GUITAR WOLF...Jimmy Page

 


     Jimmy Page is a goddamn thief who owes much of his best work to robbing multiple bluesmen wholesale, from Willie Dixon to Muddy Waters. He also may be the greatest thieving guitarist of all time. What Page built from those blues foundations would itself become essential to most rock music that followed. You can easily argue that “Whole Lotta Love,” “Black Dog,” “Immigrant Song” and “Kashmir” belong on a list of the 20 best rock riffs ever, and that the first and third of those are top-five material. The influence of Led Zeppelin and Page is audible in metal, alternative, punk, post-rock and more.
     Page’s work for Zeppelin is epic in scope and nearly limitless in its variety. The band featured a rhythm section and singer who were themselves all-time greats, but if you subbed in even a pretty good guitarist, it’d lose nearly half of its power. Songs like “Dog,” “Love” and “The Lemon Song” are the purest form of cock rock and the most enjoyable—comparable machismo-laden bands like AC/DC and Aerosmith don’t have the same appeal because their shit lacks the depth and ambition of Page’s axe work. He could create moods of abject terror on “No Quarter” and “Dazed and Confused,” utter beauty on “Going to California,” “Thank You” and “That’s The Way,” reggae-lite euphoria on “D’Yer Maker,” lovelorn melancholy on “Tangerine”…

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The Firm  (Atlantic,1985)



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