JIMMY PAGE: GUITARS I HAVE KNOWN
(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.
JIMMY PAGE: GUITARS I HAVE KNOWN
FEB.1975
There hasn't been a rock guitarist who—at least once—hasn't wished he could play guitar the way Jimmy Page does. Here Nick Kent quizzes the guitarist about his equipment preferences: guitars, strings and amplifiers. Read carefully, follow Page's advice, and who knows what'll happen?
Nick Kent
(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’s that arch sense of the hard rock dynamic for which Zeppelin still can’t be equalled.
Of his peers Page states: