#Jimmy Page interview

[ledhead94]

So I'm tracking down a Jimmy Page interview...

Or trying to, anyway. For Very Important Research Purposes. Several months ago on Tumblr I saw a scan of an interview with Jimmy (during the early '70s, I think?). It was in black-and-white. The interviewer asked about Jimmy's happiest memory, and he said something about falling in love at the age of fifteen. People were making Jimbert jokes in the tags about him trying not to mention Robert? I wish I could remember more detail. But seriously, I have been looking everywhere and I can't bloody find it! If anybody could send it my way, I would be forever in your debt! Thanks!

[paginate54]

Beatles Avalanche

Jimmy Page on the Beatles.

[tangerina24]

Jimmy always said to me: maintain some mystique my boy 🤓

Wisdom of the master, indeed😆

[another-little-hippie]

here’s a quick and sloppy edit inspired by @ledbythreads reblog ✨✨✨

[half-facedfig]

Guys I found more JIMBERT evidence….

WHY IS THIS INTERVIEW SO CHAOTIC?!?

“ROBERT PAGE-”

(I’m the guy in blue)

[singemall-stayallnight]

Jimmy Page: the summer '68 interviews

https://galacticramble.blogspot.com/2010/10/jimmy-page-summer-68-interviews.html

"As is often the way, it was only after I'd finished my Led Zeppelin book that I uncovered some of the most interesting material about them, especially concerning their early days. I thought I'd share two especially rare articles here, which I don't think have ever been reproduced since they first appeared.

"This article is taken from Go, America's best (and almost only) 1960s music weekly, which was distributed via local radio stations and is a goldmine of arcane information about the late 60s pop scene. Published on June 21st 1968, it finds Page happily planning his next band, and excited at the prospect of using Mellotron as a lead instrument in it:

"A month or so later, Page gave another interview to Hit Parader (which was, confusingly, dated three months in arrears, so the December issue was actually on newsstands in September). In it he both analyses The Yardbirds' split, and explains the progress he has made towards forming a new band.

"There are several interesting things about the piece, not least of all how single-minded Page's vision for Led Zeppelin was from the start. He also mentions his boathouse in Pangbourne (where he famously had Robert Plant to stay shortly after the interview was given), and is intriguingly cynical about the process of making pop records, indicating his intention to synthesize existing ideas. Finally, and fittingly, he announces his main ambition: 'to bring the guitar into a new level.'"

[midnightinwales]

i'm watching the denton show interview for the hundredth time and it never ever gets old. the amount of mirroring they do all the time is just silly. they're wired to each other to such a level, like come on! newlyweds cuteness but also 'been married for over 20 years' vibe. robert's gay innuendo because of course he cannot let the opportunity pass. jimmy's 'oh no not this shit again' expression when robert starts showing teeth at the very mention of Stairway. giggling into each other's arms watching the parodies. it isn't hard to see them glowing, really.

and let's not forget the story of them discovering a great band playing in a cafe in marrakesh which was later filmed in Only Lovers Left Alive.

[kulturegroupie]

Creem Magazine, April 1977 — Shy Rockstar Almost Unburdens Himself

[fuckyeahgifheaven]

Interview, Entertainment Tonight, 1985

Nice man: “Why does The Firm not perform any songs from Bad Company and Led Zeppelin on the tour?”

“It would be stupid of us – having been off the road for so long to come back and sort of establish yourself as a nostalgia, entity. Would have been stupid. Neither of us could have done that, really.”

"Once you got into a tour, I think there’s a lot of pressure off the road with all the sort of business aspects and the actual playing, of course. If you’re just down to playing the music, it would be, you know, be utopia, really."

'Radioactive', The Firm, 1985.

Jimmy wore his beautiful butterfly jacket for the shoot.

[dubacheryking]

Hello gang important thought occurred to me today

[devilsrains]

led zeppelin, by neal preston

NEAL: [...] I had a huge carousel tray loaded in the projector and it was like a small traveling show. We used the white wall as a screen and sat down to watch the slideshow. Jimmy rejected all of the beautiful and pure photos that I considered the prettiest and technically perfect.

He rejected them, you know, saying he liked the weird and phantasmagoric photos better… I never tried to understand what he really liked. It looked like he changed his opinion each minute. He wanted to look pretty and glamorous, and then wanted something weirder, ghostly, sinister and… I didn’t get the choices he made.

CYNTHIA: Was he creating a mythical figure?

NEAL: I don’t know. At a certain point I turned off the projector and said: “Tell me what you like. Give me some pointers because I’m getting lost.” And he said: “I want power, mystery, romance, and the hammer of the gods''. This story ended up becoming the Hammer of The Gods, the title of the most famous book about them.

[tangerina24]

What was once a steady date..

becomes a cup of coffee🥹

[another-little-hippie]

haters will say it’s edited 😤

Clip from:

Robert Plant - interview with Laurie Brown, MunchMusic - 1988

[sleepanonymous]

(Only after I transcribed the entire thing did I find an online source here 🤦‍♀️)

ALL GOOD IN THE HOOD…

Mysterious masked entity Sleep Token allow a peek into their dark world on debut album…

With the hidden identities behind bands like Poland’s Slavonic metallers Batushka and Sweden’s Ghost being unveiled to a curious public in recent times, it means that the similarly secretive Sleep Token might just be the most compelling group with their masks still in place. And, as they’ve already proven, the band are more than capable of playing up to this role of intrigue. When the anonymous collective emerged just over two years ago, dressed in Death eater-style robes and looking ready to sacrifice your pet goat, their leader, known only as Vessel, told of an age-old deity called ‘Sleep’— a name chosen as no proper translation exists in any modern tongue. They also came bearing allusions to ancient civilisations, with early songs named Calcutta, Nazareth, and Jericho.

This weaving of the occult into the band’s tapestry has grown smarter as they’ve journeyed towards this, their debut full-length. With the album named after the syndrome associated with dementia, where patients can become further confused and agitated as dusk sett;es in, its first single The Night Does Not Belong to God was unveiled upon summer solstice in June. Subsequent tracks have been ritualistically released every two weeks since, always at the time of sundown according to Greenwich Mean Time (perhaps a clue towards the group’s Earthly origins).

And yet for all this dark mystery and carefully constructed enigma, perhaps what surprises most about Sleep Token is the way they sound. Despite a supremely witchy aesthetic that hints at the gloomiest doom unearthed from some rotting catacomb, the main fabric of their debut is a mix of chilling electronics and otherworldly pop, with a sinister heaviness only intruding on the fringes. These are songs that share less with the metal of the similarly-robed Sunn O))), and more with, say, Deaf Havana’s slower, more pensive and thoughtful moments.

It begins with the aforementioned The Night Does Not Belong to God, a song that’s as strange and sparse as it is spellbinding. With little more than a ringing digital tone and a muscular, crooning voice, the band conjure a dense mood that hangs heavy with longing, before bantamweight drumming and Deftones-like guitars inject a jolt of power. The song’s lasting impression is one of immense feeling, and it’s this rich atmosphere that cloaks almost the entirety of Sundowning.

At times, it’s captivating. The Offering provides gasping melodrama, while Dark Signs projects EDM lightness onto evil chugs. The extremely minimal Drag Me Under, meanwhile, doesn’t even sound human. The band’s lyrics also go a long way in helping to construct this ethereal world, as they collide images of divinity with flashes of what seems to be their own lives. And while convention may have taught us that emotions mean more when pinned to a personality or some real-life flesh, the facelessness of these private sermons can make them feel shared and empathetic, or perhaps like being inside a confession booth.

Admittedly, save for Gods— the record’s only true out-and-out metalcore song— the continuous nature of this dark mood entwined with the group’s slow-burning, listless pace does begin to drag across Sundowner’s 50-minute runtime. But there are moments here to truly savour, and ideas and experiences that feel unique. The band have shown they can create vast episodes that exist primarily within their ancient universe, while also feeling very vulnerable and human at their core. That alone should be reason enough to hope that Sleep Token’s secretive allure stays intact for a long time to come. TOM SHEPHERD

Q&A: A SERVANT (MOUTHPIECE FOR THE VESSEL)

Sleep Token have become pretty big already, without any details of the members’ identities coming out. Why is there so much secrecy around the musicians in the band? “It matters not who they are. It matters not what they say.”

Where did the name Vessel for your singer come from? “ ‘Vessel’ is no name. It is merely a descriptive term, one that may indeed be applied to us all. He is no different in this regard.”

The album is very eclectic, drawing upon various different styles that are often not found in rock. Where do these influences come from? “Death. Power. Desire. Anguish.”

“OUR IDENTITY MATTERS NOT TO BELIEVERS…” A SERVANT

Are you pleased that nobody has figured out the identities of the people behind the music yet? “The entity is the music. There is nothing further to discover.”

Would you say that there’s an element of actual, occult magic to Sleep Token? Is that part of the reason why you’re so secretive, like Jimmy Page in the ‘70s? “Such boasts are not His to make. Should a wild animal be considered ‘secretive’ if it does not tell us its name?”

You’ve supported BABYMETAL at big shows, as well as your own headlining gigs, which have sold out almost immediately. Does appearing live in frog of people make it harder to stay anonymous? Or does it simply prove the strength of what you’re doing, in that the anonymity stands up to such things? “The gathering of Followers only further exemplifies the truth, that the identity of the creators matters not to those who believe.”

Is Sleep Token a band, or a larger entity, with no beginning or end? “Nothing lasts forever.”

Any final thoughts? “Worship.”

[bijouxcarys]

Excerpt from an interview Robert did with Steve Newton, published originally September 30th, 1993:

“Touring is actually easier now, because there’s no drugs. No drugs, no tobacco. It’s great.”

Not even the odd beer?

“I have a few sort of flushes in my countenance still,” says Plant. “Young girls still whimper as I walk past. If they don’t, they will. Hee-hee.”

[midnightinwales]

my god, robert is out for blood during that press conference in australia in '94. there wasn't a single journalist left alive in that room when he was finished with them.

"we're definitely not real. and certainly not normal." yeah, tell them robert what fools they are.

and the way he left the second it was over. 'if i stay here a moment longer i will murder someone for real and then it will be unpleasant for everyone involved. exit. NOW.'

no chill this man, no chill.

wonder why he was so royally pissed off that day.