LED ZEPPELIN Guitarist JIMMY PAGE To Guest On The Ellen Degeneres Show Tomorrow

November 20, 2014, 9 years ago

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LED ZEPPELIN Guitarist JIMMY PAGE To Guest On The Ellen Degeneres Show Tomorrow

Led Zeppelin guitar legend Jimmy Page will guest tomorrow, Friday, November 20th on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Check your local listings for air times.

A description from the show follows:

"Legends like Jimmy Page don't come around often, but when they do, Ellen goes all-out!

In a daytime exclusive, and for the first time ever on our show and on daytime TV, the Led Zeppelin rocker is here with lots of surprises for Ellen! With his steady hand and inherent musical sense, Jimmy taught the world to "Ramble On", led a traveler on his way in "Kashmir", scored "The Battle Of Evermore" and helped build a "Stairway To Heaven" alongside his remarkable band.

Jimmy is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time, and he's a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's stopping by to visit Ellen and to reveal never-before-seen photos from his glory days with Led Zeppelin, all featured in his new autobiography, Jimmy Page!"

Katherine Turman of the Village Voice recently caught up Jimmy Page via phone from London, England. Page discussed his new book (Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page) and the massive year-long-plus Zeppelin reissue/remastering campaign offering previously unreleased companion audio. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: As both the producer and a band member, did your 'producer side' have the final say in the track listing and decisions like that, or was it a democratic thing?

Jimmy Page: "We take it into account, obviously, but you also have to understand that originally these albums were done for vinyl as that's the medium that there was, you would have one side and then turn over to side two. On side one it would finish with "Stairway To Heaven" and on Side Two it would finish up with "Levee Breaks", so the whole selection of tracks was always an important thing as far as I could see. It gave the impact to the track that would follow it, Now on CD's you go straight from what would be the last track of what was Side to the first track of Side 2 and you get a continuum right from "Black Dog" to "Levee Breaks". In the days of albums, I think it was really, really important in the way things were put together and the running order. So I put these things together and play it to everyone and they go 'yeah'."

Q: Often producers are babysitters in the studio to control egos and hold hands, or they have to impose their will and are dictators. Did you have to do either of those?

Jimmy Page: "Well I was sort of shaping it, wasn't I, because I had written the material and when I first put the band together, I really knew what I wanted to do with the band before I even had one. I knew exactly what route it was going on, it was through thru on all those underground clubs I had done in America with The Yardbirds, it was going to flirt with the FM radio where they were playing songs that were longer than three minutes or two minutes 30. It was underground radio; I knew exactly where I was going with it and that we weren't going to do singles. I knew which way I'd hope it would go if I could get the musicians. Now fate intervenes at this point and they musicians come on hand very quickly, and it's pretty profound what we managed to do."

Q: Exactly. Fate and vision both.

A: "I mean it looks like it, right? Fate intervened or dictated that we should break musical horizons or traverse the musical map. And we did that."

Read the full interview at VillageVoice.com.

Page sat down with a group of SiriusXM subscribers and super fans for an intimate Q&A; at his SiriusXM Town Hall on Classic Vinyl. He talks about his influence on the writing of "Black Dog" in the footage below:

In another clip from the Q&A;, Jimmy Page talks about the thought process behind keeping Led Zeppelin IV unnamed:

Page was interviewed by Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell on November 12th at the Theater at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, CA. Rolling Stone has posted a list of high points during the one-hour conversation. An excerpt is available below:

- Page described his intentions with Led Zeppelin's debut as "a guitar tour de force, but not at the expense of the other members." Taking a moment to praise each of his bandmates, he quirkily called John Bonham "very regional as a drummer."
- Cornell's best turn of phrase came when he described a photo of Page sitting in a rural Welsh stream: "This is a photo of the front porch of that universe you created with acoustic music."
- The craziest outfit in the book is Page wearing a red sweater emblazoned with his "Zoso" symbol from Zeppelin's fourth album. He said that it was knitted by the girlfriend of a friend, but that when he sweated onstage, it immediately started to shrink.
- Talking about his plans for the future, Page promised to be touring soon (or soon-ish). "The most important part is to be seen to be playing," he told the crowd, which whooped with delight. "It doesn't matter what I do at home."

 

 

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