Sunday, November 11, 2007

Random rockstar 1 jimmy page




this week it would have to be the star and the dude who broke his finger just ebfore his reunion concert with led zep..but still doesnt seperate him from nbeing a legendary guitarist...now on to his bio..all i know...his real name is james patrick page.. bron in jan 9 1944 born in heston,middlsex,england..he's also a songwriter and a producer plays teh guitar, bass, banjo and mandolin. he started off with the yardbirds with great influence from eric clapton whol left the band coz it was too pop then it was led zeppelin which jim joined and gained lots fo fame and played awesomely well..along with john paul jones,john henry bonham and robert plant..jim is particularly well know with his signature guitar gibson les paul..and marchall amplfier.Page is famous for playing his guitar with a cello bow, as on the songs "Dazed and Confused", "How Many More Times" and in the interlude of "Whole Lotta Love". This was a technique he developed during his session days, although strictly speaking he was not the first guitarist to use a violin bow, since Eddie Phillips of The Creation had done so prior to Page. The Creation was one of the bands managed by Shel Talmy, whom Page had worked for as a session musician.[10] On MTV's Led Zeppelin Rockumentary, Page said that he obtained the idea of playing the guitar with a bow from David McCallum, Sr. who was also a session musician. Page used his Fender Telecaster and later his Gibson Les Paul for his bow solos.He used a Wah-wah pedal but not always in the traditional way of rocking it back and forth as done by Jimi Hendrix and other contemporaries; instead, he put it fully forward in the treble position to get a sharper tone.

and for some to know which absolutely horrifies me is tt page is a chelsea fc fan!(im man u).Page's daughter, Scarlet Page, is a respected photographer. Her mother, Charlotte Martin, is an ex-girlfriend of Eric Clapton.From the mid 1970s to 2004 Jimmy owned 'The Mill House', Mill Lane, Windsor, UK - formerly the home of actor Michael Caine. Fellow Led Zeppelin band member John Bonham died at the house in 1980.
bonzo took 40 shots of vodka

Page himself has admitted to heavy use of drugs throughout the 1970s. In an interview he gave to Guitar World magazine in 2003, he stated that:

“ I can't speak for the [other members of the band], but for me drugs were an integral part of the whole thing, right from the beginning, right to the end."

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