Part 2: Padded Room Special Collection Of Junk That More Than Likely Will Be NSFW

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Apologies, I merely meant to post an example of a guitarist more talented and skilled than Jimmy Page, who can't really even 'play out of the chords' very well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ6qRYsaJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vphs2YYBSr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlvaHEXP7NU


Page should be noted as a bandleader and producer and composer more than a guitarist. That, and letting his cock hang out of his pants in Madison Square Garden in The Song Remains The Same.

[irul&ublo]

Go away you fucking stinky hippies. Jerry's dead. Get over it.


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Go away you fucking stinky hippies. Jerry's Dead. Get over it.


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Fixed.

[irul&ublo]

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Apologies, I merely meant to post an example of a guitarist more talented and skilled than Jimmy Page, who can't really even 'play out of the chords' very well...

Page should be noted as a bandleader and producer and composer more than a guitarist. That, and letting his cock hang out of his pants in Madison Square Garden in The Song Remains The Same.

:face palm:

Before joining the Yardbirds and then forming Led Zeppelin Page was the most well known and sought after session guitarist in the UK.

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:face palm:

Before joining the Yardbirds and then forming Led Zeppelin Page was the most well known and sought after skiffle guitarist in the UK.

WGAS?

[jm2e]

WGAS?

Who Gives A Shit? (Yea, I had to look it up because I'm not a fucking teenager)
Nobody gives a shit in this thread.
There's nothing special in a debate about guitar heroes and folk music.
Suck it.

[jm2e]

And now, back to memories from the original thread. These gems go bak to 2010!

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There's nothing special in a debate about guitar heroes and folk music.

[oftpiste]

You are mistaken. Not only was he a skiffle player, prior to his fame he was a studio player who was known for his ability to play anything on demand in a session.

I worked for Page for a time in the '80's. One night I took him to the NYC club where The Les Paul Trio played every week. The short version of the story is that JP was invited to jam with LP and I watched him get up on stage and proceed to play jazz. Yes, real be-bop style jazz guitar. He had a pretty rough-hewn style when playing rock & roll, but he really could play anything well.

Apologies, I merely meant to post an example of a guitarist more talented and skilled than Jimmy Page, who can't really even 'play out of the chords' very well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ6qRYsaJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vphs2YYBSr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlvaHEXP7NU


Page should be noted as a bandleader and producer and composer more than a guitarist. That, and letting his cock hang out of his pants in Madison Square Garden in The Song Remains The Same.

[Foggy_Goggles]

^^^and that is why TGR is still awesome.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

You are mistaken. Not only was he a skiffle player, prior to his fame he was a studio player who was known for his ability to play anything on demand in a session.

I worked for Page for a time in the '80's. One night I took him to the NYC club where The Les Paul Trio played every week. The short version of the story is that JP was invited to jam with LP and I watched him get up on stage and proceed to play jazz. Yes, real be-bop style jazz guitar. He had a pretty rough-hewn style when playing rock & roll, but he really could play anything well.

That's all fine and good, and I like Led Zeppelin and all, but he sure as hell ain't no Doc Watson.

[oftpiste]

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That is fucking cool

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You are mistaken. Not only was he a skiffle player, prior to his fame he was a studio player who was known for his ability to play anything on demand in a session.

I worked for Page for a time in the '80's. One night I took him to the NYC club where The Les Paul Trio played every week. The short version of the story is that JP was invited to jam with LP and I watched him get up on stage and proceed to play jazz. Yes, real be-bop style jazz guitar. He had a pretty rough-hewn style when playing rock & roll, but he really could play anything well.

Ya sure...




I said Page should be known as a producer. The reason LZ sounded so thin live is because JP couldn't layer 6 or 8 Telecaster tracks like he did in the studio. IOW, JP had a studio sound he couldn't replicate outside a studio.

And being 'sought-after in the studio' has more to do with being pals with the right producer or studio owner than chops or tone. Context counts more than content. JP was the man for his time and place.

Composer?Producer? Bandleader? Yes
But Jimmy Page couldn't go to Nashville, LA, Muscle Shoals as an unknown right now and expect to feed himself on his sloppy guitar skills.

Recent Berklee grad:

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[oftpiste]

Molly's a badass and I love that song but your premise is based on some pretty big presumptions that JP can't do certain things, which you really have no way of knowing. You've only heard what you've heard.

I watched him play a lot of live shows, warm up in the dressing room, and was as surprised as anyone could be when he played legit jazz guitar that night. I wasn't his biggest fan then and am not now, but as a player myself watching him play that night completely changed what I thought of his abilities.

Lots of guitar 'gods' suffer the same lack of studio layering when they play live. That doesn't mean they can't play or shouldn't be known as players. Are there better players? Yup. Were there better players then? Yup. Could he show up in Nashville as unknown and get studio work? Who the hell knows! Does that mean he shouldn't be known as a player? Nope. To suggest that someone isn't a good player because they couldn't show up in those environments and get studio work is a pretty big stretch.

If you had been there I would be happy to consider your opinion about that particular performance, but I'm pretty sure you weren't. And he was more of a Les Paul guy.

Ya sure...
I said Page should be known as a producer. The reason LZ sounded so thin live is because JP couldn't layer 6 or 8 Telecaster tracks like he did in the studio. IOW, JP had a studio sound he couldn't replicate outside a studio.

And being 'sought-after in the studio' has more to do with being pals with the right producer or studio owner than chops or tone. Context counts more than content. JP was the man for his time and place.

Composer?Producer? Bandleader? Yes
But Jimmy Page couldn't go to Nashville, LA, Muscle Shoals as an unknown right now and expect to feed himself on his sloppy guitar skills.

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Personally I think most Zeppelin albums sound like shit compared to other big budget studio albums of the same era. If anything I think Page producing the band was a detriment.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

you guys are a bunch of fags

Let me elaborate, you guys are arguing about stupid minutiae and these folks are way more talented at what they do than you or I could imagine. Of course Jimmy Page isn't Doc Watson, no one is. Others have surpassed his technical ability, even his own son, but it's the soul of the musician that matters. B.B. King isn't the best(technically) blues guitarist but no one it trash talking him.

[-Devin-]

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Molly's a badass and I love that song but your premise is based on some pretty big presumptions that JP can't do certain things, which you really have no way of knowing. You've only heard what you've heard.

Right. In 45 years of listening to JP, I've never heard him Travis pick, for example. Keef could pinch out a few bars of 32-20 or Cocaine Blues, but JP never had the interest, apparently. He doesn't have to be Scotty Moore, but he's supposed to be a bluesman of sorts who popularized a lot of the easier licks, no? This definitely applies to EC though...

I watched him play a lot of live shows, warm up in the dressing room, and was as surprised as anyone could be when he played legit jazz guitar that night. I wasn't his biggest fan then and am not now, but as a player myself watching him play that night completely changed what I thought of his abilities.

Good y'all so tight... Shame there's not any record of JP's jazziness. I play, so your opinion as a player is automatically held in higher regard then the poor guys who don't know they play yet... Tell me what impressed you in terms of cats we've both heard - his Joe Pass depth of creamy inversions and relatives, his Wes Montgomery metronomic command of his instrument and blazing fkn runs out of nowhere, his devious and fiery Larry Carlton solo building, his Django movement and fluid swing-co-pations, his rich Jim Hall horn-based innovation, his Pat Metheny tone, his nine-handed Stanley Jordan virtuosity? ?

Lots of guitar 'gods' suffer the same lack of studio layering when they play live. That doesn't mean they can't play or shouldn't be known as players. Are there better players? Yup. Were there better players then? Yup. Could he show up in Nashville as unknown and get studio work? Who the hell knows! Does that mean he shouldn't be known as a player? Nope. To suggest that someone isn't a good player because they couldn't show up in those environments and get studio work is a pretty big stretch.

I didn't say he was bad. I will say he's 'not all that' as a guitarist, compared to the regard he gets. His other talents and skills, and his context, made him the monument he is.
I still lack evidence he's much of a sight reader, or has strong legatos, or even play scales fast without skipping a lot of notes and reinventing his pace as he goes. He didn't have super pitch either, back in them days before pedal tuners...

If you had been there I would be happy to consider your opinion about that particular performance, but I'm pretty sure you weren't. And he was more of a Les Paul guy.

You might want to give JP a call about that. He used a Tele extensively in the studio (and quite a bit on the road), layering the single-coil sound in multiple tracks to produce a thick sound. This after Black Beauty with the Bigsby bender was kyped, and while he owned and performed and recorded with the famous sunburst LP he got from Joe Walsh.

[TomCrac]

Suck on it...

[oftpiste]

I still lack evidence ....

Exactly. However, I do not.

You are obviously much better informed musically, historically and experientially than anyone else so I'm sure you are, without a doubt, absolutely correct on all counts.

[Labcabin]

[jm2e]

Wrong Fucking Forum, JONGS!

The only recent thing in this thread about a musician that's interesting enough to belong here is stories from the Mag who knew Jimmy Fucking Page. That shit is what makes TGR!
If you want to debate his worthiness though, there's a Whole Fucking Forum that was created just for it. Happy Trails.

Edit: nice Van Gogh! Love me some Starry Night, but that guy had shit brush work. Never could have gotten into the School Of The Art Institute of Chicago.