On This Day 12 January

Waiting to see Jimmy Page in the Hall of Fame again.  And again.

1995 12 January On This Day Led Zeppelin inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• 1969 Led Zeppelin I released
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, at The Fillmore (day 4 of r)
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Brussels, at Vorst Nationaal
• 1995 Led Zeppelin - inducted in Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame 

1995

Twenty-six years after Led Zeppelin I hit the world, Led Zeppelin finally got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler did the induction honors, Tyler opening with a poor imitation of Robert Plant, prompting the latter to whisper, "You wish." 

When John Paul Jones took the mic, he made the famous statement that's been quoted so often over the years: "Thank you, my friends, for finally remembering my phone number", referring to the fact that Jones had not been invited to join the Page/Plant Unledded project.

“Well, for my part of this, I must say it's a great honor to be inducted. Actually it's the second time for me, 'cause actually, earlier when I was inducted with the Yardbirds. It's almost like, inducted, induced, and this time it's the forceps. Some of you will get that. But anyway, thank you very much everybody.”
~ Jimmy Page accepting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award

  

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Zoe Bonham, Jason Bonham, Robert Plant, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Led Zeppelin induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1995 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jason Bonham

1995 Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Neil Young at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

♪

♪  When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin, Brussels 1975) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A-Rolling (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995) YouTube
♪  When the Levee Breaks (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Neil Young 1995) YouTube
♫  Joe Perry and Steven Tyler induct Led Zeppelin into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube

RIP Thin White Duke

David Bowie (1947 - 2016).  Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor. Paradigm challenger and creator of new realities.

The Goblin King

Think on this: Instead of announcing to the world that he had cancer, he gave the world more music.

Look up here, I'm in Heaven!

I've got scars that can't be seen

I've got drama, can't be stolen,

Everybody knows me now

Look up here, man, I'm in danger!

I've got nothing left to lose

I'm so high, it makes my brain whirl

Dropped my cellphone down below

Ain't that just like me?!

By the time I got to New York

I was living like a king

Then I used up all my money

I was looking for your ass

This way or no way

You know I'll be free

Just like that bluebird

Now, ain't that just like me?

Oh, I'll be free

Just like that bluebird

Oh, I'll be free

Ain't that just like me?

♪ Blackstar YouTube

♪ Lazarus YouTube

♫  The Man Who Fell To Earth (Movie trailer 1976)  YouTube

♫  The Hunger (Movie trailer 1983) YouTube 

♫  Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Movie trailer 1983) YouTube 

♫  Labyrinth (Movie trailer 1986) YouTube 

On This Day 11 January

What's a few years among friends?

1975 11 January On This Day Led Zeppelin at Rotterdam

• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco, CA at Fillmore West (day 3 of 4)
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Rotterdam, The Netherlands at Ahoy Rotterdam 

1975

The Rotterdam show was the first performance after an 18 month sabbatical.  Robert Plant was nervous or rusty enough to have forgotten some of they lyrics to Stairway to Heaven.  

There seems to be some confusion about photos from the show, including what is on JimmyPage’s website (above), which provides photos from 1972 during a pre-show soundcheck at Oude Rai in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Holland-Belgium (Jan. 1975) press

1975 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Rotterdam

2014 Jimmy Page (Julian Broad/Vanity Fair photo)

♪

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube

On This Day 10 January

Destroying the opposition for all time and space

1969 10 January Led Zeppelin Fillmore West

• 1969 Cartoone (Scottish band) releases first album, feat. Jimmy Page guest guitarist
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - San Francisco at Fillmore West (day 2 of 4)
• 1990 Jimmy Page with Bon Jovi, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy benefit – London at Hammersmith Odeon

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin Fillmore West

1990:
Jimmy Page joined Bon Jovi for the encore at the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy benefit at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
1. The Train Kept A' Rollin'
2. Good Golly Miss Molly
3. With A Little Help From My Friends

1990 Jimmy Page at Hammersmith Odeon with Bon Jovi

2013 Jimmy Page with member of Fuerza Bruta theatrical company

♪

♪   Knick Knack Man  (Cartoone, Jimmy Page session guitar 1969) YouTube
♪   Full set (Led Zeppelin, Fillmore West 10 January 1969) YouTube
♪  Train Kept A Rollin' (Jimmy Page with Bon Jovi, Hammersmith Odeon 1990) YouTube
♪  Good Golly Miss Molly (Jimmy Page with Bon Jovi, Hammersmith Odeon 1990) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube

On This Day 09 January

C'mon everybody - it's a magickal day!

1970 09 January On This Day Royal Albert Hall, 1969 Fillmore West
1944 Jimmy Page's birthday

• 1944 Jimmy Page birthday
• 1969 Led Zeppelin  - San Francisco at  Fillmore West
• 1970 Led Zeppelin – London at  Royal Albert Hall

1970 Led Zeppelin Royal Albert Hall (Robert Ellis photo)

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin Royal Albert Hall (Robert Ellis photo)

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin Royal Albert Hall (Robert Ellis photo)

2007 John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Shepperton Studio rehearsal (Ross Halfin Photo)

2014 Jimmy Page, Bangkok (Ross Halfin photo)

Happy Birthday Jimmy Page!

♪

♪  C'mon Everybody/Somethin' Else (Led Zeppelin, Royal Albert Hall 1970) YouTube
♪  Full set (Led Zeppelin, Royal Albert Hall 1970) Vimeo
♪  Train Kept A Rollin' (Led Zeppelin, Fillmore West 1969) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube

On This Day 08 January

1965 08 January On This Day Bobby Graham's Zoom, Widge and Wag released,

• 1970 Led Zeppelin – Bristol UK at Colston Hall

Bobby Graham (1940 - 2009) was an English session drummer, as well as composer, arranger and record producer. Some consider him to be the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced, John Bonham notwithstanding. Graham was a part of the British elite session team made up of artists such as Big Jim Sullivan, Vic Flick and Jimmy Page, and turned down Brian Epstein's offer to join the Beatles' drummer, which of course allowed Ringo Star the opportunity.

 

♪

♪  Zoom, Widge and Wag (Bobby Graham, feat. Jimmy Page guitar 1965) YouTube
♫   Jimmy Page outside Olympic Studios, 1963 (Filmed by Bobby Graham) YouTube
♫   Bobby Graham talking about meeting Jimmy Page, and about session players

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube

On This Day 07 January

Strangled cat?  Really?

1970 07 January On This Day Led Zeppelin in Birmingham UK

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Lowell, MA at Commodore Ballroom
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Birmingham, UK at Town Hall
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Oxford, UK at New Theatre 

1970
Text for today's On This Day: Express and Star review

Led Zeppelin and the lovely strangled cat sound
  Fans cheered wildly, danced in the aisles and even their seats last night to give Led Zeppelin one of the most fantastic receptions ever witnessed at Birmingham Town Hall.
  Zeppelin, the group that conquered the States, was opening its first British tour for many months. It was interesting that the group should have chosen Birmingham to do this and must have been pleasing for the boys to receive such a reception.
  The two-and-a-half-hour show featured solely Zeppelin... and some of the best rock music I have ever heard.
  The group opened its act with Groove, before going into one of their early numbers, Dazed and Confused featuring brilliant lead guitar work from Jimmy Page, who, with the aid of cello bow, made his guitar sound like a cat being strangled.
  All was, by then going great for the group and more of Jimmy Page, by way of a solo with White Sabbath bought more applause.
  Other numbers included, Since I've Been Loving You written by the group only a couple of days before the concert and featuring John Paul Jones on organ- a track likely to be on the groups forthcoming album. Led Zeppelin III - and Thank You again with John on organ.
  The final touch to the show was added by Robert Plant, gyrating around the stage calling on the audience to “Do Your Thing” and screaming out some really groovy rock.
  Then things got going with Moby Dick featuring Dudley's John Bonham with a tremendous ten-minute drum solo. Discarding drumsticks, he added to the magnificence by playing barehanded, and bought the audience to its feet.
  There it stayed until the end of the show, Zeppelin playing some of the greatest rock music, including such numbers as Rip It Up,  By By Johnny, Come On Everybody, and Somethin' Else.
  Two encores and eventually the group came on to close with a really wild version of Bring It On Home leaving the audience ecstatic and the Town Hall shaking to its very foundations after one of the wildest shows ever seen there.
  The group performed its two and a half hours without a break, and when it finished, all four looked as though they had given everything they had, although I imagine they would have quite willingly carried on for an extra two and a half hours.
  The Birmingham based outfits tour continues tonight in Bristol and if things go as well as last night, perhaps it wont be too long before the group gets the chart success it deserves and has seen in the States.

A nice review, although I'm not so sure about the strangled cat thing.  Plus some creative reporting of song titles.

2007 05 December Jimmy Page Shepperton rehearsal (Ross Halfin photo)

♪

♪  Full set (Led Zeppelin, Oxford 1973) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube