Strider Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 You never know what you're going to find when you go crate-digging over the weekend. For $5 I bought a big box of tapes at a yard sale. Going thru the box this morning I discovered this sealed factory 8-Track of Sonny Boy Williamson & Jimmy Page "It's A Bloody Life". This is the 1965 recording of sessions that Jimmy did with Sonny, along with Brian Auger on organ, Micky Waller on drums, and probably other members of Brian Auger's Trinity on the bass and horns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northstar Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Cool find and still sealed after all these years. It must of made your day when you came across that tape. Great find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi_Zep_Fan87 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Wow, Strider! I think congratulations are in order! This looks like such a highly collectible item! And finding it as a 'brand new' item (with the factory seal intact) must have been all the more exciting!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted October 20, 2015 Administrators Share Posted October 20, 2015 You never know what you're going to find when you go crate-digging over the weekend. For $5 I bought a big box of tapes at a yard sale. Going thru the box this morning I discovered this sealed factory 8-Track of Sonny Boy Williamson & Jimmy Page "It's A Bloody Life". This is the 1965 recording of sessions that Jimmy did with Sonny, along with Brian Auger on organ, Micky Waller on drums, and probably other members of Brian Auger's Trinity on the bass and horns.Nice find, Strider. (Need that one, lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the chase Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Very cool.I have this on vinyl. It's called Jimmy Page Special Early Works: Featuring Sonny Boy Williamson ..The cover is a picture of Page Live in 1973..I See A Man Downstairs is now better known as One Way Out. The Allman Brothers also cover this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyingzepp Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 All cool info, never seen this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvlz2 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Pretty cool find Strider! You scored well at the yard sale! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 very neat find!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 chase, I have it on vinyl, too, though under a different label and title...this is what my vinyl looks like:Here is a sample from the sessions: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ddladner Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Very cool find, Strider! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Great find, but unless I have some kind of alt version of the two titles mentioned, Page pretty muchjust plays simple rhythm blues guitar . Am I missing something here ??? This sounds like sessionwork and quite subdued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Duck Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Great find, but unless I have some kind of alt version of the two titles mentioned, Page pretty muchjust plays simple rhythm blues guitar . Am I missing something here ??? This sounds like sessionwork and quite subdued.I'm guessing the thrill is finding a sample of Jimmy Page's session work in pristine condition. Also, Sonny Boy Williamson died in 1965 so this maybe one of the last recordings he made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Actually there is a somewhat rare record called Guitar Boogie and if I recall correctly(I have it, but in storage) there are 3 tracks each from Beck, Page, and Clapton. Overall the playing is really good, it's from the early to mid sixties.Page really tears it up, high speed , not sloppy and Beck plays almostHawaiian slide on one track. Clapton sounds more raw than usual, an asset in his case. Prettysure it was on Immediate Records, but likely a lawsuit etc.,. eventually took it off the market. Thisalbum was actually released illegally in the first place, but that's a different post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sathington Willoughby Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Actually there is a somewhat rare record called Guitar Boogie and if I recall correctly(I have it, but in storage) there are 3 tracks each from Beck, Page, and Clapton. Overall the playing is really good, it's from the early to mid sixties.Page really tears it up, high speed , not sloppy and Beck plays almostHawaiian slide on one track. Clapton sounds more raw than usual, an asset in his case. Prettysure it was on Immediate Records, but likely a lawsuit etc.,. eventually took it off the market. Thisalbum was actually released illegally in the first place, but that's a different post.I used to have that on cassette. I believe Jimmy said its just some stuff they recorded at his house. "Only two of the guitarists appear on any given track. Jeff Beck does not appear on any of the Page/Clapton numbers. Similarly, Clapton doesn't appear on the Allstars tracks."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Boogie_(album)Full album here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLprfpWiHXeWI-_Hs4CZzgW9IOVCCKZugJThis from 'Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man' by George Case:Around the same time Page was producing him in the studio, Clapton visited his house in Epson to have some private jams, which Page also recorded. "The Bluesbreakers were playing over in Putney and Eric came to stay at my house. I had a Simon tape recorder that you could DI into [directly inject electric instruments without first playing through an amp], so the two guitars went into the machine and I just did these tapes of Eric and myself playing." The DI trick enabled a huge amount of distortion while the two musicians played around with different twelve-bar I-IV-V progressions. But Page let Andrew Oldham's Immediate label know about the tapes ("I was really championing Eric, as you would"), and they were confiscated as part of both Page's and Clapton's contractual obligations. "I argued that they couldn't put them out, because they were just variations of blues structures, and in the end we dubbed some other instruments over some of them and they came out, with liner notes attributed to me... though I didn't have anything to do with writing them. I didn't get a penny out of it, anyway." This rather exploitative move on the label's part-they were released when given rhythm tracks by Rolling Stones Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Mick Jagger playing harmonica-led to some mistrust of Clapton toward Page, and Page's own frustrations at not owning music he had made. It was a bitter lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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