Posted on 09/19/2019 4:53:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Jimmy Page was interviewed for a cover story in the latest issue of Uncut, where he talks about the potential of a LED ZEPPELIN film, career regrets (or not), and carrying on the legacy of ZEPPELIN as the best band in the world.
Speaking to writer Michael Bonner about why he feels no other bands could come close to LED ZEPPELIN, Page said: "It's really hard to say something like that and not sound conceited, but over the years, a lot of other musicians have told me they thought we were the best. I'm not talking about record sales or concert attendance, although I think we can hold our own with anyone. What I mean is: when you talk about a band as a collaborative musical unit, we were the best. I am not talking about one or two genius songwriters, and everyone else tagging along. I am talking about a collection of musicians who are each at the top of their craft in their own right. In LED ZEPPELIN, we were exactly that."
Elaborating on why he previously told interviewer Charlie Rose in 2012 that LED ZEPPELIN was the best band in the world while Robert Plant demurred, Page said: "If you are a young musician and you want to hear how a band works well together, then we're a pretty good blueprint. John [Paul Jones] and me. Robert and me. John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Every combination of the quartet could bring something special. Robert probably said, 'Oh, well, there were a lot of great bands,' to that interviewer because that is the gentlemanly reply. And I agree with him...But when you are talking about rock 'n' roll alchemy, I had to say what I thought. We were the best."
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IMO the big diverge would be the bands that incorporated Southern music into their blues: Stones and Allman for example.
Was very impressed at the Led concert I went to, but adding Southern rifs makes for a larger musical and emotional regime.
And for blues, Clapton beat everyone anyway.
Negro musicians did not do a good job of adapting to electric, in general.
I actually love Presence. They were wounded and not riding high....I think that’s the album where they couldn’t rely on flash and mythology and you got the Real Zeppelin. Eddie Trunk considers Van Halen to be America’s Zeppelin - and he may be right.
Nickleback? [/ducking]
most underrated album of the Zeppelin catalog...other bands could only dream of composing a song as mighty as Achilles Last Stand...
I go with the Stones. Jagger has been for over 50 years (founded 1967) the absolute genius in bringing the best music elements together, and of marketing and showmanship. Their music will live for ever.
Page is exactly right on this point which is why they couldn't continue after Bonham's death.
The Who should've called it quits when Moon died as well.
As for the Stones not doing anything good since 1978, as I mentioned previously, that's not true - they did Bittersweet Symphony.
Exactly what I was thinking. Nothing beats those big bands. Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra. ....
Lol
IMHO, no one was better than the Grateful Dead in what they did — improvise a different show every time.
Sure there were mistakes and misses, but some of the hits were absolutely sublime!
Swlabr...
Then, Traffic
:~ )
you got my vote
Zappa could go all night without breaking a sweat.
I watched “The Kids are Alright” last week. It didn’t diminish by appreciation of The Who’s greatest hits, but it certainly diminished by opinion of the band members as people. Especially Townsend. He was a royal a-hole. And Keith Moon, as amazing as he was as a drummer, was flat-out nuts.
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