Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts

Friday, November 3, 2023

On this day 03 November

 He's never wasting my time

1988 03 November On This Day Jimmy Page Outrider, New Haven CT
♪ Wasting My Time (SoundCloud)

  • 1966 The Yardbirds Dick Clark Caravan of Stars tour - Decatur, AL at Decatur High School 
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - New York, NY at Village Theatre
  • 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - New Haven, CT at New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Manchester, England at Manchester Evening News Arena
  • 2014 Jimmy Page interviewed by Jeff Koons


1988 Jimmy Page/Outrider New Haven CT (background image from website)

2014
Jimmy Page was interviewed by Jeff Koons in New York for 92Y. In the Q&A, JP discussed his official photographic autobiography, the recent re-mastered releases of Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the HolyWhen Koons offered to produce any artwork to go along with Page's anticipated solo tour and album next year, Page enthusiastically shook his hand, closing the deal. I'd like to know what Koons thinks about that deal now.





2016
Jimmy Page helped promote the return of Flaming June by Frederic Leighton (1830-1895) to Britain, gone since the 1960s. 



Flaming June by Sir Frederic Leighton, painted in 1895

See Wikipedia for the painting's history



2023
Mage Music: Woman At Work
I've got a writing project I'm doing this month. You may have heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in one month (roughly 150 pages, or half of a publishable book).  I've been doing it for a few years now (first attempt was in 2008).  I always think I'm too busy to do it each year, but I do. I'll be doing it this year, too, even though I can't start until the 6th because I'm out of town.

Wish me luck! Buy the book when it comes out next spring! It's a sequel, so you might want to read the first book in the series, DARK GREEN.  Or maybe an unrelated novel before that, Evolution Device, a story of music and magic inspired partly by the writing I've done here over the years, and partly by the life and career of my favorite guitarist. 



♪  Jimmy Page Outrider Tour (New Haven, CT at New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 03 November 1988)
♪  Page & Plant (Manchester, England at Manchester Evening News Arena, 03 November 1998) 
♫  Jimmy Page interviewed by Jeff Koons 2014

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

On this day 17 October

Eleven months...

1969 17 October On This Day Led Zeppelin at Carnegie Hall (2 shows)

  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - New York at Carnegie Hall (2 Shows: 8:30pm and 12:00 midnight)
  • 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Chicago, IL at UIC Pavilion

1969
:
Eleven months. That's all it took for Led Zeppelin to go from embryo to Carnegie Hall. No rock band had played that venue since the Rolling Stones, five years prior, when rock performances were banned after a riot at the Stones' show. But Led Zeppelin had shot into the stratosphere like a SpaceX rocket and could not be denied.

Two performances that night, the second starting at midnight. Donovan was at Madison Square Garden that night, a sold-out show. Led Zeppelin tickets had been sold out for weeks and were being scalped at twice the box office price.
"This performance makes me realize we can be bigger than The Beatles and the Stones," Peter Grant told Richard Cole shortly after.
~ Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, Dave Lewis 2005
"Travelling en mass, we managed to miss our plane out of Heathrow, so we caught the next available flight which got us into New York just a few hours before we were due to play this prestigious venue.  Nevertheless, we played a blinding concert but this was the one and only time we ever got to play Carnegie Hall."
~ Jimmy Page
1969 Led Zeppelin at Carnegie Hall

1969 Led Zeppelin at Carnegie Hall

1969 17 October On This Day background image

1988
Jimmy Page was 44 years old. Outrider was his first solo album, and it was not received well. People were stuck in the Led Zeppelin rut and couldn't seem to hear Jimmy Page if Robert Plant wasn't singing. Reviewers constantly lamented that Jimmy Page wasn't Led Zeppelin anymore.

And yet... in Chicago JP  took 15 minutes to speak "through his guitar deliberately, angrily and with enough raunch to electrify the crowd", according to the Chicago Tribune's lukewarm review. The Trib reviewer noted that the band didn't show strength as a unit, which of course was Led Zeppelin excelled at as no other band has, the whole of them being greater than the sum of its parts (Aristotle).

Today, those who revere Jimmy Page, the mage musician, do appreciate Outrider for its glorious guitar work, if not for the band.



2012:
43 years after Carnegie Hall, Jimmy Page was in Japan promoting the remasters, which had reached top ten on the charts once again. JP was talking about working in his studio, but sadly we haven't gotten to hear any of it yet.


2012 Jimmy Page in Japan (Ross Halfin photo)



♪  Led Zeppelin (New York NY at Carnegie Hall - first show, 17 October 1969)
♪  Jimmy Page/Outrider Tour (Chicago IL at UIC Pavilion, 17 October 1988)