he had the perfect band

As far as the criticism of his lead playing, I get it. However what makes me mad is that people don't talk about how great he was chordally and harmonically, which last time I checked is about 90% of a song.

Jimmy is never sloppy on the acoustic, he doesn’t miss a note. Probably because he’s sitting down and holding the guitar properly..

Jimmy page's early seventies chops were as about as perfect for a rock star as you could get.He had years of studio experience playing every style of music offset with the rock royalty lifestyle.on song remains the same concert he is fast, clean, sloppy, diverse, and wildly inspired at times! Blackmore could not touch page live when he was on, and I have heard tons of Deep Purple live.Page was almost like Steve Howe technique wise in his diversity at this time...the early seventies guitar hero was Jimmy Page.....almost underrated for the reasons I stated above

Why have you got to be the fastest and the cleanest.

Sloppy. Is what made page great .i loved his feel

I've got bootlegs where Page is perfect. Since I've been loving you 'Deus ex machina'. Anyway, as the magus sayeth on sloppy playing, "I was probably playing that riff 3ft in the air! "...For sheer invention on RNR gtr, no one comes close...

Zeppelin was his baby, his life. He had no desire on the same level after that. The drugs hampered his live playing, but he always maintained his ability. Case in point was the end of the 1995 page plant tour and the whole 1998 tour, page played like a man possessed and regained a large pirtion of his ability. He was playing his best ahows since 1975

Some of this I think is overblown and exaggerated. And some of it is true. Zeppelin was way powerful and Page and Bonham were crippling the band. Page, it is agreed by those who were there, got into the addictiion around the time of Presence. Bonham did drugs but, he loved his drink. He would do a drink over a drug. Plant did his share of drugs to the extreme but, after Keric's death he pulled back from drugs. The hard stuff. His son's death shook him up very badly and he went into a kind of depression over it for quite some time. Jonesy got to the point where he stayed in a different hotel from the others to avoid the excesses. He was a pure musician and while he enjoyed the fun when he first came on board it was not really his thing. He loved to go sight seeing in the different cities they went to and passed on the drug. But, also, as the band got older and hit 30 they slowed down alot. Jimmy was still tied to horse and had a tough time breaking away from it and Bonham was a full fledged alcholic. And this got to the other two. As for the occult stuff some of it was played up by Page as he got a kick out of freaking people out like Bowie. But, even Bowie got into the occult to a degree. In the seventies things like the occult, astrology and mystical stuff was super popular. Tarot cards became really big. And Jimmy was hardly the only person fascinated by Crowley in that era. Jimmy got the whole pushing it as if it was only him back then but, that was because of his sense of humor and not denying things. He just loved freaking others out. But, check around and you will see the occult was big business back then. As well as Witchcraft and wizardry and the whole bubble bubble toil and trouble.

I went to a Zep concert in PHX. Plant got sick and left the stage not even completing a song. No refund was offered, we got screwed. They owe me a concert.

I think many musicians just got burnt out from excessive touring mixed with drinking, drugs and pressure to make new music. Many guys were home sick and haven't been back to England in many months. I think sometimes Page just didn't care what he sounded like on stage.. Maybe almost like rebelling against the relentless touring with poor performance. That's just my opinion.

Jim Matzorkis, beaten by Peter Grant, Bonham, John Bindon and Richard Cole.

Loved them for years.I still listen to some songs.the whole Crowley thing is too freaky for me

Jimmy page is the only guitarist I can stand listening to, especially the sloppy bootlegs

This is supposed to be about Led Zeppelins debauchery but they keep talking about Jimmy Pages guitar performance.

Nice Video!

Anyone else read that thumbnail as “Led Zeppelin‘s legendary douchebag-ery”?

If I looked like Jimmy, I’d be vain, too.

Jimmy’s face never looked gaunt, even at the height of his heroine use, it remained robust looking. Very unusual for an addict.

The occult thing too- nothing good ever comes from that.