On This Day 16 March

A riot wherever Jimmy Page appears

1965 16 March On This Day Jimmy Page visiting LA with Immediate Records

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Paris, France at Le Terminus
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Copenhagen, Denmark at Tivolis Koncertsal
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Vienna, Austria at Weiner Stadhalle
• 1985 Jimmy Page - The Firm - Costa Mesa, CA at Pacific Coliseum

1965:
Jimmy Page worked briefly with Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records as staff producer, which included auditioning musicians for the label. His experience as a session guitarist stood him in good stead since even at just 21 years old Jimmy Page already had worked with many of the big names in music, and through Immediate he would network with even more. However, the lure of performing was greater than that of the production end of music - in June of the following year Jimmy Page joined The Yardbirds.
 
1968:
The Yardbirds were in France on this day but the band had pre-recorded a segment that BBC aired as  Episode 493 of Live with the BBC.

1985 Jimmy Page, possibly after the Costa Mesa show with The Firm (Steve Jones collection)

2012 16 March Lucifer Rising release date announced

Lucifer Rising album cover

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♪  Good Night Sweet Josephine (The Yardbirds, Live at the BBC 1968) YouTube
♪  Think About It (The Yardbirds, Live at the BBC 1968) YouTube
♪  White Summer / Black Mountain Side (Led Zeppelin, Copenhagen 1969) YouTube
♪  Radioactive (The Firm, special mix 1985) YouTube

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

On This Day 06 March

1975 06 March On This Day Physical Graffiti reaches Gold in the US

• 1971 Led Zeppelin -Dublin, Ireland at National Boxing Stadium
• 1973 Led Zeppelin -Stockholm, Sweden at Kungliga Tennishallen
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Miami, FL at Miami Arena
• 1998 Page & Plant - Istanbul, Turkey

1968 06 March On This Day The Yardbirds on BBC's Saturday Club

1971 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Dublin

1973 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Stockholm

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♪  Goodnight Sweet Josephine (The Yardbirds, BBC 1968) YouTube
♪  Think About It (The Yardbirds, BBC 1968) YouTube

♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Dublin 1971) YouTube

♪  Full set (Led Zeppelin, Stockholm 1973) YouTube
♪  Trampled Underfoot (Led Zeppelin 1975) YouTube

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

On This Day 02 August

 Sometimes you just have to think about it a little harder.

1967 02 August The Yardbirds travel... but see more below
♪  Think About It (The Yardbirds) Soundcloud

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Ellsworth, WI at Proche's Popular Ballroom
• 1969 - Led Zeppelin - Albuquerque, NM at Civic Auditorium

1967:

Believe me, its easy to screw up dates when you're doing research and digging into old records. JimmyPage.com had posted this Yardbirds travel date originally as 1968, but this year corrected it to 1967 because The Yardbirds had split up in the early part of July.  

But even so, The Yardbirds would have been traveling to Ellsworth, Wisconsin for their gig that night rather than to Ann Arbor, where they were to perform on August 8, 1967.  

1969:

Phil, roadie, on the Albuquerque show (note that the creative spelling below is Phil's, not mine)

This most amazing band was, hands down, Led Zepplin. I was backstage helping out at first..... Vanilla Fudge was the main draw and the Zep of course. 1969.

We cleared the stage and their guys were pulling out the equipment and we went front row center. Pretty soon the curtains were moving, cause someone was trying to find the break so they could get through. Plant come out, says hello to everybody and says "Hi, I'm Robert Plant and we are Led Zepplin and we'd like to play some music for ya". The curtain opens and they go to it for about 1/2 hour. He says "that's the first side of our album . Here's the second side" They used to do an incredible riff where Paige would strum the lowest fret and Plant would match it exactly (I mean EXACTLY) in tone. They would go up the scale until Paige was leaning on the wah-wah pedal while sliding up and down and Plant keeping up with him the whole time. Never heard that matched before or since. Then Plant said " we are working on a second album, would you like to hear it?" Duh....... They played about four more songs and Plant said "That's all we got, thanks a lot".

1969 02 August Led Zeppelin in Albuquerque

1969 Led Zeppelin in Albuquerque

Because I don't have any music for you from the above dates, here are some links to In The Evening that I used in a previous Mage Music post to track the evolution of magic in the song, and I've added the rough mix from the In Through The Out Door remaster companion disc (I got mine, did you get yours?)

♪  In The Evening – Studio: Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door – 1979 
♪  In The Evening – Live: Led Zeppelin Knebworth August 4 1979
♪  In The Evening – Live: Led Zeppelin Berlin July 7 1980
♪  In The Evening – Live: Page & Plant Glastonbury - June 25 1995
♪  In The Evening - Rough Mix (from remaster companion disc)