James Patrick Page (born January 9, 1944) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer who achieved international success as a guitarist and founder of rock band Led Zeppelin.
Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and, in the mid-1960s, alongside Big Jim Sullivan, was one of the UK's most wanted session guitarists. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. In late 1968, he founded Led Zeppelin.
Page is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. The Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the leader of power riffing" and placed it 3rd in the list of "100 Greatest Guitar Experts of All Time". In 2010, she was ranked number two on Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarist of All Time" list and, in 2007, number four on Classical Rock ' s "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes ". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; once as a member of Yardbirds (1992) and was once a member of Led Zeppelin (1995). The page has been described by Uncut as "the greatest and mysterious guitar hero". Early life
Page was born from James Patrick Page and Patricia Elizabeth Gaffikin on the western outskirts of London Heston on January 9, 1944. His father was an industrial personnel manager and his mother, who was of Irish descent, was a physician secretary. In 1952, they moved to Feltham and then to Miles Road, Epsom in Surrey, where Page found his first guitar. "I do not know if [the guitar] was left by people [at home] before [us], or whether it was a family friend - nobody knows why it was there." First play a musical instrument at the age of 12, he took a few lessons at nearby Kingston, but mostly self-taught:
As I grew there were not many other guitarists... There was one other guitarist at my school who really showed me the first chord I learned and I proceeded from there. I was bored so I taught myself guitar from listening to recordings. So obviously it is a very personal thing.
Among the early influences of Pages were rockabilly guitarists Scotty Moore and James Burton, who both played on recordings made by Elvis Presley. Presley's song "Baby Let's Play House" was cited by Page as the inspiration for picking up the guitar. Although he appeared on BBC1 in 1957 with President HÃÆ'¶fner, Page stated that his first guitar was Futiama Grazioso in 1959, later replaced by Fender Telecaster.
The taste buds include skiffle (popular British music genre back then) and acoustic folk play, and blues voice Elmore James, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Freddie King and Hubert Sumlin. "Basically, that's the beginning: a mix between rock and blues."
At 13, Page appears in the Hww Wheldon talent search program All yours in the skiffle quartet, one of the shows premiered on BBC1 in 1957. The group plays "Mama Do not Want to Skiffle Anymore" and the song other American flavor, "In Them Ol 'Cottonfields Back Home." When asked by Wheldon what he wanted to do after school, Page said, "I want to do biological research [to find a cure for] cancer, if not found at the time."
In an interview with Guitar Player magazine, Page stated that "there was a lot of singing in the early days, but as they say, I have to come to grips with it and it is a good school." Page bringing guitar to school every day just to have it confiscated and returned to him after class. Despite being interviewed for work as a laboratory assistant, he finally chose to leave Danetree Middle School, West Ewell, to pursue music.
Page had trouble finding other musicians he could play on a regular basis. "It was not as if there was abundance, I used to play in many groups... anyone who can get the show together, really." After running backing recitals by Beat poet Royston Ellis at the Mermaid Theater between 1960-61, and singer Red E. Lewis, he was asked by singer Neil Christian to join his band, Crusaders, after Christian saw a fifteen-year-old boy playing in local hall. Page toured with Christian for about two years and then played on several notes, including the 1962 single, "The Road to Love."
During his stint with Christian, Page fell severely ill with glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis) and was unable to continue the tour. While he was recovering, he decided to end his musical career and concentrate on love, painting, and enrolling at Sutton Art College in Surrey. As he explained in 1975:
[I] drive around all the time on the bus. I did it for two years after I left school, to the point where I started getting really good bread. But I started getting sick. So I went back to art college. And that is a total change of direction. That's why I say it's possible. As dedicated as I play guitar, I know doing it that way it does me forever. Every two months I have a glandular fever. So over the next 18 months I live with ten dollars a week and get my strength. But I'm still playing.
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In the early 1960s: session musicians
While still a student, Page often appeared on stage at The Marquee with bands like All All Cyril Davies, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and fellow guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. He was discovered one night by John Gibb of Brian Howard & Siluet, who asked him to help record some singles for Columbia Graphophone Company, including "The Worrying Kind". Mike Leander of Decca Records first offered the usual studio work of Page. His first sessions for the label were recording "Diamonds" by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan, who went to Number 1 on the singles chart in early 1963.
After a brief assignment with Carter-Lewis and South, Mike Hurst and Methods and Mickey Finn and Blue Men, Page committed themselves to working full-time sessions. As a session guitarist, he is known as' Lil 'Jim Pea' to prevent confusion with other English session guitarists, Big Jim Sullivan. Page is mainly called into the session as "insurance" in case when a replacement or a second guitarist is required by the recording artist. "Usually myself and a drummer," he explains, "although they never mentioned drummers today, just me... Anyone who needs a guitarist, go to Big Jim [Sullivan] or me." He states that "In the early stages they just say, play what you want, because at that time I can not read music or anything."
Page is a favorite session guitarist of record producer Shel Talmy. As a result, he secures work sessions on songs for Who and Kinks. The page is credited with playing acoustic twelve-string guitars on two tracks on Kinks's debut album, "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain", and probably on the b-side "I Should Move". He played rhythm guitar on sessions for the first single "I Can not Explain" (although Pete Townshend was reluctant to contribute Page on the final recording; Page also played the main guitar on the B-side, "Bald Headed Woman"). Gigs studio Page in 1964 included Marianne Faithfull's "As Tears Go By", Nashville Teens 'Road tobacco ", the Rolling Stones'" Heart of Stone ", Van Morrison & amp; They are "Baby Please Do not Go", "Mystic Eyes", and "Here Comes the Night", Dave Berry "The Crying Game" and "My Baby Left Me", Brenda Lee "Is It True", and Petula Clark " City center".
In a 2010 interview, Page remembers the guitar contributions for the incidental music of The Beatles movie of 1964 A Hard Day's Night, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
In 1965, Page was hired by Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to act as a home producer and A & amp; R man for the newly created Live Record label, which allows him to play and/or produce songs by John Mayall, Nico, Chris Farlowe, Twice more and Clapton. Also in 1965, Page produced one of Dana Gillespie's early singles, "Thank You, Child". Page also formed a short song writing partnership with romantic interests Jackie DeShannon. He composed and recorded a song for John Williams's album (not to be confused with John Williams film composer) The Maureeny Wishful Album with Big Jim Sullivan. Page worked as a session musician at Donovan Leitch's Sunshine Superman and Johnny Hallyday's album Jeuna Homme and Je Suis NÃÆ'Â © Dans La Rue , Al Stewart album Love Chronicles and playing guitar on five tracks from Joe Cocker's debut album, With a Little Help from my Friends . For many years since 1970, Page played the main guitar on 10 songs of Roy Harper, which consisted of 81 minutes of music.
When asked about what song he is playing, especially where there is controversy over what his exact role is, Page often points out that it is difficult to remember exactly what he did because of the many sessions he played at the time. In a radio interview he explained that "I do three sessions a day, fifteen sessions a week.. Sometimes I will play with the group, sometimes I can do movie music, it can be a people's session... I can to fit in all these different roles. "
Although Page was recorded with many famous musicians, many of these early songs were only available as pirated footage, some of which were released by Led Zeppelin fan clubs in the late 1970s. One of the rarest of these is the early hour session featuring guitarists Jimmy Page and Stones Keith Richards covering Robert Johnson's "Little Queen of Spades". Some of the earliest songs with Page are compiled on twin album releases, Jimmy Page: Session Man . The page was also recorded with Richards on guitar and vocals at Olympic Sound Studios on October 15, 1974. With Ric Grech on bass and Bruce Rowland on drums, the song entitled "Scarlet" was cut. Page reflected later in an interview with Rolling Stone ' s Cameron Crowe: "I did what might be the next Stone B. side.Rich Grech, Keith and I did the number called "Scarlet." I can not remember the drummer It sounds very similar in style and mood to Blonde on Blonde songs.It was very nice, very good.We stayed up all night and went to Island Studios where Keith put some guitar reggae in one piece.I just put some solos on it, but it was at eight o'clock the next morning before I did that.He took the tape to Switzerland and someone knew about them.Keyith told the guys that it is a song from my album ".
The left page of the studio works when the increasing influence of Stax Records on popular music leads to greater incorporation of brass and orchestral arrangements into the recording at the expense of the guitar. He stated that his time as a session player serves as a very good school:
My session work is invaluable. At one point I played at least three sessions a day, six days a week! And I rarely know beforehand what I'm going to play. But I learned a lot of things even on my worst sessions - and believe me, I played in some horrendous things. I finally stopped after I started getting a call to do Muzak. I decided I could not live that life anymore; that's too ridiculous. I think it was fate that a week after I quit the session, Paul Samwell-Smith left the Yardbirds and I was able to replace him. But being a very enjoyable session musician in the beginning - the studio discipline was excellent. They only count the songs and you can not make mistakes.
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The late 1960s: The Yardbirds
In late 1964, Page was approached about the possibility of replacing Eric Clapton at the Yardbirds, but he refused loyalty to his friend. In February 1965, Clapton quit the Yardbirds and Page officially offered his place, but did not want to give up his profitable career as a session musician and worried about his health under tour conditions, he advised his friend Jeff Beck. On May 16, 1966, drummer Keith Moon, bassist John Paul Jones, keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, Beck and Page recorded "Beck's Bolero" at London's IBC Studios. Experience gives Page an idea to form a new supergroup featuring Beck, along with Who Who John Entwistle on bass and Moon on drums. However, the lack of quality vocalists and contractual problems prevented the project from going down to the ground. During this time, Moon suggested the name "Lead Zeppelin" for the first time, after Entwistle commented that the process would take to the air like a tin balloon.
Within a few weeks, Page attended a Yardbirds concert at Oxford. After the show, he went backstage where Paul Samwell-Smith announced he was leaving the group. Page offered to replace Samwell-Smith, and this was accepted by the group. He initially plays electric bass with the Yardbirds before finally turning to twin lead guitar with Beck when Chris Dreja moves to bass. The musical potential of the composition of players was disrupted, however, by interpersonal conflicts caused by constant tour and lack of commercial success, although they released a single, "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago". While Page and Beck play together at Yardbirds, the Page trio, Beck and Clapton never play in the original group at the same time. The three guitarists appeared on stage together at the ARMS charity concert in 1983.
After Beck's departure, the Yardbirds family remains a quartet. They recorded an album with Page in the lead guitar, Little Games. The album received perfunctory and unsuccessful commercial reviews, peaking at number 80 on Billboard 200. Although their studio sound was quite commercial at the time, the band's live performance was the opposite, becoming heavier. and more experimental. These concerts show the musical aspects that Page will then be perfect with Led Zeppelin, especially the "Dazed and Confused" show.
After the departure of Relief Keith and Jim McCarty in 1968, Page reconfigured the group with a new line-up to meet the unfinished tour dates in Scandinavia. For this purpose, Page recruited vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham, and he was also contacted by John Paul Jones, who asked to join. During the Scandinavian tour, the new group emerged as New Yardbirds, but soon recalled the old jokes by Keith Moon and John Entwistle. Page stuck with the name used for his new band. Peter Grant turned it into "Led Zeppelin", to avoid missteps like "Leed Zeppelin."
1968-1980: Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin is one of the best-selling music bands in the history of audio recording. Various sources estimate worldwide sales in more than 200 or even 300 million albums. With 111.5 million RIAA certified units, they are the second best-selling band in the United States. Each of their nine studio albums reached the top 10 of the US Billboard charts, and six reached number one.
Led Zeppelin is an ancestor of heavy metal and hard rock, and their voices are largely the product of Page input as producers and musicians. The band's individualistic style attracts a wide range of influences. They performed on several record-breaking concert tours, which also gave them an excessive reputation. Although they remained commercially successful and critical, in the late 1970s, band output and band tours were limited by members' personal difficulties.
Page explains that he has a very specific idea in mind as to what he wants from Led Zeppelin, from the beginning:
I have many ideas from my days with the Yardbirds family. Yardbirds allowed me to improvise a lot in live performances and I started building an idea textbook that I ended up using in Zeppelin. Besides those ideas, I want to add an acoustic texture. In the end, I want Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music with heavy choruses - a combination that has never been done before. Lots of light and shade in music.
Career Post Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980 after Bonham's death at Page's home. Page initially refused to touch the guitar, grieve for his friend. During the rest of the 1980s, his work consisted of a series of short-term collaborations in the Firm bands, the Honeydrippers, reunions and individual work, including the movie soundtrack. He also became active in philanthropic work.
1980s
Page made his return to the stage at Jeff Beck's show in March 1981 at Hammersmith Odeon. Also in 1981, Page joined Yes bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White to form a supergro called XYZ (for former Yes-Zeppelin). They practiced several times, but the project was suspended. Bootlegs from this session revealed that some of the material appeared on subsequent projects, notably The Firm's "Fortune Hunter" and Yes songs "Mind Drive" and "Can You Imagine?". Page joined Yes on stage in 1984 at Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, playing "I'm Down".
In 1982, Page collaborated with director Michael Winner to record the soundtrack of Death Wish II . This and some of the next Page tapes, including the Death Wish III soundtrack, were recorded and produced in his recording studio, The Sol in Cookham, which he had purchased from Gus Dudgeon in the early 1980s.
In 1983, Page appeared with A.R.M.S. (Action Research for Multiple Sclerosis) series of concert charities honoring Small Faces bassist Ronnie Lane, who suffered from the disease. For the first show at Royal Albert Hall in London, the Page set consisted of songs from the Death Wish II soundtrack (with Steve Winwood on vocals) and the instrumental version of "Stairway to Heaven". A four-city tour of the United States followed, with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company replacing Winwood. During the tour, Page and Rodgers featured "Midnight Moonlight", which will appear on the first album of The Firm. All shows featured in the "Layla" jam stages that reunited with Beck and Clapton. According to the book Hammer of the Gods , it was reported around this time that Page told his friends that he had just ended seven years of heroin use. On December 13, 1983, Page joined Plant on stage for a performance at Hammersmith Odeon in London.
Next page linked to Roy Harper for 1984 album What Happens to Jugula? and an occasional concert, performing an acoustic set at folk festivals under various guises such as MacGregors and Themselves. Also in 1984, Page was recorded with Plant as Honeydrippers The Honeydrippers: Volume 1 and with John Paul Jones on the Scream for Help soundtrack .
Page then collaborated with Rodgers on two albums under the name The Firm. The first album, released in 1985, is self-titled The Firm . Popular songs include "Radioactive" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed". The album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard pop album chart and went gold in the US. Followed by Mean Business in 1986. The band toured in support of both albums, but soon split up.
Other projects followed, such as work sessions for Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Rolling Stones (on their 1986 single "One Hit (to the Body)"). In 1986, Page reunited temporarily with former Yardbirds bandmates to play on some of the Strange Land Box's Frogs albums. Page released a solo album titled Outrider in 1988, featuring contributions from Plant, with Page contributing in turn to Plant Now's and Zen solo albums, released in the same year. The Outrider album also features singer John Miles in the opening song of the album "Wasting My Time."
Throughout these years, Page has also reunited with other Led Zeppelin bandmates to perform live on several occasions, especially in 1985 for Live Aid concerts with Phil Collins and Tony Thompson filling drum assignments. However, the band members considered this performance to be less standard, with a page that has been disappointed by the imperfect Les Paul. Page, Plant and Jones, and Bonham's son, Jason, appeared on the 40th anniversary of Atlantic Records on May 14, 1988, closing the 12-hour show.
1990s
In 1990, Knebworth's concert to help Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center and British School of Performing Arts and Technology saw Plant unexpectedly join Page to perform "Misty Mountain Hop", "Wearing and Tearing" and "Rock and Roll". Page was also performed with former band members at Jason Bonham's wedding. Page also started a collaboration with David Coverdale in 1993 entitled Coverdale Page.
In 1994, Page reunited with Plant for a second show from behind in the MTV "Unplugged" series. The 90 minute special, dubbed Unledded , was shown to the highest rank in MTV history. In October of the same year, the sessions were released as CD No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded and in 2004 as DVD No Quarter Unledded . Following a very successful mid-'90s tour to support No Quarter, Page and Plant recorded 1998's Walk to Clarksdale, along with drummer Michael Lee.
Page is heavily involved in remastering the Led Zeppelin catalog. She participated in various charity concerts and charity activities, specifically the Action for Brazil's Children Trust (ABC Trust), founded by his wife Jimena Gomez-Paratcha in 1998. That same year, Page played a guitar for rap singer/song producer Puff Daddy "Come with Me", who exemplifies "Kashmir" Led Zeppelin and is included in the Godzilla soundtrack. The two then do a song on Saturday Night Live .
In October 1999, Page teamed up with The Black Crowes for a two-night performance of material from the Led Zeppelin catalog and the old blues and rock standards. The concert was recorded and released as a double live album, Live at the Greek in 2000. In 2001 she appeared on stage with frontman Limp Bizkit Fred Durst and Wes Scantlin of Puddle of Mudd on MTV Europe Video Music Awards in Frankfurt, where they performed the "Thank You" version of Led Zeppelin.
2000s
In 2005, Page was appointed as an Officer of the Royal Order of the United Kingdom (OBE) in recognition of his Brazilian charity work for Brazilian Duties and Action for the Trust of Brazilian Children, making an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro later that year and awarded a Grammy Award.
In November 2006, Led Zeppelin was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. The television broadcast of the event consists of introduction to the band by various famous admirers (including Roger Taylor, Slash, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Jack White and Tony Iommi), award presentation for Jimmy Page and then short speech by guitarist. After this, rock group Wolfmother plays an award for Led Zeppelin, playing the song "Communication Breakdown". During an interview for the BBC in connection with the induction, Page stated plans to record new material in 2007, saying: "This is an album that I really need to get out of my system... there's a good album there and it's ready. "and" There will also be some Zeppelin stuff on the horizon. "
On December 10, 2007, Led Zeppelin's surviving members, as well as John Bonham's son, Jason Bonham played a charity concert at the O2 Arena London. According to Guinness World Records 2009, Led Zeppelin set a world record for "The Highest Demand for Ticket for One Music Concert" because 20 million requests for the reunion event were awarded online. On June 7, 2008, Page and John Paul Jones performed with Foo Fighters to close the band's concert at Wembley Stadium, performing "Rock and Roll" and "Ramble On". For the 2008 Olympics, Jimmy Page, David Beckham and Leona Lewis represented England during the closing ceremony on August 24, 2008. Beckham took the double-decker bus to the stadium and Page and Lewis performed "Whole Lotta Love".
In 2008 Page also produced a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim titled It Might Get Loud . The film examines the history of electric guitars, focusing on career and style of Page, Edge and White Jack. The film premiered on September 5, 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Page also participated in three parts of the BBC London Calling: The making of the Olympic handover ceremony on March 4, 2009. On April 4, 2009, Page inducted Jeff Beck to become Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Page announced his 2010 solo tour while talking to Sky News on December 16, 2009.
2010s
In January 2010, Page announced an autobiography published by Genesis Publications, in a limited edition of 2,150 copies made manually. Page was honored with the first Global Peace Prize by the United Nations Peace Preparation Organization after confirming reports that it will be among the top leaders at the planned Peace Concert Exhibition in Beijing on October 10, 2010.
On June 3, 2011, Page played with Donovan at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The concert was filmed. Page made an unannounced appearance with The Black Crowes at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on July 13, 2011. He also played with Roy Harper at the Harper's 70th birthday concert, at Royal Festival Hall London on November 5, 2011.
In November 2011, British Conservative MP Louise Mensch launched a campaign to have Page knighted for his contribution to the music industry. In December 2012, Page, together with Plant and Jones, received the annual Kennedy Center Award from President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony. This award is the highest US award for those who have influenced American culture through art. In February 2013, Plant hinted that he was open to Led Zeppelin's reunion in 2014, stating that he was not the reason for the band's dormancy, saying "Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones are quite contained in their own world and handed it to [him]", adding that he's "not a bad guy" and that he's "nothing to do in 2014."
On May 10, 2014, Page was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the commencement ceremony of Berklee College Of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In a 2014 spring interview with the BBC about the reissue of Led Zeppelin's upcoming first three albums, Page said he was confident fans would be interested in another reunion event, but Plant replied that "the possibility happened zero." Page then told > The New York Times that he was "disgusted" with Plant's rejection to play, stating "I was told last year that Robert Plant said he did not do anything in 2014, and what the other two people think? he knows what everyone else thinks.. Everyone will be happy to play more concerts for the band.He just played the game, and I'm sick of it, honestly with you.I'm not singing, so I can not do a lot about it ", adding," I definitely want to play straight away, because, you know, I still have a twinkle in my eyes I can still play so I'll just go into music concentrate on the guitar. "
On July 30, 2014, a NME article revealed that Plant was "slightly disappointed and bewildered" by Page in an ongoing dispute in Led Zeppelin where Page declared him "disgusted" with Plant delaying Led Zeppelin reunion plans. Instead, Plant offered Led Zeppelin guitarist to write acoustically with her when she was interested in working with Page again but only in a non-conspicuous way.
On September 30, 2014, Page - who has not toured as a soloist since 1988 - announces that he will start a new band and do material that covers all of his career. He talked about his prospects for hitting the road, saying: "I have not installed [musicians] but I will do it next year [ie 2015].If I go out to play I will play the material that stretches everything from my recording career right back to the day - My very early day with The Yardbirds There will be some new material there too... Ã, Â ».
On December 30, 2015, Page was featured on Radio Two's two-hour program Johnny Walker Meets , in a conversation with DJ Johnny Walker. In October 2017, Page spoke at the Oxford Union about his musical career.
Inheritance and influence
The page is widely considered, by fellow musicians and guitarists, one of the greatest and most influential guitarists. His experience in the studio and with the Yardbirds was the key to the success of Led Zeppelin in the 1970s. As a record producer, songwriter, and guitarist, he helped create the Zeppelin prototype for countless future rock bands and was one of the main driving forces behind the rock sound of that era, influencing a number of other guitarists.
Guitarists influenced by Pages include Eddie Van Halen, Ace Frehley, Joe Satriani, John Frusciante, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Perry, Richie Sambora, Angus Young, Slash, Dave Mustaine, Mike McCready, Jerry Cantrell, Stone Gossard, Mick Mars, Paul Stanley, Alex Lifeson, Steve Vai, Dan Hawkins, among others. Queen's Brian May told Guitarists in 2004. "I do not think anyone wrote a better riff than Jimmy Page He's one of the brains of great rock music."
Recording tools and techniques
Guitar
To record most of Led Zeppelin's material from Led Zeppelin's second album, Page uses the Gibson Les Paul guitar (sold to him by Joe Walsh) with Marshall amplification. A Harmony Sovereign H-1260 was used in the studio at Led Zeppelin III and Led Zeppelin IV and on stage from 5 March 1971 to 28 June 1972. During the studio session for > Led Zeppelin and then to record a guitar solo on "Stairway to Heaven", he uses Fender Telecaster (a gift from Jeff Beck). He also uses Danelectro 3021, tuned for DADGAD, especially on "Kashmir" performances.
Gibson released Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul, discontinued in 1999, then released another version in 2004, which was also discontinued. The 2004 version includes 25 guitars signed by Page, 150 by Tom Murphy (recognized "aging master") and 840 "unlimited" production guitars. The Jimmy Page Signature EDS-1275 has been produced by Gibson. Most recently, Gibson reproduced the 1960 Les Paul Black Beauty Page, which was stolen from it in 1970, with modern modifications. The guitar was sold in 2008 with run of 25, again signed by Page, plus an additional 500 non-signed guitars.
In December 2009, Gibson released 'Jimmy Page "Number Two" Les Paul'. This is a remake of the famous Les Paul "Number Two" page he used since about 1974. This model includes the same pick-up redirection arrangements as designed by Page, a shaved neck profile, Burstbucker's neck and " Pagebucker "on the bridge. A total of 325 made in three finishes: 25 Aged by Tom Murphy Gibson, signed and played by Page ($ 26,000), 100 aged ($ 16,000) and 200 with a VOS finish ($ 12,000).
Amplifier and effects
He is usually recorded in the studio with various kinds of reinforcement with Vox, Axis, Fender and Orange amplification. Instantly, he uses Hiwatt and Marshall amplifications. The first Led Zeppelin album was played on Fender Telecaster via Supro amplifier.
The page uses a limited number of effects, including Maestro Echoplex, Dunlop Cry Baby, MXR Phase 90, Vox Cry Baby Wah, Boss CE-2 Chorus, Chorus Yamaha CH-10Mk II, Sola Sound Tone Bender Professional Mk II, MXR Blue Box (distortion/octave) and DigiTech Whammy. Pages also play songs.
Music production techniques
Jimmy Page is credited for innovation in the sound recording he brought to the studio for many years as a member of Led Zeppelin, many of whom he originally developed as a session musician:
This internship... becomes part of [learning] how things are recorded. I started learning about microphone placement and things like that, what worked and what did not work. I definitely know what works and does not work with the drummers because they put the drummer in a small sound booth that does not have a sound deflection at all and the drums will sound horrible. The fact is the drum is a musical instrument, it depends on having a bright space and living space... And little by little I learned really how to not record.
He developed a reputation for using effects in new ways and tried different methods using microphones and amplification. During the late 1960s, most British music producers placed the microphone directly in front of the amplifiers and drums, producing a "loud" sound from the recording of the times. Page commented to the Guitar World magazine that he felt the drum sound of the day "sounded like a cardboard." By contrast, Page is a fan of 1950s recording techniques, Sun Studios being a special favorite. In the same Guitar World interview, Page commented: "Recording is used as a science" and "[engineers] usually have a saying: the distance is the same as the depth." Taking this adage to heart, Page developed the idea of ​​placing an additional microphone some distance away from the amplifier (as much as twenty feet) and then recording the balance between the two. By adopting this technique, Page became one of the first British manufacturers to record the band's "ambient noise" - the distance of note lag from one end of the room to the other.
For recording some of Led Zeppelin's songs, such as "Whole Lotta Love" and "You Shook Me", Page also uses "reverse echo" - a technique he claims to have created himself while with Yardbirds (he has developed methods while recording the 1967 single "Ten Little Indians "). This production technique involves hearing an echo before the main voice, not after it, is achieved by rotating the tape and using an echo on the backup track, then playing back the tape to get an echo that precedes the signal.
Page has stated that, as a producer, he deliberately changed the audio engineer on the Led Zeppelin album, from Glyn Johns to his first album, to Eddie Kramer for Led Zeppelin II to Andy Johns for Led Zeppelin III and subsequent albums. He explains: "I consciously keep changing engineers because I do not want people to think that they are responsible for our voices, I want people to know that it's me."
John Paul Jones acknowledges that Page production techniques are a key component of Led Zeppelin success:
The reverberations behind [and] many microphone techniques are just inspired. Using distance-miking... and small amplifiers. Everyone thought we were in the studio with a big wall of amplifiers, but Page did not. He uses a very small amplifier and he just attaches the microphone very well, so it matches the sonic image.
In an interview that Page himself gave to Guitar World magazine in 1993, he told his work as a producer:
Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I consider myself more broadly... As a record producer, I want to be remembered as someone who can keep a group of unquestioned individual talents and push him to the forefront during his working career. I think I really capture the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on Led Zeppelin's multifaceted tape - gems.
Personal life
Partners
The early companion of the 1960s was American recording artist Jackie DeShannon, possibly an inspiration for page composition and Led Zeppelin recording "Tangerine".
The French model Charlotte Martin was a Page partner from 1970 to about 1982 or 1983. Page called him "My Lady". Together they have a daughter, Scarlet Page (born in 1971), who is a photographer.
From 1986 to 1995 Page married Patricia Ecker, a model and servant. They have a son, James Patrick Page (born April 1988). Page later married Jimena GÃÆ'³mez-Paratcha, whom he met in Brazil on the No Quarter tour. She adopted her eldest daughter Jana (born 1994) and they have two children together: Zofia Jade (born 1997) and Ashen Josan (born 1999). Page and Paratcha divorced in 2008.
She has been in a relationship with actress Scarlett Sabet since 2015.
Properties
In 1967, when Page was with The Yardbirds, he bought the Thames Boathouse on the Thames River in Pangbourne, Berkshire and lived there until 1973. The Boathouse was also the place where Page and Plant first officially gathered in the summer of 1968 and Led Zeppelin formed.
In 1972, Page bought the Tower House from Richard Harris. It was the house that William Burges (1827-181) had designed for himself in London. "I am interested in returning to my teenager in pre-Raphael movement and Burges architecture," Page said. "A beautiful world to explore." Burges's reputation lies in its luxurious design and its contribution to the Gothic revival of architecture in the nineteenth century.
From 1980 to 2004 Page had Mill House, Mill Lane, Windsor, formerly the home of actor Michael Caine. Fellow band member Led Zeppelin John Bonham died at home in 1980.
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, Page had Boleskine House, Aleister Crowley's former living quarters. Part of Page's fantasy sequence in The Song Remains Same movie was filmed at night on the mountain side just behind Boleskine House.
Page also previously owned Plumpton Place in Sussex, formerly owned by Edward Hudson, owner of Country Life magazine and with certain parts of the house designed by Edwin Lutyens. This house has a feature in the Zeppelin movie The Song Remains The same where the page is seen sitting on the lawn playing a hurdy-gurdy.
He currently lives in Sonning, Berkshire in Deanery Garden, a house also designed by Edwin Lutyens for Edward Hudson.
recreational drug use
Page has acknowledged heavy drug use throughout the 1970s. In an interview with Guitar World magazine in 2003, he stated: "I can not speak for [other members of the band], but to me drugs are an integral part of everything, right from the beginning, to to the end. "After a 1973 North American tour, Page told Nick Kent:" Oh, everyone repeated it a couple of times, I know I did it and, honestly, to you, I do not really remember much that happened. "
In 1975, Page began using heroin, a claim attributed to Richard Cole, stating that Page (other than himself) took the drug during the recording sessions of the Presence album that year and Page confessed to him not long ago after that he was addicted to the drug.
With Led Zeppelin's 1977 tour in North America, heroin addiction began hampering his guitar performance. At this time the guitarist has lost real weight. Appearance on stage is not the only real change; his addiction caused the page to be so deep and isolated it changed the dynamics between him and the Plant far away. During the recording sessions for In Through the Out Door in 1978, the diminished Page effect on the album (relative to bassist John Paul Jones) was partly due to heroin addiction, resulting in his absence from the studio for long periods of time.
Page reportedly overcame his heroin habit in the early 1980s, although he was arrested for possession of cocaine in 1982 and 1984. He was given a 12 month conditional termination in 1982 and, although a second offense usually carries a prison sentence, he is only fined.
In a 1988 interview with the Musician magazine, Page was offended when the interviewer noted that heroin had been linked to his name and insisted: "Do I look as if I am a hit addict? Well, I am 'No, accept love a lot. "
In an interview he gave to Q magazine in 2003, Page answered the question of whether he regretted his involvement with heroin and cocaine:
I do not regret at all because when I have to really focus, I'm really focused. There he is. Both Presence and In Through the Outgoing Door were recorded in only three weeks: it actually happened. You must be on it.
Interests in the occult
The appearance of four symbols on the jacket of Led Zeppelin's fourth album has been linked to Page's interest in the occult. The four symbols represent each band member. The page itself called the symbol "Zoso" comes from Ars Magica Arteficii (1557) by Gerolamo Cardano, an old alchemical grimoire, where it has been identified as a sigil consisting of zodiac signs. This sigil is reproduced in the Hermitic, Hermetic and Alokimia Sigitan Dictionary by Fred Gettings.
During the tour and performances after the release of the fourth album, Page often has the symbol "Zoso" embroidered on his shirt, along with the zodiac symbol. This is seen primarily in his "Dragon Suit", which includes signs for Capricorn, Scorpio and Cancer which are the signs of Sun, Ascendant and Moon, respectively.
The artwork on the album cover Led Zeppelin IV is from a painting associated with Barrington Colby artist, influenced by the traditional Rider/Waite Tarot card design for a card called "The Hermit". Little is known about Colby and the rumors that have been going on for years that Page himself is responsible for the painting. Page transforms into this character during his fantasy sequence in the Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains the Same .
In the early 1970s, an occult bookshop and publishing publisher, The Equinox Booksellers and Publishers, on Holland Street in Kensington, London, finally closed it due to the increasing success of Led Zeppelin in his day. The company published facsimile edition Aleoki Crowley edition 1904 English from The Goetia . Page has maintained a strong interest in Crowley over the years. In 1978, he explained:
I feel that Aleister Crowley was a misunderstood genius in the 20th century. That's because his whole life is the liberation of people, entities and that restrictions will pollute you, causing frustration that leads to violence, crime, mental disorder, depending on the type of makeup you have underneath. The farther away we are now getting into technology and alienation, the many points he makes seem to manifest themselves all on the phone.... I'm not saying it's a system for anyone to follow. I disagree with everything but I found many things relevant and it was the things that people attacked, so he was misunderstood.... I'm not trying to interest anyone in Aleister Crowley more than me at Charles Dickens. All that, is that at a certain time he describes a theory of self-liberation, which is something very important. He is like an eye to the world, into the situation to come. My research is quite intensive, but I do not want to discuss it because it is personal and has nothing to do with the fact that I have used the system in my daily life.... The problem is to make peace with someone's free will, find where someone is and what's there, and from there you can go ahead and do it and not spend your entire life being suppressed and frustrated. It basically comes to terms with yourself.
Page was assigned to write a soundtrack for the movie Lucifer Rising by Crowley admirer and underground film director Kenneth Anger. Page finally produced 23 minutes of music, which Anger felt was not enough because the film was screened for 28 minutes and Anger wanted the movie to have a full soundtrack. Anger claims Page takes three years to deliver music and final product just 23 minutes of "babbling". The director also criticized the guitarist in the media by calling him a "whore" in the occult and the addict and being too tied to drugs to complete the project. Page denied that he had fulfilled all his obligations, would even lend his own film editing equipment to help him complete the project. Page released Lucifer Rising's music on vinyl in 2012 through its website on "Lucifer Rising and other sound tracks". The one side contains "Lucifer Rising - Main Track", while the second side contains the songs "Incubus", "Damask", "Unharmonics", "Damask - Ambient", and "Lucifer Rising - Percussive Return". On the cover of Rolling Stone's December 2012 story "Jimmy Page Looks Back", Page said: "... there is a demand, showing that Lucifer Rising will reappear with my music I ignore it."
Although the Page was collected by Crowley, he never described himself as Thelemite or he was ever initiated into the OTO. The Equinox Bookstore and Boleskine House were both sold during the 1980s, when Page settled into family life and participated in charity work.
Discography
Early in his career, Page played on recordings by British rock and pop artists as a session guitarist. As a member of the Yardbirds, he recorded the Little Games (1967) (expanded in 1992 as Little Games Sessions & More), Live Yardbirds! Showing Jimmy Page (1971), and Cumulative Limit (2000). Beginning in 1968, he recorded nine albums with Led Zeppelin (see Led Zeppelin's discography for the full list). After Zeppelin, Page has been recorded in several different settings. One of the first is the soundtrack album Death Wish II (1982). As a member of the Firm, he notes the The Firm (1985) and Mean Business (1986). Collaboration followed, including Whatever Happens to Jugula? (1985) with Roy Harper,
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