snoop Dog mashup)

• 1966 Release of Time Drags By, by Cliff Richard, feat. Jimmy Page on harmonica
• 1966 The Yardbirds-Bristol, England at Colston Hall
• 1967 The Yardbirds-Holyoke, MA at Amusement Park Ballroom
• 1981 Jimmy Page overdubbs orchestra track for Death Wish II at Edmonton Odeon studio
• 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
• 2008 Mashup of Snoop Dog's Drop It Like It's Hot & Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love
• 2014 Jimmy Page and Paul Smith launch a limited edition line of scarves at Paul Smith’s Tokyo store

1966:

Cliff Richard, born Harry Webb, is a British pop singer, musician, actor and philanthropist. He is the third-top-selling singles artist in UK Chart history after the Beatles and Elvis Presley. His backing band, The Shadows, grew from 1950s UK skiffle groups. They started out as The Drifters with Harry Webb on vocals and guitar and using the stage name, Cliff Richard. Cliff Richard and the Shadows dominated British pop music in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and Jimmy Page would have been quite aware of them. The Shadows split in 1968 but reformed with new members a few years later and continued to to perform and tour through a final tour in 2010.

In 1980, Richard changed his to his stage name legally and also that year he received the O.B.E. from the Queen for services to music and charity. In 1995, Richard was appointed a Knight Bachelor, the first rock star to be awarded that honor.

Jimmy Page wasn't needed for his guitar or bass talents on the Cliff Richard songs, but he was called on for his skills with harmonica. The video below for Time Drags By is from the movie referred to in the On This Day post - you don't need me to tell you that the actor pretending to play harmonica isn't Jimmy Page.  Don't confuse La La La Song (a.k.a. La La La La) with Led Zeppelin's La La, either. They don't sound at all alike. But interesting about the name.

Check out the harmonica on Coverdale/Page's Pride and Joy (below), at approximately 1:46-2:36. That's Jimmy Page you hear. JP played electric guitars, acoustic guitar, bass; harmonica, and dulcimer on the album.

1988 Jimmy Page Outrider promo photo

 2014:
Jimmy Page was promoting the remasters releases, and one of the events was the launch of a line of Led Zeppelin scarves at Paul Smith's Tokyo store.

2014 07 October Jimmy Page and Paul Smith at the Paul Smith Store in Tokyo (Ross Halfin photo)

2014 07 October Paul Smith and Jimmy Page at the Paul Smith Store in Tokyo (Ross Halfin photo)

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♪  Time Drags By (Cliff Richard and the Shadows, feat. Jimmy Page harmonica 1966) 
♪  La La La Song (Cliff Richard and the Shadows, feat. Jimmy Page  harmonica 1966) 
♪  La La Intro/Outro Rough Mix (Led Zeppelin II remaster 1969/2014) 

♪  Jimmy Page (Inglewood CA at The Forum, 07 October 1988)

♪  Pride and Joy (Coverdale/Page 1993) 

♪  Page & Plant (Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 07 October 1995)

♪  Led Snooppelin (Led Zeppelin / Snoop Dog mashup 2008) 

On this day 11 September

Catching up with past events

♪ Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin, BBC 1971) Soundcloud

• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Rochester, NY at Rochester Community War Memorial
• 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Houston, TX at The Summit
• 1998 Page & Plant - Concord, CA at Concord Pavilion

1969:

Jimmy Page may well have discussed the Led Zeppelin BBC sessions with Shaun Keaveny of BBC Radio in 2010, but the original Keaveny interview about the Sessions took place on 10 December 2009, and the show was broadcast in two episodes on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (25 and 26 December 2009), and has been rebroadcast several times since then. 

The BBC interview was billed as "the inside story of Led Zeppelin's BBC sessions, told exclusively by Jimmy Page....Jimmy Page chooses his personal highlights from the music, and shares his memories of an extraordinary time in Led Zeppelin's history."

While the British Broadcasting Company might be the first and largest broadcasting company in the world, as a publicly funded entity its existence is never certain. In early 2010 BBC management recommended that Music 6 be shut down. The BBC trust overruled the recommendation later that year, partly due to an aggressive public and media campaign as well as intervention from David Bowie.

The documents presented on Jimmy Page's website On This Day were from the BBC’s written archive and were published for the show, which also aired BBC Session music that hadn't been commercially released. One of the songs was a Whole Lotta Love medley (1971).

"For those who were hearing it for the first time, there was a certain guitarist who was really wincing at the out of tune part, because the string had dropped and it was out of tune," he said.

"I was gyrating on the chair here wishing I could tune it up.

"Anyway it got tuned and it got back in, but I could hear then it was putting my playing off. It’s interesting." 

As to the cheque made out to Jimmy Page for six pounds:  It bounced.

"It just so happened that quite a number of years ago I was going through some old papers and things in a tea chest, and I found this cheque that said, 'Ordered not to pay'," he explained. "It’s from the Zeppelin era, so one of these sessions. 

"I’ve actually got it on the wall at home and I should have looked at the date before I came here. It was probably for that out of tune guitar on that medley, and that’s fair do's."

~ Jimmy Page, Shaun Keaveny BBC Radio interview 2009

BBC reissued the check and presented it to Jimmy Page during the interview.

1969 Led Zeppelin Top Gear audition report

1969 cheque from BBC

Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions chronology

1971

The band got carried away during Black Dog and almost had to stop performing to try to get back on track. However, Jimmy Page saved the day (or at least the song) by improvising his way into his solo, after which the band picked the song properly. One wonders what the talk was like backstage afterwards.

1988

Houston

2013:

Jimmy Page has been supporting Thailand's Care for Kids Gala Party Night for some time now. The fundraiser is organized by the Jester's Motorcycle Club of Pattaya.

In 2013 Jimmy Page donated a guitar to the cause that he signed and played a riff from Kashmir on. It was auctioned at the 21 September 2013 Gala amidst fierce bidding. Jimmy Page was there that year and a couple others, and on those days I'll post more photos.

2013 Jimmy Page with the guitar he autographed and donated to the Jesters for their auction in Thailand

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Rochester at Rochester Community War Memorial, 11 September 1971) 

♪  Jimmy Page Outrider Tour (Houston TX at The Summit, 11 September 1988)

♪  Page & Plant (Concord CA at Concord Pavilion, 11 September 1998) 

 

On this day 09 September

Outrider!

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Alexandria, VA at Alexandria Roller Rink
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Garden
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA at Hampton Roads Coliseum
• 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Tampa, FL at USF Sun Dome 

1970
Unusually, the Boston Garden gig didn't sell out. It's hard to imagine, but there it is. 

1970 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Garden

1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Garden

1971

Plant sang a bit from "Hi-Heel Sneakers" (written by Tommy Tucker and covered by a whole bunch of people including Elvis): "Put on your red dress, baby, Lord, we goin' out tonight" as an intro to "What Is and What Should Never Be".

1971 Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA at Hampton Roads Coliseum (photo M Mitchell)

1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA at Hampton Roads Coliseum (photo M Mitchell)

1988:
A solo tour is one in which one musician is the focus, rather than the band. Outrider was Jimmy Page's first solo venture, one that many of us felt was long overdue. Although he used a variety of musicians on his solo album, it was John Miles, Durban Laverde and Jason Bonham who supported Jimmy Page on the brief (September - November) 1988 Outrider Tour.

British vocalist John Miles had a hit in the U.K. with Music in 1976.  Miles sang on just two of Outrider's tracks, Wasting My Time and Wanna Make Love. A vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist, Miles has toured
with Tina Turner both as a musician and a tour director, with Joe Cocker and others over the years. He has released ten studio albums as well as live and compilation albums and singles.

Venezuelan Durban Laverde is a bass guitarist, keyboardist, session musician, and producer. He has performed with a variety of artists over the years. David Gilmour used Laverde to session for Pink Floyd in early 1987, during which time he met Phil Carlo who was working for Gilmour and for Jimmy Page at that time. Carlo gets the credit for introducing Laverde to Jimmy Page.

Jimmy Page had known Jason Bonham since before Jason got his first drum kit at 4 years old. The son of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, Jason was drummer for the band, Virginia Wolf, that toured with The Firm in 1985. Jason drummed for Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones at the 1988 Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert in New York City and the 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert at The O2 Arena in London in 2007. Jason has released or appeared on approximately twenty albums, and currently tours as Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience.

1988 Outrider promo photo - Durban Laverde, Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page, John Miles

Jimmy Page has has performed with a lot of good musicians over the years. Outrider is awesome - but it's the guitar work that is awesome, not the vocals, not the drumming, not the bass. For those of us who revere the guitar work of Jimmy Page, he's always been the only one on the stage.

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Boston at Boston Gardens, 09 September 1970) 
♪  Led Zeppelin (Hampton VA at Hampton Roads Coliseum, 09 September 1971) 
♪  Jimmy Page - Outrider Tour (Tampa FL at USF Sun Dome, 09 September 1988) 


 

On this day 18 July

 IN PERSON!

1970 18 July On This Day Led Zeppelin in Frankfurt
♪ Frankfurt Special (SoundCloud)

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL at Kinetic Playground (day 1/2)
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Frankfurt, Germany at Festhalle Frankfurt 
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Vancouver, British Columbia at Pacific Coliseum 
• 1998 Page & Plant - East Rutherford, NJ at Continental Airlines Arena

1970

Chris Welsh onstage playing timbales for "Whole Lotta Love". Bonham said of that show that the audience was great - they were quiet and they listened hard.

1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Frankfurt

1970 review of Led Zeppelin at Frankfurt

1970 Led Zeppelin in Frankfurt

1973 

No encores in Vancouver BC because Robert Plant was ill and was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for exhaustion. He was cleared to continue the North American tour, though.

1985 Guitar Pulp Magazine - John Paul Jones, Les Paul, Jimmy Page

♪ Led Zeppelin (Vancouver British Columbia at Pacific Coliseum, 18 July 1973)

♪ Page & Plant (East Rutherford NJ at Continental Airlines Arena, 18 July 1998)

On this day 05 July

 Sometimes life is just a riot.

Led Zeppelin, Milan 1971

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Malvern, Worcestershire, England at Winter Gardens
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Hampton, GA at Atlanta International Pop Festival
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Milan, Italy at Vigorelli Velodromo
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Munich, Germany at Munich Olympiahalle 
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour -  Madrid, Spain at Sports Palace 
• 2023 Jimmy Page backstage at KISS concert, London (photos below)

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Atlanta Pop Festival (Photo Phillip Raul)

1971:
Security couldn't tell the difference between an enthusiastic crowd just digging Led Zeppelin and a riot.  So out came the tear gas. 

1971 Led Zeppelin in Milan before it got nasty

1971 Led Zeppelin in Milan after it got nasty

1980:
Munich, next to last show of the European tour. Simon Kirke of Bad company joins in on second drum kit on Whole Lotta Love.

1980 Led Zeppelin at Munich

1980 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Munich

2023:

Jimmy Page was photographed behind the scene before a KISS concert in London

Paul Stanley & Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page & Shannon Simmons

♪ Led Zeppelin(Hampton GA at Atlanta International Pop Festival, 05 July 1969) 

♪  Led Zeppelin (Milan Italy at Vigorelli Velodromo, 05 July 1971) 

♪ Led Zeppelin (Munich Germany at Munich Olympiahalle, 05 July1980) 
♪ Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Madrid Spain at Sports Palace, 05 July 1995)

On this day 27 June

 When Jimmy Page calls...

1999 27 June On This Day Jimmy Page with Black Crowes at Scream charity event

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Provins, France at Tour de Cesar - Provins Rock Festival
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Westminster, London  at Playhouse Theatre - BBC Radio Session 
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Long Beach, CA at Long Beach Arena
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Nuremberg, Germany at Nuremberg Messehalle
• 1998 Page & Plant - Auburn Hills, MI at The Palace at Auburn Hills
• 1999 27 June On This Day Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes at  charity event in London for Task Brazil / ABC Trust

1980:

Only three songs played and then the show was cancelled. Plant warned the audience before they started playing that two of the band members weren't feeling well. Bonzo had gorged on bananas prior to the show for some reason, and suffered the inevitable consequences. The show was abandoned.

 

1999:

Task Brasil Trust was established in the UK in 1992. Its mission is to improve the lives and support the needs of children and pregnant girls living on the streets in Brasil. In 1997 Jimmy Page made a major donation to Task Brasil after having seen the plight of children in Rio de Janeiro when he was there performing. The donation was used to buy the land and house for "Casa Jimmy", which provides a home for abandoned street kids and pregnant teens.

Action for Brazil’s Children Trust (ABC Trust) is is also a UK based charity dedicated to helping children and young people in cities across Brazil. ABC was founded by Jimena Pratcha, with Jimmy Page as the founding patron. Other patrons include Brian May, Jeremy Irons and Pelé.

1977 27 June Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin final night at LA Forum (Photo Paul Dahbour)

1980 27 June Led Zeppelin at Nuremberg Germany

♪ Led Zeppelin (Long Beach CA at Long Beach Arena, 27 June 1972) 

♪ Led Zeppelin (Inglewood CA at The Forum, 27 June 1977) 

♪ Led Zeppelin (Nuremberg Germany atNuremberg Messehalle [Bonham collapses, show stopped], 27 June 1980)

Chris Robinson:  "When Jimmy Page gives a call and wants us to be his band... you don't turn it down."

♫  Scream 99 Cafe De Paris ABC Trust (Tommy Vance for VH-1, 1999) YouTube