On This Day 08 September

Check out the guy covering his eyes.  He's peeping between his fingers.

1968 08 September On This Day the New Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin in Denmark,
with the Ladybirds opening two shows

• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Lolland-Falstar, Denmark at Reventlow-Parken
• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Roskilde, Denmark at Fjordvilla Club
• 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Miami, FL at James L. Knight Center
• 1998 Page & Plant - Portland, OR at Rose Garden, Theatre of The Clouds

This is NOT what Jimmy Page's website shows for On This Day, 08 September

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♪ Outrider album (Jimmy Page 1988) YouTube
♫ Jimmy Page Outrider interview by Mick Wall YouTube

On This Day 07 September

First show! 

1968 07 September On This Day The New Yardbirds - Led Zeppelin's first show, Gladsaxe Denmark

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Santa Monica, CA at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Gladsaxe, Denmark at Egegard Skole,Box 45 Teen Club
• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Brondby, Denmark at Norregards-hallen,Brondby Pop Club
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Garden
• 1971 Live Yardbirds album released
• 1990 Led Zeppelin Box Set released  

♪  White Summer (The Yardbirds, Santa Monica 1966) YouTube

John Paul Jones with Foo Fighters, Under Pressure

Here are three videos of John Paul Jones with Roger Taylor and Foo Fighters playing the Queen/Bowie song, Under Pressure on 05 September the Milton Keynes National Bowl.  They formed what Dave Grohl called a "super-duper-group" with John Paul Jones on keyboard, Roger Taylor drums, and Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins vocals.

On This Day 06 September

1988 06 September On This Day Jimmy Page's Outrider Tour starts with Atlanta
♪  Wasting My Time (Jimmy Page, Outrider 1988) Soundcloud

• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Honolulu,HI at International Center Arena
• 1977 Jimmy Page with Carl Simmons, Phil Carson, Bill Kinsley, Brighton, England at Metropole Hotel 
• 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Atlanta,GA at The Omni
• 1998 Page & Plant - George,WA at The Gorge Amphitheatre

It's Labor Day weekend here in the US and I'm going to have me some fun. The regular info-packed, fun-filled, Magickal Mage Music posts and playlists will continue in a day or three.

 

On This Day 05 September

...a traveler of both time and space, to be where he has been...

1966 05 September On This Day Jimmy Page recorded A Degree of Murder soundtrack with Brian Jones
♪ A Degree of Murder (Brian Jones) Soundcloud

• 1966 Jimmy Page recorded A Degree of Murder soundtrack with Brian Jones.
• 1969 Tous En Scene TV show, filmed June 19, aired on French TV
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL at International Amphitheatre
• 1998 Page & Plant - Vancouver, Canada at General Motors Place
• 2008 It Might Get Loud premiers at Toronto Film Festival
• 2013 Jimmy Page at London launch of Lou Reed limited edition book, Transformer

It's all connected:

Jimmy Page was employed as producer, session musician and A&R scout for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records label in 1965. Jimmy Page produced and played on Nico’s 1965 singles for Immediate, I'm Not Sayin' / The Last Mile.

Oldham was manager and producer of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1967. Brian Jones was the founder and original bandleader of the Rolling Stones, and in 1966 Jimmy Page worked with Brian Jones recording the soundtrack to the 1967 movie, A Degree of Murder. Jones' broke up with his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, and shortly after was seen enjoying the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 with Nico.

Nico had met Bob Dylan a few years before and had traveled with him around Europe while Dylan worked on songs for his fourth album, 1964's Another Side of Bob Dylan.  During that time Dylan wrote a song for Nico's 1967 Chelsea Girl album called I'll Keep It With Mine.  Chelsea Girl was released in October 1967 by Verve Records, The Velvet Underground's label. According to some sources, Bob Dylan had introduced Nico to Andy Warhol, who had done a "screen test" of Dylan in 1965 or 1966, and Warhol introduced her to Lou Reed's band, The Velvet Underground.

  

The album The Velvet Underground & Nico was produced in 1972 by Andy Warhol. While it didn't sell many copies at the time, even Rolling Stone magazine has ranked it number thirteen on their list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".  But then Rolling Stone, ranked Led Zeppelin's first album only 29th, and none of their other albums appear in the top 50.  The magazine's music critics never has much liked Led Zeppelin, so take their ranking for what it's worth.

To continue...

Transformer was Lou Reed's second solo studio album. One of the tracks, Walk On The Wild Side, became Lou Reed's signature song. The 1972 album was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, and the cover art photography was by Mick Rock, David Bowie's official photographer.  Rock continued photographing Lou Reed and other musicians over the decades.

Mick Rock has put out a number of photographic books. He and Lou Reed launched a Genesis Publications limited edition book, Transformer, in London in September 2013. Jimmy Page was at the event. Reed died October 27, 2013.  

"The Yardbirds used to cover I'm Waiting For My Man a lot; we used to drop it into the middle of  I'm A Man. I'm pretty certain we were the first people to cover The Velvet Underground."  ~Jimmy Page, Julian Marszalek interview, Quietus November 2014

1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack

1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack

1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack

1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack

1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack

2008 Jimmy Page at It Might Get Loud premier, Toronto Film Festival

Jimmy Page, in It Might Get Loud

Jimmy Page, in It Might Get Loud

2013 Jimmy Page and Lou Reed at launch of Reed's limited edition book, Transformer

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♪  A Degree of Murder (soundtrack part 1, Brian Jones feat. Jimmy Page 1966) YouTube

♪  A Degree of Murder (soundtrack part 2, Brian Jones feat. Jimmy Page 1966) YouTube

♪  A Degree of Murder (soundtrack part 3, Brian Jones feat. Jimmy Page 1966) YouTube

♪  Full Set (Page & Plant, Vancouver 1998) YouTube
♪  It Might Get Loud/excerpt (Jimmy Page 2008) YouTube

On This Day 04 September

Jimmy Page, here, there and everywhere

1964 04 September On This Day Joe Cocker singles released
♪ I'll Cry Instead (Joe Cocker feat. Jimmy Page guitar, 1964) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Honolulu, HI at International Center, Exhibition Hall
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
• 1970 Led Zeppelin with Fairport Convention - West Hollywood, CA at Troubadour Club 
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Canada at Maple Leaf Gardens
• 1974 Jimmy Page with Bad Company - Central Park, NYC at Schaefer Music Festival
• 1998 Page & Plant - Vancouver, Canada, rehearsal at General Motors Place 

1970:
Following the show at the Forum, the four members of Led Zeppelin and Peter Grant showed up at the Troubadour Club for Fairport Convention 's second set and jammed with them. Sandy Denny was Fairport Convention's singer. Denny was later to contribute vocals on Led Zeppelin's The Battle of Evermore. She was the only guest vocalist Led Zeppelin ever recorded with. During later live performances of the song John Paul Jones sang Denny's vocals, with sometimes John Bonham joining in.

During the jam, Bonham attacked Dave Mattacks' drums with his usual enthusiasm. Later Mattacks had to repair the kit and replace the heads. It was reported that the bass drum jumped forward three or four inches with Bonzo's first strike.

The story goes that after the Fairport/Zeppelin jam they all moved to the after hours bar, Barney's Beanery, where Janis Joplin was hanging out. A drinking contest between Fairport's Dave Pegg, Bonham and Janis Joplin ensued. No report of a winner has surfaced.

The jam was taped, and according to Dave Lewis, it ended up in Peter Grant's possession. That recording has not surfaced, either.

1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at LA Forum

1974: 

Bad Company had only begun performing live in May of 1974.  Their first album, Bad Company, was released by Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.  Jimmy Page joined Bad Company for an encore of Rock Me Baby at the Shaefer Music Festival in New York's Central Park on September 4, 1974.  

In 1983, Jimmy Page appeared with the ARMS charity concert series.  Steve Winwood provided vocals for Jimmy Page's set at the first shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Paul Rodgers, of Bad Company, replaced Winwood for the four-city ARMS tour in the United States.  Rodgers joined Jimmy Page in The Firm in 1985 and 1986.  

1974 Jimmy Page with Bad Company, Schaefer Music Festival NYC

1974 Jimmy Page with Mick Ralphs of Bad Company, Schaefer Music Festival NYC

1974 Jimmy Page with Bad Company, Schaefer Music Festival NYC

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♪  I'll Cry Instead (Joe Cocker feat. Jimmy Page guitar, 1964) YouTube
♪   Those Precious Words (Joe Cocker feat. Jimmy Page guitar, 1964) YouTube
♪  Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1970) YouTube
♪  Thank You (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1970) YouTube
♪  Full set (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1970) YouTube
♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Toronto 1971) YouTube
♪  Full Set (Led Zeppelin, Toronto 1971) YouTube
♪  Rock Me Baby (Jimmy Page with Bad Company, New York 1974) YouTube

On This Day 03 September

Sometimes it really is as hard, hard, hard as it seems...

1998 03 September On This Day Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Salem, OR at Salem Armory Auditorium
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - San Diego, CA at San Diego Sports Arena
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
• 1998 Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver, British Columbia

1970 Led Zeppelin San Diego bootleg insert

1971:
"I'm Scott Muni, from WNEW-FM. They take a poll over in England every year. For the second time, the greatest rock and roll band in the land, LED ZEPPELIN!"

"...the stage collapsed. Plant and Page made their way to the top of the stacks of amps, then crawled down and off stage. The house lights came up and the P.A. announcer asked for calm and for everyone to return to their seats."
~ A.J. Crandall report on his experience of the 1971 show

1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin MSG

1971 Led Zeppelin MSG

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♪  Bring It On Home (Led Zeppelin, San Diego 1970) YouTube

♪  Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin, San Diego 1970) YouTube
♪   Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin, MSG 1971) YouTube
 ♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, MSG 1971) YouTube