Mudbugclub Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Good three part Jimmy Page radio interview here with Jimmy talking about his career as a session guitarist and Zeppelin. http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/tdim_radio_jimmy_page_documentary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingzoso Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I have two albums titled, "Jimmy Page Session Man Volumes 1 and 2". I haven't listened to them in a couple of decades because I have not had a proper turntable to play them on for over 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 ^^^ Those were reissued on compact disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 1 hour ago, SteveAJones said: ^^^ Those were reissued on compact disc. I recently saw one of them stickered three for five pounds or one ninety nine each in a second hand CD/DVD shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigante Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I've got the cd versions. They're easy enough to find, won't break the bank and a good way to quickly pick up a lot of stuff. Worth getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pb! Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 An 8-CD box set was issued recently... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thozil Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 22 hours ago, Mudbugclub said: Good three part Jimmy Page radio interview here with Jimmy talking about his career as a session guitarist and Zeppelin. http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/tdim_radio_jimmy_page_documentary Thanks for sharing. This was a pretty good interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleg Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 On 6/23/2016 at 10:28 PM, Pb! said: An 8-CD box set was issued recently... It's a bootleg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatOne Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Apparently there are few different CD's and bootlegs, even though I bought it at Tower Records eons ago. Jimmy Page Jeff Beck Eric Clapton - Blue Eyed Blues CD is a bootleg also and stumbled across this lawsuit between MCA MCA Records, Inc. v. Charly Records, Ltd., 865 F. Supp. 649 (C.D. Cal. 1994) http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/865/649/1506321/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pb! Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 1 hour ago, Oleg said: It's a bootleg I'm pretty sure all of these are boots, though some of the recent ones may be quasi-legitimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I will probably be strung up for saying this, Jimmy obviously was an excellent player as session musician, However maybe Jimmy was instructed to keep the solos low key, because of the ton of session material Iv'e heard, a few songs have decent solos,but a lot do not show at all the monster Page would become in Zep. Certainly there are some tracks with excellent acoustic work, interesting fills, etc. The Guitar Boogie album IMO is damn good, Beck, Page, and Clapton, and Page is cranking out some head-spinning fast blues, with excellent technique as well, close to shredding. I guess I was one of the few who had got those session albums, and I was pretty disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatOne Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 It was a different musical era then, and birth of things to come. There is a CD release of Page/Beck/Clapton with a few Santa Barbara Machine Head songs. I love that CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Yeah, that's a damn good one. Actually Jimmy got out of the session thing because I think he mentioned diff fads with little guitar, engineers not understanding fuzz guitar/distortion, and so on. So it's not a surprise that Jimmy couldn't express his rock'in ideas much doing sessions. Regardless though Zep gave Jimmy a supersonic boost of energy and creativity which wouldn't neccessarily have come in another band. You can hear this from live Yardbirds boots/releases. Jimmy is damn good, excellent at times, but as develocped as Clapton, Hendrix,or Beck ???. No, Jimmy is on his way, no doubt, but he needed Zep to become brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatOne Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I was looking at the CD today called Stroll On and see no mention of Page or Beck helping out with Santa Barbara Machine Head. It seems like a project band before Deep Purple but don't see much info about them or if Page was a session player ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudbugclub Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 I think Jimmy comes over really well in these interviews. Top guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasbo Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Session work usually means going in and reading off charts or music and doing your bit but to the producers or lesser degree the artists direction.This still happens today.Page hadn't really found his style yet and he was mainly doing these sessions to pay the bills.Ritchie Black more and others were doing the same.Some musicians are happy doing sessions ,it pays the bills,but dare I say it these people are great musicians but don't seem to have the artistic flair like Page had with Zep.I had a 2cd of Pages sessions that I picked up in a reject shop.There was very little evidence that you could tell it was Page playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Yeah that's a very good summation of the session man syndrome, although in the 70's there were players who were actually used for their unique style( Jeff Baxter, Larry Coryell, Steve Lukather,etc.). Still, these hired guns were mainly used for solos. None of them had Page's almost global musical perspective or compositional sense. Agreed too that Page is on all these tracks, yet apparently the suits in charge don't want too much personality from the guitar. I also must say that Jimmy may not have been a real session man playing jazz. Page did a little bit, but no way is someone gonna tell me that Jimmy could get up at a jazz jam and just slide in . Jazz is basically exponentially harder than most other styles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sathington Willoughby Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 2 hours ago, Mithril46 said: Page did a little bit, but no way is someone gonna tell me that Jimmy could get up at a jazz jam and just slide in . Jazz is basically exponentially harder than most other styles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Yeah, I've heard this before. If you notice, the rest of the band eventually falls into regular blues structures, as Page is not really able to handle the Jazz changes. What I'm saying has been said or reported by the press or writers etc. before, not just my opinion. Regardless, Jimmy does play real well. Look, if Page dedicated a few hrs a day practicing for a year or so solely to jazz, he still wouldn't be a master, but if he got a few dozen standards together, and he could pick and choose the songs , he would probably sound pretty good. Remember that Jimmy couldn't even get the solo in Hot Dog live right, a song with 3 or 4 chords( but you have to change with the chords, like jazz). Having said that , certainly there were live versions of Zep songs and Page guitar parts just as difficult as tricky jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic_juice Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Agree mithril Jimmy loved rock and roll and songwriting. I love Zep jams but they were mainly funk and blues based. Again Page had a knowledge of jazz chords and phrasing but as you've said not in a manner to be thrown in with true jazz players. JPJ maybe though. Not to say that Page couldn't construct a jazz tune as I feel that The Rain Song has a jazz feel to its chord melodies and even something like The Wanton Song with its heavy riffs has some jazzy chord melodies. This diversity adds to the Zep appeal. Sath even though Jaco is in that jam its just blues ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Yeah, the Rain Song( I learned it, 20,30 chords, and more, counting arpeggios). And certain sections of the Rockabilly jams in WLL, not just blues licks, some jazzy licks and "outside" lines. Jimmy actually was a big fan of Django Reinhardt and here and there you can hear his influence on Jimmy, although the influence is more on Jimmy's rhythmic groupings of notes in solos than the melodic content. Well, the studio and Jimmy's own curiosity makes him possibly the most versatile rock guitarist ever. Actually, numerous times I've heard Jimmy get slightly annoyed being referred to as either a blues or rock player. Pretty sure he just wanted to be called a musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasbo Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I like musicians and bands that have identity.I can tell when it's Page,Blackmore,Knopfler,Gilmor,Lifeson,etc when there playing.I remember seeing the film clip to the Stones, One Hit To The Body for the first time and hearing these bendy lead lines all over the place.My mate and me just looked at each other and said'thats gotta be Page'.I don't really like bands like Steely Dan,even though the music well done and the vocals are distinctive enough to say yeah that's Steely Dan ,it just sounds a little in personable.Just my little rant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juxtiphi Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 19 hours ago, grasbo said: I like musicians and bands that have identity.I can tell when it's Page,Blackmore,Knopfler,Gilmor,Lifeson,etc when there playing.I remember seeing the film clip to the Stones, One Hit To The Body for the first time and hearing these bendy lead lines all over the place.My mate and me just looked at each other and said'thats gotta be Page'.I don't really like bands like Steely Dan,even though the music well done and the vocals are distinctive enough to say yeah that's Steely Dan ,it just sounds a little in personable.Just my little rant. Jimmy's playing on OHTTB sounds very much like stuff he did with The Firm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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