The album cover allowed the founder of Led Zeppelin to change his approach to music and truly begin his career
Jimmy Page He went through some changes of residence during his childhood and early adolescence. These paths led him to come into contact with various musical genres, initially British skiffle.
However, one guitarist in particular has broadened his horizons like no other before. Undeniably, this left a mark on the career of the founder of Led Zeppelin.
In a 2020 interview with Rock cellar, Page remembered when he saw the album cover The “chirping” crickets.(1957), from CompanyHolly. It was the first time Jimmy I saw a guitar Fender Stratocaster.
Although this is not a model often used by members of the Led Zeppelinthe image hit him hard. He himself highlighted:
Friend Holly! On the cover of his album he was holding this thing, like he was swinging. Basically its entire design was cutting edge. I had never seen anything like it. So it was absolutely phenomenal to actually see a Stratocaster for the first time. She was the one who was touching, so you could feel the evidence, you knew it was her who was touching in things like that “That Will Be the Day” AND “Peggy Sue”etc.”
When it comes to other influences, Jimmy said the Strat’s visual impact is in the hands of Holly it was great, but obviously the music was the main element. In the words of the guitarist:
Strato made a visual intervention, but certainly an effective one Friend Holly and his playing opened the whole world to us. Of course there were others that came along too, like the Blue caps From Gene Vincentthe lineup where they all had Stratos, which were actually colored Stratos too. It was a dream to see a band with all Stratocasters and also an electric bass. We didn’t know they made bass!”
Jimmy Page’s first instrument
Jimmy Page In the same interview he told how he came into contact with his first instrument, a guitar. It happened during one of the moves, more precisely in the Epsom region, in Surrey, in the south of Great Britain.
The artist said:
When we moved into this new house, there was… I can’t remember what else they left, very little that I remember, but there was a guitar left. A field guitar, with a round hole. Like a jumbo guitar. It was just there and luckily it wasn’t thrown away. They just left it there.”
The discovery came into action some time later, when Jimmy he discovered another boy at school with a similar instrument. His colleague taught him how to tune the strings.
Page then began carrying the guitar around school. Ultimately, the tool ended up seized by management. Soon the young musician moved on to the guitar, purchased by his father, and the rest is history.
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