Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page, OBE is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 January 1944
zeppelins want kingdoms
But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.
years rehearsal wonderful
Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
thinking long forever
There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.
heaven levels lasts
I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
mean play bass
Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
zeppelins daylight coffins
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
want copies i-can
I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
giving people isolation
A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
albums enthusiasm
I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
player thinking guitar
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
guitar way vehicle
I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
cds two impossible
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
together elements able
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.
band next
The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.