On this day 24 July

 I knew what sound I was looking for.

~ Jimmy Page, as quoted in Dave Lewis' Led Zeppelin: The Concert File

1967 24 July The Yardbirds' Little Games album released
♪  No Excess Baggage Demo (Yardbirds 1967) Soundcloud

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Little Games album released
• 1969 Led Zeppelin receives first Gold Record Award
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Pittsburgh, PA at Three Rivers Stadium
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Oakland, CA at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (day 2)
• 1979 Led Zeppelin - Copenhagen Denmark at Falkoner Theatre 

1969 Led Zeppelin receives first Gold Record Award

1969:
As Jimmy Page has said in interviews, Led Zeppelin, the original album is in a way his favorite because it is the one that started it all. Although it took just 36 hours' studio time (over the course of a few weeks) it was nevertheless a long time coming. Jimmy Page knew the sound he wanted, he knew where he wanted to go with the music, and he simply made it happen when the time was ripe.

"I wanted artistic control in a vice grip, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do with these fellows. In fact, I financed and completely recorded the first album before going to Atlantic... It wasn't your typical story where you get an advance to make an album—we arrived at Atlantic with tapes in hand... Atlantic's reaction was very positive – I mean they signed us, didn't they?"
~ Jimmy Page, Guitar World interview 1993

1977:
The belly dancer. You've seen the photos!

This was the last concert before the sudden death of Robert Plant's son, Karac. Led Zeppelin would never again perform in the United States.

1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Oakland California

1977 Oakland Coliseum during Led Zeppelin concert

2014 On This Day for 24 July

2003

Jimmy Page joined Brian May and Dan Hawkins to judge the second Riffathon charity fundraiser. The winner was Martin Tomkins.

♪  White Summer (JimmyPage/Yardbirds 1967) 
♪  White Summer (Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1969) YouTube
♪  Live in Pittsburgh 8MM footage (Led Zeppelin, Pittsburgh 1973) 

♪  Led Zeppelin - Pittsburgh PA at Three Rivers Stadium, 24 July 1973) 

♪  Led Zeppelin (Oakland CA at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum day 2, 24 July 1977) 

On This Day 24 July

2016 24 July On This Day Thank You from Jimmy Page

There are so many On This Day images and other stuff for this day that it was worth a new blog post for 24 July.

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Little Games album released
• 1969 Led Zeppelin receives first Gold Record Award
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Pittsburgh,PA at Three Rivers Stadium
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Oakland,CA at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (day 2)
• 1979 Led Zeppelin - Copenhagen Denmark at Falkoner Theatre

1967 24 July The Yardbirds' Little Games album released
♪ No Excess Baggage Demo (Yardbirds 1967) Soundcloud

1969:

As Jimmy Page has said in interviews, Led Zeppelin, the original album is in a way his favorite because it is the one that started it all. Although it took just 36 hours' studio time (over the course of a few weeks) it was nevertheless a long time coming. Jimmy Page knew the sound he wanted, he knew where he wanted to go with the music, and he simply made it happen when the time was ripe.

"I wanted artistic control in a vice grip, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do with these fellows. In fact, I financed and completely recorded the first album before going to Atlantic... It wasn't your typical story where you get an advance to make an album—we arrived at Atlantic with tapes in hand... Atlantic's reaction was very positive – I mean they signed us, didn't they?"
~ Jimmy Page, Guitar World interview 1993

1969 Led Zeppelin receives first Gold Record Award

1977:
The belly dancer. This was the last concert before the sudden death of Robert Plant's son, Karac. Led Zeppelin would never again perform in the United States. 

1977 24 July SHOWCO working on Led Zeppelin stage set for the band's last US performance

1977 24 July - the belly dancer

1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Oakland California

1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Oakland California

1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin Oakland California

1977 Oakland Coliseum during Led Zeppelin concert

2005 24 July Riffathon charity event

2014 24 July Jimmy Page merchandise available on his website

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♪ White Summer (JimmyPage/Yardbirds 1967) YouTube
♪ Live in Pittsburgh 8MM footage (Led Zeppelin, Pittsburgh 1973) YouTube
♪ White Summer (Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1969) YouTube

♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Oakland 23 July 1977) YouTube

♪  Achilles Last Stand (Led Zeppelin, Oakland 24 July 1977) YouTube

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

On This Day 09 April

1969 09 April On This Day Led Zeppelin, Tolworth England at the Toby Jug

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Miami Beach FL at Thee Image Club (day 2 of 3)
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Tolworth England @ Toby Jug
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Tampa FL at Curtis Hixon Hall
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Chicago IL at Chicago Stadium (day 3 of 4)
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Boston MA at Boston Gardens

1970:
Check out how Jimmy Page handles Becks Bolero at approximately 7:00 in the How Many More Times medley in Tampa. What an extraordinary show that was.

1977:

Day three of Chicago, after a break due to the hockey game at the Chicago Stadium, and this night's show was cut short because our Mr. Page was sick with probable food poisoning.  "If I hadn't sat down I would have fallen over," he said. Various accounts have Jimmy Page swaying, dropping his pick, collapsing onto the drum riser or into a chair that a roadie had brought out for him, throwing up, and/or passing out. No wonder he looked so grumpy in the photos.

The show was to be rescheduled for August, with a promise by Jimmy Page published the next day in Circus to do an "all-request show", but it was not to be.

1977 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Chicago

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♪  White Summer/Black Mountain Side (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) YouTube

♪  Thank You (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) YouTube

♪  How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) YouTube
♪  Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin, Tampa 1970) 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 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 07 March

My prayers are for new music from my guitar god

1970 07 March On This Day Led Zeppelin at Montreux

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - London at Bluesville 69 Club, Hornsey Wood Tavern
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Montreux Switzerland at Montreux Casino
• 1985 Jimmy Page The Firm - Milwaukee WI at Mecca Arena
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Orlando FL at Orlando Complex

1970 On their knees before Led Zeppelin

1970:
Last part of the Phillpe Paringaux interview mentioned in the On This Day post (Google translated from French):

"... Led Zeppelin has electrified blues (and rock as well, since the final quarter of an hour was devoted to a medley of old themes hurled against the rock scene with a wild-eyed crowd and made to kneel in prayer, one of the worshipers of the god page) to the bottom of his old bones and does something else, a language so different from what it originally was that the question of authenticity does not even arise. What was human became mechanical, but this particular machine has a pretty terrifying power of those to whom it speaks, comparable only to that of another set that does not make sense, the Iron Butterfly (already the name ... ): the power to make its listeners giddy sense of the term. Page, who I asked after the show what he thought, looked surprised, as if this problem he had never occurred to me, as if it was not surprising to see a boy of fifteen years to roll to his feet and worship, pray. Pray for Jimmy Page! The latter he had he put his boot in the face, the kid would have said thank you and licked the blood from his lips touched by God. "It feels fantastic to make people so happy," he said. Happy? Perhaps, after all ...
"Led Zeppelin was huge and ominous, as the red sky projectors, crackling furnace in which the gods were twisted-puppets of the great decline. " 

1970 07 March Led Zeppelin at Montreux

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♪  White Summer/Black Mountain Side (Led Zeppelin, Montreux 1970) YouTube
♪  Full Set (Page & Plant. Orlando 1995) YouTube

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