On This Day 18 June

Fans of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin are still willing to travel to other countries to hear the music.  

1965 18 June On This Day Jimmy Page attends John Mayall and Bluesbreakers concert,
jams with Eric Clapton at home

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a British blues band, was founded by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall.  In its on-again-off-again history, there have been more than 100 different combinations of musicians performing under that name. Mayall started the band in 1963 and that iteration, which lasted until 1967, included Eric Clapton from April to August 1965 and November 1965 to July 1966.  

In a 2013  interview John Mayall was asked about recording the single I’m Your Witchdoctor, produced by Jimmy Page: 

Q:  Do you have any memories from this time of Jimmy?
Mayall: Not really, I mean I had known him before we did that because he used to play at The Marquee Club in a trio situation so I ended up seeing him quite a few times but he was just one of the guys really.

If I had been the interviewer I'd have wanted to know if Mayall had any regrets about not working more with Jimmy Page.  Of course, Jimmy Page shot into the musical stratosphere so quickly after then that everyone who wasn't with him was left far, far behind.

• 1965 18 June On This Day Jimmy Page attends John Mayall and Bluesbreakers concert, jams with Eric Clapton at home
• 1967 The Yardbirds - London, England at Saville Theatre
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Center Coliseum
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Cologne (Köln), Germany at Köln Sporthalle
• 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Luneburg, Germany at New Music Festival

The 1972 Seattle Led Zeppelin concert was the concert that wasn't supposed to happen.  It wasn't the band's fault. Originally scheduled for Vancouver BC, Canadian authorities decided to not grant Led Zeppelin a license to perform before the band even got a chance, due to previous troublemakers at other bands' shows.

Led Zeppelin fans ended up being bused down to Seattle for the show.

1972 Led Zeppelin show is moved from one country
to another and fans show up anyway

2005 Jimmy Page meets Chris Cornell for the first time.
Good things have already resulted from this introduction.
We all wonder of there is more to come. (Photo Ross Halfin)

2005 Tommy Iommi and Jimmy Page on the way to Holland (Photo Ross Halfin)

♪  Miles Road (Jimmy Page Eric Clapton 1965) Soundcloud
♪ I'm Your Witchdoctor (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, prod. by Jimmy Page 1965) YouTube
♪  Intro announcement & LA Drone (Led Zeppelin, Seattle, 1972) YouTube
♪  LA Drone YouTube
♪  Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin, Seattle, 1972) YouTube
♪  In The Evening (Led Zeppelin, Cologne (Köln) Germany, 1980) YouTube
♪  In The Evening (Page & Plant, Luneburg Germany, 1995) YouTube

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

On This Day 17 June

There's always time for the music of Jimmy Page
[2020 update]

1966 17 June Jimmy Page with Chris Farlowe on Out of Time

• 1966 17 June On This Day - Jimmy Page and Chris Farlowe Out of Time
• 1967 The Yardbirds - Lincs, England at Raven Club,RAF Waddington
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Portland, OR at Portland Memorial Coliseum
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Dortmund, Germany at Westfalenhalle
• 2015 BBC's Sarah Montague interviews Jimmy Page on his first experiments with sitar

1972 Led Zeppelin at Portland

1980

2015

2015

♪  Out Of Time. (Jimmy Page, Chris Farlowe 1966) SoundCloud

♪  Led Zeppelin, (Dortmund Germany 1980) You Tube

♫  Jimmy Page on a 'tricky' musical experiment with sitar (BBC interview 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

Ask Jimmy!

Translated from the French website ouiFM using Google Translate, so it's a little weird:

ASK YOUR QUESTIONS TO JIMMY PAGE WITH YES FM!

On the occasion of the last batch of reissues of the albums of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page and FM Yes give you an appointment at a special masterclass, during which you can ask YOUR questions to the master!

We do more than they expected: after the first 6 editions of legendary Led Zeppelin studio albums, widely acclaimed by critics, it was the turn of Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda know a prodigious back in the studio ! Guitarist and producer Jimmy Page has again secured the remastering of these mythical discs that close discography of one of the most essential rock formations of his generation. Presence, recorded at a lightning session of 18 days in Germany published in 1976, had reached the top of the American and British charts upon its release. His successor, In Through the Out Door, released in 1979, contains the bombs Fool in the Rain and All My Love, classic American radio stations but also the last album recorded with drummer John Bonham, who died the following year. Finally Coda, released in 1982, the most mysterious disk group consisting of unreleased tracks from 1970 and 1978, giving a surprising spotlight on keyboards.

On the occasion of reissues of Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda, FM Yes Fnac joined forces to host the great Jimmy Page at Fnac Ternes Tuesday, June 23 from 17h to 18h for an exceptional masterclass! The English genius we speak of the decisions and the work on these final versions and will put an end to this campaign of rediscovery of Led Zeppelin, with Thomas Caussé, present to enliven the interview. Invitations to withdraw on site from 9 am on D-Day

But that's not all: in addition to offering direct invitations, Yes FM invites you to participate in the interview with Jimmy Page! Nothing could be simpler: send your question in an email titled LED ZEPPELIN Thomas Caussé to this address . And do not forget to mention your name!

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Mage Music note:  The translation of "bombe" from French should be "hit", not "failure".  Google isn't infallible! 

On This Day 15 June

Bad Company was good for Swan Song

1974 15 June On This Day Bad Company's first album released by Swan Song.
Bad Company was the first band that Swan Song Record's signed to the label.

Bad Company was founded by former Free singer Paul Rodgers in 1973. Joining Rodgers was drummer Simon Kirke (Free), guitarist Mick Ralphs (Mott the Hoople ) and bassist Boz Burrell (King Crimson). It was not a surprised that the band signed to Swan Song Records/Atlantic Records since Peter Grant was Bad Company's manager.

Led Zeppelin's first recordings for Physical Graffiti took place in November 1973 at Headley Grange using Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio. Led Zeppelin turned it all over to Bad Company to record their debut album, Bad Company. Swan Song Records was launched in May 1974 and Bad Company was the first US release for the label.

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Manchester, England at Free Trade Hall
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Uniondale, NY at Nassau Memorial Coliseum
• 1974 15 June On This Day Swan Song Records releases Bad Company
• 1995 Page & Plant - Unledded Tour - Rotterdam, The Netherlands at Ahoy Rotterdam
• 1998 Page & Plant - Chicago, IL at United Center 

1972 Led Zeppelin at Nassau Coliseum (day 2)

1972 Led Zeppelin at Nassau Coliseum - Steve Jones Collection

2005 Jimmy Page and Jim Marshall at Marshall's photo show opening  - Photo Ross Halfin

2013 Jimmy Page backstage with Lez Zeppelin

On This Day 14 June

Two NY concerts, including the final explosive night of Madison Square Garden in 1977

1972 14 June On This Day Led Zeppelin - Uniondale, NY at Nassau Memorial Coliseum

• 1972 14 June On This Day Led Zeppelin - Uniondale, NY at Nassau Memorial Coliseum
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden

1972 Led Zeppelin - Uniondale, NY at Nassau Memorial Coliseum.
Steve Jones collection,  photo: Ed Stasium

I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's tough being a rock star. Yesterday Dave Grohl took a fall off the stage in Sweden during a Foo Fighters concert and fractured his leg, though he came back on stage to continue the show.

Jimmy Page has had a few of his onstage mishaps, too, suffering more than broken bones.  At the close of the final night at MSG some a**hole in the audience threw a firecracker (said to be an M-80) at the stage. The explosion damaged Jimmy Page's right hand, fortunately for the world not causing permanent damage. He left the stage, but came back out to finish up the concert with bloody bandages to perform Whole Lotta Love and Rock and Roll.

1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Madison Square Garden. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

1977 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Madison Square Garden. Kashmir. (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)

1977  Jimmy Page at MSG.  Gibson EDS-1275  double neck guitar (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)

1977 MSG - John Bonham at the end of Moby Dick.
This is such a great photo.  If anyone could supply the photographer's name, I'd appreciate it.

♪  Full concert (Led Zeppelin - Uniondale, NY 1972) YouTube
♪  The Song Remains the Same and Sick Again (Led Zeppelin, MSG, 1977) YouTube
♪ Segments from MSG concert  (Led Zeppelin, MSG, 1977) YouTube
♪ Whole Lotta Love and Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin, MSG, 1977) YouTube