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40 Years..Where did they go?
- Thread starter RWIGWH
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ON THIS DAY… 27 JANUARY 1996
PAGE AND PLANT ROCKED IN RIO
WE PERFORMED A SUPERB SHOW AT THE HOLLYWOOD ROCK FESTIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO IN BRAZIL. PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE ROARING WITH ENTHUSIASM AND SPINNING THEIR SHIRTS ABOVE THEIR HEADS WAS SOMETHING TO EXPERIENCE.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmaFgLVs7y0"]Page/Plant Rio 1996 - Rock and Roll - YouTube[/ame]
Thanks Cy...honestly, I am having trouble with the eye thing...My inner geek has decided to take a vacation.
What your need in your av is a hat....and maybe a pair of glasses LoL.
Courtesy of my good friend Max.
ON THIS DAY… 28 JAN 2008
I WAS IN TOKYO TO PROMOTE MOTHERSHIP
In 2008 I was at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo, Japan to promote the Mothership album at a Press Conference. This was the hotel that featured in Sofia Coppola’s remarkable ‘Lost in Translation’ with the luscious Scarlett Johansson.
29 Jan 2011
I was featured in the Swinging London 50’s and 60’s exhibition
I'd been asked for some costumes and guitars in order to complete the exhibits in an exhibition to celebrate 60s design. The exhibition toured throughout Japan, this was the opening in Aichi of the third leg of what would be a six-leg series of installations.
30 Jan 1995
I received an American Music Award with Robert Plant
Page and Plant were to receive an American Music Award and, as we couldn’t attend, it required a video insert that was recorded in London at the Depot Sound rehearsal studios in North London. We performed a quirky version of 'Black Dog', featuring: didgeridoos; Porl Thompson in Indian pyjamas; a Michael Jackson jacket; and me on whammy pedal. Not a bad balance on this one.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Bs7Cx98qU"]Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - (1998) Black Dog [ABC American Music Awards version] - YouTube[/ame]
I received an American Music Award with Robert Plant
Page and Plant were to receive an American Music Award and, as we couldn’t attend, it required a video insert that was recorded in London at the Depot Sound rehearsal studios in North London. We performed a quirky version of 'Black Dog', featuring: didgeridoos; Porl Thompson in Indian pyjamas; a Michael Jackson jacket; and me on whammy pedal. Not a bad balance on this one.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Bs7Cx98qU"]Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - (1998) Black Dog [ABC American Music Awards version] - YouTube[/ame]
ON THIS DAY… 31 JAN 1969
I played at the Fillmore East, New York with Led Zeppelin
I played at the Fillmore East, New York with Led Zeppelin
By the time Led Zeppelin had reached the East Coast of America from the West, the band’s reputation had been established. On this day in 1969, we played at the Fillmore East in New York and, at this time, the band was staying at the Gorham - fast becoming a rock ‘n’ roll hotel by default.
Iron Butterfly were due to play the Fillmore East but cancelled their second show and I think the Edwin Hawkins Singers (of ‘Oh Happy Day’ fame) replaced them.
Setlist included...
The Train Kept A Rollin'
I Can't Quit You Baby
Dazed And Confused
Pat's Delight
How Many More Times
You Shook Me
Iron Butterfly were due to play the Fillmore East but cancelled their second show and I think the Edwin Hawkins Singers (of ‘Oh Happy Day’ fame) replaced them.
Setlist included...
The Train Kept A Rollin'
I Can't Quit You Baby
Dazed And Confused
Pat's Delight
How Many More Times
You Shook Me
On this day… 01 Feb 1970
Screaming Lord Sutch released 'Cause I Love You' / 'Thumping Beat'
Today saw the 1970 release of 'Cause I Love You' / 'Thumping Beat' by Screaming Lord Sutch on Atlantic Records – both Bonzo and I had played on those. It had been recorded in a studio in LA along with some other numbers that made up the album 'Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends'. I played backbone riffs to the songs but I don’t believe I played all the lead guitar as credited. I had recorded previously with Dave Sutch at Joe Meeks.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1gTxep_X3w"]Screaming Lord Sutch - Thumping Beat - YouTube[/ame]
Screaming Lord Sutch released 'Cause I Love You' / 'Thumping Beat'
Today saw the 1970 release of 'Cause I Love You' / 'Thumping Beat' by Screaming Lord Sutch on Atlantic Records – both Bonzo and I had played on those. It had been recorded in a studio in LA along with some other numbers that made up the album 'Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends'. I played backbone riffs to the songs but I don’t believe I played all the lead guitar as credited. I had recorded previously with Dave Sutch at Joe Meeks.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1gTxep_X3w"]Screaming Lord Sutch - Thumping Beat - YouTube[/ame]
Led Zeppelin: fast becoming the cream of the crop
By Ritchie Yorke
Of all the memorable things which happened during Toronto’s two heavy rock shows last night (Led Zeppelin at the Rock Pile: the Turtles and Iron Butterfly at Massey Hall) one visual image easily stood out.
It was the sight of Led Zeppelin’s hero-worshipped lead guitarist, Jimmy Page - resplendent in avocado velvet suit, bent over as if in agony to the audience, his fingers working like a touch typist’s, his foot thumping like a kangaroo’s tale, the sounds as clear and as piercing as a bedside phone in the stillness of 3am.
Above all else, and there were highlights aplenty, it was Page’s night. He arrived in Toronto, without a record on the market but with a reputation that long ago preceded him.
Several critics, myself included, had suggested Led Zeppelin just might be the next so-called supergroup, the likes of Cream and Hendrix. Advance airplay and reviews of the debut Led Zeppelin album (to be issued on Atlantic shortly) brought over 1,200 people to the Rock Pile. They expected a lot, and few were disappointed.
Led Zeppelin is a quartet, consisting of John Paul Jones on drums, John Bonham on bass and singer Robert Plant, as well as Page. Considering the group was only formed a few months back, it's remarkably tight and together.
Comparisons with Cream are as inevitable as they are unfair. Page is not yet in Eric Clapton’s class, but he has the potential. Bonham is not Jack Bruce but, likewise, he’s on the right road. Jones is a fine drummer with the precision timing, but Ginger Baker has that scene all wrapped up.
Led Zeppelin is not Cream, nor will it fill the spot left behind by Cream. Nobody will. But the Zeppelin outfit has a thing going of its own, and there’s little doubt that that thing is going to be very successful.
Page came off as the finest group guitarist to emerge since Clapton. Already, he is way above Jeff Beck, Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. His spotlighted work, including the riffs with the violin bow, was executed expertly without pomp or pretension.
Singer Plant is from the English blues school - hard, angry, defiant, and gutsy. He could well develop into one of the big name group singers of the year.
ON THIS DAY… 03 FEB 2001
I saw Joe Walsh at the Gulfstream Park racetrack in Miami
I was temporarily living in Miami, Florida, and Joe Walsh was playing at the Gulfstream Park racetrack. Joe’s an old friend and our connection goes back to some of the American dates I was doing with The Yardbirds as a four-piece when he would come and see us play. He then had The James Gang. In his career he made some good solo albums. Here in Florida he was on sabbatical from the Eagles and it was good to hear his solo set, he played and sang so well and it was good to catch up with some old and new stories.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt75y38J00s"]Joe Walsh- Rocky Mountain Way - YouTube[/ame]
I saw Joe Walsh at the Gulfstream Park racetrack in Miami
I was temporarily living in Miami, Florida, and Joe Walsh was playing at the Gulfstream Park racetrack. Joe’s an old friend and our connection goes back to some of the American dates I was doing with The Yardbirds as a four-piece when he would come and see us play. He then had The James Gang. In his career he made some good solo albums. Here in Florida he was on sabbatical from the Eagles and it was good to hear his solo set, he played and sang so well and it was good to catch up with some old and new stories.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt75y38J00s"]Joe Walsh- Rocky Mountain Way - YouTube[/ame]
Song Of The DayWhite Summer/Black Mountain Side
Today?s song originally was released on Led Zeppelin?s debut album, side two, track two, clocking in at just 2:12; the beautiful and eerie "Black Mountain Side." It was also issued on "Box Set I" as "White Summer/Black Mountain Side," and that one clocked in at 8:01. So, either grab your copy of "Zep I," or disc one of "Box Set" one, as we take a look inside Jimmy?s instrumental showpiece for much of his touring career.
Before we dive into these two numbers, one thing must be addressed; Jimmy did not write either of these songs. Despite what the credits say on "Led Zeppelin I" or "Box Set" one, both of these songs were traditional Irish folk songs. "Black Mountain Side" was originally known as "Down By Blackwaterside" and later became known simply as "Black Waterside" when guitar legend Bert Jansch recorded it on his 1966 album, "Jack Orion." On that album, Jansch listed the credit as "traditional."
"White Summer" was recorded and released in 1962 by Davey Graham, another great British guitarist, under the title that it had long been known as; "She Moved Through The Fair." In fact, not only did Graham record a version that mirrors "White Summer" almost to a T, but it was Graham who invented the tuning that both of these songs are in; D-A-D-G-A-D.
If you?re a longtime fan of Zeppelin then you already know about the numerous times they "borrowed" other artist?s songs and/or lyrics. Plant borrowed heavily from Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Howlin? Wolf and other various blues singers. Page is also guilty of "borrowing" music – sometimes just a phrase or two – other times entire songs.
No matter how big of a fan you are, you simply cannot condone that type of behavior. That would be akin to me releasing an album with a Zeppelin song on it and claiming that I wrote it. Jimmy would have my butt in court so fast my head would be spinning. So, on that hand, I completely fail to understand how, or why, they chose to do these things, particularly when there were plenty of people who knew some of "their" music wasn?t theirs.
On the other hand, every time Zeppelin did this, theirs has been better than the original. Now that doesn?t excuse what they did, it just further proves their prowess as musicians. I don?t believe that their legacy would have been any less renowned than it is now had they properly credited the artists they were so obviously influenced by.
I enjoy Davey Graham as a guitarist and Bert Jansch as well. I have a CD titled "The Art Of Fingerstyle Guitar" and on that CD there are a plethora of artists and Graham has five songs included and Jansch has a beautiful track titled "Bridge" that must be heard to be believed.
However, despite my love for their music, I do favor Jimmy?s version of these two songs over Graham and Jansch?s versions. Perhaps it was because I heard Jimmy?s first, perhaps it?s because Jimmy tends to play them with more of a rock feel; I don?t really know. But I do believe in giving proper credit when it?s due, and in the case of "White Summer/Black Mountain Side," that was not the case with Jimmy.
"White Summer" begins with some harmonics and then a simple picking pattern, a few sparse notes with Jimmy adding vibrato and bent notes for added effect. After he repeats this a couple of times the track takes off with some very fast picking, usually accompanied by Bonham keeping a steady beat behind him, but mostly staying out of the way.
The tuning on these songs gives the guitar a Dsus4 open sound, creating, as Page called it; „A very modal tuning, a sitar tuning, in fact!?
"Black Mountain Side" is a fun piece, not only to listen to, but also to play. If you?re a guitarist just starting out, it can be a bit tricky at first, but once you get it down it?s just a total blast to play and to hear those special sounds emanating from your guitar.
On the first Zeppelin album Page used a Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar for the recording, but live he used the Danelectro guitar he?s so well known for, with one exception being the Julie Felix show that he appeared on in 1970. For that performance he used a Gibson J-200 as well, and his playing was in really excellent form. It?s a shame that Page never found, or doesn?t own the rights to, the master tape of that performance, because that version would have been a very welcome addition to the Zeppelin "Box Set" or "Coda."
Jimmy began performing "White Summer" in The Yardbirds and the song even appeared on two Yardbirds albums; "Little Games" and "Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page." During Zeppelin?s career he played the combination of "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" from the very beginning up to their fifth US tour in 1970. On the Led Zeppelin DVD, recorded at The Royal Albert Hall on Jimmy?s birthday, you can hear traces of what would eventually become two sections of "Midnight Moonlight." The song{s} then re-emerged for the 1977 US tour as well as the 1979 Copenhagen Warm-Up shows and Knebworth as well as their 1980 "Over Europe" tour.
Once Jimmy teamed up with Paul Rodgers for The Firm, this became a staple during the middle section of "Midnight Moonlight" during their 1984/85/86 tours and in 1988 on the Outrider Tour he again played this during "Midnight Moonlight."
In 1993, on the Coverdale/Page tour of Japan, he brought it back out as "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" and threw in pieces of other songs within the context of the piece, including "Over The Hills And Far Away" as well as "Kashmir" and "Midnight Moonlight."
I have a theory that "Over The Hills," which is in standard tuning, began life in this D-A-D-G-A-D tuning. The first picked notes in "White Summer" are the G string open, followed with a hammer on/ pull off on the second fret of the G string {3rd string} and then he plays the note on the 4th fret on the 4th string {D string}. "Over The Hills" begins the same way except he pulls off of that note on the 4th string, 4th fret {F#}.
It wasn?t until the Coverdale/Page tour and hearing "Over The Hills" in this tuning mixed in with "White Summer/Black Mountain Side," that I first realized that this was probably
where he began writing that song.
I don?t have any concrete evidence to confirm this, but I do believe that Jimmy was playing around in this tuning one day and stumbled upon the seed for "Over The Hills."
Even though Jimmy didn?t write either "White Summer" or "Black Mountain Side," he did write some pretty amazing songs utilizing this tuning. At the end of 1973 he began writing what we now know as "Kashmir" and during the sessions for Physical Graffiti he came out with "Swan Song," later to be released as "Midnight Moonlight" with The Firm.
Personally, I love "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" as well as the songs that came after it that also employed this uniquely odd tuning. It was because of Page that I was introduced to the music of Davey Graham and Bert Jansch, and as a guitarist, I am eternally thankful for that. It was also through Jimmy and his use of the D-A-D-G-A-D tuning that I became aware of this way of tuning and playing the guitar. I have written a number of songs in this tuning and even all these years later, I still find it a very hypnotic tuning for the instrument that I love so much.
Until the next time.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrvfMSYNqBg"]Led Zeppelin - White Summer/Black Mountain Side - YouTube[/ame]
On this day... 4 Feb 1967
At the end of the Yardbirds tour of Australia, there were two options to return to England: one, which was chosen by the rest of the band, was to route through San Francisco; but I chose to travel to India instead. The plane arrived at 3 in the morning and the interior of the plane was sprayed with insecticide while the passengers remained seated. Then it was time to disembark. I realised I was the only passenger getting off the plane.
Having made no previous internal travel arrangements, I jumped in a taxi and I guess the driver was quite relieved because behind him there was a line of taxis that appeared to stretch back to the city centre. He asked me what hotel I was staying at, to which I replied ‘You show me a hotel’ and I eventually arrived at the Airline Hotel (it was a much shadier hotel than it sounds!) in the centre of Bombay. This hotel had been closed down by the time I made my visit to Bombay in Led Zeppelin times in 1971.
I had been told that Ravi Shankar had been putting royalties into his Bhulabhai Institute, a centre that would concentrate on Indian classical music, dance and theatre that would have one floor dedicated to each and I wanted to see how it was getting along. In fact, I did see the foundations of the construction.
I came from India with a set of Tabla drums and a Tanpura – a drone instrument used in Indian classical music – this one, however, was an oversized version. Being a fragile instrument it was awarded three complimentary seats by the airline on the plane to enjoy the journey from Bombay to London. As a result of this visit I recorded White Summer on my Simon home recorder playing and overlaying the instruments.
AUDIO: White Summer with Sitar (Edit)
http://soundcloud.com/jimmypage/white-summer-with-sitar-edit/s-AY6lc
On this day… 05 Feb 1965
'Come and Stay with Me' by Marianne Faithfull was released
The sensual Marianne had begun her recording career with ‘As Tears Go By’ written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in October 1965. Jackie DeShannon had written this song for her and I played on the session. I played on a number of Marianne’s sessions at the Decca Studio 2 in London.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFUlj1o8VWI"]Marianne Faithfull-Come And Stay With Me (Video) - YouTube[/ame]
'Come and Stay with Me' by Marianne Faithfull was released
The sensual Marianne had begun her recording career with ‘As Tears Go By’ written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in October 1965. Jackie DeShannon had written this song for her and I played on the session. I played on a number of Marianne’s sessions at the Decca Studio 2 in London.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFUlj1o8VWI"]Marianne Faithfull-Come And Stay With Me (Video) - YouTube[/ame]