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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
On this day 17 October
Eleven months...
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| 1969 17 October On This Day Led Zeppelin at Carnegie Hall (2 shows) |
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - New York at Carnegie Hall (2 Shows: 8:30pm and 12:00 midnight)
- 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Chicago, IL at UIC Pavilion
Eleven months. That's all it took for Led Zeppelin to go from embryo to Carnegie Hall. No rock band had played that venue since the Rolling Stones, five years prior, when rock performances were banned after a riot at the Stones' show. But Led Zeppelin had shot into the stratosphere like a SpaceX rocket and could not be denied.
Two performances that night, the second starting at midnight. Donovan was at Madison Square Garden that night, a sold-out show. Led Zeppelin tickets had been sold out for weeks and were being scalped at twice the box office price.
"This performance makes me realize we can be bigger than The Beatles and the Stones," Peter Grant told Richard Cole shortly after.
~ Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, Dave Lewis 2005
"Travelling en mass, we managed to miss our plane out of Heathrow, so we caught the next available flight which got us into New York just a few hours before we were due to play this prestigious venue. Nevertheless, we played a blinding concert but this was the one and only time we ever got to play Carnegie Hall."~ Jimmy Page
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| 1969 Led Zeppelin at Carnegie Hall |
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| 1969 Led Zeppelin at Carnegie Hall |
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| 1969 17 October On This Day background image |
1988
Jimmy Page was 44 years old. Outrider was his first solo album, and it was not received well. People were stuck in the Led Zeppelin rut and couldn't seem to hear Jimmy Page if Robert Plant wasn't singing. Reviewers constantly lamented that Jimmy Page wasn't Led Zeppelin anymore.
And yet... in Chicago JP took 15 minutes to speak "through his guitar deliberately, angrily and with enough raunch to electrify the crowd", according to the Chicago Tribune's lukewarm review. The Trib reviewer noted that the band didn't show strength as a unit, which of course was Led Zeppelin excelled at as no other band has, the whole of them being greater than the sum of its parts (Aristotle).
Today, those who revere Jimmy Page, the mage musician, do appreciate Outrider for its glorious guitar work, if not for the band.
2012:
43 years after Carnegie Hall, Jimmy Page was in Japan promoting the remasters, which had reached top ten on the charts once again. JP was talking about working in his studio, but sadly we haven't gotten to hear any of it yet.
Monday, October 16, 2023
On this day 16 October
Awards, guest guitarists, and a toast
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| chris robinson video link |
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| 1999 16 October setlist |
- 1970 Led Zeppelin receive Gold and Platinum disc awards at London’s Savoy Hotel
- 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Bloomington, MN at Metropolitan Sports Center
- 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Cleveland, OH at Gund Arena
- 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - Worcester, MA at The Centrum Center
1970:
For the second time in less than 12 months, Led Zeppelin received awards for record sales. On this day, Peter Grant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant received Gold and Platinum disc awards from Anthony Grant (no relation to Peter Grant), the British Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. The awards were for U.S. sales in excess of one million copies of Whole Lotta Love and for European sales of Led Zeppelin II, released in December 1969.
The previous year the boys had been awarded gold discs by a different parliamentary secretary, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who quipped, "you seem to be gas rockets rather than Led Zeppelins".
She was wrong. Led Zeppelin was beyond rockets by that point. They had already achieved warp speed.
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| 1970 Led Zeppelin receive gold, platinum discs |
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| 1970 Led Zeppelin receive gold, platinum discs from Anthony Grant, UK parliamentary secretary for Board of Trade |
In the video of Chris Robinson talking about working with Jimmy Page, Robinson says: "Jimmy had done his thing with Robert and the Egyptian orchestra and stuff, but I don't think he maybe was fully satisfied with that..."
See? I'm not the only one who thinks so.
On this day in 1999, Joe Perry showed up on stage to join in with the encore numbers, You Shook Me and Oh Well. It wasn't the first time, but it's always special.
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| 2012 Jimmy Page with Ian Hunter at Mott the Hoople film premiere (Ross Halfin photo) |
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Sunday, October 15, 2023
On this day 15 October
Jimmy and friends fooling around
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| 1994 15 October On This Day Page & Plant press conference, Paris |
- 1974 Jimmy Page records Scarlet at Island Records (released 2020)
- 1994 Page & Plant – press conference, Paris at Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione
- 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour – Detroit at Palace of Auburn Hills
- 2012 Jimmy Page – Tokyo, Celebration Day movie premiere
The elusive Scarlet. Led Zeppelin was on a 18 month sabbatical, so Jimmy Page, Keith Richards (yes, the same Keith Richards who claimed for many years that he didn't love Jimmy Page's music), Ian Stewart (the "Stu" of Boogie With Stu), Rick Grech and Bruce Rowland recorded a song on this day in 1974..
Rick Grech (1946-1991), a bassist and violinist, had been wit Eric Clapton's one-shot band, Blind Faith, in 1969 (with Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker). He was later with Traffic and then performed with various groups that did or did not put out albums but that were the movers and shakers of the music world at that time.
Drummer and songwriter Bruce Rowland (1971-2015), was best known for his work with The Grease Band (Joe Cocker's backing band) and Fairport Convention. He also drummed for Ronnie Lane.
In Cameron Crowe's famous interview of 1975 for Rolling Stone, Jimmy Page said about Scarlet, "It was Rick Grech, Keith and me doing a number called "Scarlet." I can't remember the drummer. It sounded very similar in style and mood to those Blonde on Blonde tracks. It was great, really good. We stayed up all night and went down to Island Studios where Keith put some reggae guitars over one section. I just put some solos on it, but it was eight in the morning of the next day before I did that."
The "staying up all night" took place at Ron Wood's house, The Wick, which Wood sold to Pete Townshend in 1996. Island Studios (now called Basing Street Studios) is where Led Zeppelin IV was recorded in 1970. Jimmy Page would know the place well. An Ian Stewart blogger says the recording took place at Olympic Studios, but every other source supports Island Studios. I do wonder, though, why they didn't just record it at The Wick, since Ron Wood had built a studio in the basement where he recorded his two solo albums, and where the Stones' single version of It's Only Rock 'n Roll was originally recorded. A fascinating point of Jimmy Page's history that we likely will never know the actual facts of.
But the recording studio isn't what we really want to know about. What we want to know is why it was called Scarlet ("our" Scarlet was just three years old back then), how Jimmy Page ended up hanging out with the other boys all night long, why it's a Rolling Stones song, and why it took so long to eventually be released in 2020 on the Stones' Goats Head Soup album..
1994
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| 1994 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Paris press conference |
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| 1994 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Paris press conference |
2012
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| 2012 "Mr. Jimmy" Sakurai and the Original |
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| 2012 Jimmy Page, Tokyo, for Celebration Day movie premiere (Ross Halfin photo) |
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♪ Scarlet (Rolling Stones feat. Jimmy Page, Goats Head Soup, recorded October 1974)
♫ Page & Plant press conference, Paris at Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione, 15 October 1994
♪ Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Detroit at Palace of Auburn Hills, 15 October 1995)
Saturday, October 14, 2023
On this day 14 October
Jimmy Page Jimmy Page. Can't get me enough Jimmy Page.
On this day on jimmypage.com 2023
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| 2014 14 October On This Day Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page open edition released |
- 1966 The Yardbirds- Blowup scene filmed in London, England at Elstree Film Studios
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Cocoa Beach, FL, Fisher Park & Melbourne, FL at unknown venue
- 1988 Jimmy Page Outrider Tour - Kansas City, KS at Memorial Hall
- 1994 Page & Plant - No Quarter released
- 1999 Jimmy Page - The Black Crowes - New York,NY at Roseland Theater (day 3)
- 2014 Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page, open edition released
1966:
The Yardbirds performed Stroll On in Michelangelo Antonioni's movie, Blowup, though they weren't the director's first choice. Steve Howe, the late guitarist for Yes and at the time with a band called Tomorrow (a.k.a The in Crowd) later told Pete Frame in Frame's book, Complete Rock Family Trees (1993), "We went on the set and started preparing for that guitar-smashing scene in the club. They even went as far as making up a bunch of Gibson 175 replicas ... and then we got dropped for The Yardbirds, who were a bigger name. That's why you see Jeff Beck smashing my guitar rather than his!"
Antonioni had wanted The Who for Blowup. If he couldn't have Pete Townshend, he still wanted the guitar-smashing routine. Ironically, although that scene was staged, Beck's violent temper-tantrums onstage would contribute to his leaving The Yardbirds less than two years later.
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| 1966 Jimmy Page with The Yardbirds in Blowup |
"We're going to do tunes from the past, the very distant past, the present and the future." Jimmy Page said at the Kansas City show.
At one point a sweat soaked Page raised the body of his guitar for all to see. Then he kissed it. The image shared significance with that of the Greek Olympian of antiquity, who would ceremoniously place the wreath of victory on his own head.
~ Kansas City Star, by Brian McTavish 10/16/88
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| 1988 Outrider poster for Kansas City gig |
No Quarter: Unledded. Robert Plant's project. I will say no more.
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| 1994 No Quarter:Unledded promo poster |
On this day the open edition of Jimmy Page's pictorial autobiography was released*.
From his website: "Jimmy has chosen every one of the 650 photographs. There are many rare finds, such as Led Zeppelin playing an impromptu gig in a nightclub in Jersey, or double-exposure shots of Jimmy and Brian Jones by Ian Stewart. Jimmy chose one of his favourite portrait shots for the book cover: a 1977 passport photo, shot by Neal Preston on board Led Zeppelin's private tour plane."
Back in 2014 I couldn't afford an autographed copy, so I got the open (unsigned, ordinary) edition. More thoughts on the book from a blog post in 2014.
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| 2014 Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page |
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♪ Blowup (Yardbirds scene, 1966) YouTube
*Note: I get teensy tiny commissions for purchases made through links in this post but the commissions are NOT added to the listed price.
Friday, October 13, 2023
On this day 13 October
JP Anthology...
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| On this day for 13 October published 2023 |
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| On This Day for 13 October published 2020 |
- 1967 The Yardbirds - Tampa, FL at University of Tampa
- 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Chicago, IL at United Center
- 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - New York, NY at Roseland Ballroom (day 2)
1988
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| Jimmy Page, October 1988 Guitar World |
1995:
Setlist and alternate for Chicago.
Setlist | Alternate |
| 1. Egyptian Intro/Immigrant Song/The Wanton Song | 1. Thank You |
| 2. Bring It On Home | 2. Bring It On Home |
| 3. Over The Hills and Far Away | 3. Ramble On |
| 4. Thank You | 4. Shake My Tree |
| 5. No Quarter | 5. Lullaby |
| 6. That's The Way | 6. No Quarter |
| 7. Hurdy Gurdy solo | 7. Gallows Pole |
| 8. Gallows Pole | 8. Levee Breaks |
| 9. Since I've Been Loving You | 9. Hey Hey |
| 10. The Song Remains The Same | 10. Song Remains |
| 11. Going To California | 11. Since I've Been Loving You |
| 12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You | 12. Friends |
| 13. Four Sticks | 13. Calling To You |
| 14. Whole Lotta Love/Spoonful/Break On Through/Dazed and Confused | 14. Four Sticks |
| 15. In The Evening | 15. In The Evening |
| 16. Black Dog | 16. Black Dog |
| 17. Kashmir | 17. Kashmir |
2020
Jimmy Page: The Anthology was released on this day in 2020. It's the inside story of Jimmy Page's career, from the viewpoint of the artifacts that are most meaningful to him. Photos and text. Even if you think you know everything about the man, you probably don't.
Note: I get teensy tiny commissions for purchases made through links in this post but the commissions are NOT added to the listed price.
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♪ Page & Plant Unledded Tour (Chicago IL at United Center, 13 October 1995)
Thursday, October 12, 2023
On this day 12 October
And now's the time, the time is now
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| 1999 12 October Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - NY at Roseland Ballroom |
- 1969 Led Zeppelin - London, England at Lyceum Ballroom
- 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Ames, IA at Hilton Coliseum
- 1999 Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes - NY at Roseland Ballroom
- 2012 Jimmy Page with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham at Celebration Day London premiere
1969:
Not that numbers matter to anyone who knows and loves Jimmy Page's music but... Led Zeppelin was paid the highest fee for a one night performance in the UK at that time. Freddie Mercury was in the audience.
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| 1969 Led Zeppelin backstage at London's Lyceum Ballroom (Chris Walsh photo) |
1999
The initial screening of the Celebration Day movie in more than 1,500 theaters in 40 countries, grossed over $2 million US.
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| 2012 Jimmy Page at the Celebration Day movie premiere in London |
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| 2012 Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Jimmy Page at the London premiere of the Celebration Day movie |
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♪ Led Zeppelin (London at Lyceum Ballroom, 12 October 1969)
♪ Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes (New York NY at Roseland Ballroom, 12 October 1999)
♫ Jimmy Page interview with Absolut Radio at London premiere of Celebration Day 2012
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