Matt Warnock at Guitar International has published an article on how legendary LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page's career was kicked off by a jam session. An excerpt is available below:

Though jam sessions have their ups and downs, as up and coming guitarists we keep coming back for more. For one, because we like to play and jam with our friends. But we also do it because we know that if we play well on a night when a big local, regional or national name is sitting in we can get that all important call for our shot at a steady gig, tour or recording session that can take our careers to the next level.

Led Zeppelin guitarist and rock legend Jimmy Page is living proof that this can happen to anyone at anytime. Before he was a member of THE YARDBIRDSor the guitarist for the Mighty Zep, Page was an art school student without a paying gig. As he told Guitar Player in 1977, “I stopped playing and went to art college for about two years, while concentrating more on blues playing on my own.”

But, the future Rock n Roll Hall of Famer didn’t stop going to jam sessions at the Marquee Club, which as he explains led to his big break, ” I used to go up and jam on a Thursday night with the interlude band. One night somebody said, “Would you like to play on a record?” and I said, “Yeah, why not.” It did quite well, and that was it after that.”

Woody Allen says that 80% of success is simply showing up, and Page is a living example of this thought in action. He could have stayed at home and practiced in his room, waiting for the phone to ring. But instead, he got out and played at his local jam session, in the interlude band no less, which led to the first major breakthrough in his career.

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According to The Morton Report, it looks like Jimmy Page.com will be launching on July 14th. As for the significance of the date? It’s nine days until a full moon in Capricorn, and as the cognoscenti know, Page was born on January 9.

Important but perhaps not as significant was on July 14, 1985, the three surviving members of LED ZEPPELIN appeared together at the Live Aid show in Philadelphia, performing for the first time since John Bonham’s death in September 25, 1980.

Page will be further unmasked when Brad Tolinski’s Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page tome is released in 2012. The Zep guitarist does very few interviews, but over the years he has consistently spoken to Tolinski, Guitar World’s Editor-in-Chief, revealing things that he has never spoken about elsewhere—like the details of his wardrobe, telling Tolinski in 2010: "I was alternating between black outfits and white outfits on the '77 tour as a form of ritual. I was definitely putting things together in a way that no one else was doing at the time. I really believe music is an alchemical process, and the clothes were just a manifestation of how things were going and materializing. The outfits were more than just stage clothes; they were talismanic."

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