LED ZEPPELIN: 1977 JIMMY PAGE Audio Interview Available
May 28, 2007Steven Rosen of ModernGuitars.com reports:
Thirty years ago, I spent 11 days on the road with LED ZEPPELIN. Jimmy Page was 33, I was 24, the year was 1977, and the English quartet ruled the world. The band had released "Presence", their seventh studio album (discounting the live concert recording, "The Song Remains the Same"),about a year earlier, and it had become their sixth record in a row to attain the Number One chart position in both the US and the UK. No one could touch them and no one dared try.
So, when I was finally given the thumbs up to accompany the band for the kickoff North American leg of their '77 tour, I fell down a staircase of emotions: astonishment, terror, and mega-responsibility. I knew Page never spoke to writers; he held a low opinion of what they wrote and rarely made the effort to communicate with them. Though I'd only been writing for about three years, I saw the importance of this interview. James Patrick Page had created a musical mythology not only with ZEPPELIN but with his eclectic work as a studio session player in London during the Sixties and later with THE YARDBIRDS. Everyone wanted to know how he created his guitar sounds, how he layered instruments, what guitars he played, and on what recording dates did he appear. It was my responsibility to extract this information from him — and for 11 days, that's what I did. Or at least, that's what I tried to do.
Read more — and listen to the interview — at ModernGuitars.com.
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