One of my favorite comments on RU-vid was when Jimmy played for the guys and someone wrote: "Mozart teaches a vampire and a homeless man how to busk for a living"
He did all the guitar overdubs for the Presence album in one 24 hour period and his solo’s were amazing,Achilles Last Stand is brilliant,so he still had it as addiction chased him.
A lot of what he learned was from a guy called vic flick. Vic has played on more studio recordings than pretty much anyone else. Everything from the bond theme and most of the other stuff in that time. He sold his white strat to the vegas pawn shop on the tv. Probably the most heard guitar in history
Jimmy Page is a genius on music. He played in the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, made a solo Lp and was a session musician for years! I saw Led Zeppelin in concert in the 1970s and it was the best concert I've ever seen!
The British in the 60’s were inspired by the Black American musicians of the 40’s and 50’s. Eddie Van Halen saw Jimmy Page doing hammer-ons and pull-offs and eventually figured out tapping. Now America has guitar players like Tim Henson of Polyphia. I’m not a fan of Polyphia but it is innovative guitar playing from an American.
In the earlier days of the internet, there was a big deal about using the heaviest strings you could tolerate, what with the stories of SRV going around. “Tone is in the 13s” and such. Then the story comes out that Billy Gibbons uses 8s and I thought “phew” thank goodness I can play 9s guilt free again 😅
Apparently Billy Gibbons choice of lighter gauge strings was influenced by BB King. Billy used to play heavy gauged strings until BB met him back stage at a show. He picked up Billy's guitar and asked, "man, why are working so hard?" Thus giving Billy the greenlight for 7s and 8s. 👍😉
@@nba2kaii12 try this instead. Jeff Beck Jan akkerman Focus Joe Satriani Steve Howe Steve Vai Martin Pugh Allan Holdsworth Jimmy Page Ritchie Blackmore Joe Walsh. Honorable mention Ronnie Montrose Tony Iommi. Put those in your pipe and smoke them because there was no better than that group. 10 of the truly greatest and two honorable mentions. Pass it on to your friends.
The stories of adaptation during that time as they were working around with the evolving technology in guitars, and music played on them is always cool.
Same thing as told by brian may and tony iommi. Even tho brian adds in more information, basically if you walk into a banjo shop called clifford essex '(also a banjo player) with your guitar they add a banjo string as your e string. Which some might assume guys like Clapton, beck etc might have done during the 60s.
@@eyecyou4677 as I wrote , love Zeppelins studio work... That song remains the same bullshit , however , is for non music groupies , and it's unfortunate... My band & I @ the time saw it back yrs ago... was all I could do to keep from walking out. Course I was playing pretty sofisticated fusion then ( before blues & world beat saved me. lol). When JP & RP did that VH1 sp, , had enough real players to do sofisticated LP tracks ( Gallows Pole comes to mind..). + one could see real JP talent on that show
I read an Interview around 72 in Guitar Player and one of the tips for advice when asked by the Interviewer was for Younger Players to use 008 gauge strings.
Man what a virtuoso even to explain in unique way his🎵🎶 Tecnic . Easy to say look at those guys faces. We are lucky to grow up with page's Music art talent
On leads he used the Fender Beck gave him on the 1st LP than switched to his Gibson on the rest with the exception of Stairway To Heaven where he used the Fender once again.
Hello everyone Is jimmy saying he uses his B string for G string, G string for D string, D string for A string and A string for the low E string if he moves em up one ??
Yes Neil, he's saying that. This is what we did to get a 9 set back then because until about 1968 or so, all sets were pretty heavy gauge. From '57 till '66 I used 12s, then did the banjo thing, then lighter sets became available, then back to 11s.
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The high E (thinnest string) he used a banjo string. Then used standard string gauges but moved what’s usually the high E string as his B string. What’s usually the B as his G. So on until his thickest string is what’s usually used as an A string. They threw away the thickest because they were manufactured really tough I guess
Who cares…I’m not ever gonna. Sound like Jimmy I will be influenced but not este my time on every minute detail of his tone…I’ll never make the big time but unless you’re going to be in a Zep cover band Find your own sound and style
Well, son of a b****, I can't do all that stuff. How the hell was he inspired to do all the music he created at the time? I don't get it's the heavy weed. Or Shope. Of saliva I burn creating, but I've gotten nobody to help. Me, but I don't know. I just got an increase to guitar. But fun fun.I'm in Pensacola, Florida and I sit outside and watch the blue angels.Practice wild, I noodle left and noodle, right.I knew there friday feels a frite
Really? Mediocre? While you consider he was a bit sloppy... also consider that they were the biggest selling live acts!! So, he couldn't have been too bad! Because pulling off a Led Zeppelin gig with those three other guys is no mediocre job!
@@bluesque9687 have you never watched TSRTS or their other live films? His playing WAS sloppy and was too busy posing for the film cameras and trying to look like a rock star to focus on his guitar. He was better in the studio focusing on writing and layering those great guitar parts away from the crowds and fans. Just because I don’t like his live performances, doesn’t mean I don’t like him as a musician. Lighten up.
@@beatmet2355 you are mad or you need to 1. Understand that they are compiled videos 2. Go watch those videos again. I can understand if you don't like his music, or if you think there are other better guitarists, but you are talking absurd stuff when you say he plays mediocre live!
@@bluesque9687 where in my comments did I ever say I didn’t like his music? YOU watch the footage again, I already have. You can’t separate your idolization of him enough to make an objective assessment of his performance. The fact it triggers you and you make a false claim that I don’t like his music shows that. I didn’t say that. 🙄 You can’t deal with the fact someone doesn’t agree with you.
@@beatmet2355 well, what I mean is that I can understand one (maybe you or maybe not) doesn't like JP's music, or that they think there are better guitar players (I myself can think of a couple of guitarists who I find have got better material out there!)... but if you dig some information on how those tapes were put together, or if you see some bootleg material... Joe Bonamasa clarifies it best when he says he disagrees with people who say JP was inaccurate because JP was always so consistent with the way he sounded, and that there were so much of his idiosyncrasies in it... that one must accept that's how JP plays!
