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Sunday, January 3, 2016

On This Day 03 January

Happy Birthday John Paul Jones, born on this day in 1946

1964 03 January On This Day Dave Berry's My Baby Left Me released
Audio: My Baby Left Me (Soundcloud)
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Los Angeles at Whisky A Go Go (day 2 of 4) 
1964:
"Big" Jim Sullivan (1941 - 2012) on Jimmy Page (a.k.a. "Little Jim"):
"I'll always remember the first time I met Jimmy. We had a session at Decca studios for Dave Berry. It was the session for 'My Baby Left Me' and Jimmy played lead guitar and I played rhythm. I remember the great solo that he did on that session, it is one of the best constructed rock solos on record.

"The rhythm section that played on a lot of the 60's group record consisted of Jimmy, myself, John Baldwin or John Paul Jones as he liked to be called, and Bobby Graham on Drums. The amount of recordings we did together was amazing and when he said he and John were going to leave he said I should join them too. I said I was married and would stay in sessions a while longer."

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Whisky a Go Go
1946:
On this day, John Baldwin was born.  Baldwin is, of course, better known today as John Paul Jones, bassist, keyboardist and composer with Led Zeppelin and now embarked on an independent musical career, including the 2009 band, Them Crooked Vultures, with Dave Grohl, and Josh Homme (and guitarist Alain Johannes during live performances).

Interestingly enough, the "other" John Paul Jones, born in 1747, was born John Paul and also adopted the last names "Jones".  However that JPJ did so to hide from law enforcement after winning a duel.

ca. 1965 John Paul Jones, session man

John Paul Jones / Led Zeppelin

2015 John Paul Jones



♪  Diamonds (Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, feat. Jimmy Page & John Paul Jones 1963) YouTube
♪  My Baby Left Me (Dave Berry, feat Jimmy Page guitar 1964) YouTube
♪  Hoochie Coochie Man  (Dave Berry, feat Jimmy Page guitar 1964) YouTube
♪  Celebration Day (Led Zeppelin, isolated bass, vocals & drum tracks) YouTube
♪  New Fang (Them Crooked Vultures) YouTube

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