Showing posts with label This Old Rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This Old Rock. Show all posts

Monday, November 16, 2015

On This Day 16 November

Can you whistle a few bars for me?
1984 16 November On This Day Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Old Grey Whistle Test 
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Cookeville, TN at Tennessee Tech University, Memorial Gymnasium 
  • 1968 Led Zeppelin - Manchester, England at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (unconfirmed/maybe billed as Yardbirds)
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Ipswich, England at St. Matthew's Baths Hall
  • 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Old Grey Whistle TestCumbria, England at Lake District National Park
  • 1994 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Sydney, Australia at Triple M Studios
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Erfurt Germany at Messehalle
1971 Led Zeppelin - Ipswich, England at St. Matthew's Baths Hall

1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Ipswich, England at St. Matthew's Baths Hall
1984:
The Old Grey Whistle Test was a TV Show that aired on BBC2 from 1971 to 1988. The name supposedly was from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before.

Tin Pan Alley was a group of New York City music publishers and songwriters of the late 19th century and early 20th century.  The Whistle Test was the playing of the first pressing of a record to an audience of the buildings' doormen, who wore grey suits. If the song was catchy enough for it to be whistled back after hearing it a couple times, it passed the test.

I cant' say Roy Harper's music would pass the Mage Music Whistle Test, but Jimmy Page's?  You betcha. Every time.




♫  Same Old Rock (Jimmy Page with Roy Harper, Old Grey Whistle Test 1984) YouTube