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Sunday, September 3, 2023

On this day 03 September

 Sometimes touring is hard, hard, harder than it needs to be.

1998 03 September On This Day Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Salem, OR at Salem Armory Auditorium
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - San Diego, CA at San Diego Sports Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
  • 1998 Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver, British Columbia

1970
According to Dave Lewis the crowd in San Diego was rowdy. Then Jimmy Page had a problem with his guitar in the acoustic set and Bron Yr Aur was abandoned. Robert Plant got creative with Whole Lotta Love lyrics. 

After all that, a music critic from San Diego Union panned the show, ending with..."if this music is part of the new life style, it somehow makes the wrong side of 40 seem like the right side."  [D. Dierks/Music Critic/SD Union/9-4-70]

I always wonder if the music critics of then ever ate their words.

1970 Led Zeppelin San Diego bootleg insert

1971:
"I'm Scott Muni, from WNEW-FM. They take a poll over in England every year. For the second time, the greatest rock and roll band in the land, LED ZEPPELIN!"!
"...the stage collapsed. Plant and Page made their way to the top of the stacks of amps, then crawled down and off stage. The house lights came up and the P.A. announcer asked for calm and for everyone to return to their seats."
~ A.J. Crandall report on his experience of the 1971 show
1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin MSG

1971 Led Zeppelin MSG





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♪  Led Zeppelin (New York at Madison Square Garden, 03 September 1971) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TntuvGvJB8Q&list=PLf62FjbXtD1IcycLpMqc9G02lED9LyE13&index=1

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Thursday, August 31, 2023

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 Texas International Pop Festival 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)

1970
The Milwaukee Journal review was definitely prescient: "Led Zeppelin is so much a part of today that it can easily transform into tomorrow."


1971
Florida in August. It was hot. The audience was obnoxious. Plant: "For God's sake...SHUT UP!". Jimmy Page slipped a few bars of  "You Really Got Me "(The Kinks) just before breaking into "What Is And What Should Never Be".







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Monday, August 28, 2023

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 

1970
When Jimmy Page & John Paul Jones broke out their acoustical instruments the audience was unhappy. The PA system couldn't pick up the subtle sounds and nobody beyond the first rows could hear a thing. JP eventually "bounced a mike over to show his displeasure", according to one reviewer. 

The recording is poor, with a lot of cutting out. Only the first third of the show got recorded.






1985:
There seems to be some confusion about what Jimmy Page was doing on this day in the 1980s. JP's  website reports his having performed at the 1985 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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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

On this day 19 July

 Bring it...

1998 19 July On This Day Page & Plant at Jones Beach

  • 1967 The Yardbirds-Colorado Springs, CO at Colorado Springs City Auditorium
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL at Kinetic Playgound
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Berlin, Germany at Deutschlandhalle
  • 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Dublin, Ireland at The Point Theatre
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Wantagh, NY at Jones Beach Amphitheatre

1998 Ray Gun Magazine interview (L-R: unknown, possibly Steve Albini), Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Dave Grohl)

1998:
Robert Plant on Michael Lee: "Michael's ...got a contemporary vision on how to present the drums in a non-hard-rock fashion. The way that he approaches the drums in the studio is different to on stage. Where I'm convinced he's building a small shed."
~ Robert Plant interview by Dave Grohl for Ray Gun Magazine
Michael Lee (1969-2008) was an English drummer who some thought might work out for a reincarnation of Led Zeppelin.  A tall man, Lee used large drum sizes like John Bonham did, and had an aggressive and dynamic drumming style. He once hit himself on his own head with a drumstick during a drum solo at the end of Rock and Roll.

Lee started out with the British band, Little Angels, toured with The Cult and a later version of Thin Lizzy. He drummed for Robert Plant starting with the 1993 album Fate of Nations.  When Page and Plant began their collaboration Lee was hired on to record and tour, and received writing credits on Walking into Clarksdale.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

On this day 28 June

Splish splash takin' a Bath

1969 and 1970 28 June On This Day - Led Zeppelin at Bath Festivals
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Bath, England at Bath Pavilion Recreation Ground
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Shepton Mallet, England at Royal Bath & West Showground
  • 1972 Led Zeppelin - Tucson, AZ at Tucson Community Theatre
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Stockholm Sweden at Maritime Museum
  • 2000 Jimmy Page - The Black Crowes - Pittsburgh, PA at  Star Lake Amphitheatre
1969:
The Bath Festival of Blues was held at the Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England, on 28 June 1969. The headline act was Fleetwood Mac. The festival was produced by Wendy and Freddy Bannister, London club show promoters. All 30,000 tickets were sold out in the first week. Led Zeppelin had only played their first show nine months before, and this was the band's biggest UK audience to date. As we know, things would be drastically different very quickly.
Bath got its name from the hot springs that were shrines in prehistoric times and later developed by the Romans and others into public baths. Bath is said to have been where King Arthur's defeated the Anglo-Saxons.

1970:
The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was held at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England on 27–29 June 1970. Led Zeppelin was the headline act. This location, about 20 mi (32 km) south of Bath, allowed for a much larger crowd. The logistics were not so great - some of the bands' equipment trucks couldn't get to the site due to the country lanes being blocked by cars. Donovan showed up on the stage on Sunday morning, providing an unscheduled 2½ hour performance because the scheduled band wasn't there yet.

Peter Grant had arranged for Led Zeppelin to hit the stage as the sun was setting. They played to an audience estimated at 200,000 for three hours and performed five encores. The show is considered one of the most important performances of their career.

Plastic bags and raincoats were de rigueur in the audience. A bearded Jimmy Page wore a rain hat and his long overcoat during the show.
"ANOTHER ENCORE – at 10:50pm Zeppelin had won. They had made all the hang-ups worthwhile and given the crowd a night to remember – whatever else happened."
~ MelodyMaker, July 1970

1970 Bath Festival (Photo Terry Farebrother)

1970 28 June Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Bath Festival (Photo Michael Putland)

1972 28 June Led Zeppelin at Tucson (Photo D. Ford)
2000:
The venue for this show has changed names over the years.  Originally it was the Star Lake Amphitheater and it was called the Post-Gazette Pavilion when the Page/Black Crowes show took place.  It is currently named the First Niagara Pavilion.  Burgettstown is a suburb of Pittsburgh.

2000 28 June Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes at Pittsburgh





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Friday, May 20, 2016

On This Day 20 May

1967 On This Day 20 May - Yardbirds - Jouy,France at HEC Business School. 
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Jouy France at HEC Business School.  
  • 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper- Norwich, England at Kenley Fayre
  • 1985 The Firm - Edinburgh, Scotland at Playhouse Theatre
  • 1995 Page & Plant (Unledded North American Tour) San Jose, CA at San Jose Arena
  • 1998 Page & Plant (North American Tour) Tampa FL at Tampa Ice Palace




1967 Yardbirds Paris
1984:
Jimmy Page appeared at a number of folk festivals with Roy Harper in 1984. Harper had been touring with a band that at that time included bassist Tony Franklin, who was to join Jimmy Page in The Firm. In 1985 Harper and Page put out the album, Whatever Happened to Jugula, the fifth album of Harper's that Jimmy Page had contributed to.
1995 Page & Plant  San Jose, CA 

2014 Metal XS interview

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♪  Satisfaction Guaranteed (The Firm Edinburgh 1985) YouTube
♪  Thank You/Bring It On Home (Page & Plant San Jose 1995) YouTube
♪  Ramble On (Page & Plant San Jose 1995) YouTube
♪  Full set (Page & Plant Tampa 1998) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

On This Day 05 April

Remembering Peter Grant, who would have made mincemeat of Peter M.
1999 05 April On This Day Jimmy Page recorded at Depot Studios, London
AUDIO (Soundcloud)

  • 1935 Peter Grant born
  • 1968 The Yardbirds-Flushing Meadows,Queens,NY  at Queens College,Golden Center
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Dagenham,London,England  at Village Blues Club,Dagenham Roadhouse
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Baltimore,MD  at Baltimore Civic Center

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Baltimore MD
1980 Peter Grant (1935-1995) and Jimmy Page in a pub in the UK 

2013 Jimmy Page in NYC (Ross Halfin photo)

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♪ Bring It On Home (Led Zeppelin, Baltimore 1970) YouTube
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube




NOTICE: April 11 will be the last daily On This Day post
as that will be a full year's worth.  I won't post any more
unless Jimmy Page's website offers some new ones.

Stay tuned for new posts here on the Mage Music blog
about the music and Magick of 
JIMMY PAGE
and previews of new Mage Music projects!


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Sunday, February 21, 2016

On This Day 21 February

There has been an extended intermission.
1998 21 February On This Day Page & Plant in Croatia

  • 1993 Jimmy Page - New Orleans, Louisiana at The Howlin' Wolf
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Zagreb, Croatia at Dom Sportova 

1993:
Jimmy Page has said he doesn't remember jamming with Mason Ruffner (American blues and rock singer, guitarist and songwriter) in New Orleans, but various people place him there on this day. Jimmy Page had jammed with him in 1985 as well. In the photo from that occasion, Ruffner was playing Jimmy's Les Paul and Jimmy Page was playing Ruffner's Strat. One source identifies the photo as having been taken by Patricia Page, a.k.a. Patricia Ecker.  Ecker and Page married in 1986 and had a son, James Patrick Page III, in 1988.

1998:
This was the first stop of the nine shows of the Page & Plant Mystic East Tour, including an appearance at the Festival di Sanremo in San Remo, Italy.


1998 Page & Plant in Croatia


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♪  Wanton Song/Bring It On Home/Heartbreaker (Page & Plant, Zagreb Croatia 1998) YouTube

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




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Thursday, September 3, 2015

On This Day 03 September

Sometimes it really is as hard, hard, hard as it seems...
1998 03 September On This Day Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Salem, OR at Salem Armory Auditorium
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - San Diego, CA at San Diego Sports Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
  • 1998 Page & Plant arrive in Vancouver, British Columbia
1970 Led Zeppelin San Diego bootleg insert

1971:
"I'm Scott Muni, from WNEW-FM. They take a poll over in England every year. For the second time, the greatest rock and roll band in the land, LED ZEPPELIN!"
"...the stage collapsed. Plant and Page made their way to the top of the stacks of amps, then crawled down and off stage. The house lights came up and the P.A. announcer asked for calm and for everyone to return to their seats."
~ A.J. Crandall report on his experience of the 1971 show
1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin MSG

1971 Led Zeppelin MSG

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TntuvGvJB8Q&list=PLf62FjbXtD1IcycLpMqc9G02lED9LyE13&index=1
♪  Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin, San Diego 1970) YouTube
♪   Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin, MSG 1971) YouTube
 ♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, MSG 1971) YouTube



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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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