JIMMY PAGE

(As a guitarist, Jimmy Page has all the bases covered. Clapton has that soaring fluid thing down pat, Beck is the absolute Crowned Prince of Flash and Hendrix . . . well, his feet never touched the ground when he was on. But Page . . . Page is solid.

If his rhythm work doesn’t quite have the manic flair of Townshend, it’s as close as dammit and when he solos it’s like a cluster of tiny volcanoes all timed to go off one directly after the other. Also there’sJhat arch sense of the hard rock dynamic for which Zeppelin still can’t be equalled.

Of his peers Page states: -

“It’s strange really. In the early Richmond days we used to -all play together, more or less. Everyone had the same influences and made the best of them really. It was like a melting-pot and. . . I’m sure, say, Beck would agree here.. . that from all that common ground one just picked up one’s own ideas and carried straight on from there.