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From: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (palena)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Led Zeppelin fans and Jimmy Page
Message-ID: <2299@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 11:20:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 11:20:20 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Oct-85 07:06:16 EDT
References: <1126@ritvp.UUCP> <862@udenva.UUCP> <96@ucdavis.UUCP>
Reply-To: lp102911@sjuvax.UUCP (palena)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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In article <96@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) writes:
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>>   How about people who think that Jimmy Page was a very good guitar player who
>> has been riding on his reputation for about 5 years? Anyone who saw the Plant-
>> Page reunion (why wasn't JPJ there?) on Live Aid knows what I'm talking about.

                 I saw Santana,Knopfler, and heard Clapton at Live-Aid.I
      see nothing wrong with saying that Page held his own against all of
      these heavyweights.Musically,Live-Aid wasn't a spectacular event.In
      this context I don't feel it fair to denounce Page because he didn't
      tear the place down.For him the days of the screaming Marshall/Les-
      Paul are over,but the fact remains that he is still one of rock's most
      distinctive guitarists and anyone who claims that Mark Knopfler is
      one of the greats,I feel, is compelled to say that Page is a great as
      well.Both are blues-based with distinctive tones and twists and per-
      sonally, I think Page is better.(NO FLAMES ON THIS POINT).


              I drew one strong conclusion about Jimmy Page from Live-Aid;
      he'd better see a doctor or he isn't long for this world.I had to pinch
      myself to convince myself I wasn't seeing his ghost.


                                         Larry Palena
                                         sjuvax/lp102911