On this day 31 December

 Happy New Year!

1968 31 December On This Day Jimmy Page on the road on New Year's Eve

2015 Classic Rock "Best of the Year" cover

2009 March Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin photo)

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♫  BBC 2 Johnnie Walker interviews Jimmy Page 12/30/15 (MP3)

On this day 30 December

 Dazed thinking 2023 is about over

1968 30 December On This Day Led Zeppelin at Gonzaga University, Spokane WA
AUDIO: a minute and a half of Dazed and Confused (MP3)

• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Spokane, WA at Gonzaga University 

1968

The House of Gonzaga was the ruling family of Mantua, in Northern Italy, from 1328 to 1708. The most famous son was Aloysius Gonzaga, who was canonized in 1726. In 1729 Pope Benedict declared Aloysius to be the patron saint of young students. 

Gonzaga University is a private Jesuit university located in Spokane, Washington, founded in 1887.

As noted in today's post: The audience recording of Dazed and Confused from Gonzaga (9 minutes and 42 seconds long) was training for a number that would run much, much longer in later years.  According to Jimmy Page, the song had "all the movements of a classical symphony".  Note that Led Zeppelin performed Dazed and Confused  more than 200 times over the years, with the longest being nearly 45 minutes at The Forum in LA, 27 March 1975.

Also in 1968

Not on this day but interesting: In 1964 Jimmy Page, along with Big Jim Sullivan, had worked with PJ Proby on Proby's first studio album, I Am P. J. Proby. Four years later all four members of Led Zeppelin recorded together for the very first time -- but not on a Led Zeppelin album, on PJ Proby's final album Three Week Hero. The recording sessions took place starting August 1968 and the album was released in April 1969. Read more... 

According to Proby in a 2012 interview by Corbin of Finding Zoso:

"...we recorded that album, I think it was in two days. We even undershot, we recorded it with about thirty-five minutes left over, and so Roland yelled down, “Why don’t you all busket*? We shouldn’t waste the studio time.” I told the boys, “Y’all start picking and I’ll write as you pick.” So the three last numbers on the album, It's So Hard to Be a Nigger/Jim's Blues/George Wallace is Rollin' in This Mornin’, I just made up as the boys played."

Jimmy Page - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar

John Paul Jones - Bass guitar, keyboards, arrangements

John Bonham - Drums, conga

Robert Plant - Harmonica

* Re: "busket": Roland must have said "busk it", meaning improvise.

2008 Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin photo)

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Spokane WA at Gonzaga University, 30 December 1968) 

♪  Jim's Blues (PJ Proby with Jimmy Page guitar recorded 1968 released 1969) 
Note: PJ's first name was Jim
♪  Mery Hopkins medley (PJ Proby with "The New Yardbirds" released 1994) 
Note: Proby calls out each member of the band, who then plays a little solo

On this day 29 December

 Getting ready for a new year

2005 29 December Jimmy Page vacationing in Goa

• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Portland, OR at Portland Civic Auditorium

2007 Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin photo)

Here's a link to a few of Ross Halfin's photos of Jimmy Page.

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On this day 27 December

 Whiz kid

1969 27 December On This Day Jimmy Page in Melody Maker

• 1966 -The Yardbirds - Ann Arbor, MI at The Fifth Dimension
• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Arena

1969 Melody Maker "Blind Date" interview

1968

On this day 26 December

 Have a groovy day.

1968 26 December On This Day Led Zeppelin at Denver

1968 review of Denver gig

1966
Led Zeppelin's first US show, and Blow Up is playing in town, too.

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Jimmy Page On Making The Led Zeppelin Remasters - Part 1 | Louder

On this day 25 December

 Wishing you a very Zoso Christmas

Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues

AUDIO: Yule Zeppelin I 2011 (YouTube)

On this day 24 December

Wishing you a joyful holiday season

with all good things:

Health and Prosperity

Happiness and Peace

and

the music of Jimmy Page

2015 Jimmy Page, London (Ross Halfin photo)