No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded turns 30!
Celebrating the album’s 30th Anniversary
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant’s reunion album was released on October 31, 1994.
This is the cover of the album “No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded” (1994) by Page and Plant.
No Quarter is a live album by Rock legends Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, formerly of Led Zeppelin. The long-awaited reunion between Page and Plant occurred on the 90-minute MTV project “UnLedded”, which was recorded in Morocco, Wales, and London. In addition to acoustic renditions, the album features a reworking of Led Zeppelin songs with a Moroccan string band and an Egyptian orchestra supplementing a core group of Rock and Roll musicians, along with four Middle-Eastern and Moroccan-influenced songs: "City Don't Cry", "Yallah" (or "The Truth Explodes"), "Wonderful One", and "Wah Wah". Following the success of the live album, they embarked on a world tour featuring a full orchestra. About the tour, Jimmy Page later stated, “It was heroic to take something like that around the world, because it was using two orchestras: one Western, one Arab orchestra, with a hurdy-gurdy. It was great going around the world to turn people on to sounds they hadn't heard. It wasn't an easy thing to do, but it was worth it.”
Source: Wikipedia.org
Featured in The Arizona Republic - October 12, 1994
Per Britannica, “music originated as improvisation and is still extensively improvised in Eastern traditions and in the modern Western tradition of jazz.” Coincidentally, in late-1994, I took a keen interest in both of these traditions. I began to improvise, playing riffs and runs based on the Phrygian dominant scale. Looking back, this interest was likely spurred along by both the reunion of Page and Plant, and their Middle-Eastern- and South Asian-infused album and tour.
May 1, 1995: Live at The Bradley Centre - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
I was fortunate to experience the “No Quarter Tour” in person when it arrived at Kemper Arena on May 5, 1995. In addition to the band’s regular roster of touring musicians, Page and Plant were joined on stage by distinguished members of the Kansas City Symphony. My date for the show was a blonde beautician from Lee’s Summit whom I met a few weeks before at our area’s largest night club. We had a great time, but I was getting a friendship vibe. Afterwards, as I dropped her off, my suspicions were confirmed when she pointed out her boyfriend’s car that was parked in her parent’s driveway; Doh! Yeah, I know, “‘Cause girls is players too...” All in all, it was a great night, filled with great music, especially songs like “Thank You”, “In the Evening”, and the iconic “Kashmir”.
Source: YouTube Mette V
June 25, 1995: Two legends perform at Glastonbury
Source: bbc.co.uk
“There was something truly mystical about learning to play a few of Jimmy Page’s riffs and songs of Led Zeppelin while seated next to my black and white wall tapestry that showcased some of the band’s iconic imagery.”
- Woodard, Anthony. “Driving with binoculars...”. Mar. 16, 2023
Kashmir was the one Led Zeppelin song that I absolutely had to learn. It was the first song I played with an alternate guitar tuning other than “Drop D”. Arguably, Kashmir is Zeppelin’s magnum opus. No matter where you are when you play it, you feel like you are on stage in front of 200,000 people.
Paying homage… Me, my guitar, and my iPhone.
Courtesy of Anthony Woodard
Zeppelin Forever!
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