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Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
On this day 01 August
Building a legend
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| 1969 Santa Barbara |
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| 1979 02 August On This Day Led Zeppelin stage setup at Knebworth |
- 1967 Yardbirds - Vancouver, British Columbia at Pacific National Exhibition Grounds
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - Santa Barbara, CA at Earl Warren Showgrounds
- 1979 Led Zeppelin - Knebworth stage construction
1969
The band hadn't performed a full year's worth of shows yet, but Led Zeppelin already headlined the show with another English band, Jethro Tull (Aqualung), and the California band, Fraternity of Man (Don't Bogart That Joint)
1979
Building a stage set for a band like Led Zeppelin was a HUGE endeavor.
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| 1979 Knebworth amp stacks (Photo John Harrison, stage crew) |
(Photo John Harrison, stage crew)
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| This is Rock, August 2008 (Ross Halfin photo) |
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| Guitar Aficionado Magazine, August 2009 (Ross Halfin photo) |
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| Guitar Aficionado Magazine, August 2009 (Ross Halfin photo) |
Monday, July 31, 2023
On this day 31 July
We always want more Jimmy Page!
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| 1967 31 July On This Day The Yardbirds - Vancouver, British Columbia at Kerrisdale Arena ♪ Only The Black Rose (Jimmy Page home recording 1967) |
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Vancouver, British Columbia at Kerrisdale Arena
- 1973 Led Zeppelin NBC Nightly News appearance
1973:
Check out the video. The boys sure did ham it up for the news camera.
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| Jimmy Page, from NBC News report on rich rock stars |
2015:
Scarlet Page created a Kickstarter campaign for her photographic book project, Resonators. I supported it and got signed copy of the book when it was published November 2015.
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| Jimmy Page, photo by Scarlet Page from her book, Resonators |
2015:
The last three of the Led Zeppelin studio remasters were released on this day. The remasters represent thousands of hours of Jimmy Page's effort to provide the music world with the best quality Led Zeppelin albums ever.
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| Presence |
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| In Through The Out Door |
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| Coda |
Sunday, July 30, 2023
On this day 30 July
We're here, right by you Jimmy!
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| 1984 30 July On This Day Steven Stills' Right By You released, with Jimmy Page on tracks 1, 3 and 10 ♪ Right By You (Stephen Stills with Jimmy Page guitar) Soundcloud |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - Windsor, England at Royal Windsor Racecourse
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Seattle, WA at Eagles Auditorium
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - Salt Lake City, UT at Terrace Ballroom (2 shows one night)
- 1984 Stephen Stills' Right By You released with three tracks recorded by Jimmy Page at The Sol
Led Zeppelin was the opening act to veteran performers, Vanilla Fudge. According to a press review, Vanilla Fudge appeared as musical impostors when compared to a group like Zeppelin. The bass player for the Fudge even apologetically acknowledged this as he mounted the stage and said, “There’s no way we can follow that.”
~Summer Chronicle, by S. Poulsen, August 1, 1969
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| 1969 Led Zeppelin in Salt Lake City, UT |
The Mill Studios (also known as The Mill or The Sol), located in Berkshire, England, was a recording studio built by Gus Dudgeon, who purchased the property in 1975 to develop a studio for recording/producing a number of Elton John's albums. The property itself is an old watermill on the Thames River system, with a recording studio and control room connected to the old watermill and residential wheelhouse via a bridge over the millpond dam.
Jimmy Page purchased the studio complex in 1980 when he also bought a home, the Old Mill House, a few minutes away.
The Led Zeppelin songs Poor Tom and We're Gonna Groove, originally recorded in 1970, were produced by Mr. Page at Sol Studios for release for the album Coda. The soundtrack for the film Death Wish II, The Firm’s two albums, and Outrider were also recorded at The Sol.
Jimmy Page purchased the studio complex in 1980 when he also bought a home, the Old Mill House, a few minutes away.
The Led Zeppelin songs Poor Tom and We're Gonna Groove, originally recorded in 1970, were produced by Mr. Page at Sol Studios for release for the album Coda. The soundtrack for the film Death Wish II, The Firm’s two albums, and Outrider were also recorded at The Sol.
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| The Mill Studio (a.k.a. The Sol) view from control room |
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| Control room of The Mill Studio (a.k.a. The Sol |
Jimmy Page visited Japan with Ross Halfin. While he was there they visited the Peace Memorial Park in Naka Ward, Hiroshima, where Page left flowers at the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims. The last time he was there was with Led Zeppelin, in 1971, when the band held a “Love and Peace” charity concert in the former Hiroshima Prefectural gymnasium in Naka Ward. Proceeds from that concert, amounting to some seven million yen, were donated to the City of Hiroshima to aid atomic bomb survivors.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
On this day 29 July
Dum de dum dum...
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| 1973 29 July On This Day Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden ♪ Drake Hotel (Dragnet radio & TV theme song) (Soundcloud) |
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Danville, CA at San Ramon High School
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - Edmonton, Alberta, at Kinsmen Field House
- 1973 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
- 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper at Battersea Park, London
This was the third performance in a row at Madison Square Garden. At the end of Whole Lotta Love, East Indian fire-eater Mike Quashie came dancing out on the stage with a couple of torches. He lit John Bonham's gong and one drumstick, but Bonzo just kept on playing.
This is the show where the robbery occurred of MSG receipts from the safety deposit box at the Drake Hotel. Originally reported as $203,000, the amount was $180,000 and no one was ever arrested for the theft. The band later sued the hotel and received a settlement.
After the show, the band went to a party held by Ahmet Ertegun to present gold records for Houses of the Holy.
This final night was also the final performance in this 1973 North American tour.
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| 1973 29 July Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden |
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| 1973 Led Zeppelin at MSG - Mike Quashie lights Bonzo's fire |
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| Led Zeppelin - New York 1973 - Houses of the Holy Gold Album Award. |
GLC Free Festival Battersea Park in London was put on by the Greater London Council, the city's local authority from 1964 to 1986. It was one of two music festivals used to highlight what the GLC was doing to fight unemployment, boost the London economy and help create and fund new jobs.
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| 1984 Jimmy Page at Battersea with Roy Harper |
Friday, July 28, 2023
On this day 28 July
Fenders. It's what was happening.
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| 1958 28 July On This Day Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps release Hot Rod Gang EP |
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| 1984 28 July On This Day Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival ♪ Short and Sweet (Jimmy Page with Roy Harper) |
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Sacramento, CA at Governor's Hall
- 1973 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden (day 2 of 3)
- 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge Folk Festival
1973:
Day two of the Madison Square Garden show. More firecrackers. The band was asked to wear the same outfits for the sake of the filming that was being done. Mr. Jones was the only one of the four who didn't comply.
1984:
We don't think of Jimmy Page as a folk guitarist, but of course he has demonstrated he can play any musical genre he wants to, and do it well.
The Cambridge Folk Festival's first show was in 1965. Back then Paul Simon and about a dozen others were on the bill, and 1400 tickets were sold. Simon earned £15 for his performance. Since then the festival has expanded and now includes non-folk performers as well. In 2014 there were more than a hundred acts featured over four days, including Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor and Rosanne Cash.
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| 1984 Jimmy Page with Tony Franklin, Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival |
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| 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival |
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| 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival |
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| 1984 Jimmy Page - Cambridge Folk Festival |
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| 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival |
Thursday, July 27, 2023
On this day 27 July
And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune, then the piper will lead us to reason.
~ Stairway to Heaven
1973:
"Originally, we saw the whole essence of our live performance as something that the audience listened to very carefully, picking up on what was going on, the spontaneity and musicianship. And you can’t do that if you’re running around the stage all night, or at least we couldn’t back then.” By 1973, however, “we were much more ambitious, in that respect. We really wanted to take the live performances as far as they could go".
~Jimmy Page, Mick Wall interview, Times Online 1 Nov 2008
"The kind of speed we were moving at, the creative juices in the air, the whole thing was just an absolute mixture of adrenaline, chemical, euphoria ... and there were no brakes. We couldn't stop what was happening. We had no idea what it even was. But we just kept trying, pushing forward, every show."
~Robert Plant, from liner notes by Cameron Crowe for The Song Remains the Same, 2007.
♪ Glimpses (Yardbirds, Fillmore West 1967) YouTube
♪ Led Zeppelin (New York NY at Madison Square Garden day 1/3, 27 July 1973)
Note: First half of the show is missing from currently available recordings
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| 1973 27 July On This Day Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden, NYC (show 1 of 3) |
- 1967 The Yardbirds - San Francisco, CA at Fillmore Auditorium
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - Woodinville, WA at Seattle Pop Festival
- 1973 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
1973:
"Originally, we saw the whole essence of our live performance as something that the audience listened to very carefully, picking up on what was going on, the spontaneity and musicianship. And you can’t do that if you’re running around the stage all night, or at least we couldn’t back then.” By 1973, however, “we were much more ambitious, in that respect. We really wanted to take the live performances as far as they could go".
~Jimmy Page, Mick Wall interview, Times Online 1 Nov 2008
"The kind of speed we were moving at, the creative juices in the air, the whole thing was just an absolute mixture of adrenaline, chemical, euphoria ... and there were no brakes. We couldn't stop what was happening. We had no idea what it even was. But we just kept trying, pushing forward, every show."
~Robert Plant, from liner notes by Cameron Crowe for The Song Remains the Same, 2007.
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| 1973 Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin at MSG |
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| 1973 Eddie Kramer & Jimmy Page at MSG |
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| Jimmy Page from 'The Song Remains The Same' movie footage (Stairway to Heaven) |
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| Jimmy Page from 'The Song Remains The Same' movie footage (Stairway to Heaven) |
♪ Glimpses (Yardbirds, Fillmore West 1967) YouTube
♪ Led Zeppelin (New York NY at Madison Square Garden day 1/3, 27 July 1973)
Note: First half of the show is missing from currently available recordings
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