Treasure it for the rest of your life! I wish I had something of his...anything!

what year is that Les Paul Standard?

@@gordon9177 59

A 59’ Les Paul

And just thru his own playing Hotel California is better than Stairway to Heaven in my opinion... In every metric Not least of which the solo I expect I'll get little support from that notion in this comment thread

@@aydensalazar2525 that's what I thought, but wanted to dbl check.

Indeed

Hellooo , Blackmore?

Best guitarist, songwriter and producer. Ever.

The class act of all acts. Still the gold standard in my book.

@@tvbrasil80 I don't know why Ritchie has to always pop up when praising Jimmy Genius! They are two, totally different players, Ritchie a complete virtuoso who any knowledgeable fan of rock is in awe of, and Jimmy Page, the leader of the greatest band to ever take a stage! BOTH are on the short list of greatest guitarists ever, along with Poison's CC DeVille.......😁😁😁

@@tvbrasil80 Of course Richie AND Tony but Jimmy is the best. Long Live all of them. Bringing their music across the pond in the late 60's and all of the 70's to the States. Still Rock those bands and always will.

It's a lesson in not underestimating the quiet and polite types. :)

Very true

He`s a gentleman ! Now Bonzo that`s a whole nother story ! lol

Never underestimate the Only Child.

Being covered in tattoos and dragging around stoned stupid is not a prerequiste for being a superb creative.

I have eight guitars, but only one that is truly my baby (Jimmy likened it to his wife or mistress). I busk quite a lot, people always come up to me and ask if they can use my guitar and play. I just shake my head and ask, "Do you also go up to Mother's with babies and ask if you can hold them? Hell no, you're not going near my guitar, she's my baby!"

So true, just saw a post the other day and they, Rock icons range from around 72 to 82!! Sorry to say, they're going to be dropping like flies. I think Willie Nelson is around 90?

People hate Jimmy Page because he copied everything everyone else did before him.... just sayin'.

@@theoloutlaw Les Paul played every riff possible in the 1930s. Everyone since then has just been copying everything. Deal with it.

@@theoloutlaw I think Page gets to much criticism for all of his supposed copying. Most Artist have taken from other artist and then make it their own. If you listen to any of the session guitar work he did in the early and mid 1960's, the songs were 'one off' original Mod/Freakbeat songs, of which were first time original guitar works by himself. As an example, listen to "Leave My Kitten Alone" by First Gear 1966.

@@geraldtanderson9044 Yeah, I'm familiar with Jimmy's work, especially the early material, and no doubt he is a great guitarist, and I'm not knocking his abilities at all. I think he is terribly overrated however, as much I think Clapton is also. I enjoy both players however, but being a guitarist and digging further into the past, there is not a lot that the likes of Page was doing that wasn't or hadn't already been done. It's good be gathered it all and presented it to a new audience, but to some of us old timers, we see what he is doing, and good on him for being the one that did it. It was a smart move to 'copy' the greats and repackage it for his own group. You mention the song 'Leave My Kitten', that solo is right out of the playing style of James Burton. Check out any of Rick Nelson's late 50's to early 60's recordings with James, and you'll hear what Jimmy was clearly listening to.

@@theoloutlaw​I have to disagree. My 7 examples below show why. Jimmy developed his own guitar sound(s) from years of being a session musician and with Yardbirds. 1. Babe I’m Going to Leave You and Ann Bredon? 100% only lyrics and had nothing to do with what Jimmy did on the guitar. Led Zeppelin was covering Joan Baez’s version which was “Traditional” and open to public domain. However, Baez took her lyrics from Bredon’s original version without credit. 2. Rock and Roll and Little Richard? Although Jimmy riff is an homage to Chuck Berry, it’s nothing like anything Chuck Berry ever did. While jamming, John Bonham started with a drum beat almost identical to Little Richards beginning of You Keep a Knock But You Can’t Come In. 3. Bring it on Home and Willie Dixon? Officially this was a cover that Robert Plant was the instigator behind. The only thing throught the song that’s completely different from Willie’s original version was Jimmy’s guitar. 4. Whole Lotta Love and Willie Dixon? That was also Robert Plant and lyrics. Nothing involving Jimmy. 5. Stairway to Heaven and Spirit? Only similarities between the song Taurus and Stairway to Heaven was each song had a cord progression in Am played on an acoustic guitar. Cord progression was legally deemed not to be a form of copyright infringement, thus Led Zeppelin winning the lawsuit. 6. Dazed and Confused and Jake Holmes? Yes, what Jimmy did in LED Zeppelin’s version was directly taken from what the Yardbirds did in their version, but it was Jimmy who came up with it when he was with the Yardbirds. With Jake Holmes version, the problem was over seven words Led Zeppelin used in their lyrics. Other than that, two completely different songs. 7. Black Mountain Side and Bert Jansch? This is ‘maybe’ the only arguable thing you have since Jimmy did admit that the guitar tablature Bert Jansch used in his Black Water Side inspired his in Black Mountain Side. Other than that, what Jimmy did in Black Mountain Side is considerably different and much more intricate than what Bert did in Black Water Side. Ultimately, though, the Black Water Side song and its guitar tab was public domain when Bert Jansch originally used it for his version.

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Yes he did: i learned by ear in the 70’s to play his riffs…

I’ve been playing guitar for nearly 50 years and Jimmy Page is one of the most influential players in my musical journey. His sense of rhythm and timing is spot on. Eddie and Jimi are the other two major influences.

He`s The Goat !

You're right. His chord playing is up there with Pete Townshend.

one movie made it a bit toxic! was it even a good movie?

Every night at midnight on FM radio New Haven CT circa 74!

Find the Kennedy Center honors version. Awesome beyond

Hearing it the first time by the band Spirit and named Taurus you mean?

Stairway to Heaven is to Led Zep as Hey Jude is to The Beatles....the two biggest of the biggies of the their careers.

My favorite, by a mile, Page plays the coolest riffs, solos, acoustic beauty.....his tones are without equal!

He reminds me of Hendrix in that they are incredibly Humble. Clapton grew to be humble in later years but Page and Hendrix, Beck, etc..were from the start. Steve wineood, Peter Green..the list goes on...SRV, Buddy Guy, Gallagher...

Many years ago a fella named Deen came into our showroom and wanted to drive the Acura NSX we had inside. I ask him if he is REALLY interested in buying it before we have to move half a dozen other cars and open the huge bay doors. He says yep, I’m REALLY interested and yes I have the money to buy it. About that time my sales manager walks in and says hi to the guy. Seems they knew each other. After some friendly banter this Deen asks me “so, is it really that fast?” I tell him beats me, I’ve never driven one. He becomes aghast and hands me the keys and tells me I HAVE to drive it. My boss is standing behind him and shaking his head NO! at me. Deen couldn’t see him. Deen kept insisting, I kept seeing my boss with his hands slashing his throat and mouthing NO! Deen says he won’t buy the car unless I drive it. Boss still shakes his head no. Needing to keep my job I never drove the car and true to his word Deen Castronovo didn’t buy it, but he was one helluva nice, normal fella. I had no idea who he was at the time.

I think it's because they honestly really only care about the music

True that it really does blow you away sometimes

He likes little girls and I guess you do to

An incredibly evil man

True. Like the song Kasmir... Who would have known that tuning to DADGAD would make it playable.

Gerald… I’m with you on this one… Born in 60 and literally raised on Rock and Roll. And I still enjoy every time a Led Zeppelin song comes on my radio. I had an eight track, portable, single speaker precursor to the boom box that I wore out lots of D batteries and a Led Zeppelin One eight track cassette on…

@@dennis652 That's cool!

I was in my early twenties when I seen Zeppelin the first time, then again @ 1973 and nobody, NOBODY could put out the music they made. It was magical!

Led Zep was really huge. Just about every dude knew at least one song. Now the average guy under 30 can’t even name one classic rock song.

No seriously I have such a hard time sometimes matching the tone for the main riff on ten years gone when the drums drop

He plays like shit.. especially his heroin induced guitar solos. Absolutely horrendous.

That's a natural fact

Very true. Not many people can play as sloppy as him.

ironically he couldnt even do his solos the same way twice....XD still an amazing guitar player though,no doubt

That used to be my favorite Zeppelin song.. then I heard Achilles Last Stand.. just a guitaring was awesome...

I read somewhere George harrison said they couldn't do a ballad, so they answered with the rain song.

It’s stunning and still gives me chills

I wonder if Joe Walsh has any regrets.

And ‘it won’t beat you up for alimony’ 😂😀

Right on!

Yes for sure

He's only interested in 11 yo girls

Somewhere there's a short bus on its way to pick you up

​@@markhardwick7791you need help

Absolutely right!

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I love your comment! Jimmy Page is a legend!

Sure. Happens all the time.

I wonder if anyone has ever tracked down that family and given them a proper thanks and quite a large check? I'm willing to donate to that cause! PEACE LOVE LED ZEPPELIN

The greatest guitarist the world will ever know? He wasn’t even the greatest guitarist in the Yardbirds. He’s Jimmy Page though, and that’s awesome.

@@melodymakermark Hahaha Jeff Beck not even close or perhaps you're referring to Slow Hand as he didn't get that name for nothing. Don't forget he put his guitar down when Hendrix got on stage. Opinions are like well it takes one to know one!

Oh great just found a new reason to hate Ticketmaster. So in addition to the super high service fees, the employees cherry pick the best seats?

@@twintriode Most of LZ was long before Ticketmaster existed. Relax.

@@stonefly69 My comment had zero to due with LZ as you call them. Reply a little less if your strategy is to take things out of context. One relaxed dude out!

@@twintriode Back in the 90s I worked at a Ticketmaster outlet myself (Blockbuster Music, if you remember those) and no, TM employees didn't get any special advantage unless they cheated in the random number drawing. Thing was, there were no online sales back then so folks had to be there in person at 10am when tickets went on sale and a lot of rock fans don't get up and out to the store that early, so just by being there at work employees always managed to get pretty good seats!

@@Jaysthename OK fair enough. I do not remember Blockbuster music, and I was certainly around for all of the 90's. Maybe a regional thing?

The guitar after the middle of Carouselambra is haunting if you hear it loud... seems like each week another solo of his pops in my head.

Loved reading this! Key words being TUNINGS and VOICINGS! We won't hear another player like Jimmy Page, he is special, utterly and completely unique....not of this world, basically. Jimmy is able to speak completely from his soul with his playing, which very few can do so eloquently!

I was very glad that I got to see them in 1977😊

You are right Page is a genius!

He IS a sloppy guitar player!

When he wants to be. After all rock and roll is a drunken Man's music and he put that feel right in there with Zeppelin. I'm pretty sure his Studio tracks were clean. The samples I found on KZfaq of his session work don't sound sloppy

Don't forget that he loved to bang 14 year old chicks too! Heck of a guy.

Well, you should be a Zeppelin fan. How dare you !!! Lol!!

I agree, it’s never been rivaled

No disrespect to Jimmy whatsoever or one of the greatest classic rock songs ever written by a band called "Stairway To Heaven." Yet, who, what, when & where did you find this so-called info claiming Page's STH guitar solo was voted the no.1 greatest solo ever in music history my friend? Cuz I must have missed that show, so help a brother out & show me I'm all ears. Jimmy's STH solo definitely kicks-azz & maybe one of the best ever. But almost every Top-10 lists I've ever seen that's always on top @no.1 greatest solo is David Gilmour's solo work on "Comfortably Numb." So, again show me where you read that Page's solo was voted no.1 in music history. 🤔 Just saying... ++Peace & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend++ 🤘😜🤘

Critical due to jealousy, he’s an absolute legend

You said it right THE guitar man... Everyone else is a pretender to the throne

@Matthew Morrison Dude. I'm a guitarist, drummer and media composer. Stravinsky is my ultimate hero. I know them all. They are ALL great. They all have their special approach. I love Alan but sometimes I want earthy rock music. And for that? Page was king.

It is the best solo ever, that makes 2 of us that know

THAT IS the most amazing solo NQ ‘73 absolutely

I was thinking the same thing. That would be totally bizarre to kind of look over and realize this. It would floor me!

Especially if a younger GenZ employee grabbed the neck to muffle the strings to "deny stairway", not knowing who Page is

Not the intro- the SOLO blasting at 11 !

😂🤣. I'd pay to see that

I could see the sales people running to the back of the store yelling “no stairway, no stairway,” oh wait, ok

Fantastic!

Look up “MudShark incident…”…than come back and erase this comment…he’s a god though you’re right…

He's also a raging pedophile but ok mate

@@korlmusic5159 probably a bs story. Don’t believe everything you read.

@@lucabrasi5070 I was the mud shark…

More bs. Perfect. Thanks for clarifying.

Chuck Berry was the most important rock guitarist of all time. He created the template.

@@randybailin4902 ooo you dun it now. ... .

Ridiculous

Yes right, when you heard about Jimmy using a bow on the guitar and we heard Kashmere come on the radio back then, we thought !!whaaaaat?! Or in today's Young people's term,wt*!! 😮🎸🎉

@@jayheinz4624 With me, it was hearing Dazed and Confused on the Song Remains the Same album not even knowing it was a bow used, too actually SEEING it watching the movie The Song Remains the Same at a late night movie theater when it first came out. That performance at Madison with that bow, 30 min song, just untouchable too this day.

@@sword-and-shield 👍🎸