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Thursday, September 10, 2015

On This Day10 September

The show must go on.

1966 10 September On This Day The Yardirds - Baltimore, MD at Baltimore Civic Center

1966 The Yardirds - Baltimore, MD at Baltimore Civic Center
1971 Led Zeppelin - Syracuse, NY at Onondaga War Memorial

1966:

You can never predict what the consequences of an action might be. Whether Jeff Beck was recovering from surgery or was, as Jimmy Page perhaps hints at On This Day, playing hooky, the result was that it would not be long before our Mr. Page was sole lead guitarist for The Yardbirds. And of course, the next step after that was a big one.

1966 Yardbirds Baltimore

1988:

A bit of trivia about the beginning of the Outrider Tour, though not so trivial at the time: Jimmy Page had abdominal surgery during the week of 21 August 1988. The opening night of the tour was to have been at the Sun Dome in Tampa on 31 August, only ten days post-surgery, so that gig was cancelled and the Miami Arena date was changed from 2 September to the 8th. He flew from London to Atlanta on 31 August and, after three days of rehearsal at The Omni, the tour opened.

A far cry from tonsillitis - know what I mean?

2009 Fall Guitar Aficionado Magazine (Ross Halfin Photo)

2015 September special Led Zeppelin collectors edition published by Bob Guccione

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♪ No Excess Baggage (The Yardbirds feat. Jimmy Page guitar 1967) You Tube
♪ Sick Again (Led Zeppelin, MSG 1975) YouTube
♪ One Hit To The Body (Rolling Stones feat. solo by Jimmy Page 1986) YouTube
♪ For Your Life (Page/Plant/Jones/Jason Bonham, O2 2007) YouTube

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

On This Day 9 September

Back to our regularly scheduled programming...

1988 09 September On This Day Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Tampa, FL at USF Sun Dome
♪ I Just Want To Make Love To You Soundcloud

1966 The Yardbirds - Alexandria, VA at Alexandria Roller Rink
1970 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Garden
1971 Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA at Hampton Roads Coliseum
1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Tampa, FL at USF Sun Dome

1970 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Garden

1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Garden

1971 Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA at Hampton Roads Coliseum (photo M Mitchell)

1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Hampton, VA at Hampton Roads Coliseum (photo M Mitchell)

1988:
A solo tour is one in which one musician is the focus, rather than the band. Outrider was Jimmy Page's first solo venture, one that many of us felt was long overdue. Although he used a variety of musicians on his solo album, it was John Miles, Durban Laverde and Jason Bonham who supported Jimmy Page on the brief (September - November) 1988 Outrider Tour.

British vocalist John Miles had a hit in the U.K. with Music in 1976. Miles sang on just two of Outrider's tracks, Wasting My Time and Wanna Make Love. A vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist, Miles has toured
with Tina Turner both as a musician and a tour director, with Joe Cocker and others over the years. He has released ten studio albums as well as live and compilation albums and singles.

Venezuelan Durban Laverde is a bass guitarist, keyboardist, session musician, and producer. He has performed with a variety of artists over the years. David Gilmour used Laverde to session for Pink Floyd in early 1987, during which time he met Phil Carlo who was working for Gilmour and for Jimmy Page at that time. Carlo gets the credit for introducing Laverde to Jimmy Page.

Jimmy Page had known Jason Bonham since before Jason got his first drum kit at 4 years old. The son of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, Jason was drummer for the band, Virginia Wolf, that toured with The Firm in 1985. Jason drummed for Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones at the 1988 Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert in New York City and the 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert at The O2 Arena in London in 2007. Jason has released or appeared on approximately twenty albums, and currently tours as Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience.

1988 Outrider promo photo - Durban Laverde, Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page, John Miles

Jimmy Page has has performed with a lot of good musicians over the years. Outrider is awesome - but it's the guitar work that is awesome, not the vocals, not the drumming, not the bass. For those of us who revere the guitar work of Jimmy Page, he's always been the only one on the stage.

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♪ Bron-Yr-Aur (Led Zeppelin, Boston 1970) YouTube
♪ Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin Hampton VA 1971) YouTube
♪ Partial set (Led Zeppelin Hampton VA 1971) YouTube
♪ Wanna Make Love (Outrider 1988) YouTube

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

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

Monday, September 7, 2015

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

Sunday, September 6, 2015

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.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

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