Showing posts with label TSRTS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TSRTS. Show all posts

Saturday, November 4, 2023

On this day 04 November

 Cool surprise at last night's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony!

2010 03 November On This Day, Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page launch party, London

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Pittsburgh, PA at Syria Mosque - Homecoming Weekend Concert
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Kitchener,Ontario,Canada at Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
  • 1976 Led Zeppelin - European premiere of The Song Remains The Same,  London, England at Warner West End Theatre
  • 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Syracuse, NY at Onondaga War Memorial
  • 2014 Jimmy Page, promotion appearances for remasters, New York City
  • 2023  Jimmy Page plays Link Wray's Rumble at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (03 November)

1976 04 November, The Song Remains The Same movie premiere, London

1976 Led Zeppelin at London premiere of TSRTS

2010 Jimmy Page, launch party for autobiography

2014 Jimmy Page photographed at Bowery Hotel, NY (Jesse Ditmar/Redux Photo)

2023
Last night Jimmy Page stole the show at the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony! JP inducted Link Wray via video and got a nice applause from an audience that mostly weren't sure who Link Wray was and that also didn't know JP was standing in the dark on the stage holding his doubleneck.

When Jimmy Page began to play, a guy in the audience "Doubleneck!! Doubleneck!!"  The audience came to its feet at the first notes and stood through the whole song. 

As they should.

Elton John blew Jimmy a kiss. 

Jimmy Page covers Link Wray's Rumble, 03 November 2023




♪  Jimmy Page Outrider Tour (Syracuse NY at Onondaga War Memorial, 04 November 1988) 
♪  Rumble (Jimmy Page at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 03 November 2023)

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

On This Day 04 November

Can't wait for the launch party for JP's next album.
2010 03 November On This Day, Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page launch party, London

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Pittsburgh, PA at Syria Mosque - Homecoming Weekend Concert
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Kitchener,Ontario,Canada at Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
  • 1976 Led Zeppelin - European premiere of The Song Remains The Same,  London, England at Warner West End Theatre
  • 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Syracuse, NY at Onondaga War Memorial
  • 2014 Jimmy Page, promotion appearances for remasters, New York City

1976 04 November, The Song Remains The Same movie premiere, London

1976 Led Zeppelin at London premiere of TSRTS

2010 Jimmy Page, launch party for autobiography

2014 Jimmy Page photographed at Bowery Hotel, NY (Jesse Ditmar/Redux Photo)

NaNoWriMo 2015... for the whole month.



♪  Full set/part 1 (Jimmy Page, Syracuse 1988) YouTube
♪  Full set/part 2 (Jimmy Page, Syracuse 1988) YouTube 

 (Note: The date given in the video title is incorrect. Outrider was in Europe by 22 November) 

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Dreamtime

Mage Music 65 The Artist At Work  jimmypagemusic.blogspot.com
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I have dreamed of that song. In those dreams ... I had dominion over the nature of all that was real. 
~ Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Mage Music 65

This is the Mage's true art: Like a novelist or a movie producer who creates such fine work that the audience is totally comfortable and willing to suspend disbelief  and dive into a secondary and parallel reality of a fictional world, the Mage creates a work so perfectly free of stray and undermining thoughts that he can suspend his own disbelief and enter into a new state of reality. This is the path to the manifestation of Magick.

The disciplined mind of the Mage - the mind with powerful desire and will that stays On Purpose through ritual - doesn't actually repress or block thoughts that would undermine the Magick. Those thoughts just do not even occur, because they have no place in the mental setting the Mage creates. And yet, we all know what it is like to have unwanted thoughts slip in when we least want them.  They're bad enough for us, but for a Mage those unwanted stray thoughts can ruin an otherwise perfectly good Magickal ritual.

Not thinking of pink elephants.  Easier said than done? Not really. We all dream, don’t we.


I had a dream. Crazy dream. Anything I wanted to know, any place I needed to go...
~ Lyrics from The Song Remains the Same

Dreams are the alternate reality of the sleeping mind, and they are also the imaginings of the waking mind in the form of daydreams. A lucid dream is dreaming with awareness. While traditionally lucid dreaming refers to dreams that occur while asleep, dreaming while awake – if a person is aware of and directing the dream – could be considered lucid dreaming, too.

Dreams are experienced as reality while they’re happening.  A Mage must experience the desired changes he wishes to manifest as reality before they can happen.  A Mage does this using a process very similar to dreaming.  He becomes so fully invested in a secondary and parallel reality that it exists for him in personal experience which then allows him to shift from what has been to what will be.  

A Mage's desire and will, focused through ritual, channel the energy of the Universe to manifest a new reality.  A lucid dreamer uses desire and will to create a new dream reality without the expectation of carry-over to the waking state. 

Understanding lucid dreaming gives the non-Mage a taste of what Magick feels like when it is being worked because lucid dreaming is of the same coin as Magick, only with different expectations and outcomes.  

Add a little music into lucid daydreams and the state is as close to what a Mage does to change reality as makes no difference. Try it, you might like it.


Playlist

These two pieces just popped out at me today.  They aren't particularly dreamy - in fact, they're hard-edged and a little scary... but dreams can go that way, too.

Baby Who’s Driving Your Car   Jimmy Page & John Williams, 1970
Guitar solo   Jimmy Page, Landover May 30 1977






Saturday, February 2, 2013

Evolution

"What is important is that pursuit of something new and capturing that moment."
~ Jimmy Page (from Brad Tolinski's Light & Shade)

Mage Music 38

Rock and roll was was born from blues, country, jazz and the big band sound.  It was shaped for the teens and young adults of the 1950s and 1960s whose interests were very different from those of their parents' generation. The lyrics addressed topics that teens cared about - young love, young lust, young broken hearts, young loneliness - but the music itself was old and wise from the beginning, shivering with hidden meaning that was more enduring and universal than the immediate concerns of teenagers.

Rock as a musical genre has matured since then and so have the musicians who play it today - particularly those who were young when rock and roll first hit the airwaves and who have allowed themselves to grow up since then. Lyrics aside, the music has become more sophisticated, capable of conveying nuances and meaning well beyond the simple desires of youth.

And the Magick has changed, too.

Redefinition

As I write this week’s post, I’m listening to the audio of the O2 Concert yet again, paying close attention to the meaning-beyond-words conveyed through music by Jimmy Page. The evolution and maturity of the guitar work is obvious, something that is possible not only as a result of constant practice but also because of more than 25 years of life experienced between John Bonham’s death and those hours on stage in 2007.

No, it didn't sound exactly like 1980 or any other prior year in the active reign of Led Zeppelin - and why should it?  After all, the music of Led Zeppelin was that night just what it had always been: A musical expression of that moment in time, as individuals and as a band.  When they stepped onto the stage that night they weren't the same people they had been before and neither was the music.

The O2 Concert was the Led Zeppelin of 2007 - not 1977.  And, wow.

Wow because the music was great, of course - but even bigger wow because the Magick was not only still there, but better - richer, deeper, broader and more complex - then ever before.

The Led Zeppelin of 2007 had matured into something it could never have been 25 years ago.  Led Zeppelin - and Jimmy Page in particular - had always offered grace and depth and meaning (not to mention raw emotion and a violence and exultation of spirit), but never in such full bloom as they had on the O2 stage.  Like wine that had always tasted very, very good but that had finally aged to something extraordinary, in 2007 the music had evolved to a new plane of musical excellence.

And the Magick had evolved with it.

Evolution

There can be no Magick without the human component for Magick is solely a human thing.  It is a relationship and process and experience that is shared between Mage and the life force energy of the Universe.  Even when absorbed by multitudes through music, Magick is the personal experience of the Mage.  Quantum mechanics tells us that at the level of energy itself - which is the level where true Magick takes place - the observer must be considered part of the system being observed.  Thus the Mage is a component part of the process of Magick, not external to it.  

This means that every instance of Magick must necessarily be unique from all others, because a living human is changed by life from moment to moment as it is lived. As the Mage changes over time due to constant new input that life itself brings, the Magick must necessarily change.  

Mage and Magick evolve, and yet The Song Remains The Same.