Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Friday, September 29, 2023

On this day 29 September

 Oh Mr. Bonham....

1971 29 September On This Day Led Zeppelin in Osaka, last performance in Japan
published 2020



1971 29 September On This Day Led Zeppelin in Osaka, last performance in Japan

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Stockton, England at ABC Theatre
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Osaka, Japan at Osaka Festival Hall
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Albuquerque, New Mexico at Tingley Coliseum
1971:
This performance was a bit chaotic, with John Bonham disappearing from the stage and the other three having to wing it for a while. Years later Peter Grant said that Bonzo and Robert Plant were having a tiff about a minor amount of money from some time in the past. Bonham was also reported to have said he was tired of Moby Dick, and in fact the solo was just 11 minutes long this show. 

Perhaps it is fitting that the first and only live performance by Led Zeppelin of Friends was performed at this gig. Note that the On This Day text says Bonham had not yet returned to the stage, but in fact, he had.

1971 Led Zeppelin in Japan

1971 Led Zeppelin, Osaka, day 2

1971 Led Zeppelin in Osaka day 2


♪  Led Zeppelin (Osaka Japan at Osaka Festival Hall, 29 September 1971) 
♪  Friends (Led Zeppelin, Osaka 29 September 1971) 
♪  Page & Plant, (Albuquerque  NM, 29 September 1995) 

 

Friday, June 16, 2023

On This Day 16 June

 

Having gained so much from his music, he gives back of his music

1999 16 June On This Day Jimmy Page with Michael Lee & Guy Pratt – London at Whitehall, Banqueting House,
 UNICEF' relief for Kosovo refugees (Photo Ross Halfin)

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Norwich, Norfolk, England at University of East Anglia Student Union,
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin – London at Aeolian Hall, Studio 2,BBC Sessions, Radio One Sessions
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Brussels, Belgium at Vorst Nationaal
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Chicago, IL at United Center
  • 1999 16 June On This Day Jimmy Page with Michael Lee & Guy Pratt – London at Whitehall, Banqueting House, UNICEF' relief for Kosovo refugees

In 1969 Led Zeppelin recorded for three and a half hours at the BBC studio in London for a Sunday morning broadcast on June 22. The interviewing done by Chris Grant* is pretty funny in its own inanity but I'm thinking that it probably irritated Jimmy Page no end. Having a guitar in his hands to strum - as he often did then for those early interviews - might have been how he kept from saying something he might regret. Just a guess, mind you, but Mr. Page is not known for his patience with stupid interviewers.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

On This Day 14 October

Jimmy Page Jimmy Page.  Can't get me enough Jimmy Page.
2014 14 October On This Day Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page open edition released

  • 1966 The Yardbirds- Blowup scene filmed in London, England at Elstree Film Studios
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Cocoa Beach, FL, Fisher Park & Melbourne, FL at unknown venue
  • 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Kansas City, KS at Memorial Hall
  • 1994 Page & Plant - No Quarter released
  • 1999 Jimmy Page - The Black Crowes - New York,NY at Roseland Theater (day 3)
  • 2014 Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page, open edition released 

1994 14 October On This Day No Quarter released
♪ Audio: City Don't Cry
1966:
The Yardbirds performed Stroll On in Michelangelo Antonioni's movie, Blowup, though they weren't the director's first choice. Steve Howe, the late guitarist for Yes and at the time with a band called Tomorrow (a.k.a The in Crowd) later told Pete Frame in Frame's book, Complete Rock Family Trees (1993), "We went on the set and started preparing for that guitar-smashing scene in the club. They even went as far as making up a bunch of Gibson 175 replicas ... and then we got dropped for The Yardbirds, who were a bigger name. That's why you see Jeff Beck smashing my guitar rather than his!"

Antonioni had wanted The Who for Blowup. If he couldn't have Pete Townshend, he still wanted the guitar-smashing routine. Ironically, although that scene was staged, Beck's violent temper-tantrums onstage would contribute to his leaving The Yardbirds less than two years later.
1966 Jimmy Page with The Yardbirds in Blowup
1988:
"We're going to do tunes from the past, the very distant past, the present and the future." Jimmy Page said at the Kansas City show.
At one point a sweat soaked Page raised the body of his guitar for all to see. Then he kissed it. The image shared significance with that of the Greek Olympian of antiquity, who would ceremoniously place the wreath of victory on his own head.
~ Kansas City Star, by Brian McTavish 10/16/88

1988 Outrider poster for Kansas City gig
1994:
No Quarter: Unledded. Robert Plant's project. I will say no more.
1994 No Quarter:Unledded promo poster
2014:
On this day the open edition of Jimmy Page's pictorial autobiography was released.

From his website:  "Jimmy has chosen every one of the 650 photographs. There are many rare finds, such as Led Zeppelin playing an impromptu gig in a nightclub in Jersey, or double-exposure shots of Jimmy and Brian Jones by Ian Stewart. Jimmy chose one of his favourite portrait shots for the book cover: a 1977 passport photo, shot by Neal Preston on board Led Zeppelin's private tour plane."

2014 Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page




♪  Blowup (Yardbirds scene, 1966) YouTube
♪  Nobody’s Fault But Mine (Page & Plant 1994) YouTube
♪  Friends (Page & Plant 1994) YouTube


Tuesday, September 29, 2015

On This Day 29 September

Oh Mr. Bonham....
1971 29 September On This Day Led Zeppelin in Osaka, last performance in Japan
published 2020





1971 29 September On This Day Led Zeppelin in Osaka, last performance in Japan

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Stockton, England at ABC Theatre
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Osaka, Japan at Osaka Festival Hall
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Albuquerque, New Mexico at Tingley Coliseum
1971:
This performance was a bit chaotic, with John Bonham disappearing from the stage and the other three having to wing it for a while. Years later Peter Grant said that Bonzo and Robert Plant were having a tiff about a minor amount of money from some time in the past. Bonham was also reported to have said he was tired of Moby Dick, and in fact the solo was just 11 minutes long this show. 

Perhaps it is fitting that the first and only live performance by Led Zeppelin of Friends was performed at this gig. Note that the On This Day text says Bonham had not yet returned to the stage, but in fact, he had.

1971 Led Zeppelin in Japan

1971 Led Zeppelin, Osaka, day 2

1971 Led Zeppelin in Osaka day 2


♪  Full set (Led Zeppelin, Osaka 29 September 1971) YouTube
♪  Friends (Led Zeppelin, Osaka 29 September 1971) YouTube
♪  Friends (Page & Plant with Bombay Orchestra 1972/2015 remaster) YouTube
♪  Friends (Page & Plant, No Quarter 1994) YouTube
♪  Friends (Led Zeppelin, 1970/2014 remaster) YouTube
♪  Full set (Page & Plant, Albuquerque 1995) YouTube

 

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

BBC interview 17 June 2015

Here's a very nice BBC audio from 17 June 2015
Sarah Montague (BBC) & Jimmy Page


Jimmy Page on 'tricky' musical experiment

Two Led Zeppelin songs recorded with Bollywood session musicians in the early seventies are being released for the first time.

Guitarist Jimmy Page had visited India before, filming images of Mumbai life, but later he returned to explore the country's music.

The songs, Friends and Four Hands, have emerged four decades later to appear on Led Zeppelin's remastered album Coda.

Jimmy Page shares his memories of a "tricky" musical experiment with Sarah Montague.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p02txd26

Release date: 17 Jun 2015
6 minutes


Tuesday, June 16, 2015

On This Day 16 June

Having gained so much from his music, he gives back of his music

1999 16 June On This Day Jimmy Page with Michael Lee & Guy Pratt – London at Whitehall, Banqueting House, UNICEF' relief for Kosovo refugees (Photo Ross Halfin)

1999 Jimmy Page – UNICEF' relief for Kosovo refugees, London (Photo Dave Benett)
In 1969 Led Zeppelin recorded for three and a half hours at the BBC studio in London for a Sunday morning broadcast on June 22. The interviewing done by Chris Grant* is pretty funny in its own inanity but I'm thinking that it probably irritated Jimmy Page no end. Having a guitar in his hands to strum - as he often did then for those early interviews - might have been how he kept from saying something he might regret. Just a guess, mind you, but Mr. Page is not known for his patience with stupid interviewers.
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Norwich, Norfolk, England at University of East Anglia Student Union,
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin – London at Aeolian Hall, Studio 2,BBC Sessions, Radio One Sessions
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Brussels, Belgium at Vorst Nationaal
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Chicago, IL at United Center
  • 1999 16 June On This Day Jimmy Page with Michael Lee & Guy Pratt – London at Whitehall, Banqueting House, UNICEF' relief for Kosovo refugees
♪  Dazed & Confused (Jimmy Page, Michael Lee, Guy Pratt - Kosovo Benefit London 1999)  SoundCloud  (unfortunately a truncated version)
♪  Full Audio Concert (Page & Plant, Chicago 1998) YouTube
♫  Led Zeppelin interview with Chris Grant (BBC, London, UK 1969) YouTube*
♫  Jimmy Page - Friends photo medley  (Amateur attempt at video creation by yours truly)  YouTube

*The Chris Grant of the 1969 interview is not related to Peter Grant



Thursday, July 24, 2014

But... It Looks So Easy

Yup, that's what I thought when I decided to make a quick video. Easy-peasy. Hah! What do I know about making videos? Nothing.

I gotta give a lot of credit to the people who've made all the great videos I've watched over time. This is my second attempt at a slide-show video and boy, is it crude (hint: watch in a small frame because it looks terrible full-screen... I don't know why it looks so fuzzy). But you know, I'm stubborn. I'll keep trying.

Just not soon. I'll stick to writing, I think.

Thanks for not laughing too hard, my friends!