On This Day 29 May

Jimmy jams, plus two versions of On This Day iincluding a Jimmy Page selfie.  

1970 29 May On This Day more Led Zeppelin III recorded at Olympic Studios Two
(one of two versions posted on Jimmy Page's website)

1970 29 May On This Day more Led Zeppelin III recorded at Olympic Studios Two 
(one of two versions posted on Jimmy Page's website)

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England at Cambridge City Football Club Stadium
• 1968 The Yardbirds - Concord, CA at Concord Coliseum
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Tea Party
• 1970 29 May On This Day more Led Zeppelin III recorded at Olympic Studios Two (one of two versions posted on Jimmy Page's website)
• 1991 Jimmy Page - Reno, NV at Crystal Bay Club - jam with local band Solid Ground
• 1998 Page & Plant - Atlanta, GA at Lakewood Amphitheater

1968 The Yardbirds in London. Possibly Chris Dreja's mini

1991 Jimmy Page - Reno, NV at Crystal Bay Club - jam with local band Solid Ground

Jimmy Page probably played just 14 performances from 1989 to 1992.  The jam at the Crystal Bay Club in Nevada with local band, Solid Ground, is one of them.  The club is not far from Incline Village where Jimmy & David Coverdale were writing material for a new album.  An 80 minute audio bootleg recording is titled Up In Smoke.

Setlist:

01 Spider In Your Web

02 Steamroller

03 Johnny B. Good

04 Hound Dog/Blues Suede Shoes

05 Smokin' Again

06 Slow Down

07 Old Time Rock And Roll

08 Kansas City

09 Louie Louie/Wild Thing/Hang On Sloopy

♪  Hey Hey What Can I Do (Led Zeppelin 1971) SoundCloud

♪ ♫  Jimmy Page with Solid Ground + text 1991 webpage

On This Day 28 May

Jimmy Page:  Always has meant business.  Always has known what he wanted to do and did it.

1986  28 May On This Day The Firm - Seattle,WA at Seattle Center Coliseum

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Boston,MA at Boston Tea Party
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Brussels,Belgium at Vorst Nationaal
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - San Diego,CA at San Diego Sports Arena
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Landover,MD at Capital Centre
• 1986  28 May On This Day The Firm - Seattle,WA at Seattle Center Coliseum

1971 John Paul Jones at Association of Professional Recording Studios exhibition, London

Jimmy Page & Tony Franklin exit The Firm jet

The Firm promo photo

♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Brussels 1972) YouTube

♫  Guitar International Jimmy Page Interview: The Firm

On This Day 27 May

Official live performances!  Official videos!  Yay!  This was great stuff and a hint of more to come.

2003 27 May On This Day How The West Was Won released

How the West Was Won is a triple live album released by Atlantic Records on CD in 2003.  Tracks of original performances are from the L.A. Forum on 25 June 1972 and Long Beach Arena on 27 June 1972.

The Led Zeppelin DVD is a double DVD set released in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2003, and the United States on 27 May 2003. It was the first official archival video release to contain footage of the band playing live, from 1969 to 1979. The DVD includes performances from the Royal Albert Hall in 1970, Madison Square Garden in 1973, Earls Court in 1975, and Knebworth in 1979, plus other footage. 

Led Zeppelin DVD (2003) cover

• 1967 The Yardbirds-Ramsgate, England at Supreme Ballroom
• 1969 Led Zeppelin-Boston MA US at  Boston Tea Party
• 1972 Led Zeppelin-Amsterdam, The Netherlands at Oude Rai
• 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - George, Washington at The Gorge Ampitheatre
• 1998 Page & Plant - Charleston, SC at North Charleston Coliseum
• 2003 27 May On This Day How The West Was Won released
• 2003 26 & 27 Led Zeppelin DVD released in UK and US
• 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD premiere at Loews Theater NYC

1969 Led Zeppelin-Boston MA US/ Boston Tea Party

1972 Led Zeppelin-Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Oude Rai

2003 Led Zeppelin DVD premiere at Loews Theater NYC

 The Led Zeppelin DVD cover image is of West and East Mitten Buttes, photographed from the visitor centre at the Navajo Tribal Park located at Monument Valley, Arizona.  Below is an actual photo.

Photo of "the thumbs" at Monument Valley in AZ

2014 Paris, Next Musique remasters interview (photo Richard Dumas)

♪  Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin Amsterdam CCTV Footage Noir 1972) YouTube
♪ Travelling Riverside Blues (Led Zeppelin promo video produced in 1990 and as seen on the official Led Zeppelin DVD 2003) YouTube

♫  How The West Was Won CD track listings Wikipedia
♫ Led Zeppelin DVD track listings Wikipedia

On This Day 26 May

On This Day Page & Plant performed Wanton Song and were interviewed on Later With Jools Holland.

1998 26 May On This Day Page & Plant on Later With Jools Holland

• 1967 Yardbirds - London, England at Tiles Club
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Salt Lake City, Utah at Salt Palace
• 1977 Led Zeppelin – Landover, MD at Capital Centre (day 2 of 4)
• 1986 The Firm - Concord,CA at Concord Pavilion
• 1995 Page & Plant (Unledded Tour) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada at Pacific Coliseum
• 1998 Page & Plant (North American Tour) - Charlotte, NC at Charlotte Coliseum
• 1998 26 May On This Day Page & Plant perform Wanton Song and are interviewed on Later With Jools Holland

1977 Led Zeppelin – Landover, MD at Capital Centre

1998 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform The Wanton Song on Later With Jools Holland

1998 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform The Wanton Song on Later With Jools Holland

♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Landover 05/56/77) YouTube
♪  Wanton Song + later interview (Page & Plant, Later With Jools Holland 1998) YouTube

New resource: Radio Interviews

Here are links for radio interviews put together by my friend Frank Smith.  The first is for Led Zeppelin era, the second for post-Zeppelin and the third is miscellaneous.  Frank says this is still a work-in-progress as he continues to consolidate loose ends and make additions.  

I will forward any links to interviews not on Franks' lists that you have if you let me know what they are. You can post the links (and description please) in the comments, below. Meanwhile - there are 112 interviews so far for you to enjoy.  

https://www.mixcloud.com/51965/playlists/zep-interviews/
https://www.mixcloud.com/51965/playlists/post-zeppelin/

https://www.mixcloud.com/51965/playlists/misc/

These links are also posted on the RESOURCES page so you can always find them.  

On This Day 25 May

Three and a half hours of show this last night at Earls Court in 1975.

1975 25 May On This Day Led Zeppelin final performance at Earls Court Exhibition Hall

Dave Lewis says in his book, Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, "..there was no holding Jimmy back tonight. He soloed as if his life depended on it." More from Dave Lewis' TBL on this last night at Earls Court

• 1968 The Yardbirds - San Francisco,CA at Fillmore Auditorium
• 1969 Led Zeppelin – (opens for a Who concert) Columbia,MD at Merriweather Post Pavillion
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Denver,CO at Denver Coliseum
• 1975 25 May On This Day Led Zeppelin final performance at Earls Court Exhibition Hall
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Landover, MD at Capital Centre
• 1986 The Firm - Concord,CA at Concord Pavilion
• 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Tacoma,WA at Tacoma Dome

1975 after the final Earls Court performance, Page & Plant left for Morocco (posted 25 May On This Day)

1975 a few days after the final Earls Court performance, Page & Plant left for Morocco (posted 25 May On This Day)

1975 Dave Lewis' tickets for Earls Court

1975 Earls Court stage - such a small thing for such a big event (Photo Steve Selwood)

1975 Jimmy Page at Earls Court (photo H. Mylett)

1975 Earls Court - The final bows (photo source Dave Lewis)

1975  Jimmy Page takes last bows at Earls Court (photo Chris Walter)

♪  No Quarter (Led Zeppelin, Earls Court 05/25/1975) YouTube
♪  The Song Remains The Same (Led Zeppelin, Landover 05/25/1977) YouTube
♪  Yallah (Page & Plant, Unledded 1995) YouTube

The chocolate of music

I love chocolate ice cream, always have as far back as I can remember. I love ice cream in general, but chocolate is what I prefer. If not just plain chocolate, then chocolate ice cream enhanced with chunks of chocolate. 

I do eat other ice cream. When I go someplace that offers multiple flavors, I get a three-scoop bowl: A scoop of rich chocolate, a scoop of cherry, and a scoop of mint chocolate chip. There's something about the combo that transports my taste buds.

But it's all based on chocolate. Has to be the right chocolate, too - not just any chocolate. It has to be rich, deep, almost bitter (not too sweet!) intense flavor. I don't eat wimpy chocolate ice cream. Why bother?

Personal choice

While I love my chocolate ice cream, I'm not saying I think anyone else should love chocolate ice cream like I do. Everyone's free to love the flavors they love. But me? Chocolate is where it all starts.

If I get a three scoop bowl, the other two flavors without the chocolate are merely ice cream, as superior as they might be. They just don't quite make it. If someone offered me high quality cherry or mint chocolate chip ice cream without any real chocolate ice cream, of course I'd accept and enjoy them. I do really like mint chocolate chip and lots of other flavors of ice cream, but they aren't chocolate. I'd eat them and enjoy them but in the back of my mind there'd be me going: it's not chocolate.  

Chocolate music
It's the same with me and music (and aren't you surprised?). I love almost all music, and particularly Led Zeppelin, but it's the music of Jimmy Page I love the most. The four scoops of Led Zeppelin are the best combination in the world because of Jimmy Page. Without him, they're merely ice cream, as superior as they might be. Without him I listen and enjoy all kinds of music but I'm thinking: it's not Jimmy Page.

To put it simply, I listen to Jimmy Page's music almost exclusively because Jimmy Page is the chocolate ice cream of musicians for me.

♪  Ice Cream Dreams (Cartoones feat. Jimmy Page guitar, 1969)  YouTube

More on the Cartoones 

Chocolate guitar!