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Jimmy Page - On This Day
Capture from Jimmy Page's website depicting Marvin
Isreal's photo of Scotty and Elvis in
Dayton, OH
courtesy
Tracy
Longo
Jimmy Page, legendary
guitarist of Led Zeppelin, currently features a daily historical
presentation on his
website.
Last week, on the 25th of July, he recollected about Scotty's
influence and a presentation he attended at George Martin's North
London Air studios on July 25th, 1999. Reputedly, he was motivated
to take up guitar after hearing Elvis' Baby Let's Play House. Jimmy was quoted on his
site as follows:
Scotty Moore had been a major inspiration in
my early transitory days from acoustic to electric guitar.
His character guitar playing on those early Elvis Sun
recordings, and later at RCA, was monumental. It was during the 50s
that these types of song-shaping guitar parts helped me see the
importance of the electric guitar approach to music.
JimmyPage.com
July 25, 2012
Albert Lee
told me, "Back in 1961 when I was 17 and Jimmy was
16, we used to hang out and play together. I remember I had a
press cutting in my wallet of Scotty, Bill and DJ and Jimmy had
one of James Burton. We were totally immersed in American RnR
guitar playing, dug all of those players and learned every lick we
could."
The event was in conjunction with the opening of Gibson's new
London office. CEO Henry Juskiewicz, and Pat Foley of Gibson
London, presented Scotty with a lifetime achievement award and with the first of
a limited run of signature Gibson ES-295s.
Scotty, along with DJ and his British band, that at the time
featured
Pete Pritchard,
Liam
Grundy, Ian Conningham, and Peter Davenport performed their
set. Afterwards they invited the guitarists in attendance up to
play.
In addition to Jimmy, they included
Alvin Lee,
Jack Bruce,
Gary Moore,
Jeff Beck,
Steve Howe and
Phil Manzanera
among others.
added July 29, 2012
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