 |
| 2011 Lemmy & Jimmy (Ross Halfin photo) |
Monday, December 28, 2015
On This Day 28 December
Goan to Goa
Bollywood, a.k.a. Hindi cinema, is the biggest movie industry in the world, averaging more than twice as many movies produced as Hollywood in the USA. The name comes from combining Bombay (Mumbai) and Hollywood, and describes the industry rather than a place. Bollywood films earn around $100 million a year in the US, and are often in the UK top ten.
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
 |
| 2005 28 December On This Day Jimmy Page vacationing in Goa |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - Peoria,IL at Expo Gardens Youth Building
- 1968 Led Zeppelin - Vancouver, Canada at Pacific Coliseum
1968
On this, Led Zeppelin's first American tour, Jimmy Page's name - as a former Yardbird - helped to attract an audience for the band. They also played as support for Vanilla Fudge and Iron Butterfly. It must have been a comedown for Jimmy Page, since the Yardbirds were headliners and were paid in four figures whereas for one show on this tour Led Zeppelin was only paid $350. Led Zeppelin's name didn't even appear in some of the show ads.
"In Seattle, Portland and those places where we weren't ever billed, we just walked out and said, 'Well actually, we're Led Zeppelin'."
Not that it was like that for very long.
2005
Jimmy Page and Ross Halfin had spent Christmas in Cambodia. Ross left for home on 27 December (hauling along the five foot tall Buddhas that each of them had purchased in Bangor Wat) while Jimmy Page went on to Goa, a state on the west coast of India.
 |
| 2005 Goa (Jimmy Page photo) |
 |
| 2005 Jimmy Page passport stamp |
 |
| 2005 Goa (Jimmy Page photo) |
 |
| 2005 Goa (Jimmy Page photo) |
 |
| 2005 Goa (Jimmy Page photo) |
 |
| 2005 Goa (Jimmy Page photo) |
 |
| 2005 Goa (Jimmy Page photo) |
 |
| 2005 Jimmy Page visa to enter India |
 |
| 2012 Jimmy Page on cover of Sound on Sound magazine (Ross Halfin photo) |
♪
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
Sunday, December 27, 2015
On This Day 27 December
Whiz kid
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
 |
| 1969 27 December On This Day Jimmy Page in Melody Maker |
- 1966 -The Yardbirds - Ann Arbor, MI at The Fifth Dimension
- 1968 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Arena
 |
| 1969 Melody Maker "Blind Date" interview |
♪
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
Saturday, December 26, 2015
On This Day 26 December
Have a groovy day.
1966
Led Zeppelin's first US show, and Blow Up is playing in town, too.
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
 |
| 1968 26 December On This Day Led Zeppelin at Denver |
 |
| 1968 review of Denver gig |
Led Zeppelin's first US show, and Blow Up is playing in town, too.
♪
♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
Friday, December 25, 2015
Thursday, December 24, 2015
On This Day 24 December
Wishing you a joyful holiday season
with all good things:
Health and Prosperity
Happiness and Peace
and
the music of Jimmy Page
 |
| 2015 Jimmy Page, London (Ross Halfin photo) |
 |
| 1966 24 December On This Day Jimmy Page and Yardbirds travel to NYC |
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
On This Day 23 December 2015 - Boleskine House Fire
Although Jimmy Page sold the property years ago, the destruction of Boleskine House is still an ending to a chapter in history.
Boleskine House is - or perhaps now we should say was - south of Inverness, Scotland, overlooking Loch Ness. The main house was constructed in the 1760s by Colonel Archibald Fraser as a hunting lodge. Today's fire is apparently not the first on that property. A kirk (church) on the property supposedly burned with a full congregation inside, killing all.
Aleister Crowley purchased the house just prior to the turn of the century (that would be 1899, not 1999), where he could conduct his rituals of black magic in seclusion. Crowley left Boleskine House in 1913 and Jimmy Page purchased it in 1970. By that time it had deteriorated to the point where it was uninhabitable. Jimmy Page had it restored but he never spent more than a few weeks in residence. He sold the house in 1992.
Edited 12/22/17: Addition of post-fire photos by Mark Wallbank
 |
| 2015 23 December Boleskine House burns (BBC Photo) |
 |
| 2015 23 December Boleskine House burns (BBC Photo) |
 |
| 2015 23 December Boleskine House burns (Press and Journal Photo) |
 |
| 2015 23 December Boleskine House burns (BBC Photo) |
Boleskine House is - or perhaps now we should say was - south of Inverness, Scotland, overlooking Loch Ness. The main house was constructed in the 1760s by Colonel Archibald Fraser as a hunting lodge. Today's fire is apparently not the first on that property. A kirk (church) on the property supposedly burned with a full congregation inside, killing all.
Aleister Crowley purchased the house just prior to the turn of the century (that would be 1899, not 1999), where he could conduct his rituals of black magic in seclusion. Crowley left Boleskine House in 1913 and Jimmy Page purchased it in 1970. By that time it had deteriorated to the point where it was uninhabitable. Jimmy Page had it restored but he never spent more than a few weeks in residence. He sold the house in 1992.
 |
| Boleskine House in better days |
 |
| Boleskine House, rear courtyard |
Edited 12/22/17: Addition of post-fire photos by Mark Wallbank
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)