All the info you need is in the link you provided.

Definitely an early rehearsal of "Wanton Song" (with some elements of "Custard Pie"), from Headley Grange in 1973. Some bootlegs give it the title "Take Me Home", but that's a case of the bootleggers mixing up the lyrics from a different track from the same sessions. (search YouTube for mg4150's "In The Morning" and you'll hear where the "Take Me Home" lyrics came from.)

It's Penny Lane and William Miller.

Liquid Selves: http://www.archive.org/details/sims_liquid_selves_1992 Quaint by today's standards but probably considered ahead of its time back in 1992. Jones also did the music for two computer animation pieces by Rebecca Allen. I believe La Fura Dels Baus was also part of the "Memory Palace" exhibition.

Ah yes. I believe that Dave Lewis wrote in "A Celebration" that it didn't even get to the production stage before being cancelled.

When did you acquire this 45?

Nice find. But I'm a bit confused -- did Plant do a live concert for Shaffer's radio program? Or was it an interview only?

While I have no doubt that John Bonham was a member of The Senators in 1964, the fact that "She's A Mod" was released in February 1964 (when Bonzo was still 15 years old) makes me question the legitimacy of that claim.

Steve, The apostrophe comes from this newspaper ad from June 1968: http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/mothersjun68.jpg And the part about the band originally being called The Answer comes this Brumbeat website: http://www.brumbeat.net/alexspie.htm

Not to admonish you again ( ), but I believe the band's name was spelled Obstweedle or Obs'Tweedle. They were originally known as The Answer.

I don't think it's ever been clarified if Robert sold off his songwriter royalties or his Led Zeppelin royalties.

Including the 4 piece Yardbirds, which Jeff himself copied directly when forming the Jeff Beck Group.

Although a recent Record Collector article claims that Page used the stage name "Nelson Storm", other sources state that Page actually used the name "Elmer Twitch". Jimmy may have also been credited as "Jimmy Price" during the Neil Christian days. Another pseudonym used by Page: S. Flavius Mercurius (on Roy Harper's Stormcock LP).

Originally by a Chicago soul group called The Sharpees (April 1966).

I was going to suggest that this might be Plant in disguise, but it turns out that there really was a "Dick Plant" who worked with Roy Wood. Nonetheless, Plant did attend these sessions with Bonzo.

Also, cross-referencing 1973 gives us this report: 5/27/73-7/5/73 -- Deep Purple was touring the east coast through 6/19 and then went to Japan on 6/22. Japan tour ended 6/29. Don't know Blackmore's whereabouts from 6/30-7/5.

In the very early days of Van Halen, they played mostly backyards. Sometime in 1974 they were given a break by Bill Gazzarri and invited to perform at his club (Gazzari's) a few times a month. But even at this point they were not really "playing clubs" because Gazzari's was the only club willing to give them a shot. It really wasn't until early 1976 that they branched out into playing other venues in southern California. David Lee Roth's website has a list of performance dates from their club days. While I would say that it's by no means reliable, it's certainly a good step. Cross-referencing with Steve's list as well as the Deep Purple Diary and Rainbow tourdates, here's what we get: Circa May 9-11 1974 (no listed VH concerts from 4/15 to 5/15; Blackmore was in the U.K.) Circa March 10-29 1975 (2 VH shows at Gazzari's but that's it; Blackmore was in Europe) Circa Sept/Oct 1975 (a few VH shows at Gazzari's in early September but nothing from 9/15-10/30; unsure of Blackmore's whereabouts although he was in the U.S. in early November) Circa Jan/Feb/Mar 1976 (some VH shows at Gazzari's in January, but nothing listed from 1/19-3/23; Blackmore was definitely in California on 3/23-3/24) - by the way, there's actually a connection between The Runaways and Van Halen, as they both recorded the song "Young And Wild", and The Runaways' producer (Steven Tetsch) was the opening act for many VH club shows in 1976. Circa May 22-23 1976 (no listed VH concerts from 5/19 to 5/28; unsure of Blackmore's whereabouts although he was in the U.S. in early June) Circa Jun 15-27 1977 (no listed VH concerts from 6/12 to 7/13; Blackmore's whereabouts unknown) So, you can eliminate the first 2 dates on Steve's list but any of the others could fit.

Maybe you didn't read the part where I stated that Van Halen did not start playing clubs until 1974.

The Van Halen-Bonzo meeting could not have taken place in 1972. Eddie did attend the L.A. Forum concert in 1972 (where Jimmy's "Heartbreaker" solo inspired Eddie to develop his string-tapping style), but he did not form Van Halen until 1973 (or possibly late 1972) and they didn't start playing clubs until late 1974. The Gene Simmons demos (c. late 1976) do indeed rock, but I much prefer the initial Warner Bros. demo tape from mid-1977.

The obvious candidate would be Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention drummer who played on the DW2 soundtrack), but he didn't release any solo recordings in the early '80s. Then there's Alan White, who had recorded the XYZ demos with Jimmy earlier in the year. He did release a single with Chris Squire in the fall of 1981 ("Run With The Fox"), but I think we would have heard by now if Jimmy played on it. Meanwhile, both Carmine Appice and Cozy Powell released solo albums in 1981. I know that Powell's name popped up several times when the rumor mill was talking about Zep reforming in 1981 -- I wonder if that was because he had been seen recording with Jimmy?

Steve -- A new mystery for you: In the early 1980s one of the Zep fanzines published a story about a group of Zep fans who visited Jimmy at his home c. 1981-82. Jimmy actually invited the group into his recording studio, and he played for them "a song off a just released album by a very famous drummer". According to the story, Jimmy played guitar on this song. Any idea what song that was??

Steve, The "Mrs. Brown" album (and movie) was actually 1968, at the tail end of JPJ's involvement with HH. It was a strange decision to make a movie based on a 3-year-old song, maybe even a career-ending mistake. But perhaps their management figured that the only way a "retro" group could remain popular was by staying retro? You might try emailing Peter Noone or Barry Whitwham at their respective websites? They've been known to respond to fans...

I'm sure that Jimmy and JPJ would have wanted to be credited, but it simply wasn't the practice of the time to list all the backing musicians for every record. Most records were released as 7" singles without picture sleeves, which means that ALL the credits had to be put on a tiny little record label. They barely had enough room to list the song title, the artist's name, and the producer's name. Another factor is that the record companies wanted to hide the fact that the bands didn't play on their own records (otherwise it would hurt sales). So they deliberately made sure that no records were kept. The record company hired a producer, who then hired a person known as a "fixer", who then hired the session musicians. The fixer was the only person who knew exactly who played on the session. And he had no reason to keep a diary. I'm sure that in the early days (1964) both Jimmy and JPJ made note of the "big name" sessions that they played on. But after a few months the luster wore off and it just became a job to them. All the sessions started to sound the same.

This is a question that will never be answered. There were no records kept, and it's simply not possible for all the musicians to remember every single session that they played on. Jimmy was a full-time session guitarist from the fall of 1963 until June 1966 when he joined The Yardbirds. In that timespan he played on literally thousands of records. Only a couple hundred are known to collectors. John Paul Jones was a full-time session player from 1963 until August 1968 when he joined Led Zeppelin. He probably contributed to twice as many sessions as Jimmy did.

Very doubtful. Such a session would be too "high profile" for it to go unreported for 40 years.