12 March

 

• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Dusseldorf ,Germany at Dusseldorf Rheinhalle
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Long Beach, CA at Long Beach Arena
• 1985 The Firm - Tempe, AZ at Arizona State University Activities Center

♪  Night Comes Down (Mickey Finn, feat Jimmy Page 1963)
♪  Led Zeppelin (Dusseldorf at Dusseldorf Rheinhalle, 12 March 1970)
♪  Led Zeppelin (Long Beach CA at Long Beach Arena, 12 March 1975)

1985

More about 1963 & 1970 

On This Day 12 March

1963 12 March On This  Day Micky Finn's This Sporting Life/Night Comes Down
feat. Jimmy Page guitar

• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Dusseldorf ,Germany at Dusseldorf Rheinhalle
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Long Beach, CA at Long Beach Arena
• 1985 The Firm - Tempe, AZ at Arizona State University Activities Center

1963:

The British guitarist Micky Waller (1947-2013) went under the stage name of Mickey Finn so as to not be confused with the drummer of the same name (percussionist later for T Rex). Jimmy Page was a session guitarist for Finn for a while, and years later Waller himself became a session man in France.

1970:
"We're Gonna Groove was the usual set opener the first half of 1970 but Communication Breakdown is the opener here. It sounds like Page wanted to loosen his fingers and somehow wandered into the Communication Breakdown riff and the band just followed along. It rocks!"
~ Argenteum Astrum 

1970 12 March Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Dusseldorf

1970 12 March Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Dusseldorf

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♪  Night Comes Down (Mickey Finn, feat Jimmy Page 1963) YouTube
♪  Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin, Dusseldorf 1970) YouTube
♪  Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin, Dusseldorf 1970) YouTube
♪  Full Set (Led Zeppelin, Long Beach 12 March 1975) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube

On This Day 17 April

Jimmy Page moonlights from art school, plays harmonica!

1964 17 April -  'Hush Your Mouth' by Mickey Finn and the Blue Men was released

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Club Lafayette, Wolverhampton England
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis TN
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN
• 1988 Jimmy Page with Robert Plant - Hammersmith Odeon, London
• 1994 Jimmy Page - Alexis Korner Memorial Concert, Buxton Opera House, Derbyshire, England

1964
Mickey Waller (1947 – 2013), a.k.a. Mickey Finn, was an English guitarist, founder of Mickey Finn & The Blue Men (not to be confused with the Blue Man group).  While Jimmy Page didn't get credit as a session man or a full-time member of the band, he did play on a few of their records.

This is one of the sessions I did whilst I was still at art school and on this I played harmonica. Mickey Finn and the Blue Men had applied a blue beat rhythm to the Jimmy Reid song 'Hush Your Mouth'. I had done other recordings with this band: the guys were cool and were always good to play with.

On this day in 1960, Eddie Cochran died in a road traffic accident in Chippenham, Wiltshire. RIP.

Soundcloud  Hush Your Mouth