Thanks to the Webmaster for extending life of this mystery thread and Freedom of Expression. There is no other purpose/reason, but to make sincere/factual contribution to Led Zeppelin Timeline....... ...Here is The Original Article from which Las Vegas mystery concert Fanviews extend... Sunday, September 09, 2001 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal COLUMN: Mike Weatherford Readers remember The Doors Jim, be careful how you undulate on that ice! Hey Kurt, can you sign my dressing room? Last Sunday I claimed Madonna was the last active music star who hadn't played Las Vegas, and asked readers to share memories of rare shows by icons now in rock 'n' roll heaven. There were plenty of responses, many centering on The Doors playing the Ice Palace skating rink in Commercial Center. Review-Journal alumna and Preferred Public Relations President Michele Tell referred me to her uncle, Mike Tell, who promoted the concert. He couldn't confirm the date, listed on some Web sites as Nov. 1, 1969. But he remembers that because Jim Morrison had been arrested for lewd behavior in Miami, both performer and promoter were threatened with arrest. "There were more security guards and policemen around that stage than you've ever seen," Tell recalls. Morrison was "so intimidated that when he sang, he didn't move." Michele Tell met Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek a few years ago. He remembered the show for a different reason: "Because they just put flat boards down on the ice, it was freezing," he told her. What's striking now is how rock concerts were treated by local authorities as a suspicious enterprise, miles removed from the "legitimacy" of the Strip, which was focused on Eddie Fisher and Phil Harris the night of The Doors' visit. Jon Jacobsen writes that Janis Joplin was "one that got away" in 1969. "The city and Sheriff Ralph Lamb would not give the promoter a concert permit, saying that the city would be invaded by the Hell's Angels and the youth of Las Vegas corrupted." Readers Dan Kempf and Sherrill Denley are convinced Led Zeppelin also played the Ice Palace, though a scholarly Web site lists no date. "Led Zepplins," as the Las Vegas Sun called the band, canceled an April 1970 concert after Robert Plant collapsed onstage in Phoenix the night before. Some high school students had planned to protest the $6 ticket price. Do you think any of them paid $75 to see Plant and Jimmy Page at the MGM in 1998? In the modern era, Nirvana was the rare group not to play here after its landmark "Nevermind" album. But Craig Alan Boyle, who managed Calamity Jayne's on Boulder Highway, remembers the band opening for Sonic Youth on Aug. 16, 1990. "They were booed offstage by the restless crowd," Boyle recalls. "I personally was in the dressing room watching Kurt Cobain throw a fit following his set. Before their performance, Kurt and the rest of the band signed the walls of the dressing room. "Unfortunately," he reports, "new owners not realizing the historic significance, painted the walls in the mid-'90s." Mike Weatherford's entertainment column appears Tuesdays and Sundays. ......................... Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin Richard Cole with Richard Trubo Originally Published: New York:HarperCollins Publishers, 1992 Excerpt - Page 95 - Summer 1969 Tour ....The Zeppelin wives joined us for a few days during that tour, including some of the shows in Las Vegas and other West Coast cities......On this particular tour, I figured that by pulling a few strings, I could get us some front-row seats to Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel.....That afternoon, I had called Bill Miller, the entertainment director at the International,....My name is Richard Cole, "I told him." That night, we had front-row tables. It was the first time any of us have seen Elvis performed...... ........... Maureen Plant is present during the Seattle Pop Festival...... July 26, 1969 Robert Plant watched with his wife Maureen during the Doors' set, eventually weighing in on it during an interview with Ritchie Yorke for the New Musical Express. http://onthisdayinledzeppelinhistory.blogspot.com/2009/07/ol-blue-eyes-mudsharks-and-heavyweight.html ..... Promoter in question, Michael Tell's family/siblings influence extends highly into Caesar's Palace in the year of 1969...for hospitality services... .......for now...

...extremely happy to see Jimmy involved in social causes, this is necessary also.........

...Hello, I would say overall one of the best, as every decade belongs to a certain musician/Band, likewise, the 70's belong to Zep..70's generation/culture is forever associated with Zeppelin....further, mid-70's rock music was absolute beginning for me and I couldn't been partial to anyone...in this regard, I remember the Name Led Zeppelin was "above" others, and ABSOLUTELY NO ROCK STAR HAD IMPACT OF PAGE, NO ONE..I KNEW THIS "ROCK STAR" A LONG HAIRED MYSTERIOUS STAR, WAS ABOVE ALL FOR SOME REASON, WHY? I WAS JUST BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND...

...I like this first, Earls Court would be second (I have this one)...'77, '79 least...

..Thanks for sharing... Hello and Page attended Indian Voices Day at Royal Albert Hall recently, I recall Viram Jasani was the Host... Photo of Page Arriving... http://www.gettyimages.ca/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&p=Jimmy%20Page&assetType=image http://www.amc.org.uk/concerts/index.htm

Robert Quine and Chris Spedding - discuss their views here in this article link below: James Patrick Page The Definition of a Guitar Hero - Guitar World July 1986 The B-Sides To Infinity/"He Really Got Me" Robert Quine... "...The Solo he did on "You Really Got Me" - I believe he did that, I don't think it could've been Dave Davies - has those qualities: an absolutely and deliberately repetitive, brutal solo with an incredible tone and one little lick thrown in there just to show you, "Hey I can play as fast as I want to but I'm deliberately doing this." And this was years before anybody knew his name." Chris Spedding "...I read somewhere in a magazine where me, Jimmy Page and Dave Davies were all credited with playing the solo on a Kinks record. "You Really Got Me." I know that I didn't do it, I don't think Jimmy Page did it. I think it's probably Dave Davies, but who cares? Who can remember [laughs]? We were all supposed to have kept quite about it anyway."

...agreed, common sense totally missing here, it's in poor taste to experience life in any way what so ever at someone else's expense.... ...yes, the fans are dutiful to their beloved Musician, rightfully so...

...tks for the proof here, grown up jealous men (Icons yet, each and every one of them!!)....that's all it is...there is no need to further this cause...

...agreed, and Ronnie is not, yep!! NO match for Page....Reference, Upstairs......

indeed...Robert is a true gentleman, a great artist, and above all, a man who follows his heart ...great to see him happy here.....

Delinha, ......and he remains passion of every generation, everywhere, timeless.......

Portuguese to English translationShow romanization This weekend was a wonderful event you'd like to share with you. It was a day of good quality rock in the presence of the living legend Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Well, the greatest guitarist of all time Jimmy Page did not play any music, as the press had announced, but the rock rolled quality at the British School in the Rock Festival charity event for the Jimmy House on Saturday November 28. The band started aggregates the afternoon with a beautiful presentation of the classic Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" with an excellent portrayal of the young guitarist, who did very well in the soil and made beautiful before the master. Soon after came on stage the national attractions announced: George Israel (sax Comeback Kid) and guitarist Pepeu Gomes, right off the bat they played "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix and success fender "Ska" which led the crowd to frenzy. Other bands composed of students of the British School attended the event and realized that Jimmy enjoyed the cover of "Kaleidoscope", the Paralamas, shaking his head in the VIP area. During the interval there was a cocktail that has served well over 300 people who attended the party. To this day I surprise myself with people who credit the only Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven", when this band has a legacy as rich. All the money the festival has a noble destiny, the maintenance of "Casa Jimmy", a welfare institution located in Santa Teresa which gives shelter to children and pregnant adolescents of low income. In 2006 I visited the "Casa Jimmy" and I could see how the work is serious. Children and adolescents are housed in a pleasant atmosphere, comfort and especially with much care and dedication given by volunteers who work at Casa Jimmy, it shows how much the idol of many making a difference in a poor community of the City Maravilhosa.IMG_0042 When witnessed examples such as Jimmy Page, we realize the great value not only to store possessions, success, status and power, is also reaching out to others and there is no greater reward than to hear the "thank you" echoing those children's voices grateful to have made $ 100.00 on a ticket. George Israel was a kind of host of the night, accompanied by children who, without such nepotism, deserved to be there for the talent and competence. With the challenge of facing a crowd that expected to see the legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist playing, Pepeu Gomes showed plenty of character and did not let the ball drop, showing that Brazil also know much about guitar. Organizers said the event would play a music legend. Although Israel has tried to bring Jimmy on stage doing a jam of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by the Beatles, with much improvisation, but Jimmy did not play, at that time neither hinders nor thought that the stage was full of musicians, organizers and children institution. Twenty people who bought the ticket ($ 100 up and $ 200 in the VIP area) were drawn with posters autographed by Jimmy, and a legion of fans trying to get autographs on albums, books and guitars became stranded. There was good reason at the end of the event the nice Jimmy Page took the stage and began an auction of autographed posters with the name of the person who bought the device that came to be sold for 2 mil reais. For the next day the gang of volunteers from the Task Brazil was hosting a BBQ at Casa Jimmy, a tremendous opportunity for fans savored a lunch at the side of a real dinosaur of rock and thereby cause the House to continue the Jimmy beautiful relief work. Upon leaving some people were disappointed because they would like to see the rock legend's guitar wielding, not this time, but who knows now that Jimmy Page is more Brazilian than ever, we will have other opportunities for that to happen and still contribute to the world best help the team as competent House Jimmy?

....you very welcome...I didn't either, but it is very informative and fascinating..will also look into it.....

Delta Blues Museum musicians like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin fame who made the pilgrimage to Clarksdale, http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/low/press_060108b.asp http://www.msbluestrail.org/index.htm