Showing posts with label Stroll On. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stroll On. Show all posts

Sunday, August 20, 2023

On this day 20 August

 Happy birthday, Robert Plant.  And happy day, Jimmy Page.

1948 20 August On This Day Robert Plant was born
♪ Happy birthday!

1990 20 August On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Oklahoma City, OK at Wedgewood Amusement Park
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Schenectady, NY at Schenectady Aerodrome
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Oklahoma City, OK at Oklahoma State Fair Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Center Coliseum (unconfirmed)
  • 1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith - London, England at Marquee Club 



1990:
Train Kept A-Rollin' has been around a while. It was first recorded in 1951 by Tiny Bradshaw as a jump blues song (up-tempo blues that became popular in the 1940s, the precursor to rhythm and blues and rock and roll). The Johnny Burnette Trio added a repeating three-note minor key guitar line with intentionally distorted guitar (achieved by loosening a tube in the guitar amp), leading the way for The Yardbirds in 1965.

With The Yardbirds the song became Stroll On, as seen in the movie Blowup, with Jimmy Page on bass. He took the song with him to Led Zeppelin, reverting to the song's original name and, of course, to the guitar. When the four who were to become Led Zeppelin rehearsed together for the first time in 1968, the first song they took on was Train Kept A Rollin'.  

John Paul Jones:  
"...we did 'Train'... It was there immediately. It was so powerful that I don't remember what we played after that. For me it was just like, 'Crikey!' I mean, I'd had moments of elation with groups before, but nothing as intense as that. It was like a thunderbolt, a lightning flash – boosh! Everyone sort of went 'Wow'."
~ Mick Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin 2009
Aerosmith adopted Train Kept A Rollin' early on for their own set lists, recording it for their second album, Get Your Wings (1974, remastered 1993).


1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club
 Happy Birthday Robert Plant
10 Best Robert Plant Songs (post-Led Zeppelin), by Matthew Wilkening

Happy birthday, Robert Plant!

Jimmy and Robert


♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Johnny Burnette Trio 1956) YouTube

Sunday, May 8, 2016

On This Day 08 May

Jimmy Page attended Cannes Film Festival for premiere of Blow Up on this day in 1967 and with Robert Plant was on the Jools Holland show in 1998..
Screen shot showing incorrect Jools Holland date


1967 08 May On This Day Jimmy Page at Cannes Film Festival


  • 1968  Yardbirds, Aurora CO at Hal Baby's
  • 1985  The Firm, Worcester MA at The Centrum
  • 1995  Page & Plant, Denver CO at McNichols Sports Arena
  • 1998  Page & Plant, Jools Holland Show


1967 (text from the website):
Michelangelo Antonioni’s film 'Blow Up' was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on this day in 1967 - featuring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Birkin, Veruschka and The Yardbirds. We weren’t invited to this premiere but queued up with everyone else outside a theatre in New York at a later date... though there was the added bonus that Veruschka was queuing in the same line!

The music used is from the soundtrack album. View film poster

1998
Also on this day in 1998 (not 1996 as it shows on jimmypage.com), "Page and Plant was promoting Walking into Clarksdale and I played the Jools 'The Stools' Holland Show. We played 'Wanton Song', 'Shining in the Light' and 'Burning Up'."

Note that Walking Into Clarksdale was released by Atlantic Records on 21 April 1998.

1995 08 May Page-Plant Denver 'Calling To You' medley



♪  Page & Plant (Jools Holland Show 1998) YouTube
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube

Thursday, August 20, 2015

On This Day 20 August

Happy birthday, Robert Plant.  And happy day, Jimmy Page.
1948 20 August On This Day Robert Plant was born
♪ Happy birthday!

1990 20 August On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Oklahoma City, OK at Wedgewood Amusement Park
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Schenectady, NY at Schenectady Aerodrome
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Oklahoma City, OK at Oklahoma State Fair Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Center Coliseum (unconfirmed)
  • 1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith - London, England at Marquee Club 
1990:
Train Kept A-Rollin' has been around a while. It was first recorded in 1951 by Tiny Bradshaw as a jump blues song (up-tempo blues that became popular in the 1940s, the precursor to rhythm and blues and rock and roll). The Johnny Burnette Trio added a repeating three-note minor key guitar line with intentionally distorted guitar (achieved by loosening a tube in the guitar amp), leading the way for The Yardbirds in 1965.

With The Yardbirds the song became Stroll On, as seen in the movie Blowup, with Jimmy Page on bass. He took the song with him to Led Zeppelin, reverting to the song's original name and, of course, to the guitar. When the four who were to become Led Zeppelin rehearsed together for the first time in 1968, the first song they took on was Train Kept A Rollin'.  

John Paul Jones:  
"...we did 'Train'... It was there immediately. It was so powerful that I don't remember what we played after that. For me it was just like, 'Crikey!' I mean, I'd had moments of elation with groups before, but nothing as intense as that. It was like a thunderbolt, a lightning flash – boosh! Everyone sort of went 'Wow'."
~ Mick Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin 2009
Aerosmith adopted Train Kept A Rollin' early on for their own set lists, recording it for their second album, Get Your Wings (1974, remastered 1993).


1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club

1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Marquee Club
 Happy Birthday Robert Plant
10 Best Robert Plant Songs (post-Led Zeppelin), by Matthew Wilkening

Happy birthday, Robert Plant!

Jimmy and Robert
♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Johnny Burnette Trio 1956) YouTube