On This Day 21 June

 Jimmy's first show with the Yardbirds in 1966, and what some consider Led Zeppelin's best performance, at the LA Forum in 1977.  Listen to that, Eddie.

1966 21 June On This Day Yardbirds - London, England at Marquee Club

• 1966 21 June On This Day Yardbirds - London, England at Marquee Club
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Bristol, England at Colston Hall
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Denver, CO at Denver Coliseum
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Rotterdam, The Netherlands at Ahoy Rotterdam

1966 Yardbirds - London, England at Marquee Club

1966 The Yardbirds - Why I left/Why I joined

1969 Led Zeppelin Bristol

1972, Denver:  The Mighty Led Zeppelin Roars
by Pillow/June 1972
"During Dazed and Confused, [Jimmy Page] grabbed a violin bow and holding the tip in his hand about 2 feet from the strings, coaxed eerie, shivering riffs from his guitar. The whole audience held its breath and then Page spring into action. He lept into the air, and using the bow  like a fencing foil, hit each exact string at point-blank range and never missed a beat. The audience howled and stopped, but he remained calm and collected, put down the bow and resumed playing guitar with his fingers,  acting as if these amazing feats were as simple as rolling off a log."

1977 21 June Led Zeppelin LA Forum (Photo Ed Finnell)

1977, LA:
It took a mere 40 minutes to sell out the tickets for five nights at the Forum. Another night was added later. It too sold out within minutes.(The Telegram - June 1977)

Nearly a quarter of a million tickets were sold for the combined MSG and The Forum shows.

Listen To This, Eddie is a bootleg recording of the June 21, 1977 show at The Forum in Los Angeles, CA by a member of the audience, the late Mike Millard. The show is considered one of Led Zeppelin's best ever performances and Mike the Mic's recording does it justice.

The title supposedly refers to either audio engineer Eddie Kramer or, more likely, to guitarist Eddie Van Halen (who criticized Jimmy Page's guitar work and who should have been blown away by Mr. Page's performance in this show).

1980 Rotterdam (Photo Rob Verhorst/Redferns)

♪ Listen To This Eddie (Led Zeppelin LA Forum 21 June 1977)

♪ Trampled Under Foot (Led Zeppelin Rotterdam 1980)

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On This Day 20 June

 Dr. Rock God.

2008 20 June On This Day Honorary Doctorate from University of Surrey

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Newcastle upon Tyne, England at Newcastle City Hall
• 1980 Led Zeppelin - Brussels, Belgium at Vorst Nationaal
• 2008 20 June On This Day Honorary Doctorate from University of Surrey

2008 Jimmy Page at Guildford Cathedral
after receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University o f Surrey

1969

1980

1980 Led Zeppelin Tour Over Europe, Brussels (Photo Mark Staples)

Pat's Delight was named for John Bonham's wife Pat. The song evolved into Moby Dick, which was named by Jason Bonham, and later morphed into Over The Top. Jimmy Page's guitar riffs changed for the various versions as well. 

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On This Day 19 June

 Led Zeppelin! Outrider! It Might Get Loud! All of it such rude sound!

1969 19 June On This Day Led Zeppelin in Paris at Antenne Culturelle du Kremlin-Bicêtre

1969 Led Zeppelin, Paris at Antenne Culturelle du Kremlin-Bicêtre

• 1969 19 June On This Day Led Zeppelin - Paris, France at Antenne Culturelle du Kremlin-Bicetre
• 1972 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Center Coliseum
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - San Diego, CA at San Diego Sports Arena
• 1988 Jimmy Page - Outrider Album Released
• 2009 Premier of It Might Get Loud, Los Angeles

An outrider is someone who goes in front of or beside as an escort or guard, a forerunner, someone who announces or signals the approach of another. In his 1988 album, Outrider, Jimmy Page was saying he was still not part of the herd, was still out there pushing the envelope.

Jimmy Page recorded Outrider with a new label, Geffen Records, and at his own studio, The Sol (where he also recorded the soundtrack for Death Wish II and both of The Firm's albums).  He also used different vocalists, drummers and bassists for the songs, and one third of the tracks are instrumentals (my favorite tracks on the album).  The common thread on the various Outrider tracks, of course, is Jimmy Page's guitar. Jimmy Page is the outrider.

This was an entirely under-appreciated album. I suspect part of the problem was that Jimmy Page was riding out too far for the rest of the herd to keep up.

Side one
1. "Wasting My Time" (John Miles, vocals)
2. "Wanna Make Love" (John Miles, vocals)
3. "Writes of Winter" (Instrumental)
4. "The Only One" (Robert Plant, vocals)
5. "Liquid Mercury" (Instrumental)

Side two
6. "Hummingbird" (Chris Farlowe, vocals)
7. "Emerald Eyes" (Instrumental)
8. "Prison Blues" (Chris Farlowe, vocals)
9. "Blues Anthem (If I Cannot Have Your Love...)" (Chris Farlowe, vocals)
Outrider was to be a two album release but JimmyPage's house was broken into and burgled.  The early tapes for Outrider were stolen along with Led Zeppelin masters.  They have never been recovered.

1988 19 June Outrider released

1988 Promo shot for Jimmy Page's Outrider (Corbis Images)

The movie, It Might Get Loud, premiered in Los Angeles on 19 June 2009. Meant to be a documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians, Jimmy Page steals the show.

2009 June Guitar World cover with Ross Halfin Photo

2009 19 June Beverly Wiltshire Hotel in Beverly Hills
 interview for It Might Get Loud (Photo Ross Halfin)

2009 17 June Jack White and Jimmy Page, LA (Photo: Ross Halfin)

2009 19 June Jack White, Jimmy Page and film director Davis Guggenheim (Photo: Ross Halfin)



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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

1980 Jimmy Page & Dave Lewis

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)

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On This Day 17 June

 There's always time for the music of Jimmy Page!

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 (Portland, OR at Portland Memorial Coliseum, 17 June 1972)

♪  Led Zeppelin, (Dortmund Germany 1980) 

♫  Jimmy Page on a 'tricky' musical experiment with sitar (BBC interview 2015)

Updated 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.

1999 Jimmy Page – UNICEF' relief for Kosovo refugees, London (Photo Dave Benett)

2005

2008

2014

2018

♪  Dazed & Confused (Jimmy Page, Michael Lee, Guy Pratt - Kosovo Benefit London 1999)  SoundCloud  (unfortunately a truncated version)

♪ Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Brussels, Belgium at Vorst Nationaal, 16 June 1995)
♪ Page & Plant (Chicago 1998  16 June 1998)) 
♫  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

Updated 06/16/23 LCS

On This Day 15 June

 Bad Company was good for Swan Song

Posted on jimmypage.com in 2023

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

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