Jimmy Page: Guitar Hero

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Page’s plan all along was to transform rock n’ roll. And he did. The band he founded, Led Zeppelin, remains one of the most influential and popular rock bands in history. Page is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His epic onstage solos, on hits like “Stairway to Heaven” and “Kashmir,” are legendary. And he was just as innovative as a producer. On this episode Page talks about how he fell in love with American blues music, how he learned to play the guitar, and how his days as a session musician prepared him to upend the conventions of studio recording. He also walks us through some of the Led Zeppelin songs he loves best. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2017

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0:00.0	A couple of years ago, Rolling Stone magazine gathered a panel of guitar experts to pick the greatest
0:06.2	guitarists of all time. The top three were Jimmy Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page.
0:13.0	Page is best known, of course, as the creator of Led Zeppelin,
0:16.8	a band that sent rock and roll spinning in new directions.
0:21.0	You need cool, baby, I'm not fooling.
0:25.0	I'm going to sit yeah.
0:29.0	Back in schooling.
0:31.0	Way down inside
0:35.0	it's side, honey you need it.
0:38.0	I'm gonna give you my love,
0:40.0	I'm gonna give you my love.
0:42.0	Oh! I'm going to give you my life.
0:43.0	Oh,
0:45.0	Wanna Hold out of love.
0:47.0	Wanna hold of love.
0:49.0	Want to hold out of love.
0:50.0	Want to hold out of love.
0:52.0	Let's be perfectly honest about this. When I formed Led Zeppelin, I formed it with the idea
1:02.4	and the ethos that it was going to change music.
1:07.0	That's what I wanted to do and it clearly did.
1:11.0	It clearly did. It clearly did and the it brought to the forefront these master craftsmen that were
1:18.8	involved in that band.
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