JIMMY PAGE Looks Back On LED ZEPPELIN's First Rehearsal - "I'd Never Felt Something Like That Before..."
March 30, 2020, 4 years ago
Led Zeppelin guitar legend Jimmy Page recently guested on the Ultimate Classic Rock Nights radio show. During the interview he opened up about his reaction after Led Zeppelin completed their first rehearsal during the week of Aug. 12, 1968, in a small room in London.
Page: "What I knew was I’d never felt something like that before; and what I also knew was everybody else was in the same boat. No matter what they’d done in the past, they’d never been in a situation where everything was so sort of intense and so heavily connected – profoundly connected, musically – on just our first meeting and getting together to play. I’d worked with Robert (Plant) at my house, going through the various things I wanted to do like 'Dazed And Confused', 'Babe I’m Gonna Leave You'… but that initial rehearsal was enough for everybody to say, 'Yeah.' We were recording in October of ’68; the Yardbirds were still going in July of ’68. You can imagine how quickly this whole thing came together.”
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"The reproduction is superb... and it's exactly the way I hoped it would look." - Jimmy Page
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"In this book, I wanted to include items from my personal archive that have played a part in my overall story, to give the detail behind the detail." - Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page's first book with Genesis, Jimmy Page By Jimmy Page, was a photographic memoir by one of the world’s most iconic guitar players. Jimmy Page: The Anthology delves deeper, documenting Page’s life through hundreds of items from his private archives, contextual photography spanning six decades, and Page's original written commentary. From iconic guitars and stage costumes to correspondence and diary entries, every piece is brought to life with new text by Page placing it within the story of his phenomenal career.