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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

On this day 24 October

A long time ago

in a decade far, far away

1963 24 October On This Day Carter Lewis & The Southerners release
Your Mama's Out of Town and Somebody Told My Girl

1963 Carter Lewis & The Southerners feat. Jimmy Page release Your Mama's Out of Town
1969 Led Zeppelin - Cleveland, OH at Clevalnd Public Hall
1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Philadelphia, PA at The Spectrum

1963 Jimmy Page with Carter Lewis & The Southerners

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Cleveland (Michael Pierson photo)

1969 Cleveland Chronicle Telegram review of Led Zeppelin show

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Cleveland (Michael Pierson photo)

2013 Jimmy Page backstage with Baroness, Electric Ballroom London
(Ross Halfin photo)

2014

2017

2018

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[2023: I haven't checked all the links but I'm posting this anyway]

♪ Your Mama's Out of Town (Carter Lewis & The Southerners 1963) YouTube
♪ Somebody Told My Girl (Carter Lewis & The Southerners 1963) YouTube
♪ Black Dog , Kashmir (Page & Plant, Philadelphia 1995) YouTube
♪ Full set ( (Page & Plant, Philadelphia 1995) YouTube

Monday, October 23, 2023

On this day 23 October

The song remains...

1966 23 October On This Day The Yardbirds San Francisco at Fillmore Auditorium

1966 The Yardbirds - San Francisco, CA at Fillmore Auditorium
1976 Led Zeppelin – TSRTS promo, US television debut on Don Kirshner's Rock Show
1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Boston, MA at Fleet Center

1966 The Yardbirds San Francisco at Fillmore Auditorium
(Gordon Linden photo)

1966:

Ed Denson (Berkeley Barb, 28 October 1966):

'Eleven amplifiers, eleven amplifiers, the Yardbirds have 11 amplifiers, Jesus Christ -- the words seemed to spring from the air in the Fillmore last Sunday as the other groups on the afternoon show waited for the Yardbirds, the stars, and the amplifiers, and their equipment to arrive. Standel advertises that 10 of theirs have the power to kill anyone standing in front of them ... [The Yardbirds'] first note reveals the meaning of the eleven amplifiers. The guitar has a power, a fullness of tone, a depth that has not been often heard outside a recording studio. The sound moves out of the three amplifiers and possesses you, driving the normal impulses out of your nervous system and replacing them with music. But not a music that you've ever heard before. It has the textures and rhythms of Chicago blues, like almost all rock now, but as they play the bass player turns his body so that his instrument is facing the 27 square feet of amplifier and speakers that stand behind him, taller than he, and the feedback tones fill the room with a sound more powerful than anything before it, and touching more on what is happening, and then the lead guitarist goes into an incredible distorted nm with notes and feedback blending into a beautiful new sound ... No other group has been as close to it as the Yardbirds --Beatles, Stones forget it. At the back of the hall it is too loud, muddy, much of it inaudible and the sound system has utterly failed to match the eleven amplifiers. Not a word can be heard.... I am convinced, I am converted, the Yardbirds are the best group in the world. It took a day to come down from that idea. After it was over I watched them leave, clear smiles on their faces and plane schedules on their minds, and I remembered what they had done to my favorite music, and how my mind ached with the glory of today [but] all the songs sounded the same ... They don't have the variety or didn't choose to on stage that day. Like Butterfield they did one thing, and really well.'

1976:

Don Kirshner’s Rock Show website:

"Although they never appeared live on the show, footage from Zeppelin’s 1976 film, The Song Remains the Same, was aired on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert on September 29, 1976. Featured selects included performances of “Rock and Roll”, “Bring It On Home”, “Wear Flowers In Your Hair”, “Black Dog”, and “Dazed and Confused.” The astounding 25 minute performance of “Dazed and Confused” showcased some of the band’s wildest stage antics, particularly Jimmy Page’s technique with a violin bow. "

1976 Swan Song press release for TSRTS

Jimmy Page playing Stairway To Heaven, from the TSRTS movie

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♪ Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin, from TSRTS movie 1976)

♪ Page & Plant (Boston MA at Fleet Center, 23 October 1995)

Sunday, October 22, 2023

On this day 22 October

Whole lotta lotta.

1969 22 October On This Day Led Zeppelin II released
♪ Whole Lotta Love (SoundCloud)

1966 The Yardbirds - Westport, CT at Staples High School Auditorium
1967 The Yardbirds - Wichita, KS at Cotillion Club
1969 Led Zeppelin II released
1976 Led Zeppelin - Los Angeles at Fox Wilshire, premier of The Song Remains The Same
1988 Jimmy Page - Outrider Tour - Detroit, MI at Joe Louis Arena
1997 Led Zeppelin releases Whole Lotta Love as a single in the UK
2014 Jimmy Page - London at Paul Smith Led Zeppelin Limited Edition Scarves launch

1976:

There is conflicting information about the exact dates of the Led Zeppelin premieres in New York and Los Angeles. Some say October 19 and 21, respectively, and others - including Dave Lewis - say October 20 and 22. I'm going with Dave.

1976 The Song Remains The Same movie premiere, LA

1976 LA premiere of The Song Remains The Same

1988:
Jimmy Page just got better and better at interpreting Chopin's Prelude. It's the first song on the full set video for the Detroit show (playlist below).

1988 Jimmy Page, Outrider Tour, Detroit (Ben Roberts photo)

1997:

Whole Lotta Love was released as a single in the UK on this day - the first ever single released there. The occasion was the 30th anniversary of the band. The video is hot, hot, hot.

If you'd never heard one Led Zeppelin song and this was your first, it would knock your socks off. For those of us who've been listening since day one, it was a reminder that every single Led Zeppelin song is a masterpiece in its own right.

2014:
Having met with fashion designer Paul Smith in Tokyo earlier this month in 2014, on this day Jimmy Page attended the launch of the Paul Smith Led Zeppelin scarf line in London.

2014 Paul Smith & Jimmy Page in London

2015:
Lots of movies are licensing Led Zeppelin songs in their trailers and as part of their soundtracks.
Mostly it's Kashmir or Immigrant Song, but the trailer for The Big Short (2015) uses When The Levee Breaks. I've got a blog entry with the start of a list of songs and the movies, trailers, and other uses that you can check out.

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♪ Whole Lotta Love / promo (Led Zeppelin, 1969/1997)
♪ Jimmy Page Outrider Tour (Detroit MI at Joe Lewis Arena, 22 October 1988)

♪ The Big Short (movie trailer 2015)

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Movies and more that use Jimmy Page's music in the soundtracks

This list is incomplete, but this is what I have so far. If you know of some official (i.e. licensed) use of music Jimmy Page has played (whether with Led Zeppelin or other) please don't hesitate to let me know in the comments. Links would be appreciated.

1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1992 Wayne’s World

1998 “Kashmir” in Godzilla with Puff Daddy

1998 “Communication Breakdown” in Small Soldiers with

1999 One Day in September

2000 "That's the Way" in Almost Famous with Billy Crudup & Kate Hudson

2001 "Achilles Last Stand" in Dogtown and Z-Boys (documentary)

2001 “Gallows Pole” (Page & Plant) in Bandits with Bruce Willis

2003 "Immigrant Song" in School of Rock with Jack Black & Joan Cusack

2003 Mayor of the Sunset Strip

2004 "Kashmir" in Ocean's 12 with George Clooney & Catherine Zeta-Jones

2007 “Immigrant Song” in Shrek the Third

2008 "In My Time of Dying" in It Might Get Loud with Jimmy Page

2010 "Good Times, Bad Times" in The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg & Christian Bale

2011 “Immigrant Song” in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Daniel Craig & Lisbeth Salander

2012 "When the Levee Breaks" in Argo with Ben Affleck & John Goodman

2012 "What Is and What Should Never Be" in Silver Linings Playbook with Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence

2013 "Ramble On" in Oblivion with Tom Cruise & Morgan Freeman

2013 "Good Times, Bad Times" in American Hustle with Christian Bale & Amy Adams

2014 “Kashmir” in X-Men: Days of Future Past (trailer)

2017 “Immigrant Song” in Thor: Ragnarok (trailer)

2022 “Ramble On” in Uncharted (trailer)

Saturday, October 21, 2023

On this day 21 October

Waiting for the Happenings A Year To Come, but oh well...

1966 21 October On This Day Yardbirds Happenings Ten Years Time Ago

1966 The Yardbirds release Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
1966 The Yardbirds - Worcester, MA at The Comic Strip
1967 The Yardbirds - Dallas, TX at Studio Club
1976 Premiere of "The Song Remains the Same" movie, Los Angeles CA
1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Dayton, OH at Hara Arena
1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Hartford, CT at Hartford Civic Center

1966:

You might want to listen to Jimi Hendrix's House Burning Down right after listening to Happenings Ten Years Time Ago. Maybe it's just me, but I feel a connection there, like maybe Jimi was influenced by Jimmy, or at least by The Yardbirds' song, which was released two years prior to Hendrix's.

Not saying anybody else will hear it. Not saying it's a bad thing, if it's actually a thing. Not saying anything about anyone "stealing" a song, either. To me it just shows once again how a great musician stands on the shoulders of the musicians before him (or her). And if Hendrix never ever heard the Yardbirds

1976

Just ten years later, Led Zeppelin was premiering their movie, "The Song Remains the Same". An amazing journey.

2010

Jimmy Page in Lid Magazine

2010 Jimmy Page on cover of October Lid Magazine

2010 October issue of Lid Magazine's Jimmy Page article

2010 Lid Magazine Jimmy Page article (Ross Halfin photo, right)

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♪ Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (The Yardbirds 1966)
♪ House Burning Down (Jimi Hendrix, 1968) YouTube
♪ Jimmy Page (Dayton OH at Hara Arena, 21 October 1988)
♪ Page & Plant (Hartford CT at Hartford Civic Center, 21 October 1995)

Friday, October 20, 2023

On this day 20 October

"It’s a pity we hadn’t done a commercial for Mercedes." Or Gibson.

1966 The Yardbirds - London at IBC Studios to record for Great Shakes
1967 The Yardbirds - San Antonio, TX at Pusi-Kat Club
1969 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Paramount Theatre (unconfirmed)
1976 Led Zeppelin - New York City at Cinema 1, premier of The Song Remains The Same
2020 Jimmy Page: The Anthology released worldwide

1966:

Great Shakes was a General Foods product used to make milkshakes at home. It included a shaker cup with lid, and a flavored powder to mix with milk. The marketing was advanced for its time, and included one-minute radio spots recorded by the most popular bands of the day, generally reworks of existing songs. The commercials were released by Columbia Special Products on two volumes with four tracks each, as Great Shakes Shake-Out and Great Shakes Shake-Out 2. A 1990s edition, Great Shaken' was also released (Mo-Donna EP), with the The Yardbirds' contribution, Over Under Sideways Down. That EP also included a Pepsi song (by Stone Poneys) and a H.I.S. song (The Troggs).

The Who, The Byrds, Dusty Springfield and other musicians and bands from that era also did spots for Great Shakes.

1969:

JP's website says Led Zeppelin performed at the Seattle Paramount Theater on this day, but I can find no confirmation of this - no setlist, no recordings, no photos, no promo, no ticket stubs.

1976:

The $25,000 proceeds from the world premiere of The Song Remains The Same (TSRTS) that went to the Save the Children Foundation would be $135,000 in today's dollars. The party thrown by Swan Song after the premiere was attended by Ahmet Ertegun (in a neck brace), Mick Jagger, Ron Wood and Linda Ronstadt, among others.

1976 Jimmy Page at The Song Remains The Same movie premiere, New York City

1976 Jimmy Page at The Song Remains The Same movie premiere, New York City

The Song Remains the Same

In The Song Remains The Same movie Jimmy Page's fantasy sequence opens with him sitting on the lawn overlooking the moat that surrounds his Plumpton Place manor. He climbs up a mountain near his Boleskine House on Loch Ness in Scotland during the nights of a full moon. He seeks the Hermit, which turns out to be himself. The music that accompanies this is a monumental and powerful bow sequence of Dazed and Confused.

The Hermit, according to most tarot traditions, represents the turning away from the outer world and tuning in to the inner life, in order to search for a deeper, higher reality. The tarot card stands not just for seeking, but for maintaining independence as well as guiding others to the higher knowledge.

The image of the hermit with the lantern is based on Diogenes, the Greek ascetic, who was searching for an honest man - a metaphor for searching for higher truth. That depiction of Diogenes, in turn, could well be based on the Greco-Roman understanding of the Celtic Druid, described by Julius Caesar as highly educated and powerful priests who believed in the immortality of the soul and the transmigration of it into other lives (reincarnation). In modern-day illustrations Druids are often depicted as carrying a staff and a light.

According to the Thoth deck, designed by Aleister Crowley, the Hermit is also the Lord of Time whose lantern shines the light of his wisdom and who leans on the staff of his experience.

Lucifer, bringer of light.

Had Jimmy Page been exposed to a different culture, he might have portrayed himself as a shaman, who uses altered states of consciousness to access and interact with the energies of other planes of reality, and to channel those energies into this world.

Give the man a guitar, after all, and that's what he does.

Jimmy Page, The Song Remains The Same

2020

From JP's website: "Jimmy Page: The Anthology*. Both reflective and revealing, it is quite simply the legendary musician’s most comprehensive and fascinating account of his life to date."

*As an Amazon Associate, I earn a teeny tiny commission from qualifying purchases.

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♪ Great Shakes Commercial (the Yardbirds, 1966)
♪ TSRTS movie trailer (Led Zeppelin 1976)
♪ Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same 1976)

Thursday, October 19, 2023

On this day 19 October

Jimmy Page instrumentals are The Best!

1988 19 October On This Day Jimmy Page Outrider Tour, Cleveland
♪ Emerald Eyes (Jimmy Page, Cleveland 1988)

1966 The Yardbirds – Top of the Pops, Elstree, England at Elstree for 17 November broadcast
1968 Led Zeppelin - Liverpool, England at University of Liverpool (as The Yardbirds)
1969 Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL at Kinetic Playground (two shows)
1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Cleveland, OH at Cleveland Public Hall
1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Buffalo, NY at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - Los Angeles, CA at The Greek Theatre (day 2)

1966:as The Yardbirds

Top of the Pops (TOTP) was a BBC music show broadcast from 1964 to 2006. Each show featured the top bands of the week and ran down the music of the charts. While the show no longer exists as a weekly program, a special edition.is broadcast on Christmas Day and a weekly show airs performances from the BBC archives of the 1970s and 1980s.

A sample from Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love was used as the TOTP theme music for much of the 1970s, and from May 1998 to November 2003 a cover version was used.

1968 as The Yardbirds
It might come as a surprise to some, but Robert Plant can play musical instruments as well as sing. You might know about the harmonica, but there's a rumor he played a bit of bass on one of the earlier albums. I haven't tracked it down but if you know, please share!