Jimmy Web page is all the time “striving to be higher”.
The Led Zeppelin guitarist is a perfectionist and regardless of being within the music enterprise for greater than six many years, the 79-year-old rocker does not get it proper on a regular basis.
Requested if he is as a lot of a perfectionist in regards to the music enterprise facet as he’s with the music itself, he replied: “God, no! However that perfectionism utilized to every thing, to be sincere.”
Quizzed on whether or not he is tough to work with, he responded: “No. I do not assume I used to be in any respect.”
When requested if his bandmates – together with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and the late John Bonham – ever discovered him tough to work with, he admitted he by no means acquired that impression from them.
He informed Guitar Participant journal: “I do not know if anybody thought I used to be.”
Jimmy added: “You are all the time attempting to attempt to be higher and higher and higher. That is all there’s to it. And typically, no matter you have performed is not adequate. Do higher, do higher. However, you recognize, that is my very own factor. And I have never modified. That is how I’m.”
In the meantime, Jimmy beforehand admitted he does not assume Led Zeppelin would exist at this time due to the immediacy of the net world.
The musician discovered working within the Seventies a “enjoyable time as a inventive musician” as a result of the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ hitmakers had been capable of experiment with their sound and introduce new materials at gigs with out worrying it will leak any additional than the venue.
He defined: “We used to throw songs into the stay set that we hadn’t recorded but, only for enjoyable.
“We did that with ‘Immigrant Music’ at Bathtub Pageant in 1970, and no person had heard something prefer it. You don’t have that freedom now as a result of it will be posted on-line instantly. It was a enjoyable time as a inventive musician, a enjoyable time to be in a band.”
The band resulted in 1980 when drummer John handed away however they’ve reunited for particular one-off performances, most just lately in 2007.
