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Jimmy Page's living room

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Today I went to see "It Might Get Loud" - a film about guitarists JP, The Edge and Jack White talking about and playing guitars guitars guitars.

It contained several memorable moments for me - three especially

1. Jimmy Page walking in to Headley Grange and describing how Bonzo's roadie had set up the drums in the foyer and they sounded so good there with all the reverb etc so that's where they recorded "When The Levee Breaks"

2. When he played the "Whole Lotta Love" riff in front of the others - up till then it had been looking like a very serious set-up along the lines of "oh no these guys aren't really getting along" - but the grins on the faces of Edge and Jack were wonderful and kind of broke the ice.

3. But the best one for me was Jimmy going through his records and playing Link Wray's "Rumble" and his smiles of delight after so many years listening to one of his obviously favourite records. I mean, Jack White didn't seem so visually delighted about the Son House track that was supposed to be his all-time fave.

But what I REALLY want to know is - what were the other records in Jimmy's room? What was in his fridge? What are the books beside his bed? Etc etc. So tantalizing.

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where Jimmy was, walking around opening various guitar cases. Seemed like a real Aladin's Cave.

I enjoyed the film, but being a bit of an old fart would rather have seen someone like Eric Johnson instead of Jack White. But that wouldn't have much box office appeal I suppose.

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fortuneight | 24 November 2009 - 12:36pm
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