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Yardbirds, Heart Full of Soul - late 1966

Foot stomping twins Dreja and Page.

Yummy guitar work in this video. Here is a close up.

These two blokes took dancing lessons together (nah - probably not :) )

However, when Jimmy asked if Chris Dreja wanted to join his new band, Dreja turned down the opportunity to become Led Zeppelin's bassist. Thanks to John Baldwin's wife, Baldwin got the bass gig in stead.

Chris was happy to just take photographs - like this one (1971) - of the shiny new band.

Meanwhile, liddle Relf is demonstrating that he's literally The Yardbirds' front man even though the most interesting action in the entire film is performed by his band mates.

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Young Jimmy in all his frilly glory

Led Zeppelin I Explained

Good Times Bad Times: Shit happens, life goes on man.
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You: Just like your average breakup, only now–with more ‘babes’
You Shook Me: *shooketh*
Dazed and Confused: A horribly abusive and manipulative relationship feat. amazing guitar
Your Time is Gonna Come: “You’re next, thot”
Black Mountain Side: Ever heard of a tabla? You should look it up because that’s going to be very useful.
Communication Breakdown: That period in between having a crush and plucking up the courage to talk to them where it always feels like you’re screaming into the void. Only this time it’s screaming back with Robert Plant’s voice.
I Can’t Quit You Baby: Think about the children.
How Many More Times: Relationships are hard. Also who’s Rosie

Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page and Robert Plant performing live on stage at Boston Tea Party. 26th January, 1969.

“As far as I’m concerned, the key Zeppelin gig, the one that put everything into focus, was one that we played on our first American tour at the Boston Tea Party. We’d played our usual one hour set, using all the material for the first album and Page’s White Summer guitar piece and by the end, the audience just wouldn’t let us offstage. It was in such a state that we had to start throwing ideas around, just thinking of songs that we might all know or that some of us knew a part of and work it out from there.
So we’d go back on and play things like “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Please Please Me”, old Beatles favorites. I mean, just anything that would come into our head and the response was quite amazing. There were kids actually bashing their heads against the stage – I’ve never seen that a gig before or since, and when we finally left the stage, we’d played for four plus hours.
Peter (Grant) was absolutely ecstatic. He was crying, if you can imagine that, and hugging us all. You know with this grizzly bear hug. I suppose it was then that we realized just what Led Zeppelin was going to become.” 
– John Paul Jones (NME, Feb. 1973)
“The thing with Jimmy is that he’s almost never satisfied. Here he is considered to be one of the greatest guitarists in the world and he’s worried that he’s not playing good enough.”

-Robert Plant to Daniel Goldberg in 1971

When doves cry reblogging

This is a vinyl rip of the first pressing of Led Zeppelin II which ran about 200,000 copies, these are sometimes also called the Robert Ludwig mixes. The reason of what makes these mixes special is that the original copies of LZII were EQ’d in a way that, at the time, would skip on a lot of turntables. They then had to remove some of the bass and re-press the album.

This is Led Zeppelin II the way it was meant to be heard.

Uncirculated audio of Jimmy Page doing multiple takes of the Heartbreaker solo.

I love this! And as a guitar player… it’s so encouraging to hear even Jimmy Page get frustrated and keep doing it over and over…

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I love how you can hear his diff improvisations within the structure he’s planned out…well that, and his giggle towards beginning

somebody tell me why this literally has me emotional.

I have no words this is absolutely incredible I can’t believe my ears

this has made my day, no, my entire week. i’m gonna be listening to this on repeat thank you very much

Led Zeppelin performing at the Boston Tea Party, May 1969.  © Steven C. Borack.

The Boston Tea Party was a small concert venue located at 53 Berkeley Street in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It operated from 1967 to early 1971. As Part of their first North American tour for their three-night engagement on it (27/28/29) the band was paid $4,000.
The setlist was: Train Kept a Rollin’, I Can’t Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, As Long As I Have You, Killing Floor, White Summer / Black Mountainside, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, You Shook Me, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown, Pat’s Delight.

Jenny Dino and Jimmy Page attending the premiere of The Song Remains the Same in 1976. 

I was 16 years old when I met Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin was in high demand on the “groupie scale” and being the resourceful girl that I was, I managed to be at the right place to the right time. None of us young girls gave much thought about being underage. We wore it like a badge of honor because we knew we’d be sought after by the guys in the band. (It was a different time in the 1970s—more lenient and, in many ways, less judged as being inappropriate.) For me, the night that The Song Remains the Same premiered in New York in October 1976 was like a dream come true. Being acknowledged by your hero was exciting, indeed, and it did change my life in a dramatic way. (I no longer share those intimate details because now, as a mother, I don’t want to give young girls—who mostly ask me—the wrong impression.) But what I will say about Jimmy Page is the he was a caring and affable guy. When he found out that I was cutting school to hang out at the Plaza Hotel, he said, “You need to mind your studies. Your schooling is important.” At the time, I was too young to appreciate what he was saying until years later, when Bonzo died, I decided to take his advice and in my own little mind make him proud. I did eventually “mind my studies” enough to become a doctor. In hindsight, that was the best part of my time with him because he was absolutely right. I will always be very grateful for his impressionable words of wisdom. So thanks, Jim! Love you always, Dr. Jen!—Jenny Dino

*goes to bed listening to the ramones* *wakes up wearing a leather jacket*

*goes to bed listening to Led Zeppelin* *wakes up with the sexiest hair ever*

*goes to the bed listening to Red hot chili peppers* *wakes up wearing only a sock*

*Goes to bed listening to Megadeth* *Wakes up dead*

*goes to bed listening to Queen*

*wakes up wearing a silvery glittery unitard*

*goes to bed listening to Pink Floyd*

*wakes up woke*

*goes to bed listening to The Beatles*

*wakes up with a bowl cut*

*goes to bed listening to Metallica*

*sleeps with one eye open*

*goes to bed listening to Green Day*

*wakes up in October 1st*

*goes to bed listening to The Rolling Stones* *wakes up strung out in an hourly motel*

*goes to sleep listening to The Doors*

*Wakes up in leather pants*

*goes to sleep listening to David Bowie*

*wakes up next to Mick Jagger*

*goes to bed listening to The Who*

*wakes up because you’re getting kicked out of the hotel room you trashed*

*goes to sleep listening to oasis*

*wakes up with a drug addiction*

*goes to sleep listening to The Smiths*

*wakes up crying covered in shrubbery*

*goes to sleep listening to AC/DC*

*wakes up in a school uniform*

*goes to sleep listening to Muse*

*wakes up with the inability to pronounce the letter “R”*

*goes to sleep listening to Dead Kennedys*

*wakes up with an intense urge to choke a nazi*

*goes to sleep listening to The Monkees*

*wakes up sometime in the morning*

*goes to sleep listening to KISS*

*wakes up with blood dripping from mouth*

*goes to sleep listening to Blue Oyster Cult*

*wakes up dead*

*goes to sleep listening to The Velvet Underground*

*wakes up painting like Andy Warhol*