This!

It's not often that a pop version of a classical piece will work for me, but, hey - it's Jimmy Page. ;) And he's playing a piece by one of my favorite composers. I've had this one stuck in my head for 3 weeks now. Haunting. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJYYCQAq-jM
 
I want a Tele w/ a B-Bender!!!
 
PS - sorry I couldn't find a version w/o the long intro.

Judging by the clothes and how skinny he is, I'd be tempted to believe early 80s, right before he managed to quit heroin.

Rain
Judging by the clothes and how skinny he is, I'd be tempted to believe early 80s, right before he managed to quit heroin.

I think this was right after he'd taken quite a lot..
 

 

That IS good. Most every live recording I've heard by Page always sounded well, sloppy to me. Like he was playing a little faster than he actually could. It could be that I didn't listen enough, wrote it off too soon.. but THIS.. this clip is beautifully done.
 
Thanks for posting it.
 
Julien

Sloppy is OK really. I am a bit sloppy and the Rolling Stones were always sloppy sounding but you cannot argue with success. Plus... anyone who can play with the Yardbirds has something going on. That is an ELITE crew there!!
 
I think The Song Remains The Same really turned me off the first time I heard it. Maybe it is one of those albums that you have to get used to, but I didn't like the sound... that said, LZ II, their first album, ZOSO, etc... are incredible. Especially LZ II and the song Communication Breakdown from their first album. They were ground breaking to put it mildly. Page is one of the true greats. No doubt about that! I have a box set of LZ shows that I have never completely watched... I think I may get it out and go through it with my LP and this new amp... I might learn something.
Yeah... got it out. 2 DVDs Royal Albert Hall 1970; Immigrant Song 1972; MSG 1973; Earl's Court 1975; Knebworth 1979.. some extras. Pulled out some other DVDs while I was in there. One is how to play all the songs on Axis: Bold As Love. I only play Little Wing now but want to learn Axis and This Castle's Made of Sand.. I think Spanish Castle Magic is on it too, right? I'm glad I looked at the vid. I may give a try at that tune too. I was raised on classical music, at least in HS. Lots of Brahms and Bach.
 
I'll let you know how it goes! I needed a bee in my bonnet! I've been truly lazy lately.. I have a Deep Purple DVD too. The one where Blackmore throws a glass of water on someone off camera in like the first tune... then the other band mates have a little go at him in interviews... he is still a guitar wizard. What is he playing now... something weird, not guitar anymore I think.
Anyway, thanks. You've inspired me.
 
Julien
 
 
 

Rain
Even if I'm a huge fan and I regard him as my favorite rock musician, I'm the first to admit that he can be very sloppy, and that his phrasing is anything but clean and articulate, especially when it comes to lead guitar.
 
... the way he layers those tracks, the tones he's uses and how he combines them, his predilection for odd/ugly tones and the way he resolves them into a bigger picture, the voicings he uses... And his acoustic work.
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As much as I like the first 3 albums a lot, and the bootlegs that they brought out, none of the later material was as good in the bootleg areas as the first 3 albums. There are mistakes, but you got to remember that less than 5% of the listeners at the concert are critical enough about what you play to even know it was an error, and it was sloppy, UNLESS, the song is so well known that you can't help not notice it.
 
After those 3 albums, the only work I like by Jimmy is all the stuff that he has done with Roy Harper, and specially "Jugula+4" which has some excellent things. Him and Roy are close friends going back to their kid days. Jimmy is in at least 5 or 6 albums. Not to mention John Paul Jones, that is also in amny of them, and you specially want to get the album "Headquarters" and turn it on  VERY LOUD, and play "Playing the Game" and catch Chris Spedding turning Dave Gilmour inside out.
 
Jimmy has made some bad decisions, though. The album "How the West Was Won" was taken from the bootlegs at the time, and he changed a lot of the supposed "errors" in the performance and took its SOUL out of it. To me, that was stupid, when the energy in the performances came from the other 3 adjusting to his errors and breaks, that all of a sudden are missing the underneath content that they originally had!