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| 1987 26 October On This Day Jimmy Page recorded Blues Anthem with Chris Farlowe |
- 1968 Led Zeppelin - Bristol, England at Bristol Boxing Club
- 1987 Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe, Blues Anthem for Outrider recorded
- 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - East Rutherford, NJ at Brendan Byrne Arena
- 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden (day 1)
1966:
Mick Jagger and Keith Richard wrote Chris Farlowe's biggest hit, Out of Time. Jagger produced it as well as sang backup vocals, with Jimmy Page on guitar.
"Funnily enough I didn’t like the song at first. I saw myself as an r’n’b and blues singer, and it seemed too “pop” to me. But Mick said, wait until you hear it with a full orchestra behind it. And he was right – it’s a great song. I’ve still got photographs of the recording session.’
~ Chris Farlowe, The Merceysider Magazine interview 2014
~ Chris Farlowe, The Merceysider Magazine interview 2014
The orchestra was okay. Kind of overdone, if you ask me. But Jimmy Page - he was the secret weapon. More would have been better.
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| Jimmy Page's Gibson Cromwell acoustic guitar used to record Out of Time (1966) |
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| Jimmy Page with Gibson Cromwell acoustic guitar |
1968:
There isn't much info about this Led Zeppelin appearance, but Mick Farren (1943-2013) of The Deviants talked about the show.
"We supported Led Zeppelin at one of their first gigs at the local Bristol boxing club and the audience hated us and despised them. Somebody threw a beer glass at the stage and Sid Bishop, our guitarist, unfortunately threw it back and cut somebody's head open. When Led Zeppelin came on, they got through number and a half until the fire extinguishers, buckets, bricks and everything was being thrown at them.
"All these farmboys with brown suits and haircuts who had come into town looking to get laid marched in. Page and Plant were cracking up in the dressing room after we'd come off, saying how terrible we were. But they had gotten the same treatment because by now it had gotten way out of hand. We had to huddle inside the van while the kids bounced up and down on it and we didn't escape until 2 in the morning when it was safe to go home."
Chris Farlowe sang on three tracks from Jimmy Page's Death Wish II soundtrack (1982), as well as Hummingbird, Prison Blues and Blues Anthem on Outrider
.1995:
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant's American tour was sponsored by Miller Genuine Draft (Miller Brewing Company), a portion of the proceeds from the sponsored tour to benefit the Second Harvest National Food Bank Network. It's not clear to me whether every venue in 1995 was covered or only the first leg of the tour. Part of the deal was the Miller Genuine Draft Led Zeppelin Memorabilia truck that was supposed to show up at each venue, and 50 "Miller Genuine Draft Page/Plant guitars" were to be autographed and donated to the cause. The brewing company guaranteed a minimum $100,000 for Second Harvest.
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| 1995 Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Madison Square Garden |
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♪ Out Of Time (Jimmy Page, Chris Farlowe 1966) YouTube
♪ Hummingbird (Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe, Outrider 1988) YouTube
♪ Prison Blues (Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe, Outrider 1988) YouTube
♪ Blues Anthem (Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe, Outrider 1988) YouTube
