On this day 12 January

 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin inducted in the R&R Hall of Fame

• 1969 Led Zeppelin I released
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, at Fillmore West (day 4 of 4)
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Brussels, at Vorst Nationaal
• 1995 Led Zeppelin - inducted in Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame 

1995

Twenty-six years after Led Zeppelin I hit the world, Led Zeppelin finally got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler did the induction honors, Tyler opening with a poor imitation of Robert Plant, prompting the latter to whisper, "You wish." 

When John Paul Jones took the mic, he made the famous statement that's been quoted so often over the years: "Thank you, my friends, for finally remembering my phone number", referring to the fact that Jones had not been invited to join the Page/Plant Unledded project.

“Well, for my part of this, I must say it's a great honor to be inducted. Actually it's the second time for me, 'cause actually, earlier when I was inducted with the Yardbirds. It's almost like, inducted, induced, and this time it's the forceps. Some of you will get that. But anyway, thank you very much everybody.”
~ Jimmy Page accepting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award

  

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Zoe Bonham, Jason Bonham, Robert Plant, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Led Zeppelin induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1995 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Neil Young at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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♪  Led Zeppelin (San Francisco at Fillmore West - day 4/4, 12 January 1969)
♪  Led Zeppelin (Brussels at Vorst Nationaal, 12 January 1975)
♪  Train Kept A-Rolling (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995) 
♪  When the Levee Breaks (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Neil Young 1995) 
♫  Joe Perry and Steven Tyler induct Led Zeppelin into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995) 

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

♪ Stroll On (The Yardbirds, from the movie Blowup, 1966) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Led Zeppelin, Frankfurt 1980) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin’ (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith, Marquee Club 1990) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin (Metallica, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, Ronnie Wood, Flea, Jason Newsted at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009) YouTube 

On this day 18 August

 Keep that train a rollin', Mr. Page!

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival
♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith) Soundcloud

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Tulsa, OK at Tulsa Assembly Center Exhibit Hall
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile
• 1990 Jimmy Page with Aerosmith - Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England at Monsters Of Rock Festival

1969:
"The most amazing thing was the improvement in the group since its first appearance here last February, when it was a fledgling blues band. It had the ideas and the dynamics, but the expertise was yet to develop."
~ (Richie Yorke, The Globe and Mail, Aug. '69)

1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile (first show) (D Richardson photo)

1969 Led Zeppelin - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Rockpile (second show) (D McClement photo)

1990:
Monsters of Rock was an annual rock and heavy metal music festival begun in 1979 at Castle Donington, England. It branched out to other countries and then fizzled out in the late 1990s. Castle Donington has hosted the Download Festival since 2003.

In his autobiography, Joe Perry wrote about his introduction to rock and roll when he was a teen: "This band called the Yardbirds...had guitars that sound like nothing I'd ever heard before." By Donington in 1990, Perry had been a huge Jimmy Page fan for decades.

In 1990 Whitesnake was back at Monsters of Rock Festival for the third time, and Aerosmith was to perform there for the first time. David Coverdale, of course, was/is the frontman for Whitesnake. Coverdale had been giving some thought to breaking up the band. He was tired of the music business, tired of touring, and was having problems in his personal life.  He told interviewers that he wanted time to reassess his live and career.

As it turned out, his retirement was brief. Both he and Jimmy Page were signed up with Geffen Records, and by the following year the two had collaborated on the Coverdale/Page album.

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival

1990 August 18 On This Day Jimmy Page with Aerosmith at Monsters Of Rock Festival

♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Toronto - second show 1969) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times (Page & Plant, MGM Grand Las Vegas 1998) YouTube
♪  Onstage and backstage (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith, Donington 1990) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe, recorded during Outrider sessions 1988) YouTube

On this day 29 June

The Thing.

1995 29 June On This Day Page & Plant in Denmark

• 1966 The Yardbirds- Bromley, England at Bromel Club ,Bromley Court Hotel
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - City of Westminster, London, England at Royal Albert Hall (two shows in one night!)
• 1969 BBC Radio 1 broadcast of the 24 June Maida Vale session
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Zurich Switzerland at Hallenstadion
• 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Roskilde, Denmark at Festivalpladsen - Roskilde Festival
• 1998 Page & Plant - Grand Rapids, MI at Van Andel Arena
• 2000 Jimmy Page - The Black Crowes - Milwaukee, WI at Marcus Amphitheatre

1969:

"...it is boggling that in a matter of months they have achieved such a high degree of musicianship and become one of the biggest crowd pullers around."
~ (NME, July ’69)

Led Zeppelin performed at two "Pop Proms" shows in one night at Royal Albert Hall, appearing with the sax players from The Liverpool Scene and Mick Abraham's Blodwyn Pigs for the final jam Long Tall Sally.  The performance was wild, with the audience dancing in the aisles and throwing flowers and paper airplanes onto the stage.

"Prom" is short for promenade concert.  The term was originally used for the concerts in the pleasure gardens of London, where the audience could stroll about while listening to the music. The BBC's eight-week summer seasons of daily orchestral classical music and other concerts and other events take place primarily in the Royal Albert Hall in London. "Pop Prom" refers to the popular music offerings. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones performed at a Pop Prom in 1963, the first of only two times when they appeared on the same bill.

Long Tall Sally was a song originally recorded by Little Richard (Richard Penniman) and released in 1956. It has been covered by hundreds of artists, including Elvis and the Beatles, though of course some of us know that Led Zeppelin did it best. The band used Long Tall Sally for encores in 1969 and 1970.

  

1969 Led Zeppelin - Westminster, London at Royal Albert Hall "Pop Proms" shows

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Westminster, London at Royal Albert Hall
(Photo Peter Sanders)

1980 Led Zeppelin in Zurich (Photo L Viti)

1980 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Zurich (Photo Chris Turner)

♪ Led Zeppelin (Zurich Switzerland at Hallenstadion, 29 June 1980) 
♪ Page & Plant (Grand Rapids, MI at Van Andel Arena, 29 June 1998) 

On This Day 04 April

Pals

2009 04 April On This Day Jimmy Page inducts Jeff Beck into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• 1967 The Yardbirds - London England at BBC Radio, The Saturday Club
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Indianapolis IN at Indiana State Fairgrounds
• 1986 The Firm - East Rutherford NJ at Brendan Bryne Arena
• 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour-Philadelphia PA at The Spectrum
• 2009 Jimmy Page with Jeff Beck - Cleveland OH at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1973:

Only days after its release, Houses of the Holy Atlantic Records announced that the album had already reached gold .

2009:
Jimmy Page inducted Jeff Beck into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on this day.  The music played that night doesn't give us much of Jimmy Page, but Jimmy Page's being there gave a lot to Jeff Beck.  A beautiful and generous tribute.

2009 Jimmy Page, Ronnie Wood, Hall of Fame practice

2009 Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2009 Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck & Ronnie Wood, Rock and Roll Hall of  Fame

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♪  Make or Break (The Firm, The Firm 1985) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A-Rollin' (Beck Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009) Rolling Stone article with video
♪  Beck's Bolero & Immigrant Song (Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009) YouTube
♫  Jimmy Page's induction of Jeff Beck into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009
♪  Since I've Been Loving You (Page & Plant, Philadelphia 1995) YouTube

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

NOTICE: April 11 will be the last daily On This Day post as that will be a full year's worth.  I won't post any more unless Jimmy Page's website offers some new ones. Stay tuned for new posts here on the Mage Music blog about the music and Magick of  JIMMY PAGE and previews of new Mage Music projects!

On This Day 30 March

Ooh la la!

1968 30 March On This Day The Yardbirds at Anderson Theatre, NYC

• 1968 The Yardbirds - New York NY at Anderson Theatre
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Southall England at Northcote Arms Farx Club
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Pittsburgh PA at Pittsburgh Civic Arena
• 1998 Page & Plant - Paris France at La Cigale

1968:

Unfortunately for us today, The Yardbirds' shows weren't officially recorded by the band, and what there is out there of audience recordings is usually terrible quality. On this day in 1968 The Yardbirds did two shows at the Anderson Theatre, and Train Kept A-Rollin was recorded for Epic Records. The video link is below.  You won't want to look at it - the video part is not only not synced with the audio, but the video is at a faster speed. Unfortunately also there is fake audience applause dubbed onto the audio. Ewwwww.

1968 Jimmy Page / The Yardbirds, NYC

1968 Jimmy Page / The Yardbirds, NYC

1969:
As reported by Dave Lewis in his amazing reference book, Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, the band's contract for the Farx Club gig included a fee of £75 or 60% of the door, whichever was greater.  Those bargain days didn't last long.

1998 Ooh La La bootleg from Page & Plant at La Cigale, Paris 

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♪  Train Kept A-Rollin (The Yardbirds, New York Anderson Theater 1968) YouTube
♪  When I Was A Child (Page & Plant, La Cigale Paris 1998) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times (Page & Plant, La Cigale Paris 1998) YouTub
♪  Whole Lotta Love (Page & Plant, La Cigale Paris 1998) YouTube

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

On This Day 09 March

Days of the dragon

1968 09 March On This Day The Yardbirds  Paris, France at Baton Rouge TV show and Faculte D'Assas

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Paris, France at Baton Rouge TV show and Faculte D'Assas
• 1970 Led Zeppelin -Vienna, Austria at Konzerthaus
• 1971 Led Zeppelin - Leeds, UK at Leeds University 

1968 Yardbirds, Paris at Faculte D'Assas

1968 Jimmy Page / Yardbirds Paris

1968 Dragon Tele

2009 Jimmy Page (Ross Halfin photo)

2011 Royston Ellis and Jimmy Page, London

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♪  Train Kept A Rollin', Dazed and Confused, Goodnight Sweet Josephine (The Yardbirds, Paris Baton Rouge TV show 1968) YouTube
♪  How Many More Times medley (Led Zeppelin, Vienna 1970) YouTube

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

On This Day 12 January

Waiting to see Jimmy Page in the Hall of Fame again.  And again.

1995 12 January On This Day Led Zeppelin inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• 1969 Led Zeppelin I released
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, at The Fillmore (day 4 of r)
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Brussels, at Vorst Nationaal
• 1995 Led Zeppelin - inducted in Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame 

1995

Twenty-six years after Led Zeppelin I hit the world, Led Zeppelin finally got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler did the induction honors, Tyler opening with a poor imitation of Robert Plant, prompting the latter to whisper, "You wish." 

When John Paul Jones took the mic, he made the famous statement that's been quoted so often over the years: "Thank you, my friends, for finally remembering my phone number", referring to the fact that Jones had not been invited to join the Page/Plant Unledded project.

“Well, for my part of this, I must say it's a great honor to be inducted. Actually it's the second time for me, 'cause actually, earlier when I was inducted with the Yardbirds. It's almost like, inducted, induced, and this time it's the forceps. Some of you will get that. But anyway, thank you very much everybody.”
~ Jimmy Page accepting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award

  

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Zoe Bonham, Jason Bonham, Robert Plant, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Led Zeppelin induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1995 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Neil Young at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

♪

♪  When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin, Brussels 1975) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A-Rolling (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995) YouTube
♪  When the Levee Breaks (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Neil Young 1995) YouTube
♫  Joe Perry and Steven Tyler induct Led Zeppelin into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995) YouTube

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

On This Day 10 January

Destroying the opposition for all time and space

1969 10 January Led Zeppelin Fillmore West

• 1969 Cartoone (Scottish band) releases first album, feat. Jimmy Page guest guitarist
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco at Fillmore West (day 2 of 4)
• 1990 Jimmy Page with Bon Jovi, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy benefit – London at Hammersmith Odeon

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin Fillmore West

1990:
Jimmy Page joined Bon Jovi for the encore at the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy benefit at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
1. The Train Kept A' Rollin'
2. Good Golly Miss Molly
3. With A Little Help From My Friends

1990 Jimmy Page at Hammersmith Odeon with Bon Jovi

2013 Jimmy Page with member of Fuerza Bruta theatrical company

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♪   Knick Knack Man  (Cartoone, Jimmy Page session guitar 1969) YouTube
♪   Full set (Led Zeppelin, Fillmore West 10 January 1969) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Bon Jovi, Hammersmith Odeon 1990) YouTube
♪  Good Golly Miss Molly (Jimmy Page with Bon Jovi, Hammersmith Odeon 1990) YouTube

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

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

♪ Stroll On (The Yardbirds, from the movie Blowup, 1966) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin' (Led Zeppelin, Frankfurt 1980) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin’ (Jimmy Page with Aerosmith, Marquee Club 1990) YouTube

♪ Train Kept A Rollin (Metallica, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, Ronnie Wood, Flea, Jason Newsted at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009) YouTube