Monday, August 31, 2015

On This Day 31 August

"A substantial bill of performing artists..."
1969 31 August On This Day Led Zeppelin at Texas International Pop Festival
♪ Watch video (YouTube)
♪ Audio: Janis Joplin (Soundcloud)

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Pismo Beach, CA at Rose Garden Ballroom
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Lewisville, TX at Dallas International Motor Speedway
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Milwaukee, WI at Milwaukee Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Orlando, FL at Orlando Sports Stadium 
“The tours took a lot ... well, did it take a lot out of me? I don’t know whether it did. It gave as much to me as it took out. It was like being on a permanent adrenalin drip, do you know what I mean? [Playing live was] to be right on the edge of the moment.”
~ The Times 2010 (possibly the London Times, 22 August 2010)

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Texas International Pop Festival (Carl Dunn photo)

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Texas International Pop Festival (Carl Dunn photo)

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Texas International Pop Festival (Jay Dickman photo)


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Sunday, August 30, 2015

On This Day 30 August

British cowboy playin' rock blues.  Yup.  Works for me.

1969 30 August On This Day Led Zeppelin at Flushing Meadow NY
♪  Worried Blues (Buddy Guy) Soundcloud

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - San Jose, CA 
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Flushing Meadows, NY 

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Flushing Meadow NY

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Flushing Meadow NY

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Flushing Meadow NY
I put this Japanese promo poster for Coverdale-Page here because I've been listening to Coverdale-Page a lot lately.

1993 Japanese Coverdale-Page promo

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

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On This Day 29 August

You still got it, man!
~ Dave Bartholomew to Fats Domino
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

1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Man-Pop Festival, Winnipeg

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?
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.

1985 Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham, Ibiza

1985 Jimmy Page, Ibiza

1985 Opus news clipping

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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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

On This Day 26 August

Musical mischief
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.


1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project 

1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project 

1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project 

1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project,
 Ovation double neck guitar

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 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.


1970 Nashville show promo

1994 Unledded - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page


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Monday, August 24, 2015

On This Day 24 August

Any requests?
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.
~ Jimmy Page, interview by Mark Myers for The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2014
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.
“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.  

2008 Jimmy Page - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony

2008 Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony

2008 David Beckham, Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page - Beijing, China Summer Olympics
♫  Olympic breakfast interview (Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis, Beijing Olympics 2008) YouTube

2008 Jimmy Page  - Beijing, China Summer Olympics (Ross Halfin Photo


♪  Whole Lotta Love over the years  ♪

♪ 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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Sunday, August 23, 2015

On This Day 23 August

All in a day's work
1966 23 August On This Day The Yardbirds - Avalon, CA at Catalina Casino Ballroom

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Avalon, CA at Catalina Casino Ballroom
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Dania, Fl at Pirates' World
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin – San Antonio, TX at HemisFair Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Fort Worth, TX at Tarrant County Convention Center 
  • 1994 Page & Plant – London, England at London Television Centre for band rehearsals with cameras in studio
  • 1998 Page & Plant -  Cologne, Germany- Bizarre Festival
  • 2008 Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China National Stadium, Olympic rehearsal
Jimmy Page's experience as a session man made him ready and able to perform under all kinds of circumstances: using borrowed equipment, dodging firecrackers, playing on a rotating stage or one that was being demolished by fans or while standing on a rising industrial scissors lift. Somehow I doubt he gave much thought to these sorts of things when he first laid hands on a guitar.


1966 Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

1966 Jimmy Page/Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

1966 Jimmy Page/Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

1966 Jimmy Page/Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

2008 Jimmy Page at Beijing Olympics rehearsal (Ross Halfin photo)

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♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Fort Worth 1971) YouTube
♪  Whole Lotta Love Medley (Led Zeppelin, Fort Worth 1971) YouTube
♪  No Quarter (Page & Plant, Bizarre Festival 1998) YouTube
♪  Spoonful/Whole Lotta Love (Page & Plant, Bizarre Festival 1998) YouTube
♪  Most High (Page & Plant, Bizarre Festival 1998) YouTube



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