Thursday, May 7, 2015

On This Day 07 May

1974 07 May On This Day Swan Song launch party in NYC

♪ Grim Reaper Soundcloud

1973 Led Zeppelin Jacksonville, FL at Jacksonville Coliseum
1974 Swan Song launch party in New York City

1973 07 May Led Zeppelin at Jacksonville

1974 07 May  Swan Song Label launch party NYC

1974 07 May  Swan Song Label launch party NYC





THE SWAN SONG LABEL DISCOGRAPHY

1974
Bad Company, ‘Bad Company’
Pretty Things, ‘Silk Torpedo’

1975
Led Zeppelin, ‘Physical Graffiti’
Maggie Bell, ‘Suicide Sal’
Bad Company, ‘Straight Shooter’
Pretty Things, ‘Savage Eye’

1976
Bad Company, ‘Run With the Pack’
Led Zeppelin, ‘Presence’
Led Zeppelin, ‘The Song Remains the Same’

1977
Bad Company, ‘Burnin’ Sky’
Detective, ‘Detective’
Dave Edmunds, ‘Get It’

1978
Detective, ‘It Takes One to Know One’
Dave Edmunds, ‘Tracks on Wax 4′

1979
Bad Company, ‘Desolation Angels’
Dave Edmunds, ‘Repeat When Necessary’
Led Zeppelin, ‘In Through the Out Door’

1981
Midnight Flyer, ‘Midnight Flyer’
Dave Edmunds, ‘Twangin”
Sad Cafe, ‘Sad Cafe’
Dave Edmunds, ‘Best of Dave Edmunds’

1982
Midnight Flyer, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Party’
Jimmy Page, ‘Death Wish II’
Robert Plant, ‘Pictures at Eleven’
Bad Company, ‘Rough Diamonds’
Led Zeppelin, ‘Coda’

1983
Wildlife, ‘Wildlife’


Read More: The History of Swan Song Records

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

On This Day 06 May

1984 06 May On This Day Jimmy Page with Roy Harper

1984 06 May On This Day Jimmy Page with Roy Harper


1967 Yardbirds Chippenham, England at Royal Agricultural College
1970 Led Zeppelin records Poor Tom at Olympic Studios, Barnes, England
1984 The Firm Thetford, Norfolk, England at Maytree Farm
1986 The Firm Rosemont, Illinois at Rosemont Horizon
1995 Page & Plant St. Louis, Missouri at Kiel Center

"Olympic Studios in 1967 was at the cutting edge. We were very innovative and of course we had, I think, the best console in England and possibly the world at the time. We were ahead in terms of design."
~ Eddie Kramer
Jimmy Page & Eddie Kramer at Olympic Studio




Tuesday, May 5, 2015

On This Day 05 May

1973 05 May On This Day Led Zeppelin at Tampa

1973 05 May On This Day Led Zeppelin at Tampa
Led Zeppelin breaks barriers


  • 1968 Yardbirds Mentor, Ohio at Hullabaloo Scene
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin, Tampa FL
  • 1985 The Firm Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh Civic Arena
  • 1986 The Firm Bloomington, Minnesota at Metropolitan Sports Center
  • 1995 Page &Plant  Kansas City, Missouri at Kemper Arena
  • 1998 Page & Plant London, England at BBC White City



1973 05 May Led Zeppelin at Tampa

1973 05 May Led Zeppelin at Tampa


♪  Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1973) YouTube
♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1973) YouTube
♪  Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1973) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube

Monday, May 4, 2015

On This Day 04 May

Led Zeppelin played the Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, GA,

1973 04 May Led Zeppelin at Atlanta
  • 1967 Yardbirds - Folkets Park, Halmstad Sweden
  • 1968 Yardbirds - Grande Ballroom, Detroit MI USA
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - Atlanta Stadium, Atlanta GA USA
  • 1985 The Firm - Hartford Civic Center, Hartford CT USA
  • 2009 Jimmy Page - practice session for Jeff Beck Hall of Fame, Cleveland OH USA

 1973 archive footage from WSB-TV Atlanta



1967 04 May Yardbirds at Folkets Park, Halmstad Sweden


1973 04 May Led Zeppelin at Atlanta - Barrett photo
1973 04 May Led Zeppelin at Atlanta - Forbes photo


2009 04 May On This Day Practice for Jeff Beck's induction in to the Hall of Fame, Cleveland OH.
Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ron Wood




Sunday, May 3, 2015

On This Day 03 May

The Yardbirds were in Detroit on this day in 1968. A year later on this day, Led Zeppelin were at Pasadena's Rose Palace for the second day.



  • 1968 Yardbirds - Grande Ballroom, Detroit MI USA
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin -Rose Palace,  Pasadena CA USA
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen DE
  • 1986 The Firm - Toledo Centennial Hall, Toledo OH USA


1969 May 3 Led Zeppelin at Pasadena CA




♪  Led Zeppelin (Copenhagen 1971) YouTube




Saturday, May 2, 2015

On This Day 02 May


1977 02 May Jimmy Page in Egypt for four days
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Rose Palace, Pasadena CA US
  • 1977 Jimmy Page - Cairo vacation
1969
Two nights in Pasadena, with Led Zeppelin referred to as "Britain's newest musical rage".  Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman and Laurence Harvey purchased tickets.for the show.



1977
Jimmy Page's took some vacation time between the two legs of Led Zeppelin's 1977 US tour, enjoying his first visit to Cairo.
1977 May Jimmy Page in front of Sphinx

From Jimmy Page, by Jimmy Page






Friday, May 1, 2015

On This Day 01 May

In 2015 Jimmy Page remembers hearing Fred Gerlach's version of Gallows Pole. Also on this day in 1971 Roy Harper's album Stormcock was released. Jimmy Page played on one track.

2015 01 May On This Day Gallows Pole


1962 Fred Gerlach recorded for Smithsonian Folkways

Huddie William Ledbetter (1888 – 1949) was an American folk and blues musician best known as Lead Belly (his preferred spelling).  He usually played the twelve-string guitar but, like John Paul Jones, Lead Belly could also play other musical instruments:  piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, and accordion.

Lead Belly was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

Fred Gerlach (1925 - 2009) carried the mantle from Lead Belly. In 1962 he recorded an album for Folkways Records of his traditional blues singing and intricate twelve-string guitar technique.


1971 01 May Roy Harper releases Stormcock