Saturday, June 20, 2015

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. 

♪ Pat’s Delight (Led Zeppelin, Newcastle City Hall, 1969) YouTube

Friday, June 19, 2015

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)

>> Note that the excerpt from IMGL doesn't have sound in the last half, but it's just a repeat of the first half. 

Thursday, June 18, 2015

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 Witchdoctorproduced 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

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)

♪  Miles Road (Jimmy Page Eric Clapton 1965) Soundcloud
♪ I'm Your Witchdoctor (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, prod. by Jimmy Page 1965) YouTube
♪  Intro announcement & LA Drone (Led Zeppelin, Seattle, 1972) YouTube
♪  LA Drone YouTube
♪  Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin, Seattle, 1972) YouTube
♪  In The Evening (Led Zeppelin, Cologne (Köln) Germany, 1980) YouTube
♪  In The Evening (Page & Plant, Luneburg Germany, 1995) YouTube



Wednesday, June 17, 2015

BBC interview 17 June 2015

Here's a very nice BBC audio from 17 June 2015
Sarah Montague (BBC) & Jimmy Page


Jimmy Page on 'tricky' musical experiment

Two Led Zeppelin songs recorded with Bollywood session musicians in the early seventies are being released for the first time.

Guitarist Jimmy Page had visited India before, filming images of Mumbai life, but later he returned to explore the country's music.

The songs, Friends and Four Hands, have emerged four decades later to appear on Led Zeppelin's remastered album Coda.

Jimmy Page shares his memories of a "tricky" musical experiment with Sarah Montague.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p02txd26

Release date: 17 Jun 2015
6 minutes


On This Day 17 June

There's always time for the music of Jimmy Page
[2020 update]

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

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

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)

1999 Jimmy Page – UNICEF' relief for Kosovo refugees, London (Photo Dave Benett)
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.
  • 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
♪  Dazed & Confused (Jimmy Page, Michael Lee, Guy Pratt - Kosovo Benefit London 1999)  SoundCloud  (unfortunately a truncated version)
♪  Full Audio Concert (Page & Plant, Chicago 1998) YouTube
♫  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



Monday, June 15, 2015

Ask Jimmy!

Translated from the French website ouiFM using Google Translate, so it's a little weird:

ASK YOUR QUESTIONS TO JIMMY PAGE WITH YES FM!

On the occasion of the last batch of reissues of the albums of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page and FM Yes give you an appointment at a special masterclass, during which you can ask YOUR questions to the master!

We do more than they expected: after the first 6 editions of legendary Led Zeppelin studio albums, widely acclaimed by critics, it was the turn of Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda know a prodigious back in the studio ! Guitarist and producer Jimmy Page has again secured the remastering of these mythical discs that close discography of one of the most essential rock formations of his generation. Presence, recorded at a lightning session of 18 days in Germany published in 1976, had reached the top of the American and British charts upon its release. His successor, In Through the Out Door, released in 1979, contains the bombs Fool in the Rain and All My Love, classic American radio stations but also the last album recorded with drummer John Bonham, who died the following year. Finally Coda, released in 1982, the most mysterious disk group consisting of unreleased tracks from 1970 and 1978, giving a surprising spotlight on keyboards.

On the occasion of reissues of Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda, FM Yes Fnac joined forces to host the great Jimmy Page at Fnac Ternes Tuesday, June 23 from 17h to 18h for an exceptional masterclass! The English genius we speak of the decisions and the work on these final versions and will put an end to this campaign of rediscovery of Led Zeppelin, with Thomas Caussé, present to enliven the interview. Invitations to withdraw on site from 9 am on D-Day

But that's not all: in addition to offering direct invitations, Yes FM invites you to participate in the interview with Jimmy Page! Nothing could be simpler: send your question in an email titled LED ZEPPELIN Thomas Caussé to this address . And do not forget to mention your name!

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Mage Music note:  The translation of "bombe" from French should be "hit", not "failure".  Google isn't infallible!