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Saturday, August 29, 2015
On This Day 29 August
You still got it, man!
~ Dave Bartholomew to Fats Domino
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| 1971 29 August Led Zeppelin - New Orleans, LA at New Orleans Municipal Auditorium ♪ Come Back Baby (Snooks Eaglin) Soundcloud |
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - Flushing Meadows, NY at Singer Bowl Music Festival (day 1)
- 1970 Led Zeppelin - Winnipeg, Canada at Winnipeg Stadium
- 1971 Led Zeppelin - New Orleans, LA at New Orleans Municipal Auditorium
1970:
A Youthbeat reader poll was used to help decide which acts to invite to the first (and only) Man-Pop (Manitoba Music Museum) Festival. Led Zeppelin had twice as many votes as the second place band, Three Dog Night, and more than three times as many votes as the Rolling Stones.
"If 1967 was San Francisco's fabled Summer of Love, Manitoba's own version of hippie peace, love and music took place in 1970.
"Manitoba's Summer of Love concluded on Aug. 29 with ManPop 70, a provincially funded rock festival headlined by Led Zeppelin and Iron Butterfly. This time, the rain returned with a vengeance. What began as an outdoor concert for some 14,000 at the football stadium finished up more than 15 hours later inside the old Arena. It was one of the most memorable shows ever to grace a Winnipeg venue, with Zeppelin taking the makeshift stage well past midnight."
~ Winnipeg Free Press, John Einarson 2013
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| 1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Man-Pop Festival, Winnipeg |
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| 1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Man-Pop Festival, Winnipeg |
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Friday, August 28, 2015
On This Day 28 August
Where's Jimmy?
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| 1964 28 August On This Day Jimmy Page Session Man (Brenda Lee, PJ Proby, Lulu) ♪ Is It True (Brenda Lee, feat. Jimmy Page guitar 1964) Soundcloud |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - San Diego, CA at San Diego Convention Hall
- 1970 Led Zeppelin - Detroit, MI at Olympia Stadium
- 1971 Led Zeppelin - St. Louis, MO at St. Louis Arena (no info available)
- 1985 Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham, Chris Squire & Mick Thompson jam with Opus at Ibiza Sun Power Festival
- 1998 Page & Plant - Reading, Berkshire, England at Reading Festival
1985:
There seems to be some confusion about what Jimmy Page was doing on this day in 1985. The website reports his having performed at the Sun Power Festival in Ibiza with Chris Squire, Jason Bonham and Mick Thompson, however Jason Bonham has said that it was 1986 when he was with Jimmy Page in Ibiza. On the other hand, the band, Virginia Wolf (Jason Bonham, drums) apparently recorded their eponymous first album in Ibiza the summer of 1985.
Note the sign behind Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham in the photo below. Opus is an Austrian band that was formed in 1973 and is still active today. The are best known for their single, Live is Life, released in 1984. The song was a European hit in the summer of 1985 and the band's fan page mentions performing in Ibiza around then. The Opus news clipping does confirm the Jimmy Page connection, the location (Ibiza) and puts it in late August. Perhaps someone can check through the page the clipping was from [PDF] and let us know if there is anything more specific about this show there.
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| 1985 Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham, Ibiza |
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| 1985 Jimmy Page, Ibiza |
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| 1985 Opus news clipping |
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| 1998, Page & Plant, Reading Festival |
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
On This Day 27 August
- 1966 The Yardbirds - Santa Barbara,CA at Earl Warren Showgrounds & Ventura High School Auditorium
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Warwick, RI at Rock Point Amusement Park
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - Hampton Beach, NH at Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (2 shows scheduled)
- 1971 Led Zeppelin - San Antonio, TX at San Antonio Municipal Auditorium
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Whoops - technical difficulties. No playlist today. Sorry!
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| In His Own World (imagery by Lif Strand/Mage Music) |
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
On This Day 26 August
Musical mischief
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| 1994 26 August On This Day Final recording session for Unledded Project for MTV |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - San Leandro, CA at Rollarena
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Huntsville, Ontario, Canada at Hidden Valley Ski Resort
- 1970 Led Zeppelin - Cleveland, OH at Cleveland Public Auditorium
- 1971 Led Zeppelin - Houston, TX at Sam Houston Coliseum
- 1994 Page & Plant - Unledded - London, England at London Studios, Studio 2
- 1998 Page & Plant - Dublin, Ireland at The Point Theatre
1994:
And then it was done. The practicing, the recording and filming outdoors in Wales and Morocco, and indoors with orchestras in front of an audience at the London Television Centre, was completed for the MTV Unledded telecast. The notion of "unplugged" had been given up in favor of "Unledded" and all that the name implied.
And it was good.
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| 1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project |
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| 1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project |
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| 1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project |
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| 1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project, Ovation double neck guitar |
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| 1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project Hand crafted tripleneck made by Andy Manson for Jimmy Page: bottom neck standard six-string guitar, middle neck twelve-string guitar, top neck eight-string mandolin |
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
On This Day 25 August
I was going to let my ghostwriter take over today so I could take a break, but oops - I don't have a ghostwriter. So I'm taking a break anyway. Today we have just a few photos and a playlist with a few songs related to nothing in particular, because why not.
1970:
Terry Manning (then recording engineer, along with Andy Johns) delivered the Led Zeppelin III masters to Peter Grant while the band was in Nashville. The first pressings of the album included the phrases "So mote be it" and "Do what thou wilt" inscribed on the lacquer by Manning.
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| 1970 25 August On This Day Led Zeppelin, Nashville, TN at Nashville Municipal Auditorium ♪ Noshville Katz - parody of Nashville Cats (Lovin' Cohens) YouTube |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - San Francisco, CA at Carousel Ballroom
- 1967 The Yardbirds - New York, NY at Village Theater
- 1970 Led Zeppelin - Nashville, TN at Nashville Municipal Auditorium
- 1994 Page & Plant Unledded Project - London, England at London Studios (recording and filming without orchestras in front of a select audience)
1970:
Terry Manning (then recording engineer, along with Andy Johns) delivered the Led Zeppelin III masters to Peter Grant while the band was in Nashville. The first pressings of the album included the phrases "So mote be it" and "Do what thou wilt" inscribed on the lacquer by Manning.
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| 1970 Nashville show promo |
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| 1994 Unledded - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page |
Monday, August 24, 2015
On This Day 24 August
Any requests?
Whole lotta history
Led Zeppelin began using Whole Lotta Love in their setlists before the official release of the song on their second album, Led Zeppelin II, in October 1969. It was performed by the band and by Led Zeppelin's surviving members after John Bonham's death hundreds of times, and no wonder: The magick had been brewing in Jimmy Page's head before the members of Led Zeppelin stepped on the stage together for the first time.
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| 2008 24 August Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony |
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Nantasket Beach Hull, MA at The Surf Club
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - Jacksonville, FL at Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
- 1971 Led Zeppelin - Dallas, TX at Dallas Memorial Coliseum
- 1994 Page & Plant – London, England at London Television Centre for band rehearsals with cameras in studio
- 2008 Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony
Whole lotta history
Led Zeppelin began using Whole Lotta Love in their setlists before the official release of the song on their second album, Led Zeppelin II, in October 1969. It was performed by the band and by Led Zeppelin's surviving members after John Bonham's death hundreds of times, and no wonder: The magick had been brewing in Jimmy Page's head before the members of Led Zeppelin stepped on the stage together for the first time.
I came up with the guitar riff for “Whole Lotta Love” in the summer of ’68, on my houseboat along the Thames in Pangbourne, England. I suppose my early love for big intros by rockabilly guitarists was an inspiration, but as soon as I developed the riff, I knew it was strong enough to drive the entire song, not just open it. When I played the riff for the band in my living room several weeks later during rehearsals for our first album, the excitement was immediate and collective. We felt the riff was addictive, like a forbidden thing.Like Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love was the subject of a lawsuit for music theft from Willie Dixon. The claim lies in the lyrics, though, not the guitar riffs. The lawsuit was settled out of court in 1985.
~ Jimmy Page, interview by Mark Myers for The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2014
“Page’s riff was Page’s riff. It was there before anything else. I just thought, ‘well, what am I going to sing?’ That was it, a nick. Now happily paid for. At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that… well, you only get caught when you’re successful. That’s the game.”
~ Robert Plant, as quoted by Charles M. Young, "Robert Plant's manic persona". Musician (Amordian Press) 1990
At the 2008 Olympic performance, lyrics were changed from "every inch of my love" to "every bit of my love," which makes sense for a female singer and a mixed audience venue, even if the new words don't quite measure up to the power of the song.
♪ Whole Lotta Love / Rough Mix With Vocal (Led Zeppelin, Official Music Video 2015 remaster) YouTube
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| 2008 Jimmy Page - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony |
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| 2008 Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony |
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| 2008 David Beckham, Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page - Beijing, China Summer Olympics |
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| 2008 Jimmy Page - Beijing, China Summer Olympics (Ross Halfin Photo |
♪ Whole Lotta Love over the years ♪
♪ Whole Lotta Love (Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at the O2 Arena, London, on 10 December 2007) YouTube
♪ Whole Lotta Love (Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis, Beijing Olympics 2008) YouTube♪ Whole Lotta Love / Rough Mix With Vocal (Led Zeppelin, Official Music Video 2015 remaster) YouTube
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