On this day 12 January

 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin inducted in the R&R Hall of Fame

• 1969 Led Zeppelin I released
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, at Fillmore West (day 4 of 4)
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Brussels, at Vorst Nationaal
• 1995 Led Zeppelin - inducted in Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame 

1995

Twenty-six years after Led Zeppelin I hit the world, Led Zeppelin finally got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler did the induction honors, Tyler opening with a poor imitation of Robert Plant, prompting the latter to whisper, "You wish." 

When John Paul Jones took the mic, he made the famous statement that's been quoted so often over the years: "Thank you, my friends, for finally remembering my phone number", referring to the fact that Jones had not been invited to join the Page/Plant Unledded project.

“Well, for my part of this, I must say it's a great honor to be inducted. Actually it's the second time for me, 'cause actually, earlier when I was inducted with the Yardbirds. It's almost like, inducted, induced, and this time it's the forceps. Some of you will get that. But anyway, thank you very much everybody.”
~ Jimmy Page accepting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award

  

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Zoe Bonham, Jason Bonham, Robert Plant, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Led Zeppelin induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1995 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Neil Young at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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♪  Led Zeppelin (San Francisco at Fillmore West - day 4/4, 12 January 1969)
♪  Led Zeppelin (Brussels at Vorst Nationaal, 12 January 1975)
♪  Train Kept A-Rolling (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995) 
♪  When the Levee Breaks (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Neil Young 1995) 
♫  Joe Perry and Steven Tyler induct Led Zeppelin into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995) 

On this day 16 October

 Awards, guest guitarists, and a toast

chris robinson video link

1999 16 October setlist

• 1970 Led Zeppelin receive Gold and Platinum disc awards at London’s Savoy Hotel
• 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Bloomington, MN at Metropolitan Sports Center
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Cleveland, OH at Gund Arena
• 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - Worcester, MA at The Centrum Center 

1970:
For the second time in less than 12 months, Led Zeppelin received awards for record sales. On this day, Peter Grant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant received Gold and Platinum disc awards from Anthony Grant (no relation to Peter Grant), the British Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. The awards were for U.S. sales in excess of one million copies of Whole Lotta Love and for European sales of Led Zeppelin II, released in December 1969.

The previous year the boys had been awarded gold discs by a different parliamentary secretary, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who quipped, "you seem to be gas rockets rather than Led Zeppelins".

She was wrong. Led Zeppelin was beyond rockets by that point. They had already achieved warp speed.

1970 Led Zeppelin receive gold, platinum discs

1970 Led Zeppelin receive gold, platinum discs from Anthony Grant, UK parliamentary secretary for Board of Trade

1999:
In the video of Chris Robinson talking about working with Jimmy Page, Robinson says:  "Jimmy had done his thing with Robert and the Egyptian orchestra and stuff, but I don't think he maybe was fully satisfied with that..."

See?  I'm not the only one who thinks so.

On this day in 1999, Joe Perry showed up on stage to join in with the encore numbers, You Shook Me and Oh Well.  It wasn't the first time, but it's always special.

2012 Jimmy Page with Ian Hunter at Mott the Hoople film premiere (Ross Halfin photo)

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♪ Jimmy Page Outrider Tour (Bloomington, MN at Metropolitan Sports Center, 16 October 1988)
♪  Page & Plant (Cleveland OH at Gund Arena, 16 October 1995) 

♪  Jimmy Page/The Black Crowes (Worcester MA at Centrum Center, 16 October 1999)

♫  Chris Robinson on playing with Jimmy Page

On this day 20 August

 Happy birthday, Robert Plant.  And happy day, Jimmy Page.

1948 20 August On This Day Robert Plant was born
♪ Happy birthday!

1990 20 August On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Oklahoma City, OK at Wedgewood Amusement Park
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Schenectady, NY at Schenectady Aerodrome
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Oklahoma City, OK at Oklahoma State Fair Arena
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Center Coliseum (unconfirmed)
• 1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith - London, England at Marquee Club 

1990:

Train Kept A-Rollin' has been around a while. It was first recorded in 1951 by Tiny Bradshaw as a jump blues song (up-tempo blues that became popular in the 1940s, the precursor to rhythm and blues and rock and roll). The Johnny Burnette Trio added a repeating three-note minor key guitar line with intentionally distorted guitar (achieved by loosening a tube in the guitar amp), leading the way for The Yardbirds in 1965.

With The Yardbirds the song became Stroll On, as seen in the movie Blowup, with Jimmy Page on bass. He took the song with him to Led Zeppelin, reverting to the song's original name and, of course, to the guitar. When the four who were to become Led Zeppelin rehearsed together for the first time in 1968, the first song they took on was Train Kept A Rollin'.  

John Paul Jones:  

"...we did 'Train'... It was there immediately. It was so powerful that I don't remember what we played after that. For me it was just like, 'Crikey!' I mean, I'd had moments of elation with groups before, but nothing as intense as that. It was like a thunderbolt, a lightning flash – boosh! Everyone sort of went 'Wow'."
~ Mick Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin 2009

Aerosmith adopted Train Kept A Rollin' early on for their own set lists, recording it for their second album, Get Your Wings (1974, remastered 1993).

1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

 Happy Birthday Robert Plant
10 Best Robert Plant Songs (post-Led Zeppelin), by Matthew Wilkening

Happy birthday, Robert Plant!

Jimmy and Robert

♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Johnny Burnette Trio 1956) YouTube

♪ Stroll On (The Yardbirds, from the movie Blowup, 1966) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Led Zeppelin, Frankfurt 1980) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin’ (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith, Marquee Club 1990) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin (Metallica, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, Ronnie Wood, Flea, Jason Newsted at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009) YouTube 

On this day 18 August

 Keep that train a rollin', Mr. Page!

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival
♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Tulsa, OK at Tulsa Assembly Center Exhibit Hall
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile
• 1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith - Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England at Monsters Of Rock Festival

1969:
"The most amazing thing was the improvement in the group since its first appearance here last February, when it was a fledgling blues band. It had the ideas and the dynamics, but the expertise was yet to develop."
~ (Richie Yorke, The Globe and Mail, Aug. '69)

1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile (first show) (D Richardson photo)

1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile (second show) (D McClement photo)

1990:
Monsters of Rock was an annual rock and heavy metal music festival begun in 1979 at Castle Donington, England. It branched out to other countries and then fizzled out in the late 1990s. Castle Donington has hosted the Download Festival since 2003.

In his autobiography, Joe Perry wrote about his introduction to rock and roll when he was a teen: "This band called the Yardbirds...had guitars that sound like nothing I'd ever heard before." By Donington in 1990, Perry had been a huge Jimmy Page fan for decades.

In 1990 Whitesnake was back at Monsters of Rock Festival for the third time, and Aerosmith was to perform there for the first time. David Coverdale, of course, was/is the frontman for Whitesnake. Coverdale had been giving some thought to breaking up the band. He was tired of the music business, tired of touring, and was having problems in his personal life.  He told interviewers that he wanted time to reassess his live and career.

As it turned out, his retirement was brief. Both he and Jimmy Page were signed up with Geffen Records, and by the following year the two had collaborated on the Coverdale/Page album.

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival

♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Toronto - second show 1969) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times (Page & Plant, MGM Grand Las Vegas 1998) YouTube
♪  Onstage and backstage (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith, Donington 1990) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe, recorded during Outrider sessions 1988) YouTube

On This Day 12 January

Waiting to see Jimmy Page in the Hall of Fame again.  And again.

1995 12 January On This Day Led Zeppelin inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• 1969 Led Zeppelin I released
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, at The Fillmore (day 4 of r)
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Brussels, at Vorst Nationaal
• 1995 Led Zeppelin - inducted in Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame 

1995

Twenty-six years after Led Zeppelin I hit the world, Led Zeppelin finally got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler did the induction honors, Tyler opening with a poor imitation of Robert Plant, prompting the latter to whisper, "You wish." 

When John Paul Jones took the mic, he made the famous statement that's been quoted so often over the years: "Thank you, my friends, for finally remembering my phone number", referring to the fact that Jones had not been invited to join the Page/Plant Unledded project.

“Well, for my part of this, I must say it's a great honor to be inducted. Actually it's the second time for me, 'cause actually, earlier when I was inducted with the Yardbirds. It's almost like, inducted, induced, and this time it's the forceps. Some of you will get that. But anyway, thank you very much everybody.”
~ Jimmy Page accepting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award

  

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Zoe Bonham, Jason Bonham, Robert Plant, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Led Zeppelin induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1995 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Neil Young at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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♪  When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin, Brussels 1975) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A-Rolling (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995) YouTube
♪  When the Levee Breaks (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Neil Young 1995) YouTube
♫  Joe Perry and Steven Tyler induct Led Zeppelin into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995) YouTube

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

On This Day 19 November

I'm ready to celebrate! Must be patient. Must be patient.

1994 19 November Jimmy Page attends Aerosmith Concert in Buenos Aires

• 1966 The Yardbirds-Detroit, MI. at Michigan State Fair Coliseum
• 1982 Led Zeppelin - Coda released 
• 1994 Jimmy Page attends Aerosmith concert, Buenos Aires
• 1998 Page & Plant - Milan Italy at Filaforum
• 2012 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day movie released (audio and video) 

1957:
This is the second time this year that this Ofra Haza image was posted on Jimmy Page's website for On This Day.  Check out the Mage Music post on 16 September for more on Haza and for a link to the video.

1994 Joe Perry & Jimmy page at Aerosmith concert, Buenos Aires

1998  Jimmy Page, Page & Plant at Milan

1982:
Coda is Led Zeppelin's ninth studio album and is comprised of unused tracks from the band's various studio sessions over the years. "Coda" is a musical term that means a passage that follows the main body of a musical piece and provides a conclusion to the piece.

"Coda was released, basically, because there was so much bootleg stuff out. We thought, "Well, if there's that much interest, then we may as well put the rest of our studio stuff out".
~ Jimmy Page 

2007 Plant, Jones, Jason Bonham & Jimmy Page, Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at O2

Friday I'll provide an explanation!

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♪  Full set (Page & Plant, Milan 1998) YouTube
♫  Backstage footage (Page & Plant, Milan 1998) YouTube
♪  Coda remaster trailer (Led Zeppelin, 2015) YouTube
♪  Celebration Day movie trailer

On This Day 17 November

Pod. Pod.  And carrots.

1994 17 November On This Day Page & Plant, Sydney Australia on Denton Show
AUDIO: Stairway To Heaven (Nick Barker and the Reptiles - from The Money or the Gun)

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Martin, TN at University of Tennessee 
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Birmingham, England at Kinetic Circus
• 1975 Led Zeppelin recording Presence all this month at Musicland
• 1994 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Sydney, Australia at Andrew Denton TV Show
• 1994 Jimmy Page, encore with Aerosmith  - Buenos Aires, Argentina at Valez Sarsfield Stadium 
• 1998 Page & Plant - Prague, Czech Republic at Sports Hall 

1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Birmingham England

1994:
Jimmy Page played two encore songs with Aerosmith at the Velez-Sarsfield Stadium (Sweet Emotion and Blues Jam) AND appeared with Robert Plant in Sydney Australia on Andrew Denton's late night TV show - both on 17 November.

Some kind of Magick - two places at once?

According to Dave Lewis, in his book The Tight But Loose Files, the Sydney show was on 16 November. So maybe the show aired the next night. Then again, according to the Get A Grip Tour Dates, Aerosmith played in Buenos Aires on 18 and 19 November, not on the 17th.

But maybe it did all happen on 17 November.  Maybe it was just Jimmy Page Magick.

1994 Page & Plant, Denton Show interview

1998 Page & Plant, Prague

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♪  Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin, Birmingham England 1971) YouTube
♪  10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod) (Reference Mix) (Led Zeppelin, Presence companion disc 1975/2015) YouTube
♫  Interview (Page & Plant, Denton Show 1994) YouTube
♪  Black Dog (Page & Plant, Denton Show 1994) YouTube
♪  Sun Arise (Page & Plant, Denton Show 1994) YouTube
♪  Full set (Page & Plant, Prague 1998) YouTube

On This Day 16 October

Awards, guest guitarists, a toast, and a request

1999 16 October On This Day Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes, Worcester MA at The Centrum

1999 16 October, with Joe Perry for encores

1999 16 October setlist

• 1970 Led Zeppelin receive Gold and Platinum disc awards at London’s Savoy Hotel
• 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Bloomington, MN at Metroplitan Sports Center
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Cleveland, OH at Gund Arena
• 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - Worcester, MA at The Centrum 

1970:
For the second time in less than 12 months, Led Zeppelin received awards for record sales. On this day, Peter Grant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant received Gold and Platinum disc awards from Anthony Grant (no relation to Peter Grant), the British Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. The awards were for U.S. sales in excess of one million copies of Whole Lotta Love and for European sales of Led Zeppelin II, released in December 1969.

The previous year the boys had been awarded gold discs by a different parliamentary secretary, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who quipped, "you seem to be gas rockets rather than Led Zeppelins".

She was wrong. They were in a space ship, already having achieved warp speed.

1970 Led Zeppelin receive gold, platinum discs

1970 Led Zeppelin receive gold, platinum discs from Anthony Grant, UK parliamentary secretary for Board of Trade

1999:
In the video of Chris Robinson talking about working with Jimmy Page, Robinson says:  "Jimmy had done his thing with Robert and the Egyptian orchestra and stuff, but I don't think he maybe was fully satisfied with that..."

See?  I'm not the only one who thinks so.

On this day in 1999, Joe Perry showed up on stage to join in with the encore numbers, You Shook Me and Oh Well.  Videos of those two songs have been removed from the web.

2012 Jimmy Page with Ian Hunter at Mott the Hoople film premiere (Ross Halfin photo)

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Request:

If you have links to music relevant to any On This Day post, please share it in the comments so we can all enjoy more music of Jimmy Page.  Thanks!

♫  Chris Robinson on playing with Jimmy Page
♪  Page & Plant (Cleveland, 16 October 1995) YouTube

♪  Jimmy Page/The Black Crowes (Worcester 16 October 1999) YouTube

[edited 10/16/20]

On This Day 20 August

Happy birthday, Robert Plant.  And happy day, Jimmy Page.

1948 20 August On This Day Robert Plant was born
♪ Happy birthday!

1990 20 August On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Oklahoma City, OK at Wedgewood Amusement Park
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Schenectady, NY at Schenectady Aerodrome
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Oklahoma City, OK at Oklahoma State Fair Arena
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Center Coliseum (unconfirmed)
• 1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith - London, England at Marquee Club 

1990:

Train Kept A-Rollin' has been around a while. It was first recorded in 1951 by Tiny Bradshaw as a jump blues song (up-tempo blues that became popular in the 1940s, the precursor to rhythm and blues and rock and roll). The Johnny Burnette Trio added a repeating three-note minor key guitar line with intentionally distorted guitar (achieved by loosening a tube in the guitar amp), leading the way for The Yardbirds in 1965.

With The Yardbirds the song became Stroll On, as seen in the movie Blowup, with Jimmy Page on bass. He took the song with him to Led Zeppelin, reverting to the song's original name and, of course, to the guitar. When the four who were to become Led Zeppelin rehearsed together for the first time in 1968, the first song they took on was Train Kept A Rollin'.  

John Paul Jones:  

"...we did 'Train'... It was there immediately. It was so powerful that I don't remember what we played after that. For me it was just like, 'Crikey!' I mean, I'd had moments of elation with groups before, but nothing as intense as that. It was like a thunderbolt, a lightning flash – boosh! Everyone sort of went 'Wow'."
~ Mick Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin 2009

Aerosmith adopted Train Kept A Rollin' early on for their own set lists, recording it for their second album, Get Your Wings (1974, remastered 1993).

1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

 Happy Birthday Robert Plant
10 Best Robert Plant Songs (post-Led Zeppelin), by Matthew Wilkening

Happy birthday, Robert Plant!

Jimmy and Robert

♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Johnny Burnette Trio 1956) YouTube

♪ Stroll On (The Yardbirds, from the movie Blowup, 1966) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Led Zeppelin, Frankfurt 1980) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin’ (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith, Marquee Club 1990) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin (Metallica, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, Ronnie Wood, Flea, Jason Newsted at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009) YouTube