Jimmy Page’s work ethic was quietly on display in Led Zeppelin. He financed and produced their debut album, which they needed only 30 hours to record. The guitarist finished recording and mixing Presence in less than three weeks. Yet Page said his solo album was the hardest record for him to make.
Jimmy Page | Luciano Viti/Getty Images Jimmy Page’s solo album ‘Outrider’ was harder work than any Led Zeppelin record
Despite decades spent as one of the world’s elite guitar players — first as a sought-after session ace, then with the Yardbirds, then with Led Zeppelin — Page has just one proper solo album to his name. The 1988 record Outrider is the only one with his name front and center on the cover.
Page self-recorded the soundtrack to Lucifer Rising during his Led Zeppelin years. He recorded the band’s second record between dates of a grueling international concert.
Jimmy Page | Luciano Viti/Getty Images Jimmy Page’s solo album ‘Outrider’ was harder work than any Led Zeppelin record
Despite decades spent as one of the world’s elite guitar players — first as a sought-after session ace, then with the Yardbirds, then with Led Zeppelin — Page has just one proper solo album to his name. The 1988 record Outrider is the only one with his name front and center on the cover.
Page self-recorded the soundtrack to Lucifer Rising during his Led Zeppelin years. He recorded the band’s second record between dates of a grueling international concert.
- 5/20/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jimmy Page kept himself pretty busy in the Eighties. In addition to co-founding the short-lived supergroup Xyz, he composed the soundtrack to Death Wish II, launched the Firm with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers, reunited with Led Zeppelin for a couple high-profile one-offs, and guest-starred with everyone from Roy Harper to the Rolling Stones. Late in the decade, he also made time to record his debut solo album, Outrider, still the only non-soundtrack LP he’s issued on his own to date. (David Fricke’s two-star Rolling Stone...
- 1/9/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
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