LED ZEPPELIN - Frustration That Drove Rock's Biggest Band
November 7, 2007, 17 years ago
Mirror.co.uk is running a LED ZEPPELIN retrospective this week. Day 3 reads as follows:
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has described the fall that broke his finger, postponing the group's first gig in 28 years - and how years as a session musician drove him to eventually create Zep.
Yesterday he said: "The light was very dim and I tripped over something and I landed on various bits of my anatomy but of course the crucial part was left hand, little finger. It's unfortunate but what can you do?"
Of the December 10th reunion show 63-year-old Page says: "We just got together again and started playing and it started to take on its own shape."
Back in the '60s Page earned good money as a session musician but was bored.
He said: "All my pals were enjoying themselves making music. I was doing sessions in all manners of music. And then I was in a muzak session thinking, 'What am I doing?'"
So he decided to join Jeff Beck in the YARDBIRDS.
Bassist John Paul Jones, 61, was in a similar boat.
He said: "You would get so bored during a muzak session you would start playing something just to make it interesting and they'd stop you and tell you, 'You can't do that because we need to have this in a restaurant or something and it'll distract people from eating.' "And I thought to myself, 'What am I doing here?'"
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