MAGE MUSIC: Train Kept A Rollin'

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

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 1990 Whitesnake was back at Monsters of Rock for the third time, and Aerosmith was to perform there for the first time. David Coverdale, of course, was 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

♪ 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

Monday, June 29, 2015

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. (Note the Led Zeppelin link below is from a week later in the US).