Thursday, August 27, 2015

On This Day 27 August


  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Santa Barbara,CA at Earl Warren Showgrounds & Ventura High School Auditorium
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Warwick, RI at Rock Point Amusement Park
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Hampton Beach, NH at Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (2 shows scheduled)
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - San Antonio, TX at San Antonio Municipal Auditorium 





Whoops - technical difficulties.  No playlist today.  Sorry!

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In His Own World (imagery by Lif Strand/Mage Music)




Wednesday, August 26, 2015

On This Day 26 August

Musical mischief
1994 26 August On This Day Final recording session for Unledded Project for MTV

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - San Leandro, CA at Rollarena
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Huntsville, Ontario, Canada at Hidden Valley Ski Resort
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Cleveland, OH at Cleveland Public Auditorium
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Houston, TX at Sam Houston Coliseum
  • 1994 Page & Plant - Unledded -  London, England at London Studios, Studio 2
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Dublin, Ireland at The Point Theatre
1994:
And then it was done. The practicing, the recording and filming outdoors in Wales and Morocco, and indoors with orchestras in front of an audience at the London Television Centre, was completed for the MTV Unledded telecast. The notion of "unplugged" had been given up in favor of "Unledded" and all that the name implied. 

And it was good.


1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project 

1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project 

1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project 

1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project,
 Ovation double neck guitar

1994 Jimmy Page, London, Final recording session for Unledded Project
Hand crafted tripleneck made by Andy Manson for Jimmy Page:
bottom neck standard six-string guitar,
middle neck twelve-string guitar,
top neck eight-string mandolin

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

On This Day 25 August

I was going to let my ghostwriter take over today so I could take a break, but oops - I don't have a ghostwriter.  So I'm taking a break anyway.  Today we have just a few photos and a playlist with a few songs related to nothing in particular, because why not.

1970 25 August On This Day Led Zeppelin, Nashville, TN at Nashville Municipal Auditorium
♪  Noshville Katz - parody of Nashville Cats (Lovin' Cohens) YouTube

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - San Francisco, CA at Carousel Ballroom
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - New York, NY at Village Theater
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Nashville, TN at Nashville Municipal Auditorium
  • 1994 Page & Plant Unledded Project - London, England at London Studios (recording and filming without orchestras in front of a select audience)

1970:
Terry Manning (then recording engineer, along with Andy Johns) delivered the Led Zeppelin III masters to Peter Grant while the band was in Nashville. The first pressings of the album included the phrases "So mote be it" and "Do what thou wilt" inscribed on the lacquer by Manning.


1970 Nashville show promo

1994 Unledded - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page


Monday, August 24, 2015

On This Day 24 August

Any requests?
2008 24 August Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Nantasket Beach Hull, MA at The Surf Club
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Jacksonville, FL at Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Dallas, TX at Dallas Memorial Coliseum
  • 1994 Page & Plant – London, England at London Television Centre for band rehearsals with cameras in studio
  • 2008 Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony 

Whole lotta history
Led Zeppelin began using Whole Lotta Love in their setlists before the official release of the song on their second album, Led Zeppelin II, in October 1969. It was performed by the band and by Led Zeppelin's surviving members after John Bonham's death hundreds of times, and no wonder: The magick had been brewing in Jimmy Page's head before the members of Led Zeppelin stepped on the stage together for the first time.
I came up with the guitar riff for “Whole Lotta Love” in the summer of ’68, on my houseboat along the Thames in Pangbourne, England. I suppose my early love for big intros by rockabilly guitarists was an inspiration, but as soon as I developed the riff, I knew it was strong enough to drive the entire song, not just open it. When I played the riff for the band in my living room several weeks later during rehearsals for our first album, the excitement was immediate and collective. We felt the riff was addictive, like a forbidden thing.
~ Jimmy Page, interview by Mark Myers for The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2014
Like Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love was the subject of a lawsuit for music theft from Willie Dixon. The claim lies in the lyrics, though, not the guitar riffs. The lawsuit was settled out of court in 1985.
“Page’s riff was Page’s riff. It was there before anything else. I just thought, ‘well, what am I going to sing?’ That was it, a nick. Now happily paid for. At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that… well, you only get caught when you’re successful. That’s the game.”
~ Robert Plant, as quoted by Charles M. Young,  "Robert Plant's manic persona". Musician (Amordian Press) 1990
At the 2008 Olympic performance, lyrics were changed from "every inch of my love" to "every bit of my love," which makes sense for a female singer and a mixed audience venue, even if the new words don't quite measure up to the power of the song.  

2008 Jimmy Page - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony

2008 Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China Summer Olympics closing ceremony

2008 David Beckham, Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page - Beijing, China Summer Olympics

2008 Jimmy Page  - Beijing, China Summer Olympics (Ross Halfin Photo


♪  Whole Lotta Love over the years  ♪

♪ Whole Lotta Love (Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis, Beijing Olympics 2008) YouTube
♪ Whole Lotta Love / Rough Mix With Vocal (Led Zeppelin, Official Music Video 2015 remaster) YouTube








Sunday, August 23, 2015

On This Day 23 August

All in a day's work
1966 23 August On This Day The Yardbirds - Avalon, CA at Catalina Casino Ballroom

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Avalon, CA at Catalina Casino Ballroom
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Dania, Fl at Pirates' World
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin – San Antonio, TX at HemisFair Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Fort Worth, TX at Tarrant County Convention Center 
  • 1994 Page & Plant – London, England at London Television Centre for band rehearsals with cameras in studio
  • 1998 Page & Plant -  Cologne, Germany- Bizarre Festival
  • 2008 Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis - Beijing, China National Stadium, Olympic rehearsal
Jimmy Page's experience as a session man made him ready and able to perform under all kinds of circumstances: using borrowed equipment, dodging firecrackers, playing on a rotating stage or one that was being demolished by fans or while standing on a rising industrial scissors lift. Somehow I doubt he gave much thought to these sorts of things when he first laid hands on a guitar.


1966 Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

1966 Jimmy Page/Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

1966 Jimmy Page/Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

1966 Jimmy Page/Yardbirds at Catalena (Chuck Boyd photo)

2008 Jimmy Page at Beijing Olympics rehearsal (Ross Halfin photo)



♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Fort Worth 1971) YouTube
♪  Whole Lotta Love Medley (Led Zeppelin, Fort Worth 1971) YouTube
♪  No Quarter (Page & Plant, Bizarre Festival 1998) YouTube
♪  Spoonful/Whole Lotta Love (Page & Plant, Bizarre Festival 1998) YouTube
♪  Most High (Page & Plant, Bizarre Festival 1998) YouTube



Saturday, August 22, 2015

On This Day 22 August

1969 22 August On This Day Led Zeppelin - Dania, FL at Pirates' World
♪ Keep a Knocking (Little Richard) Soundcloud

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Malibu, CA - Dick Clark's TV Show Where The Action Is
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Dania, FL at Pirates' World
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Fort Worth, TX at Tarrant County Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
  • 1994 Page & Plant Unledded project - at London Studios setting up studio shoot and also orchestra rehearsals
I've never been into Elvis Presley's music. My stacks of 45 RPM discs were all Motown back in the day and those musical preferences haven't changed in all those years. Give me Little Richard, not Elvis. But give me Led Zeppelin before any other.   

1971 JimmyPage/Led Zeppelin - LA Forum (photo H Mylett collection)

2014 12 November, Jimmy Page/Chris Cornell interview (Jill Jarrett photo)
Wasn't on this day, but I like the photo

♪  8mm audience film (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1971) YouTube
♪  Long Tall Sally & Tutti Frutti (Little Richard 1956) YouTube
♪  Long Tall Sally (Elvis Presley 1956) YouTube
♪  Long Tall Sally (Led Zeppelin, Royal Albert Hall 1970) YouTube

Friday, August 21, 2015

On This Day 21 August

Still standing ovations, after all these years.
1971 21 August On This Day Led Zeppelin at LA Forum

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Tucson, AZ at Thrift City
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Framingham, MA at Carousel Theatre
  • 1970 Led Zeppelin - Tulsa, OK at Tulsa Assembly Center Arena
  • 1971 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Vaduz, Liechtenstein at Little Big One Festival

1969 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Framingham, MA

1970 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Tulsa, OK
1971 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
 1971:
Eddie Cochran (1938 - 1960) was an American musician who earned a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. His rockabilly songs were covered by many later artists, including Led Zeppelin. Cochran experimented with multitrack recording and overdubbing, and is credited as one of the first to use an unwound third string in order to "bend" notes up a whole tone.

Eddie Cochran was killed, while on tour in the UK, in a single vehicle crash when he was only 21 years old. During the time that the taxi and its contents were at the local police station a police cadet taught himself to play guitar on Cochran's impounded Gretsch.


2015 Press release for  Proud Gallery's Led Zeppelin Exhibit
1993 Jimmy Page with Gretsch White Falcon guitar (Ross Halfin photo)


♪  Dazed And Confused (Led Zeppelin, Tulsa 1970) YouTube
♪  Full show (Led Zeppelin, Tulsa 1970) YouTube
♪  Dazed And Confused (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1971) YouTube
♪  Weekend (Eddie Cochran, 1959) YouTube
♪  Weekend (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1971) YouTube
♪  Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 1971) YouTube