Showing posts with label How Many More Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How Many More Times. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

On This Day 16 December

Where's Jimmy?
1968 16 December On This Day Led Zeppelin at Bath

  • 1968 Led Zeppelin - Bath, England at Bath Pavilion
  • 1972 Led Zeppelin - Birmingham, England at Birmingham Odeon Theatre 

1968
This is one of those times when you have to read carefully. Led Zeppelin didn't play Bath three years in a row on this day, but at three different times in those three years. But that's OK.

Dave Lewis reports in his excellent reference, Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, that Robert and Jimmy learned about what roadies were able to do at the 1968 venue at Bath while they were watching the support band, Yellow Brick Road (not to be confused with the more recent band of that name).  As reported by Dave, that band's roadie ran onto the stage to replace a busted drum.  Prophetically, perhaps, Robert commented, "Jimmy, we must remember that."

It's hard to remember there was ever a time when the boys of Led Zeppelin were still new at their game.


1972 Led Zeppelin at Birmingham Odeon
2007
Yeah, I know that the O2 was over by this point, but the celebration goes on. Nobody minds looking at more photos, right?
2007 09 December Jimmy Page at O2 rehearsal (Ross Halfin photo)

2007 09 December O2 rehearsal (Ross Halfin photo)

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I've included links today to a few songs from BBC Sessions in addition to a couple from the 1972 show.  Just because.


 ♪  Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin Birmingham 1972) YouTube
♪  Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin Birmingham 1972) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1997 release) YouTube
♪  Whole Lotta Love / Medley (Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1997 release) YouTube
♪  Thank You (Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1997 release) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

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 1990 Whitesnake was back at Monsters of Rock for the third time, and Aerosmith was to perform there for the first time. David Coverdale, of course, was 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


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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

On This Day 05 August

Can you imagine Jimmy Page playing in a department store?  Those were the days...
1966 05 August Jimmy Page with Yardbirds in Minneapolis
♪  Psycho Daisies (The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page bass 1966) Soundcloud
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Minneapolis,MN at Dayton Department Store,8th Floor Auditorium 
Looks like not a lot of noteworthy stuff was going on in Jimmy Page's life on this day, so I'm taking the day off, too. The music links below are not necessarily from 05 August.
1966 Jimmy Page with Yardbirds in Minneapolis

Jimmy Page July 2015 Toronto (Moe Doiron photo for Globe and Mail)

♪  Psycho Daisies (The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page bass 1966) YouTube
♪  Baby Come On Home (Led Zeppelin  Coda) Dailymotion
♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Royal Albert Hall 1970) YouTube

I don't remember what this one is, but I can't open it anyway.  Maybe you can.



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Sunday, June 28, 2015

On This Day 28 June


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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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Mage Music: Whence Magick?

It was a very successful experiment.
-           Jimmy Page, Guitar World, 1993

Mage Music 12
How magical to get to use the word “whence” – never did I imagine I’d ever have reason to use it, but “Where Does Magic Come From?” is such a boring title for a blog post, don’t you think?

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Last week on the official JimmyPage Facebook page, Sara said she can’t listen to more than one version of Tea For One or any Led Zeppelin song one after another because they are so intense she feels like they would stop her heart - she said she has to pace herself. It’s easy to feel that way about such powerful music. For me it’s particularly tough when I first begin to hear a Led Zeppelin song. Like Sara I feel that the act of listening could cause my heart to falter, my blood to cease to circulate, my lungs to be unable to take in oxygen ever again. That’s intense!

Intense… but not mundane.
What we’re reacting to isn't just ordinary music - there's plenty of music out in the world that's really great but it doesn't make anyone feel like they're having a near-death experience.  What we're reacting to is pure Power, and so much of the stuff that it feels like it is too much for a merely physical human being to withstand. Power... but not mundane. It's Magickal Power.

So where does this Magickal Power come from? And how is it that Mage Musicians can not only withstand the Power, but do so performance after performance?

Whence?
Magick doesn't come from the Mage - let's get that straight. And so sorry, but Magick isn't a Super Power either.

Magick is a process that the Mage is a part of.

The process of Magick involves the Mage's engaging with and essentially becoming an active component of the evolution of the Universal Energy (you could call it Magickal Energy, Source, Great Spirit or just plain Power if you prefer) that everything that exists is made of, in order to bring about some change in the Mage's reality.

Desire, focus and ritual (conscious choice, will and action) bring about alignment with the Universal Energy that manifests as the change the Mage seeks. If the Mage fails in any part of the process, the whole process will fail. Failure means that something else will happen.  It could be good, bad or ugly - once the Mage falls out of alignment something will still happen, but it's the Universe, not the Mage, that "decides" what will happen.  

The Paradox of Control
The process of Magick is about control – having it and letting it go. The Mage has to have absolute control - not over other people or over things, but control of Self: Control of the Mage's own mind, thoughts, emotions and physical body. There needs to be so much control that the Mage can let it go; the goal is to move beyond it to as pure a state of simply being as possible.

In other words, the Mage's goal is to have no control of the process, of the Magick, at all.

This seemingly contradictory state of absolute control and absolute lack of control is like meditation - except that the Buddha had it easy: A Mage can’t do sitting meditation but must be able to perform the Magickal rituals while in the meditative state; a Mage Musician has to play a musical instrument while holding a pure state of being!

And to top it all, the Mage must also let the Power that results in the change in the Mage's reality do what it will.

To maintain sufficient control while giving Self to the music and the Magick and letting them manifest as they will is another seeming contradictory state of no will and free will, of control and no control. This is the true choice that a Mage makes: Choosing the end, then allowing the journey to happen; abandoning Self to the journey, trusting/knowing/believing that it will all come out the way it needs to; controlling to perfection and then letting it go… this is the choice that is made to allow the Power to pass through the Mage and into the Music, and it is the choice that means the Mage Musician is not burned out by the Magick.

A Mage Musician is a pure crystal lens that channels light without interference. No matter how strong the light, the lens is unharmed by it, but oh, beware when you are in the focus of that light! We mere mortal listeners to Mage Music risk frying our souls unless we, too, open ourselves and become lenses that pass the Light  through.


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Future post:
Comments on Jimmy Page's playing a bit of Beck's Bolero in How Many More Times


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Playlist for 07/29 post: How Many More Times
Please listen to these selections while contemplating what a Mage Musician is actually doing as he channels the Magick. 



Mage Music 12 Full Playlist on YouTube

Individual song versions:

Led Zeppelin Studio - Led Zeppelin 1969
Page & Plant Live Shepherds Bush Empire, London 1998 (How Many More Times begins at 7:00)
 

Links to other versions are appreciated.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Mage Music 12 Playlist: How Many More Times

Playlist for 07/29 post: How Many More Times


Mage Music 12 Full Playlist on YouTube

Individual song versions:

Led Zeppelin Studio - Led Zeppelin 1969
Page & Plant Live Shepherds Bush Empire, London 1998 (How Many More Times begins at 7:00)
 

Links to other versions are appreciated.
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