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This Day in ’95: Page and Plant Kick Off Their No Quarter Tour

23 years ago today, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant blew the minds of Led Zeppelin fans around the world by kicking off their first-ever world tour as a duo.

The origins of the Page-Plant duo can be traced specifically back to 1994, when Plant was offered the opportunity by MTV to do an Unplugged concert. As far as how the two actually began discussions of Page taking part in the proceedings, it’s a little murky, since Page recalls being contacted by Plant’s management and invited to see Plant perform in Boston, whereas Plant has said that he was surprised by Page’s presence at his Boston gig. Whichever version is accurate doesn’t ultimately matter, though, as the end result was that the two old comrades in arms decided to go Unplugged .

After taping three performances – one in London, one in Wales, and one in Morocco – during August 1994 and combining the best bits into a single installment of the series, the resulting program was so well-received that it was released as an album in November 1994: NO QUARTER: JIMMY PAGE AND ROBERT PLANT UNLEDDED. In turn, Page and Plant were still enjoying working with each other enough to take their show on the road, bringing along with them an impressive array of musicians, including Porl Thompson of The Cure. The tour kicked off at the Pensacola Civic Center in Pensacola, Florida in February 26, 1995, and the reception was generally rapturous.

To give you an idea of what things were like on that day, we’ve dug up an MTV News piece about the start of the tour, which should send you back in time nicely.

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Put Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in a room with a bunch of Moroccan musicians and what do you get? A glorious, unledded update of Led Zeppelin’s legacy, that’s what

In spring 1994, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant visited Marrakesh in Morocco to play with local musicians in the old city square, Jemaa El-Fnaa. The collaboration was recorded, and part was used for the pair’s No Quarter: Unledded album and video/DVD. 

The new songs they played – City Don’t Cry and Wah Wah – were unlikely to usurp Whole Lotta Love or Black Dog , but an acoustic jam with Moroccan drummers and guembri (a bass lute) players showed Page and Plant’s willingness to experiment and try something new.

Later, after dark, the duo returned to perform another new song. This time, though, it was Plant, Page, an electric guitar, a drum loop and a whole lot of electricity. The filmed performance of that song, Yallah (later retitled The Truth Explodes ) captures the contradictory nature of No Quarter ; namely that Page and Plant never sounded better than when plugged in.

Page cranks out a big ugly riff and briefly swaggers across the square like it’s the stage at Madison Square Garden in 1972. Meanwhile, Plant pouts and wails and does that semaphore hand-signal dance of his – like a policeman in a ladies’ wig directing traffic.

The camera routinely pans from the two showboating rock stars to the small audience that has gathered around them – a kid clasps his hands over his ears in shock; a grinning old-timer plays air guitar – to footage of men in keffiyehs and women in hijabs. The only thing missing is a stock shot of a camel. No, correct that, the only things missing are John Paul Jones and John Bonham .

But 13 years before the Led Zeppelin reunion concert , Page & Plant was as good as it got. And when it was good, it was very good.

By 1994, Robert Plant had spent more than 10 years making music that tried way too hard not to sound like Led Zeppelin . Jimmy Page, meanwhile, had just recorded an album of blustery, puffed-up hard rock with singer David Coverdale . All anyone wanted was Page and Plant to make a record together.

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In late November ’93, Page, en route to performing with Coverdale in Japan, stopped off in Boston where Plant was playing two nights at the Orpheum Theatre. Page claimed the singer knew he was coming; Plant mischievously said he’d turned up unannounced.

In fact, Plant’s then manager Bill Curbishley and his label’s A&R man Dave Bates had helped broker a rapprochement. The one-upmanship and lingering resentments between the two musicians remained, but took a back seat as Page and Plant contemplated working together again.

When Plant was asked to record a show for MTV’s Unplugged series, he agreed to do so with Page. “Although I’ve got a bit of a problem with my ego,” the singer explained, “it would be a bit ridiculous to try and take all the glory for all those [Led Zeppelin] songs.”

He told Rolling Stone : “It was obvious that I could either say: ‘Well, fuck off, I don’t like MTV anyway. You don’t play me because I’m too old, so why start worrying about me now?’ Or I could think about how to team up with the one bloke who knew where I was coming from and see if we couldn’t go ahead.”

The duo had one caveat: that the show wouldn’t be ‘unplugged’ at all. They would rework songs from the Zeppelin catalogue, some of which would be broadly acoustic, and not just play ‘the hits’. Plant’s then-last solo album, 1993’s Fate Of Nations , featured some of what he called “the Moroccan thing”, and he wanted to explore that influence further. 

Another inspiration was a trip Page and Plant had made to India in 1972 , where they’d got, in Plant’s words, “wired off our faces” and recorded versions of Led Zeppelin tunes Four Sticks and Friends with the Bombay Symphony Orchestra.

Naturally, the question most people immediately asked was: where was John Paul Jones? Plant flippantly told one journalist at a press conference: “John Paul’s parking the car.” But it seemed Robert and Jimmy had to get used to each other again, and simply couldn’t handle a third ego. 

Also, Jones’s involvement would have made it almost a Led Zeppelin reunion – and Plant, especially, did not want that. “It’s nothing personal,” Plant insisted. But it was difficult not to think otherwise. “I never really understood why they did what they did,” Jones remarked, especially when they named the album No Quarter , after his signature song.

Come February ’94, Page and Plant were in a rehearsal room in King’s Cross in London, jamming to North African-inspired drum loops recorded for them by French composer Martin Meissonnier. Soon after, Plant brought in drummer Michael Lee and bass player (and Plant’s son-in-law) Charlie Jones from his solo band.

In April the four-piece played at a memorial concert for bluesman Alexis Korner in Buxton, Derbyshire. But it was after the trip to Morocco, and with the arrival of arranger Hossam Ramzy and his Egyptian Ensemble of string players and percussionists, that Page and Plant turned their idea into reality.

In the end, No Quarter: Unledded included three songs recorded in Marrakesh ( City Don’t Cry , Wah Wah , Yallah ), two in Wales ( No Quarter , Nobody’s Fault But Mine ) and the rest, including another new song, Wonderful One , recorded in front of an invited audience at London Weekend Television studios in London over two nights in August.

Page and Plant’s reworking of Nobody’s Fault But Mine and No Quarter were the closest Unledded came to being unplugged. Joined by their backing band and additional musicians, including hurdy gurdy player Nigel Eaton and former Cure guitarist Porl Thompson on banjo, they reimagined Nobody’s Fault as a sort of medieval folk song with added psychedelic drones. It was genuinely inspired. 

For No Quarter the duo performed perched on stools in the middle of a Welsh wood. Page strummed an acoustic guitar, while Plant sang and ‘treated’ his vocals with an effects unit on his lap. Unlike on the Led Zeppelin original, there wasn’t a keyboard to be heard anywhere.

For Jimmy Page, the originality and unpredictability of these new arrangements was part of the appeal. “With Led Zeppelin we were improvising every night and taking chances,” he said. “Otherwise it’s note-for-note perfect every night, and that’s boring.”

For the studio concert Page and Plant were joined by the backing band and the hurdy gurdy and banjo players, and also the Egyptian Ensemble and the London Metropolitan Orchestra on some of the songs.

Hossam Ramzy later admitted that rehearsals for the show had been difficult, as the Egyptian string players struggled to find their place in this unfamiliar music. Ramzy was concerned that the sound of a rock band with Arabian strings would be too rich – “like too much falafel in the dish”, as he told Zeppelin biographer Barney Hoskyns.

“The thing is, it’s got to kick ass,” Plant insisted. “It can’t be like the bloody Moody Blues.”

It wasn’t. Instead the ensemble added some fabulous barbed edges to new interpretations of Friends and Four Sticks .

After the Led Zeppelin reunion show in 2007, it’s easy to forget what a huge event No Quarter was at the time. Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Am-Ex were just three of the corporate giants who offered to sponsor the event. They were all turned down. But because it was such a huge event, some of the best moments on No Quarter were when the band played unaccompanied, as on Thank You , That’s The Way and What Is And What Should Never Be , simply because this was as close as you could get to seeing and hearing Led Zeppelin in 1994.

However, neither Page, who’d just turned 50, nor the 46-year-old Plant wanted to become their own tribute act. No Quarter balanced the nostalgia with daring and often beautiful new arrangements. Having Indian co-vocalist (and soon to become Plant’s girlfriend) Najma Akhtar on The Battle Of Evermore (replacing the late Sandy Denny who sang on the Zep original) was an inspired decision; the London Metropolitan Orchestra complemented The Rain Song (left off the original album release but rightly included in the 2004 reissue) perfectly, while the Orchestra and the Ensemble’s swooping strings added a menacing frisson to the closer, Kashmir . And if one Zeppelin song was built for this kind of dramatic arrangement it was Kashmir .

No Quarter: Unledded , broadcast in October ’94, drew the highest ratings of any MTV Unplugged show. Soon after, Page and Plant took their extended musical family on the road. But the duo’s next collaboration, 1998’s Walking Into Clarksdale , returned to the band format and was oddly unexciting.

Barely a year later, Page was touring with the Black Crowes , and Plant had struck out on his own again. His next solo album of original material, 2005’s Mighty ReArranger, nodded to No Quarter by blending rock and world music influences.

Inevitably, that 2007 Zeppelin reunion has overshadowed that mid-90s comeback. The 80s and 90s, with the pair’s iffy solo records and Zeppelin’s fumbled performance at Live Aid , have been discredited and even forgotten. Which is unfair. Like the O2 Arena show, Page and Plant’s MTV performance offered a tantalising glimpse of what might have been.

“No matter how far Jimmy and I drift apart, we know we can rely on each other to push the music somewhere nobody’s been,” Robert Plant said at the time. No Quarter: Unledded remains proof of that.

Mark Blake is a music journalist and author. His work has appeared in The Times and The Daily Telegraph, and the magazines Q, Mojo, Classic Rock, Music Week and Prog. He is the author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd, Is This the Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen, Magnifico! The A–Z Of Queen, Peter Grant, The Story Of Rock's Greatest Manager and Pretend You're in a War: The Who & The Sixties. 

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When Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Reunited on Daring ‘No Quarter’

Any Led Zeppelin fan expecting Robert Plant and Jimmy Page 's long-awaited reunion to include John Paul Jones must have been stunned to find them working instead with street musicians in Marrakech, Morocco. Such were the otherworldly aims of No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded , which was released on Oct. 12, 1994.

That the MTV special became the highest-rated Unplugged -era episode in the network's history would be less surprising if Page and Plant had offered such a rote superstar comeback. Instead, No Quarter was a genre-bending, chance-taking project where they eschewed straight-ahead renditions of songs like "Stairway to Heaven" in order to dig deeper into the Middle Eastern and classical influences that permeated "Kashmir" – and then followed that intriguing thread into brand-new sounds. The rock-star long hair remained, but everything else was different – right down to the band. Rather than fronting a raucous quartet, Page and Plant appeared with a bustling orchestra of exotic musical foils.

"The whole medium of four guys standing there being sincere is obsolete," Plant told the Los Angeles Times in 1994. "Sure, I've been touring for years in a format not unlike that, but I didn't have to fulfill any responsibility to history."

More generally, they'd already tried it – with largely deflating appearances as Led Zeppelin at Live Aid in 1985 and at the 40th anniversary Atlantic Records celebration in 1988. John Bonham 's shocking 1980 death seemed to hang over those performances like a dark cloud. In between, Page and Plant rarely spoke, and never about what lay ahead.

"The MTV thing really was a catalyst," Page told Rolling Stone , "because it gave Robert time to think about things and to get in contact. And when we did, it really was the first time we had a chance to think about the future constructively – to discuss it, kick it around, see how to do it, how not to do it. And it also gave us a chance to get together to write again, which is a very key issue to everything, to see whether we'd still got that creative spark."

To those who gathered around the television set, and those who bought the album, and those who later flocked to tour dates featuring Page and Plant, No Quarter  was heralded as a long-awaited Zeppelin reunion. Yet, Page was insistent: "It was not Led Zeppelin," he says in Jon Bream's Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin . "It was two members of Led Zeppelin."

As for Jones? At the time, he was touring with Diamanda Galas, an avant-garde singer – and only learned of the No Quarter project through media reports. Initially, he seemed to take the snub in stride, quipping in a separate 1994 interview with the Los Angeles Times that he only missed the private planes. Later, however, Jones was much more pointed in a conversation with Rolling Stone 's Anthony DeCurtis. "I just thought I should have been informed about it," he said. "To find out about it in the papers was a bit odd." Upon the group's 1995 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Jones offered a cutting retort : "Thank you, my friends, for finally remembering my phone number."

What happened in the interim? "My relationship with Jonesy is hampered by one misinterpreted word at the first press conference that Page and I did to go with the 'Unledded' stuff," Plant says in Hank Bordowitz's Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin . "The first question to me was, 'Where's John Paul Jones?' I said, 'He's parking the car' – and that was it. Fucked for life. I apologized, and I went to one meeting and got on one knee as he was walking out – to tie my shoelace, as well – and said, 'John, surely now we're way too old for this?' But he just sidestepped me and walked out into the East London air."

Along the way, both Page and Plant indicated that one of the principal reasons they hadn't invited Jones was because of the inescapable pressure that having all three of them together would have engendered. In truth, it was never meant to be a Led Zeppelin event, anyway.

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This improbable moment actually grew out of MTV's pursuit of Plant for a solo segment of their then-popular Unplugged  series. Plant, realizing that he would be expected to carry the mantel for Led Zeppelin, reached out to Page. Together, they were determined not to let this opportunity be consumed with nostalgia.

"For me to try to take the glory of Zep by myself would have been ridiculous," Plant told the Los Angeles Times  at the time, "so I wondered, how could we do it together? We concluded that the only way we could do it would be to take what we did in the past, which has been talked about enough that it's rather cheesy, and take it to somewhere that people might not expect. In that way, the project would show people where we were going to be at if we were going to be careerists."

They'd end up filming in Wales, on a London soundstage and in Morocco, offering a spicy mixture of acoustic folk, old blues, new songs that drew inspiration in part from found African drum patterns and – yes – some imaginatively updated Led Zeppelin, as well. The London date included Plant's then-current rhythm section, as well as 12 Egyptian musicians and 29 string musicians.

But first, there was a decidedly awkward initial meeting.

"My only problem approaching Jimmy," Plant told Rolling Stone , "was that we'd never, ever had a conversation in 14 years about the future together. We'd been bundled into these compromising, well-meaning situations – the charity shows, stuff like that – where there was no preamble, just a conversation on the phone or a conversation between other parties. It's ridiculous how we really didn't even know each other. We knew what we knew from way back and that was colored by the passing of time. But I don't think we knew where we were coming from now."

In its way, that made starting anew, rather than trying to simply recreate the past, an easier path to follow. "The whole deal is that there has always been some kind of ridiculous responsibility. That's what I wanted to get rid of," Plant added. "I didn't want to be responsible for everybody's idea of what it was before. Fuck that. There's no point in trying to pretend that you're immortal and that you've returned once again to do that ultimate version of 'Stairway to Heaven.'"

It's seemed, in this moment, that their lengthy collaborative relationship had been rekindled for good. "The fact that all our misgivings, and the time that had gone by, were so easily moved aside in the union of writing made our new collaboration easy, if not simple," Plant told the Times. "It made us think that we could be open to what might come next, when we don't have to work over our old material, but when we can do something that's brand new."

After four more years – a lot of which was spent touring together in support of No Quarter  – a proper studio effort followed, 1998's Walking Into Clarksdale . Nine years later, Page and Plant would take the stage again with Jones as Led Zeppelin.

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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant – No Quarter: Unledded

The 1980s were not kind to Jimmy Page’s reputation. The death of John Bonham, the dissolution of Led Zeppelin; Page’s efforts with the Firm; and his poor showings with the survivors of Zeppelin at various high profile gigs all helped to tarnish his guitar hero credentials.

All was redeemed on October 12, 1994, when MTV debuted Unledded , reuniting Page with Robert Plant, his sparring partner and vocalist in Zeppelin. Both men were in fine form, and Page sailed effortlessly through the gig, perhaps because many of Unledded’s songs were Zeppelin-era efforts reworked.

Inspired by the massive sales of last year’s Led Zeppelin DVD, Warner has finally released Unledded on DVD, under the unwieldy title of No Quarter: Unledded .

Flash has always been a key element of Page’s visual style, which helps explain the battery of guitars he used in Unledded : an Ovation 6/12 doubleneck; a custom-made acoustic tripleneck, which adds a mandolin to the mix; and several conventional six string acoustics. Page plays three Les Pauls as well: his classic 1959 sunburst (Number One) on several songs, and his B-Bender-equipped axe on “Thank You.”

For the climax of Unledded – an orchestral reworking of “Kashmir” – Page deployed an early-’90s Gibson Les Paul goldtop with the TransPerformance self-tuning system, allowing him to switch from DADGAD for the body of the song to standard tuning for the hard-rocking outro.

Viewers with five-channel surround systems will be in for a treat: engineer Kevin Shirley used a much more expansive mix than last year’s Led Zeppelin DVD. Not surprisingly for a recording with a Page co-production credit, on the outro of “What Is And What Should Never Be,” he sends Page’s power chords swirling around the front and rear speakers. Throughout the DVD, percussion and strings frequently appear out of the rear channels, enveloping the viewer into the sound.

The bonus materials include an MTV interview on a London street that aired concurrently with the show’s debut; a wild version of “Black Dog” that combines Australian didgeridoos along with Page roaring away with some sort of harmonizer on his guitar; and the “Most High” video from 1998’s Walking into Clarksdale followup CD. There’s also a stunning version of “The Rain Song,” seen originally only on the laser disc version of Unledded .

If you enjoyed last year’s Zeppelin DVD, you’ll enjoy Unledded . Now if only Page and Plant could remember John Paul Jones’ phone number and get the mighty Zeppelin airborne again!

This article originally appeared in VG ‘s Jan. ’05 issue. All copyrights are by the author and Vintage Guitar magazine. Unauthorized replication or use is strictly prohibited.

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Watch Robert Plant and Jimmy Page Transport Listeners “To Another Galaxy” With Mesmerizing “Kashmir” Performance

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For a time there, Led Zeppelin made magic. The British quartet of John Bonham, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant became “the biggest band in the world” during the ’70s. Sadly, that period of enchantment came to an abrupt end in 1980, when drummer John Bonham tragically died from alcohol-induced aspiration. Knowing they could never match their peak without Bonham, the band opted to dissolve. But for a brief moment in 1994, Plant and Page reunited for one more bewitching performance of Zeppelin’s 1975 hit “Kashmir.”

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The song robert plant called “perfect zeppelin”.

Many consider “Stairway to Heaven” as the quintessential Led Zeppelin song. Robert Plant is not one of them.

“I wish we were remembered for ‘Kashmir’ more than ‘Stairway To Heaven,’” the frontman, now 75, told Louder last year.

That’s fair. A flurry of clashing rhythmic meters coupled with mystical imagery ( Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face / And stars fill my dream ), the track is everything that made Led Zeppelin… well, Led Zeppelin.

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“Kashmir” takes its title from India’s northernmost geographical region. However, lyrical inspiration actually struck Plant during a 1973 drive through a barren stretch of southern Morocco. After three years fine tuning, the band released “Kashmir” as part of their 1975 album Physical Graffiti.

The Reunion

It was the perfect song to bring Led Zeppelin out of retirement. In 1994—14 years after John Bonham’s death—Jimmy Page and Robert Plant reunited for Unledded , an MTV Unplugged special recorded in Morocco, Wales and London.

Backed by an Egyptian orchestra, the rock-music titans took “Kashmir” to another level. On Saturday (Aug. 17) the X/Twitter account @historyrock_ posted a video of the performance. “Absolutely amazing, just turn up the volume, and you’re off to another Galaxy,” the post read. “Pure genius.”

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant performing "Kashmir" with the Egyptian orchestra leaded by Hossam Ramzi, 1994. Absolutely amazing, just turn up the volume, and you're off to another Galaxy. Pure genius. #LedZeppelin pic.twitter.com/NjvFGyuxq1 — 🎸 Rock History 🎸 (@historyrock_) August 17, 2024

Indeed, “otherworldly” is the only way to describe this version. The “Whole Lotta Love” rockers would later release it as part of the live album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded .

“The need a whole orchestra to fill in for John Paul Jones. . .” pointed out one X/Twitter user.

The need a whole orchestra to fill in for John Paul Jones. . . — MrMojorizin (@GrahamCrackerz) August 19, 2024

Also true. Controversially, Plant and Page did not invite their other surviving bandmate to participate in the reunion.

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