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Post by freewilly on Nov 21, 2020 18:17:09 GMT
Ah no, Page was great. Just, there were times where he was very sloppy when playing live. I think everyone knows that
I had to think hard about that. I don't remember there being times when I was sitting there going "Oh don't be so sloppy Jimmy" but on reflection I do remember thinking that there are times I want a band to play that bit right, because it's good ( x ref. "Don't mess aroun' with Roll Over Lay Down" ), and I thought they were too off the rails, ie, sloppy. But my main ire was directed at Robert, who tends to fill in bits with meaningless baby babies etc when he gets bored. I didn't know anything about guitar beyond D major and E minor then, so as long as he was making a good noise and (important to anyone who was one day going to be a true Quo fan) keeping the tempo up, I wasn't much bothered. Making a good noise was what they were all about. My favourite guitar bit was White Summer, and as that was solo, he did have to do it right ...
Some performances and guest appearances I've seen and I'm like, "Wow...That's not good!" He was probably off his face on Heroin back in the day... He played with some other guitarists in the 90s and 00s and he was all over the place at times and looked like he'd rather be elsewhere. Live Aid was an embarrassment and he had the audacity to blame everyone else
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Post by frozenhero on Nov 23, 2020 22:59:20 GMT
Yeah, Phil Collins said in no unclear terms in a recent interview that Jimmy Page can go f--k himself for putting Phil down for all that went wrong at Live Aid.
It's odd that Peter Green's name came up. He was such a big influence. Gilmour is a big fan - listen to the soaring parts in "Dogs", that's inspired by "Albatross", as are many tracks from his first solo album. (He also played "Albatross" to his wife Polly when she couldn't sleep.) Snowy White just came up on the radio, he's probably Green's closest follower. Gary Moore owed a lot of his career to Greeny, who helped him start out and inspired him especially during his later blues years.
And as freewilly probably knows, B.B. King said Green was the only guitarist who gave him the cold sweats.
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Post by blagult on Nov 25, 2020 20:50:59 GMT
I think Quo’s 1970 transition was influenced by Green and early Mac. They covered Lazy Poker Blues and the start of Unspoken Words is a very definite nod to the Mac’s version of Need your Love so bad. Greens Mac were absolute masters of 12 bar Boogie/ Blues when you listen to their Elmore James numbers. Something I think the Quo members took on board.
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