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Post subject: Jimmy Page Trivia
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:52 pm
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Jimmy Page just recently turned 59! During his career with Led Zeppelin he belted out many great songs, however until the mid 80's with the group The Honeydrippers he had never had a song as high as #3 on the charts. Sea Of Love reached #3 for The Honeydrippers.

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I didn't know Jimmy Page did any work with the Honeydrippers. I thought that was just Robert Plant's gig.


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From Wikipedia:

The Honeydrippers were an English rock band of the 1980s. Former Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant formed the group in 1981 to satisfy his long-time goal in having a rock band with a heavy R&B basis. As well as Plant, the band consisted of fellow Zeppelin member, guitarist Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck (a former Yardbirds member like Page) and other friends and well known studio musicians.

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Jimmy Page was fired from his work on the soundtrack for the movie "Lucifer Rising." Producer Ken Adams claims that Page's personal problems had made him impossible to work with.

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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:00 am
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David Alldredge wrote:
I didn't know Jimmy Page did any work with the Honeydrippers. I thought that was just Robert Plant's gig.


Actually, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck recorded with Robert Plant on this one.

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Jimmy Page was a in demand session player in the 60's and played on a string of hits over in England between '62 and '68. Can anyone name any?


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no one is gonna take a stab? okay I will give you a clue. There is an album called "This Guitar Kills" that is nothing but songs from his work as a session artist.

Somebody step up.


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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:55 am
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Alledgedly he played the solo on the studio version of the Kink's song "You Really Got Me"

I think anyway.


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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:28 pm
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If you realy like Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page, like me :D , you should read their biography that their old tour manager Richard Cole. Its called
Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin uncensored, its realy good and you learn alot about Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones.


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I recently heard a rumor that Led Zeppelin didn't right half of the songs that they're given credit for. I was told that they stole them from bands that they played with before they were big. I've been wondering whether this was the truth or not.


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I didn't know Jimmy was only 59. He is only about 4 years older than I am.

I think he probably played on "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan. I am pretty sure he played on some Donovan songs but I don't know which ones. He worked with Mickey Most, I believe (where he met John Paul Jones, he thought Jones was really strange).


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chris63 wrote:
Jimmy Page was a in demand session player in the 60's and played on a string of hits over in England between '62 and '68. Can anyone name any?


Money Honey -Mickie Most & The Gear

My Baby Left Me -Dave Berry & The Cruisers

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I recently heard a rumor that Led Zeppelin didn't right half of the songs that they're given credit for. I was told that they stole them from bands that they played with before they were big. I've been wondering whether this was the truth or not.


Heh.
Nah. Not exactly anyway.

They did take some aspects of songs and used them in their own style - examples: The drum intro to 'Rock and roll' and the guitar lick of Stairway to Heaven. And indeed some artists did get a bit pissy when they weren't acredited.

But the thing is this just exemplifies what Zeppelin did. They took old blues and Rock and Roll and their own heavier, R'n'B orientated style and fused it, creating emotive, soulful, catchy music.

I think you really have to watch them live to see it - the 20 minute improv, the interaction between Bonham and Jones, the little parts of old blues songs here and there that they sorta ramble into exploring their musical inspirations and tastes.


Personally I don't think any rock band has quite matched them for pure musicality and soul on stage.


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who hasn,t in one way or another it keeps the music alive


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