Jimmy Page

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James Patrick Page (born the January 9th 1944) is a Guitariste and a producing Rock English born with Heston in the suburbs of London. It is known in particular for its career as musician of studio and the founder, leader and type-setter of the majority of the songs of Led Zeppelin. It is very inspired by the Blues, the folk, the Indian Musique and the Eastern music. It is decorated with the Ordre of the British Empire for its caritative work with the Brésil.

Biography

Beginning of career

James Patrick Page was born in 1944 with Heston, western suburbs of London which forms today the London district of Hounslow. His/her father managed of the personnel in industry and his/her mother was the secretary of a doctor. Only sons, Page moved with its family with Epsom in 1952. Page began the guitar at the 12 years age and even if it followed some courses to Kingston on the Thames, it acquired its play as an autodidact. Its first influences were the guitarists Rockabilly like Scotty Moore or James Burton, both musicians on recordings of Elvis Presley, but also Johnny Day which had played with The Everly Brothers. The song of Presley Baby Let' S Play House was one of its favorite pieces on its first electric guitar, Futurama Grazioso of second hand. The talents of Page also extended in the acoustic world with a play folk, taking again pieces of Bert Jansch, John Renbourn or influences plus blues with Elmore James and B.B. King. In the 14 years age, Page took part in an emission of BBC, All Your Own , which introduced talented children or collectors. Page made there an appearance with a group of Skiffle, a popular musical genre at the time. Page left the school at the 14 years age to continue its musical career, and after some accompaniments with the poet Royston Ellis and the singer Red E. Lewis, it was approached by Neil Christian, singer of the group The Crusaders. Page made representations with Christian during two years then recorded on several albums, of which the individual one of November 1962 The Road to Love . It is at this period that Page fell seriously sick, reaches by a infectious Mononucléose which prevented it from continuing the concerts. In convalescence, Page decided to put the music on side to devote itself to its other passion, painting. It was registered with the Sutton Art College of Surrey.

Work in studio

Whereas it was still student, Page often made incursions into the concerts of the Marquee Club near groups like All Stars of Cyril Davies or Blues Incorporated. It played there with guitarists in becoming following the example Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. One evening, John Gibb of The Silhouettes noticed it and asked to him whether it were ready to help it to record the individual ones for EMI, of which The Worrying Kind . It is not before an offer of Mike Leander of Decca Records that Page regularly accepted proposals to work in studio. Its first session for the label was the recording of Diamonds by Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, a tube which became number 1 in Great Britain with the beginning of the year 1963. Followed some short collaborations with Casing-Lewis and the Southerners, the group of Mike Hurst and Mickey Finn and the Blue Men. Page launched out afterwards in a work in full-time studio. As a guitarist of studio, it was known under the nickname of Little Jim to avoid confusion with Big Jim Sullivan alias Big Jim .

In 1964, Page played on As Tears Go By of Marianne Faithfull, on Tobacco Road of The Nashville Teens, on an alternate version of Heart off Stone of the Rolling Stones, on Baby please don' T go and Here Comes the Night of Them & Van Morrison, on The Crying Game like on My Baby Left Me of Dave Berry, then Is it True of Brenda Lee. Page was the preferred guitarist of the producer Shell Talmy and thus ends up working on the songs of The Who and The Kinks. It took share with the recordings of the first album of Kinks (but none the solos played, in spite of the rumors) like to the first individual one of The Who, I Edge' T Explain (but its parts will not be retained on the final version). He played however on Bald Headed Woman of Kinks.

In 1965, Page was engaged by the manager of Rolling Stones, Andrew Loog Oldham, as a producer and a A&R (artist and repertory, responsible for the administrative and contractual questions for the recordings) for the new label Immediate Records. This new station enabled him to play and/or produce pieces of John Mayall, Chris Farlowe and Eric Clapton. Page wrote some songs with Jackie DeShannon. He worked as a musician on the album Love Chronicles Al Stewart in 1969, and five pieces of the album of Joe Cocker, With has Little Help from My Friends . When he is questioned about the songs which he exploited, more particularly those where its role is discussed, Page declares that it is difficult for him to remember because of the mass of work during the recordings at the time. Various estimates indicate that he played on 50 to 90% of the recordings which were produced in England between 1963 and 1965. Page also appeared in the sides of artists coming from continental Europe like Nico, Michel Polnareff (Page plays on the headstock which makes not , left in spring 1966), with Francoise Hardy like with Johnny Hallyday (in the band of the film To all to break ).

If Page played with a great number of known musicians, the majority of these first pieces are not available on Bootleg S, the majority diffused by the fan club of Led Zeppelin at the end of the years 1970. Among these recordings appear in particular an old woman jam session with Keith Richards, as well as a resumption of Little Queen off Spades of the bluesman Robert Johnson.

Yardbirds

See also: The Yardbirds

At the end of 1964, one proposed in Page to replace Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds, but there declined the offer, wanting to remain faithful to his friend Clapton. In February 1965, Clapton left Yardbirds and the place being free, Page was again approximate. He refused again, not wanting to leave his lucrative career in the studios. It also feared that its health is not affected by the rounds, so that it proposed in place and place his friend Jeff Beck to replace Clapton.

The May 16th 1966, the beater Keith Moon, the bass player John Paul Jones, the clavierist Nicky Hopkins, Jeff Beck and Page recorded Beck' S Bolero in IBC Studios of London. This experiment gave an idea to Page which wished to form a group with Beck, John Entwistle and Keith Moon of Who. The project was abandoned because of the absence of a singer of quality and contractual problems.

After the departure of another member of Yardbirds, the bass player Paul Samwell-Smith, Page decided to join the formation as a bass player. He was not long in taking again his double-guitar to play sides of Beck whereas Chris Dreja turned over to low. The musical potential of the group however was disturbed by internal tensions caused by the rounds and the lack of business success. They left only one individual Happenings Ten Years Time Ago . If Page and Beck played together in Yardbirds, the trio Page-Clapton-Beck never played together at the same time in this group (the three guitarists will find themselves later at the time of a concert of charity in 1983). Beck left Yardbirds which remained a four-bit byte. They recorded an album with Page, Little Games . The album was not a success, reaching painfully the 80e place in the Billboard Music Charts, in spite of a rather commercial sound for the time. On the other hand, the concerts contrasted with realities of the studio, becoming increasingly experimental and showing the possibility for certain aspects of Led Zeppelin.

It is at that time that it started to be interested in the Eastern music while going, after a round of Yardbirds, to listen in its country celebrates it player of sitar Ravi Shankar. Jimmy will declare: " I had gone to India while returning of a round with Yardbirds. I had not succeeded in convincing anyone to accompany me; they all wanted to go to San Francisco. That made an end of time that I listened to this music and I wanted to hear it play differently than on disc. Let us say that like that: I had a sitar before George Harrison. I will not claim that I played him as well as. I think that George made use of it very well. " Within You Without You" is of very good taste. It spent much time to study with Ravi Shankar, and that got along. I went to see a concert of Ravi Shankar one day, and to prove to you that goes back to far, there were no young people in the public - just a heap of elderly of the Indian embassy. A girl that I knew was one of her friends and it took me along to see it. After the concert, it presented it to me and I explained to him that I had a sitar, but that I did not know how to grant it. It was very nice and wrote the agreements to me on an end of papier." .

In 1968, Keith Relf and Jim McCarty reflect a term with their participation with The Yardbirds. Page recruited other members to finish concerts in Scandinavia: Robert Plant with the song and the beater John Bonham. John Paul Jones asked whether it could join them and Page accepted. At the time of the Scandinavian round, the group baptized The New Yardbirds but Keith Moon, beater of Who, suggested in Page that the group was going rather to fly like a Lead Zeppelin (a lead zeppelin). Page jumped on the occasion and showed this term for the name of the group. The members changed later the Lead Zeppelin into Led Zeppelin to avoid the errors like Leed Zeppelin .

Led Zeppelin

See also: Led Zeppelin

Influence

The former experiments of Page at the same time in the studio and with Yardbirds strongly influenced the success of Led Zeppelin in the Années 1970. As a producer, type-setter and a guitarist, it made of Led Zeppelin a prototype which was going to be a reference for the future formations and a vector for the currents close to the hard rock and heavy-metal.

The succession of fast notes in Communication Breakdown for example was quoted by the guitarist Johnny Ramone as being the inspiration for its punk style, with strictly scraped cords top downwards. In addition, Eddie van Halen developed its technique Tapping after having seen a solo of Page on Heartbreaker at the time of a concert in 1972. The solo of Stairway to Heaven was described as better solo of all times by several magazines of guitar, of which Guitar World and Total Guitar . During the years 1970, Page was named Guitariste of the year during 5 years by the magazine Creem . Other styles will be inspired by Led Zeppelin.

In 1969, Led Zeppelin will affix the names Page and Seedling under two titles actually written by Willie Dixon and sung by Muddy Waters: You Shook me and You Need Coils (famous Whole Lotta Love ). Dixon will bring a lawsuit to them, which it will gain.

Material and sound

To compose the majority of the songs of Led Zeppelin, Page used a guitar Gibson the Paul and amplifiers Marshall which it abundantly used in concert for his incisive play with a powerful sound, hot and fatty. Gibson thereafter left a version custom signature the Paul of Page.

For the recordings in studio, it often used a Supro amplifier and a Fender Telecaster. The range of effects deployed by Page is long. It used a fuzzbox Sola Sound Tone Bender Professional MKII on How Many More Times , the Bottleneck on You Shook Me , Dancing Days , In My Time off Dying , a Pedal steel guitar in Your Time Is Gonna Like , Babe, I' m Gonna Leave You , Tangerine , That' S the Way like at the end of Over the Hills and Far Away . The acoustic guitar was not remains about it since Page composed for this instrument in Gallows Pole or Ramble One .

Page is also famous for the use of a Archet to rub the cords, on the songs Dazed and Confused , How Many More Times and the interlude of Whole Lotta Love . It developed this technique offering a full and serious sound during its recordings in studio, even if he is not the inventor strictly speaking. Eddie Philips of the group The Creation had already done it before. As The Creation was one of the formations managed by Shell Talmy with which Page worked, this last had wind of this technique. In the document of MTV, Rockumentary , Page declared that it had had the idea to play with a bow thanks to David McCallum, Sr. which was also a musician of studio. Page used Telecaster and later its Paul for his solos with the bow. Its method will be parodied in the film Spinal Tap where one sees the guitarist Nigel Tufnel using a violin instead of the bow.

On other pieces of Led Zeppelin, Page was tested with the effects of feedback and the Thérémine. It used sometimes the pedal Wah-wah but without varying the effect in real-time following the example Jimi Hendrix. Page preferred to leave the pedal with the button of acute at bottom to obtain a more incisive sound.

Techniques of production

In the Years 1960, the majority of the British producers placed the microphones directly opposite the amplifiers and the battery, producing small a its characteristic of the recordings of this time. Page declared in Guitar World that it found that the battery, because of this provision of the microphones, sounded like cartons. Page preferred the concepts of the Années 1950, like those employed in the Sun Studios . In the same interview, he added that the “recording was a science” and that the “engineers had a maxim: the distance is equal to the depth”. Showing this creed with the letter, Page placed an additional microphone at a certain distance from the amplifier (for example to 80 cm), thus being able to obtain the depth necessary by mixing the signals of the two microphones. Thanks to this technique, Page was one of the first British producers to record an ambient sound characterized by the time for the same note between the two microphones. The technique was improved while placing microphones in strange places like the hall employed to obtain the depth of the sound of the battery in When the Levee Station-wagons .

For the recordings of Whole Lotta Coils and You Shook Me , Page used the technique known as of the echo reversed which consists in reversing the sound, to record the echo which results from it and finally to reverse the whole. Page affirms being at the origin of this effect which he would have invented during a recording of individual of Yardbirds Ten Little Indians in 1967

Drug taking

Page admitted itself that he had been a large-scale consumer of narcotics throughout the years 1970. In an interview for Guitar World in 2003, he declared that:

I cannot speak (for the other members about the group), but for me, drugs were an integral share of the trick, since the beginning, until the end

In 1973, the drug of predilection of Led Zeppelin was the Cocaïne. Page, John Bonham like their managers Peter Grant and Richard Cole became regular consumers. According to Richard Cole (itself héroïnomane) Page started in 1976 to take heroin at the sessions of recording for the album Presence . Little time afterwards, Page acknowledged in Cole which it had become dependant. In 1977, the drug-addiction of Page started to affect its aptitude to be played. It had lost weight passably and was not any more in symbiosis with the other members of the group, in particular Plant, at the time of the concerts. During the recording of In Through The Out Door in 1978, the influence of Page on the album was less compared to the bass player John Paul Jones, partly because of his abuses which resulted in its absence from the studios lasting from long period. Page succeeds in taking down in 1983 whereas it was in round for concerts of charity. According to the book Hammer off the Gods , Page had said to his/her friends that it had just stopped its heroin consumption, 7 years after having started.

In an interview of 1988 for the magazine Musician , Page was irritated against a journalist who had associated his name with heroin, it answered curtly " I am not a tear, thank you beaucoup.".

After Led Zeppelin

John Bonham dies in 1980 in the residence of Page with Clewer of an ethyl coma, choked in his vomits after one evening too sprinkled (it had drunk forty vodka in one evening) and, refusing to continue without him, the group separates.

Page makes a crowned return to the stage of success with a series in concerts of charity for a.R.M.S ( Action Research for Multiple Sclerosis which fights the Multiple sclerosis) in 1983. In 1984, a video in the concert of a.R.M.S in London is diffused with two pieces of Page for the band of the film the Dispenser of justice of New York (with Steve Winwood with the song) and a jam session with Beck and Clapton. During the round, Page appeared extremely fragile and tired. It indeed had just stopped heroin.

For the album Whatever Happened to Jugula? and some concerts, Page joined Roy Harper. He played of the pieces with acoustic prevalence in festivals folk. In 1984, Seedling and Page formed a group of short duration with Jeff Beck: The Honeydrippers which off had success with a resumption of Sea Coils Phil Philips. Page collaborated with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company, and Free groups it to record two albums under the name of The Firm. The first opus was éponyme and was followed of Mean Business in 1986. Some songs met a certain success near the public like Radioactive or Closer , and the album finishes with 17th pop category of the Billboard Music Charts . Page continued with other projects and work in studio with Graham Nash, David Coverdale, Box off Frogs, the Rolling Stones (on their individual of 1986, One Hit (to the Body) ) and the album solo of Seedling, Outrider . He worked on the sound tracks of the films a dispenser of justice in city 2 (1982) and the Dispenser of justice of New York (1985) with Michael Winner.

In 1985, the former members of Lez Zeppelin met for the Live Aid at the sides of Phil Collins and Tony Thompson to ensure the battery. However, the group regarded their service as in-on this side average and did not authorize the presence of the video in the DVD of the 20th birthday of Live Aid. In 1986, Page briefly found his/her companions of Yardbirds to off play several pieces of the album Strange Land of the Box Frogs. The group was reformed for the 40e birthday of Atlantic Records on May 14th, 1988 with Page, Plant, Jones and the son of John Bonham, Jason Bonham, to enclose the concert.

In 1990, Seedling and Page made a surprised appearance at the time of a concert with Knebworth for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center and the British School for Performing Arts and Technolog . They played there Misty Mountain Hop , Wearing and Tearing and Rock-and-roll . In 1994, Page and Seedling took part in the MTV Unplugged with 90 minutes an acoustic concert, Unledded . CD will follow in October 1994 under the title No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded . The DVD as for him will be published in 2004: No Quarter Unledded . After this disc which was the object of a round, Page and Seedling recorded Walking into Clarksdale in 1998.

Since 1990, Page was strongly implied in the remastering of the whole of the repertory of Led Zeppelin. It took part in various associations of charity like Action for Brazil' S Children Trust (ABC Trust), rested by his Jimena wife Gum-Paratcha in 1998. The same year, Page made a duet with Puff Daddy in Like with Me with samples of Kashmir. The title will appear in the band of Godzilla. Page will play into live with Puff Dady during the Saturday Night Live . In 1999, Page makes an album live and a round with The Black Crowes. In 2001, it appears on scene to play Thank you with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit and Wes Scantlin of Puddle off Mudd for the MTV Europe Video Music Awards with Frankfurt.

In 2005, Page was decorated with the Ordre of the British Empire for its charitable actions with the Brésil. It was named honorary citizen of the town of Rio de Janeiro. In November 2006, Led Zeppelin joined the U.K. Music Hall off Famed. The television program retransmettant the event showed the handing-over of the reward in Page and a short speech of this last. After that, the group Wolfmother paid homage to Led Zeppelin with Communication Breakdown . The same year, he played in the album of Jerry Lee Lewis Last Man Standin for a resumption of Rock' roll of album IV of Led Zeppelin.

Occultism

One spoke much about his taste for the Occultisme and about fascination for Aleister Crowley. What confers sometimes some to him will have mystical, some going even until claiming that Stairway to Heaven would hide a ic incantation Satan revealed by listening to the piece with back. After checking, few people persisted on this way. Jimmy Page also made the acquisation of a manor having belonged to the black magus Aleister Crowley.

The interest for the magic of Page is, on the other hand, completely reality, but to moderate. The sign of Page, which can be read “Zoso”, is not a word, but an unpronouncable symbol drawn from a book runic. Forever desired Jimmy to declare with anyone the significance of this sign except in Robert Plant but when one requests from this last his significance it answers that it forgot. Among possible interpretations, there would be a reference to the figure of Satan, 666.

Discography

Sessions (1963 - 1969)

With the Yardbirds

  • 1967 : Little Range
  • 1970: Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page

With Led Zeppelin

In solo

  • 1982 : Deathwish II (Sounktrack)
  • 1984: No Introduction Necessary
  • 1988: Outrider
  • 1989 : Session Man vol. 1 (compilation of news)
  • 1991: Session Man vol. 2 (compilation of news)
  • 2000: Hip Young Guitar Slinger And His Heavy Friends (compilation of news)

With Roy To grip

With The Firm

With David Coverdale

  • 1993 : Coverdale/Page

With Robert Plant

With John Paul Jones

  • 2000 : Lovin' Up has Storm
  • 2000: Rock'n'roll Highway (with John Bonham - postum)

With the Black Crowes

  • 2000 : Live At The Greek

Instruments

Jimmy Page has more than 1500 guitars, an estimate which it gave to Stuart Maconie BBC Radio operator Two in June 2005.

Electric guitars

  • years 1950: Futurama Grazioso 1949
  • 1958 : Gibson the Paul Standard (N°1)
  • 1959: Botswana Brown Fender Telecaster - data by Jeff Beck, initially a Olympic White but improved with a reason for dragon, used for the 1st album of Led Zeppelin
  • 1959: Gibson the Paul Standard (N°2) - data or sold according to the sources by Joe Walsh
  • 1959: Fender Telecaster
  • 1960 : Danelectro 3021, used in concert to play White summer/Black Mountain Side
  • 1960: Gibson the Paul Custom black ( Black beauty ) - flown in 1970, another Black Beauty was offered to daN Hawkins of The Darkness
  • 1964: Lake Placid Blue Fender Stratocaster (for In The Evening )
  • 1965: Fender Electric XII (12-cords)
  • 1966: Cream Fender Telecaster
  • 1967 : Vox 12-cords
  • 1971: Gibson EDS-1275 (into live for Stairway to Heaven , Celebration Day , The Rain Song and The Song Remains the Same )
  • 1973: Gibson the Standard Paul
  • 1977: Gibson RD Artist
  • years 1980: Gibson SG (seldom used)

Acoustic guitars

  • Gibson J-200
  • Martin D 28 Acoustics
  • Gibson Everly Brothers Model
  • Giannini 12-cords
  • Harmony
  • Washburn 12 cords
  • Ovation 1994 Double Neck

Others

  • Mandoline Andy Manson acoustic custom , 12 cords & 6 cords
  • Mandoline Gibson
  • Pedal steel guitar, model Fender 10-String 800
  • Bow of violin
  • Thérémine
  • Banjo
  • Ukulélé

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • not-official Site
  • Site of an admiror

References

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