Songs that have no video are from an FM radio broadcast of the show and were not included on the official VHS release. There is literally no video available for those songs.
@@warriorwk the footage probably still exists on the master tapes in a vault somewhere but I’m sure all official parties involved have no desire or belief in the market to release this show again to any degree of financial success.
You're right Nicholas. Jimmy was heavy on morphine up through LiveAid. BUT, he had to do this for his friend, Ronnie Lane. I remember when this concert came out. Believe it or not, I still have it on an old VHS tape ( with no way to play it ) . Jimmy recovered. Ronnie did not.
The first time Jimmy played a Led Zeppelin song in public since John's death in 1980. The man was facing serious demons at the time, he'd been arrested the year prior for having cocaine and would be arrested again a year later in 1984, and was probably still in the grips of heroin addiction as well.
I remember he was walking in a London park and was searched by police and got caught the other one was on a plane to america and got caught smoking a cigarette in the toilet
Everything and anything after the first three numbers has already been blessed w/the tone set by Winwood and Page . Because that's what guitar gods do🙏
It seems like Jimmy's always drunk the way he plays. I seen this show to me Jimmy sucked and beck too Clapton sounded good like he knew his stuff compared to the other two.
I saw Zeppelin once, Page Twice, Clapton Twice, and Beck Twice, each with their bands in full concert and in an Arms concert! Each blew me away at times. But only Jimmy Page Blew me AWAY, EVERY TIME, EVERYTHING HE PLAYED! ONLY JIMI HENDRIX SURPASSED HIM, AND ONLY BECAUSE, WELL...YOU KNOW!
@jcbluze...god how i agree with you! I've been playing 38 plus years and Page is just a god of the instrument, I've always practiced his songs...but what is completely out of reach is his songwriting. Page's from another realm
I'm with you. That's 3 concerts. I saw is apple, were front row. The trick was to grab 2 beers and a cup and walk through the crowd. They will definitely get out of your way. But front row was the only way to seize that pland I will never forget Jimmy Page and that band. As they ruled that era
Excellent Concert! Featuring 3 of the greatest guitarists ever! Clapton, Beck and Page! All three Ex Yardbirds! What a legacy that band had! I’m partial to Beck and Page the most! I only liked Clapton when he was in Cream. Thanks for posting this show! 👏🏻😎🎸
@@patrickhoulihan7210 That Blues Breakers album is incredible! He played like Mick Taylor on it! I prefer Mick Taylor to Clapton. I did like Cream but that was really Jack Bruce’s band.
@@dynjarren8355 I also like the Bluesbreakers album with Peter Green.I was pleased to be able to see him once before he passed away.I prefer Jeff Beck to Mick Taylor & Eric Clapton because of the different styles he plays.
Ray Cooper... the luckiest session guy in the world! He's been flown all over the world first class, roomed in the best 5 star hotels, dines in the classiest restaurants, played on hundreds of multi-million selling albums, and is seen on every all star fund raiser for the last 40 years. All for hitting a tambourine and bashing a few gongs and triangles. No surprise he can't keep the smile off his face.
C'mon man,, Ray's done more than that & you sound a tad envious.. I seem to recollect him playing on some Elton discs & other studio work Beck is in his own league with so much Diverse styles & players over the decades. Very few can play jazz, blues, rock (softer melodic, & harder + soul,, funk, fusion, you name it e/ such fluidity, &. potency. Of the Yardbirdss Big 3, he's in a class by himself. .
@@marcsalzman8082 of practically all electric guitarists, he’s in a class by himself, and using “practically” might be cheating him. I saw him Sept 2019 and was just blown away.
I read your comment before I saw it happen .... I was STILL not prepared! Wyman had a good laugh at it, he couldn't even believe it! (starts around 33:50)
Jimmy brings his majestic persona to the stage, hunting and feeling the music as though for the first time; Prelude is soulfully dramatic, Who's To Blame riff is monstrous with Simon and Ray on percussion, and Steve Winwood deserves kudos. Stairway for the people is sublime-So emotional!
Let's give a round of applause for the mix of this show, the mix is superb. To get a group like this sounding so tight is a Marvel. In my humble opinion this is one of the better All-Star shows that I've ever seen. Too bad b e c k was slightly intimidated they should have given him a few moments but then they only had so much time. Everyone was the happiest I've ever seen them. I miss Charlie Watts r i p.
Props to the piano player for bringing the tempo right down. That was Layla on speed, Charlie Watts' face was a picture! Soon after, a benefit concert was held for the gong.
When Jimmy Page reemerged in the late 80s I was so glad to see him healthy and playing well again. He was so strung out in the early 80s I was worried he wasn't going to survive. Phil Lynott had died and that was shocking and I didn't want that to happen to him
🤦♂️ Hate to break it to you.. He’s still strung out here too. He weighs 100 lbs and is paler than a ghost. He just added an 8 ball of coke to get through the show, thus explaining why he’s rushing everything.
@@deadreckoning292 I hate to break it to YOU , but this is the EARLY 80s , and anyone can see he's not well here. 😐 I'd explain further but it really seems like it should go without saying
Relax. Just a misunderstanding. But the reality is Page never recovered from his drugged out junkie booze days. He hasn’t been able to play for shit for a long long time now. Probably since 1974. But at least he’s still alive.
I agree ,I was at the cow Palace show in Frisco and felt beck was the smoothest of the 3 ,page was great but beck held his own... either way the show was nearly BIBLICAL!
It's really hard to define what genre of Page's guitar playing, not like EC, obviously, EC is blues guitarist, or anybody else, metal, country or punk, you could easily tell who is who, every guitarist has their own “finger print”, but Page does not. Page looks like he just played whatever he wants or whatever occurs to his mind. His improvisation seems messy, but also magic, like black art, glamor.
In his best times as a guitar player he creates a feeling of a big stone that's rolling down the mountain. And also there's absolute masterpieces of his guitar playing like Hummingbird, Since I've been loving You, Prison Blues, Don't leave me this way - there's everything - feeling, dynamics, drama. And Mr Page's playing has much in common in my opinion with painting rather than with playing itself.
Would you call Monet sloppy? People who call Page sloppy either don’t get it or are smart asses who pretend they could play guitars. At Page’s level of mastery , playing perfectly is no-brainer. Any “mistakes” are simply stylistic and expressional choices. In fact, it’s easy to play perfect with just enough proficiency in guitar, but it’s difficult to really sound like Page and next to impossible to surpass him in expressiveness and originality.
I don't understand how these, nobody's can sit there and try and slate page for being sloppy. It's just insane how they can critique him when they have no skills of there own.
People call Jimmy Page sloppy because he misses notes left and right. Monet invented impressionism. Were he a performer, who regularly overextended himself trying to paint things faster than his hands could move, leaving paint spatter all over his art, then yes, history would call sloppy. You seem to be holding axiomatically to the claim that Page does not make mistakes. Do you actually believe that? It was "simply stylistic and expressional choice" that he wanted to sound like a garbage disposal with some silverware stuck in the drain? I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be so harsh, but you really need to wake up and face the music: this guy messes up when he's playing guitar, routinely. The above performance is an especially gruesome example, as he is clearly (on drugs) not in the best health. The middle section of Stairway is a nightmare.
As great as Jimmy Page is, it's amazing how he's trying to sound like Roy Buchanan in that opening bit - giving credit where credit is due. ;-D What a great effort to mix and post this outstanding show - Thanks!
Jimmy sounds pretty good. He was still on heroin yea? I saw a quick glimpse,his teeth look rotted😮🙏🏻 hes so thin too. Im glad he got passed it. 👍🏻 Zeppelin weren't my favourite but they were definitely an great band. I love the death wish 2 songs.
omg im so glad to have found this thank you so much for uploading this here . i have this on a vcr tape the qualitys nothing as nice as this fer sure . years ago me and some friends went to see them at the LA forum its a concert i will never forget
Page is Like a skeleton in a suit making music speeding away. Today's JIMMY is great. Love how each player's style is different while melding together.
@@michaeltw1000 Jimmy has already contributed more great things than most people would in a 100 lifetimes. The man can play checkers for the rest of his life for all I care.
@@michaeltw1000 The work he did getting the Led Zeppelin sound and story documented was phenomenal and time consuming HARD WORK. He deserves the time he needs for himself in this lifetime.
Jimmy’s come back after the dead of John Bonham, drummer of Led Zeppelin and a heroin addiction. Not his best performance. Luckily his friends helpt him by let him play.
@gibsongoldtop100 i think the lady was comparing his performance to what we are used to / the height of his powers so to speak and i must agree that he is a bit tentative in this one. kinda sloppy for someone who is considered one of the greatest to ever do it.
Jimmy comes out from hibernation looking a bit ragged, but perfect ROCKSTAR hair... and then plays these outrageous tunes that probably 50% of Zeppelin fans never knew existed. That really is Jimmy in a nutshell-never playing safe.
I carried the issue of Rolling Stone covering these concerts around with me for decades. May have finally ditched it in a cleanup within the last 5-6 years. Or it may yet turn up. So glad that footage and audio finally emerged, it's incredible to immerse oneself into. Rest In Peace, Ronnie, Charlie.
@@Stublinsky That Telecaster he was playing was equipped with a Parson's B bender. I found his playing to be rather good here, other than Stairway. I'd imagine after playing it, repeatedly, for literally hundreds of shows, it bores the pants off of him to play it, yet again, and that might be part of it. He was/is more of the song writer/producer type, anyway. His lead playing is interesting here, especially up to Stairway. I'm not sure what people expected of him. He did fine.
Simply the best band in the world ever! This concert is lengedary. The three yardbirds , plus Charlie watts, bill wilman and stevie winwood together is the best thing that could happened! And they are all playing magnificently! What a moment ! I wish i had been there!
Ronnie and his girlfriend Boo Oldfield were the main reason for this benefit concert. ARMS stands for Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis, and Ronnie Lane had the disease.
Page did a lot of session work and was well known in the industry, more so than the public prior to Led Zeppelin. He played all sorts of styles in those sessions and obviously has that intuition for what the right piece will be for just about anything. One of the record execs who signed Led Zeppelin to a record deal even before they were fully formed said something like 'You say Jimmy Page is putting together a band? That's all I need to hear, I know it will be great'.
I met Page back in 1977 coming on the elevator going to the concert...Peter Grant was right behind him at the time. I managed to get him to autograph Zep 1 and Zep 2 before that contact ended. He was very humble.
It's a benefit for the Ronnie Lane foundation and the list of musicals is unbelievable . Even Watts and Wyman joined the band for a while , brought tears to my eyes .
I saw the first show in San Francisco at the Cow Palace. The day before a coworker ask me if i liked Eric Clapton. Yes. 1st set watts drumming. Couple others. Clapton then he brings on Beck. Then they bring on this guy to start things off. Joe Cocker. Sings his 5 6 classics. Gone. Clapton plays layla. Cocaine. Bell bottom blues. I always forget last 2 ill recall in half hour. Lay down sally was rocking. Then beck played 5 6 songs. Never knew hissongs but i knew 5 out of 6. They leave and i say to my friend. That was a great show. 1 and half hours. He says noits not over. Next set. Page. Brown from badco. Not might taste but good musiscians. Great show. What not done yet. Then all came out 13? And played yardbirds best tunes. Then they Creamed it. White room. Strange brew. Crossroads. Tales of brave ullesdys. Sunsine. Swalbar. Last set was best 1 hour of music. Stones. Who. Petty. Santana dead. Bowie. Fogerty close. Zztop. Page was not the master. Beck an clapton were trading back and forth. Page just seemed to pout.
Well damn, I was all set to see Jimmy Page suck, as he sometimes did in the 80's. But NOOOOOOO, he was f'n fantastic. Loose, letting it rip and obviously enjoying himself.
Jimmy with a Tele has always been magic. I saw him 2 times with Tele and 2 times with Les Paul. The Tele always sound evil better to me., but he was younger and hungrier. He was more intense with the Tele.
I believe he recorded Stairway with a Tele. He played that one with the circular decals back in the Yardbirds. That low slung Les Paul is the way I’ll always picture him though.
@@Apgujohn the funny thing is that the les paul is actually on lzii, on the solo for heartbreaker at the very least, eddie kramer says the solo for whole lotta love was the les paul custom that got stolen in 1970. i think there are other spots on there with either les paul. and then lziii, lziv, houses of the holy, and presence are predominantly his #1 '59 les paul, which imo are the quintessential zeppelin records, i listen to those more often than i or ii
I really love Jimmy's City Sirens - I wish someone could isolate what Jimmy and Andy Fairweather are doing here (the riffs, not the solo). It's stunning when you can hear it over the top of the other musicians.
This was 1983. He was the guitarist for the Yardbirds from 1963 to 1968, thereafter Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin. A legendary career lasting from 1968-1980 (reunions: 1985, 1988, 1995, 2007).
This concert really shows how versatile Jimmy is as a musician/guitarist. I get that it was this period he was coming off heroin and he had not been playing in some time. His playing is a little sloppy at some points and has been better. I do have to give him credit though for creating a completely different solo for each song. In terms of technique, I think he really does shine on Tulsa Time. He plays two outstanding solos that are quite better than Clapton and Beck. I must say that his versatility really shines at the end of the concert where they all perform Goodnight Irene. His solo there put me in awe. Yes, it was sloppy, but the use of the B-bender and volume pedal really made it sound similar to pedal steel. I could tell that he knew he was not perfect at it but was also not afraid to do and give it his best. Here I can hear all of his influences from James Burton to Hubert Sumlin. This is quite fascinating to watch.
I totally agree with your words. And I add: I think that in certain things, in terms of technique he was always kind of Sloppy, and that's just one of the things I love most about his style. Regardless of anything, he always sounded sincere and frighteningly raw, visceral. He's a guitar god.
I thought he did quite well. Other than his own song, which he's probably played in ever permutation he can think of , and it bored him, I'm sure. I've read and heard about how his playing wasn't all that great in this. I disagree. Fascinating, or very interesting is what it was to me. Not perfect, but that kind of makes it so interesting. It's human. It's organic, and you really can't know where he was going to go. Note perfect is fine for some. For me, it's more of the interest in where he's going to go. Fail or succeed, it was interesting, for sure!
I watched this several years ago, and absolutely hated how crappy Page sounded at the time. But watching now, I see how much the drugs and grief had affected him, and his playing was very fitting for the state he was in. To even pick up a guitar again after losing your best friend and drummer is a feat in itself I think.
