Things don't always go the way you think they should.
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| 1985 23 July On This Day - but these events didn't actually happen on this day |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - Buxton, England at Buxton Pavilion Gardens Ballroom
- 1973 Led Zeppelin - Baltimore, MD at Baltimore Civic Centre
- 1977 Led Zeppelin - Oakland, CA at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
- 1979 Led Zeppelin - Copenhagen, Denmark at Falkoner Theatre
- 1985 Robert Plant with Jimmy Page encore appearance - East Rutherford, NJ
- 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Birmingham, England at NEC Arena (day 2)
1973:
The famous scene in The Song Remains The Same, with Peter Grant venting his rage at the venue's promoter, was taken at the Baltimore Civic Center concert on this date.
1977:
Led Zeppelin's huge Stonehenge backdrop for the Oakland 23-24 concerts was the basis for some funny stuff later on. Black Sabbath had commissioned a Stonehenge stage set for their 1983 Born Again tour (Stonehenge is the second track on the Born Again album). That band couldn't use the stage set because it had been mistakenly constructed too big to haul around. Coincidentally, at the same time the writers of This Is Spinal Tap created a scene with a Stonehenge set that turns out to be way too small to use. The two didn't copy each other (a 20-minute cut of the movie with that scene dates from before the Black Sabbath tour). Thus, we might conclude that both were inspired by Led Zeppelin at Oakland.
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| 1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at Oakland |
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| 1977 Led Zeppelin's Stonehenge backdrop at Oakland |
1979:
This was Led Zeppelin's first concert in almost two years. It was kept low-key -- tickets were actually available to purchase at the door -- because it was a warm-up for Knebworth.
1985:
The On This Day post for 23 July 1985 is almost certainly incorrect - let's blame it on the webmaster and not Jimmy Page (why not!). The band was on hiatus from 22 May 1985 until 14 March 1986, leaving Page free to do sets with The Beach Boys (04 July) and with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones (Live Aid, 13 July).
However, on 04 April 1986 The Firm was at Meadowlands (Brendan Byrne Arena) in East Rutherford, NJ., where Les Paul was introduced onstage.
However, on 04 April 1986 The Firm was at Meadowlands (Brendan Byrne Arena) in East Rutherford, NJ., where Les Paul was introduced onstage.
Robert Plant was at Meadowlands on 23 July 1985, and Jimmy Page joined him for the encores, Mean Woman Blues and Treat Her Right. Les Paul wasn't onstage for that one.
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| 1985 Jimmy Page & Les Paul at Meadowlands |
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| 1985 Jimmy Page, from The Firm Tourbook |
