Showing posts with label Absolution Blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Absolution Blues. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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

Monday, April 11, 2016

On This Day 11 April

The never ending Magick...
2010 11 April On This Day Jimmy Page went to a Bad Company concert at Wembley


2010 Paul Rodgers & Jimmy Page, Bad Company at Wembley (Ross Halfin photo)
  • 1968 The Yardbirds-Boston,MA  at Boston Tea Party
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - St. Louis MO at Kiel Auditorium
Today is Mage Music's last daily On This Day post!  Last year I committed to providing a full year's worth, and now that it's done I won't post any more unless Jimmy Page's website offers some new ones. You can view each of them by clicking on the date in the right-hand navigation column.

Stay tuned for new posts here on the Mage Music blog about the music and Magick of Jimmy Page, as well as previews of new Mage Music projects. In the meantime, enjoy a few magazine covers featuring Jimmy Page over the years plus more of the best music in the world.












♪  Baby Who's Driving Your Car (Jimmy Page, John Williams 1970) YouTube
♪  Asylum (Box of Frogs feat. Jimmy Page 1986) YouTube
♪  Writes of Winter (Jimmy Page, Outrider 1988) YouTube
♪  Absolution Blues (Coverdale/Page 1993) YouTube
♪  Depot Studio Session/Domino (Soundcloud)
♪  Domino (Jimmy Page, Net Aid East Rutherford NJ 1999) YouTube
♪  Kashmir (Page/Plant/Jones/Jason Bonham, O2 2007) YouTube
♪  Ramble On (Jimmy Page, It Might Get Loud 2008) YouTube
♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Sunset Sound Mix/Remaster 2014) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube


Monday, December 14, 2015

On This Day 14 December

Hot. The music is hot. The boys aren't so bad, either.
1993 14 December On This Day Coverdale - Page tour begins in Japan
AUDIO: Saccharin (Coverdale/Page) Soundcloud

  • 1993  Coverdale Page Tour - Tokyo, Japan at Nippon Budokan 

1993
Personnel on the Coverdale - Page tour: David Coverdale vocals, Guy Pratt bass, Brett Tuggle keyboards and Danny Carmassi drums.  Oh, and that guy on the guitar: Jimmy Page.

If you've been following this blog, you know I love the Coverdale - Page album.  The live shows a little less, because David Coverdale isn't my favorite frontman.  However, David Coverdale added a certain mature poignancy to the vocals that no other singer brought to Jimmy Page's guitar work, while at the same time diving in and mucking about in the bluesy grit of the music. The Coverdale - Page combination is almost indecent. 

For that alone, David Coverdale gets my respect. I still prefer Jimmy Page instrumentals, mind you, but I can happily listen to a lot of Coverdale - Page.
  
1993 Coverdale - Page Japanese promo

1993 Coverdale - Page



♪  Saccharin (Coverdale/Page, unreleased track) YouTube
♪  Absolution Blues (Coverdale/Page, Tokyo 1993) YouTube
♪  Feeling Hot (Coverdale/Page 1993) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube

Friday, November 27, 2015

On This Day 27 November

What a riot.
1961 27 November On This Day Jimmy Page with Neil Christian and the Crusaders at Holloway Prison
Audio: Hall of the Mountain King (SoundCloud)
  • 1961 Neil Christian and the Crusaders - London at Holloway Women's Prison
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Hunting, WV at Cabell County Memorial Field House 
1961
Jimmy Page's website posted more about Neil Christian and the Crusaders on 04 June.
1961 27 November On This Day text

1961 Jimmy Page with Neil Christian and the Crusaders



♪  Prison Blues (Jimmy Page, Outrider 1988) YouTube
♪  Absolution Blues (Jimmy Page, Coverdale/Page 1993)YouTube

Thursday, November 26, 2015

On This Day 26 November

Here in the US it's a day of thanksgiving.  I thank you, Jimmy Page, for the music you have given the world.
1965 & 2013 26 November On This Day Jimmy Page watched Bob Dylan at the Albert Hall,
with poet Scarlett Sabet in 2013 (posted on this day in  2014, 2015)

2009 26 November On This Day Jimmy Page attended Task Brazil fundraiser in Rio
(posted on this day in 2011, 2012, 2013)

  • 1966 The Yardbirds -Washington DC, at Washington Coliseum
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Studio Session at Olympic Studios
  • 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Manchester, England at Manchester Apollo
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Bordeaux, France at La Patinoire Meriadeck 

2009 Task Brazil fundraiser

2009 Task Brazil fundraiser

2009 Task Brazil fundraiser.  The kids are obviously in awe of Jimmy Page

I am also thankful for you, my readers



♪  She Just Satisfies (Jimmy Page, 1965) YouTube
♪  Baby Who's Driving Your Car (Jimmy Page, 1970) YouTube
♪  Heartbreaker solo (Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin, Earls Court 1975) YouTube
♪  Communication Breakdown (Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin, Dortmund 1980) YouTube
♪  Absolution Blues (Jimmy Page, David Coverdale, 1993) YouTube
♪  Ramble On (Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Wembley 2008) YouTube


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

Saturday, April 18, 2015

On This Day 18 April

On April 18 1993 Jimmy Page and David Coverdale were interviewed on Enëmmän tätä, Fin-TV, as part of the press junket for EMI promoting the Coverdale Page album.

1993 18 April - Coverdale-Page interviewed on Finnish TV
  • 1968 Yardbirds - Winona State College, Winona Minnesota 
  • 1985 The Firm - The Omni, Atlanta
  • 1993 Coverdale/Page - Enëmmän tätä, Fin-TV interview

1993

I have to say, the 1993 Coverdale-Page is a fantastic album, totally underrated by those who can't get over that Jimmy Page could do something musically exciting without Robert Plant (no offense to Mr. Plant). David Coverdale brings the kind of gutsy, ballsy full commitment to the music of a song, not just to lyrics, that brings out the best in Jimmy Page and this album reflects it.

I love every song on this album. This the work of musicians who've got some miles behind them, and hard living has tempered their souls. You can hear it in the music. This is what blues is about. Coverdale-Page has an authenticity that can't be denied.

Yeah, yeah, I know that Mr. Coverdale might have let being on the stage with Jimmy Page get to his head, but forget that and listen to the music. The magic is there, people.

2019 addendum:  The album has only gotten better over the years. 

Saturday, September 8, 2012

MAGE MUSIC 19: Magickal Mystery Tour

“An embarrassment of riches...”
~  Dave Lewis From a Whisper to a Scream: Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin, p. 68

Mage Music 19

This post is I guess a placeholder to give me a bit of time off from doing any serious thinking (or writing) about Mage Music.  The reason for the songs I chose for this week's playlist?  Each of them shares these things in common:  1) The Magick in these songs gives me a shiver in me timbers when I hear them; 2) because they're all different, you know that the vocalists and other musicians aren't where the Magick is coming from; 3) they show how, even over the span of 40 years, Jimmy Page's gift never wavered; and 4) the tone quality that Jimmy Page puts in each and every song is beyond outrageous!


MAGE MUSIC http://jimmypagemusic.blogspot.com


Future posts:
  • What is Magick and what is it doing in my music? 
  • The YOU in Mage Music 
  • Guest posts coming up, too!

YouTube Playlist - The Rover and more

Individual songs

1970 Jimmy Page & John Williams, Baby Who's Driving Your Car (studio) Page's home tape recorder Sept. 02 1970 - (from jimmypage.com)

1975 Led Zeppelin,  The Rover (studio) Album: Physical Graffiti

1988 Jimmy Page & Chris Farlow,  Prison Blues (studio) Album: Outrider

1988 Jimmy Page,  Liquid Mercury (studio) Album: Outrider [Recommended listening but not on YouTube- buy Liquid Mercury MP3 at Amazon.com

1993 Page & Coverdale, Absolution Blues (studio) Album: Coverdale/Page

2008 Page, Jones & Foo Fighters, Ramble On (live) Wembley Stadium, June 2008