Showing posts with label O2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label O2. Show all posts

Monday, December 11, 2023

On this day 11 December

 Oh yes, the spirit of the band was shining bright

2007 11 December On This Day O2 afterglow
2023



  • 1972 Led Zeppelin - Cardiff, Wales at Capitol Theatre (day 1)

2007
A great description of the rehearsal and the concert itself by Frank Smith in the comments section of the 09 December post, Soundcheck

2007 Mojo Magazine cover

2007 Q Magazine cover
2007 Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, O2 concert (Ross Halfin photo)
What I love about the above photo, besides that it's a great photo by Ross Halfin, is the look on Jimmy Page's face. He so clearly loved playing together as Led Zeppelin again. 








♫  BBC Breakfast Show Interview (11 December 2007) YouTube
♫  Jimmy Page Interview about after the O2 concert: A nightmare (Blabbermouth news)


Sunday, December 10, 2023

On this day 10 December

 Beyond amazing and into the realm of Magick.


2007, the Concert of the Century
It's rock and roll, baby.  It's Jimmy Page.  It's Magick.

10 December Jimmy Page's On This Day (published 2020)


1998 and 2007 - 10 December On This Day, Page & Plant at Amnesty International Show
and Led Zeppelin/Jason Bonham at Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, O2
Videos: Black Dog  Gallows Pole

On this day 2023


  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Bristol, England at Student Union, Bristol University
  • 1968 Led Zeppelin - London, England at  Marquee Club
  • 1975 Led Zeppelin - St. Helier, UK at Behan's Park West (guest appearance with pianist Norman Hale)
  • 1998 Page & Plant, Amnesty International Concert - Paris, France at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
  • 2007 Led Zeppelin Ahmet Ertegun Tribute - London,England at O2 Arena  
1975
Robert Plant was still recovering from his August car accident, and the four members of Led Zeppelin were in Jersey for a few weeks. John Paul Jones and John Bonham were at a club where the resident pianist, Norman Hale, invited the two onstage to jam. Instead the full band showed up a week later for a 45 minute set with Hale at the piano and Plant seated on a stool, performing to an audience of a few hundred lucky souls.

1975 Led Zeppelin - St. Helier, UK at Behan's Park West
(guest appearance with pianist Norman Hale)
1998
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant performed When the World Was YoungBabe I'm Gonna Leave YouGallows Pole, and Rock and Roll at the last Human Rights Concert to benefit Amnesty International. The full 1998 performance with Page & Plant, among others, is available on Amazon.

1998 Page & Plant, Amnesty International Show, Paris

2007
Ahmet Ertegun (1923-2006) was a powerful figure in Led Zeppelin's career. He was founder and president of Atlantic Records and was a chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After hearing Led Zeppelin's demo recording, Ertegun immediately signed the then unknown band to his label.

At age 83 Ertegun was backstage at a Rolling Stones' concert at the Beacon Theater in New York when he tripped and fell, hitting his head on the cement. During the Led Zeppelin induction to the UK Music Hall of Fame on 14 November, 2006, Jimmy Page announced that Ertegun had gone into a coma. Ahmet Ertegun died on December 14, 2006 and was buried in his native Turkey.

The remaining members of Led Zeppelin organized an Ahmet Tribute Concert to raise money for the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund for university scholarships in the UK, US and Turkey. Although other performers were to share the stage, it was the reunion of Led Zeppelin, with Jason Bonham taking his father's place, that stole the headlines.

Over 20 million people tried for tickets.

2007 February, Led Zeppelin statement on passing of Ahmet Ertegun

2007 10 December, Led Zeppelin reunion, with Jason Bonham,
at Ahmut Ertegun Tribute concert, O2 Arena, London

2007 O2 ticket

2007 Dave Grohl with Scarlet Page and the "secret" setlist, before the show
(Ross Halfin photo)
Setlist:
Good Times, Bad Times
Ramble On
Black Dog
In My Time of Dying
For Your Life
Trampled Under Foot
Nobody's Fault But Mine
No Quarter
Since I've Been Lovin' You
Dazed and Confused
Stairway To Heaven
The Song Remains the Same
Misty Mountain Hop
Kashmir

Encore:
Whole Lotta Love
Rock and Roll
2007, the Concert of the Century

2007 Jimmy Page at the mic, O2

2007 Jimmy Page, O2 (Ross Halfin photo)

2007 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, O2

2007 John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant at O2 (Scarlet Page photo)




♪  Full set (Page & Plant, Amnesty International Paris 1998) YouTube
♪  Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Page & Plant, Amnesty International Paris 1998) YouTube
♪ Gallows Pole (Page & Plant, Amnesty International Paris 1998) YouTube
♪  Good Times Bad Times with concert intro (Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham, Ahmet Tribute Concert at O2, 2007) YouTube


Tuesday, December 5, 2023

On this day 05 December

 

1984 05 December On This Day Jimmy Page with The Firm at Hamburg
  • 1983 Jimmy Page ARMS Charity Concert - Inglewood, CA at The Forum 
  • 1984 Jimmy Page The Firm - Hamburg, Germany at Audiomax
  • 2007 Led Zeppelin + Jason Bonham, Shepperton rehearsal

2007
Ross Halfin photos of Shepperton rehearsal 












♪  Jimmy Page ARMS Charity Concert (Inglewood, CA at The Forum, 05 December 1983) 
♪  Jimmy Page The Firm (Hamburg, Germany at Audiomax, 05 December 1984)
♪  Led Zeppelin + Jason Bonham, Shepperton rehearsal, 05 December 2007)

Thursday, October 12, 2023

On this day 12 October

 And now's the time, the time is now

1999 12 October Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes -  NY at Roseland Ballroom
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - London, England at Lyceum Ballroom
  • 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Ames, IA at Hilton Coliseum
  • 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - NY at Roseland Ballroom
  • 2012 Jimmy Page with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham at Celebration Day London premiere 

1969:
Not that numbers matter to anyone who knows and loves Jimmy Page's music but... Led Zeppelin was paid the highest fee for a one night performance in the UK at that time. Freddie Mercury was in the audience. 

1969 Led Zeppelin backstage at London's Lyceum Ballroom (Chris Walsh photo)

1999






2012:
The initial screening of the Celebration Day movie in more than 1,500 theaters in 40 countries, grossed over $2 million US.
2012 Jimmy Page at the Celebration Day movie premiere in London




2012 Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Jimmy Page at the London premiere of the Celebration Day movie



♪  Led Zeppelin (London at Lyceum Ballroom, 12 October 1969) 
♪  Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes (New York NY at Roseland Ballroom, 12 October 1999) 
♫  Jimmy Page interview with Absolut Radio at London premiere of Celebration Day 2012


Tuesday, September 12, 2023

On this day 12 September

 Oh, oh, O2!


♪ Bonzo's Montreux (Soundcloud)

  • 1968 Led Zeppelin - Stockholm, Sweden at Tivoli Grona Lund,Stora Scenen
  • 1976 Jimmy Page and John Bonham recording in Montreux Casino Studios
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
  • 2007 O2 show announcement 

1968
Still performing as The Yardbirds, but not for long.
1968 Led Zeppelin - Stockholm, Sweden at Tivoli Grona Lund,Stora Scenen

1968 Billed as Yardbirds - not even the new ones
1976:
Bonzo's Montreux is one of my favorite pieces of music ever. Of course, I say that about so many of Led Zeppelin's and Jimmy Page's music, but this is different. Bonzo's Montreux is music at it's most basic, what humans have heard in the plink of raindrops and the slap of windshield wipers, the thing that makes toes tap and bodies sway.  This one song is music stripped to a fundamental component of human life, "the spatial representation of time as rhythm" (Ursula Leguin, The Dispossessed).  It is truly, as Jimmy Page puts it, John Bonham's drum orchestra.

Keyboard mentioned in Jimmy Page's On This Day post


1998 Page & Plant - Poster for Mountain View, CA show
2007 Led Zeppelin announces O2 show
2007:
"O2" of course, refers to the one-off "Led Zeppelin Reunion" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham).  The official name of the show was the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert.  It was a benefit to help raise money for the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund for university scholarships in the UK, US and Turkey.

The 12 September announcements for the event mentioned a lineup that included Pete Townshend, Foreigner, Paolo Nutini, and Bill Wyman And The Rhythm Kings, with rumors of Mick Jagger playing the gig. Tickets for the show were £125 each, limited to two per person, distributed by ballot via online registration. Registration was supposed to close on Monday, 17 September, but in fact the website exceeded its bandwidth and crashed almost immediately upon the announcement.  According to Guinness World Records 2009, a world record was set for the "Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert". Depending on the source you believe, there were no fewer than one million or as many as 20 million requests for tickets.

Pete Townshend declined to perform, reportedly saying, "They really don't need me."  It didn't matter whether he or anyone else showed up. For most of the world there was only one band that was going to play that night anyway: Led Zeppelin.

2009 5 March, Jimmy Page/Ross Halfin studio photoshoot
2009:
I posted this photo today because I like it. Is there any other reason necessary?


♪  Bonzo's Montreux (Led Zeppelin, Coda 1976) YouTube
♪  Bonzo's Montreux (mix construction in progress) (Led Zeppelin, Coda 2015 remaster) 
♪  Page & Plant (Mountain View CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 12 September 1998)

♪  Ramble On (Led Zeppelin, O2 rehearsal Shepperton Studios 2007) YouTube
♪  For Your Life (Led Zeppelin, O2 rehearsal Shepperton Studios 2007) YouTube

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)


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

Friday, December 11, 2015

On This Day 11 December

Oh yes, the spirit of the band was shining bright
2007 11 December On This Day O2 afterglow

  • 1972 Led Zeppelin - Cardiff, Wales at Capitol Theatre (day 1)
2007
A great description of the rehearsal and the concert itself by Frank Smith in the comments section of the 09 December post, Soundcheck

2007 Mojo Magazine cover

2007 Q Magazine cover
2007 Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, O2 concert (Ross Halfin photo)
What I love about the above photo, besides that it's a great photo by Ross Halfin, is the look on Jimmy Page's face. He so clearly loved playing together as Led Zeppelin again. 




♫  BBC Breakfast Show Interview (11 December 2007) YouTube
♫  Jimmy Page Interview about after the O2 concert: A nightmare (Blabbermouth news)

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube