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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

On this day 15 August

 It appears Mr. Page has very fond memories of Texas.

1969/1979 15 August On This Day Led Zeppelin in Texas/In Through The Out Door released
♪  In The Evening (Led Zeppelin ) Soundcloud
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Wichita, KS at Cotillion Ball - The Mixer Hop
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Mendon, MA at Lakeview Amusement Park
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Antonio, TX at HemisFair Arena
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - New Haven, CT at Yale Bowl
  • 1979 In Through The Out Door released

1970 Led Zeppelin - New Haven, CT at Yale Bowl
1970:
It's hard to believe Led Zeppelin ever performed at unprepossessing venues like the Yale Bowl, a narrow stage with an awning to cover them. The acoustics must have been interesting. 

1979:
In Through the Out Door, the eighth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, is the target of illogical criticism. This is not because of where it was recorded or how long it took to be released (recorded at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden over three weeks' time in November and December 1978, but not released until 15 August, 1979).  It's not because it didn't reach the top of the charts as did the other albums, because of course it did and it is back there again.

Most of the criticism is that Jimmy Page screwed up on ITTOD. The story is repeated over and over about how John Paul Jones and Robert Plant were forced to take over because Jimmy Page and John Bonham didn't show up "on time" at the recording studio, and because Jimmy Page was strung out on heroin. The story is that Jimmy Page was just along for the ride on this one.

Such closed-minded thinking. Never mind that Jimmy Page co-wrote all but two of the songs on the album and, as usual, did all the production.  Never mind how insulting these stories are to the others.  As if John Paul Jones and Robert Plant were not good enough or entitled to take the lead with Led Zeppelin's music unless it was forced on them. As if John Bonham's drumming was any less than stellar on ITTOD.

As if Jimmy Page had ever let anything get between him and the music. 

In a July 28, 2015 radio.com interview, Jimmy Page provides a different and more realistic explanation: 
"We’re going into rehearsals, and [John Paul Jones] shows up with this massive theater organ, it was called a Dream Machine [note: it's possible as few as seven of that model of the $60,000 instruments were ever built]. It was a Yamaha Dream Machine, Stevie Wonder had one too. John had it at home and had been working on it, and lo and behold, he’s got these songs together. He’d never written complete songs for Led Zeppelin before. But now he had. It was cool. Because the album before, I’d written it all. It was a guitar driven thing. There’s keyboards on the first Led Zeppelin album, and over the years. But it made obvious logical sense that if he had numbers that he’d written on this new state-of-the-art keyboard, let’s do an album which focuses on the keyboard and features it at the forefront, and that’s how it went."


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Sunday, July 23, 2023

On this day 23 July

 Things don't always go the way you think they should.

1985 23 July On This Day - but these events didn't actually happen on this day
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Buxton, England at Buxton Pavilion Gardens Ballroom 
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - Baltimore, MD at Baltimore Civic Centre
  • 1977 Led Zeppelin - Oakland, CA at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
  • 1979 Led Zeppelin - Copenhagen, Denmark at Falkoner Theatre
  • 1985 Robert Plant with Jimmy Page encore appearance - East Rutherford, NJ 
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Birmingham, England at NEC Arena (day 2)
1973:
The famous scene in The Song Remains The Same, with Peter Grant venting his rage at the venue's promoter, was taken at the Baltimore Civic Center concert on this date. 

1977:
Led Zeppelin's huge Stonehenge backdrop for the Oakland 23-24 concerts was the basis for some funny stuff later on. Black Sabbath had commissioned a Stonehenge stage set for their 1983 Born Again tour (Stonehenge is the second track on the Born  Again album).  That band couldn't use the stage set because it had been mistakenly constructed too big to haul around.  Coincidentally, at the same time the writers of This Is Spinal Tap created a scene with a Stonehenge set that turns out to be way too small to use. The two didn't copy each other (a 20-minute cut of the movie with that scene dates from before the Black Sabbath tour).  Thus, we might conclude that both were inspired by Led Zeppelin at Oakland.
 
1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Oakland


1977 Led Zeppelin's Stonehenge backdrop at Oakland

1979:
This was Led Zeppelin's first concert in almost two years.  It was kept low-key -- tickets were actually available to purchase at the door -- because it was a warm-up for Knebworth.  

1985:
The On This Day post for 23 July 1985 is almost certainly incorrect - let's blame it on the webmaster and not Jimmy Page (why not!).  The band was on hiatus from 22 May 1985 until 14 March 1986, leaving Page free to do sets with The Beach Boys (04 July) and with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones (Live Aid, 13 July).

However, on 04 April 1986 The Firm was at Meadowlands (Brendan Byrne Arena) in East Rutherford, NJ., where Les Paul was introduced onstage. 

Robert Plant was at Meadowlands on 23 July 1985, and Jimmy Page joined him for the encores, Mean Woman Blues and Treat Her Right.  Les Paul wasn't onstage for that one.



1985 Jimmy Page & Les Paul at Meadowlands

1985 Jimmy Page, from The Firm Tourbook


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Saturday, August 15, 2015

On This Day 15 August

It appears Mr. Page has very fond memories of Texas.
1969/1979 15 August On This Day Led Zeppelin in Texas/In Through The Out Door released
♪  In The Evening (Led Zeppelin ) Soundcloud
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Wichita, KS at Cotillion Ball - The Mixer Hop
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Mendon, MA at Lakeview Amusement Park
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Antonio, TX at HemisFair Arena
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - New Haven, CT at Yale Bowl
  • 1979 In Through The Out Door released

1970 Led Zeppelin - New Haven, CT at Yale Bowl
1970:
It's hard to believe Led Zeppelin ever performed at unprepossessing venues like the Yale Bowl, a narrow stage with an awning to cover them. The acoustics must have been interesting. 

1979:
In Through the Out Door, the eighth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, is the target of illogical criticism. This is not because of where it was recorded or how long it took to be released (recorded at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden over three weeks' time in November and December 1978, but not released until 15 August, 1979).  It's not because it didn't reach the top of the charts as did the other albums, because of course it did and it is back there again.

Most of the criticism is that Jimmy Page screwed up on ITTOD. The story is repeated over and over about how John Paul Jones and Robert Plant were forced to take over because Jimmy Page and John Bonham didn't show up "on time" at the recording studio, and because Jimmy Page was strung out on heroin. The story is that Jimmy Page was just along for the ride on this one.

Such closed-minded thinking. Never mind that Jimmy Page co-wrote all but two of the songs on the album and, as usual, did all the production.  Never mind how insulting these stories are to the others.  As if John Paul Jones and Robert Plant were not good enough or entitled to take the lead with Led Zeppelin's music unless it was forced on them. As if John Bonham's drumming was any less than stellar on ITTOD.

As if Jimmy Page had ever let anything get between him and the music. 

In a July 28, 2015 radio.com interview, Jimmy Page provides a different and more realistic explanation: 
"We’re going into rehearsals, and [John Paul Jones] shows up with this massive theater organ, it was called a Dream Machine [note: it's possible as few as seven of that model of the $60,000 instruments were ever built]. It was a Yamaha Dream Machine, Stevie Wonder had one too. John had it at home and had been working on it, and lo and behold, he’s got these songs together. He’d never written complete songs for Led Zeppelin before. But now he had. It was cool. Because the album before, I’d written it all. It was a guitar driven thing. There’s keyboards on the first Led Zeppelin album, and over the years. But it made obvious logical sense that if he had numbers that he’d written on this new state-of-the-art keyboard, let’s do an album which focuses on the keyboard and features it at the forefront, and that’s how it went."

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

On This Day 23 July

Things don't always go the way you think they should.
1985 23 July On This Day - but these events didn't actually happen on this day
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Buxton, England at Buxton Pavilion Gardens Ballroom 
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - Baltimore, MD at Baltimore Civic Centre
  • 1977 Led Zeppelin - Oakland, CA at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
  • 1979 Led Zeppelin - Copenhagen, Denmark at Falkoner Theatre
  • 1985 Robert Plant with Jimmy Page appearance - East Rutherford, NJ 
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Birmingham, England at NEC Arena (day 2)
1973:
The famous scene in The Song Remains The Same, with Peter Grant venting his rage at the venue's promoter, was taken at the Baltimore Civic Center concert on this date. 

1977:
Led Zeppelin's huge Stonehenge backdrop for the Oakland 23-24 concerts was the basis for some funny stuff later on. Black Sabbath had commissioned a Stonehenge stage set for their 1983 Born Again tour (Stonehenge is the second track on the Born  Again album).  That band couldn't use the stage set because it had been mistakenly constructed too big to haul around.  Coincidentally, at the same time the writers of This Is Spinal Tap created a scene with a Stonehenge set that turns out to be way too small to use. The two didn't copy each other (a 20-minute cut of the movie with that scene dates from before the Black Sabbath tour).  Thus, we might conclude that both were inspired by Led Zeppelin at Oakland.
 
1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Oakland


1977 Led Zeppelin's Stonehenge backdrop at Oakland

1979:
This was Led Zeppelin's first concert in almost two years.  It was kept low-key -- tickets were actually available to purchase at the door -- because it was a warm-up for Knebworth.  

1985:
The On This  Day post for July 23 is incorrect - let's blame it on the webmaster and not Jimmy Page (why not!).  The Firm played Meadowlands (Brendan Byrne Arena) in East Rutherford, NJ on May 9th.  Les Paul was introduced onstage.  The video for The Firm's Satisfaction Guaranteed (in which Les Paul played the bartender), was filmed in New York City on May 11, 1985.  The band returned to England shortly after. 

Jimmy Page did join Robert Plant onstage in Meadowlands, E Rutherford, NJ for the encores, Mean Woman Blues and Treat Her Right.


1985 Jimmy Page & Les Paul at Meadowlands

1985 Jimmy Page, from The Firm Tourbook



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