MusicThe guitarist who opened a new world for Jimmy PageAlbum cover made the founder of Led Zeppelin change the way he looked at music and truly begin his careerBy Editorial Staff

MusicThe guitarist who opened a new world for Jimmy PageAlbum cover made the founder of Led Zeppelin change the way he looked at music and truly begin his careerBy Editorial Staff

Album cover made the founder of Led Zeppelin change his approach to music and truly begin his career

Jimmy Page He went through some changes of residence throughout his childhood and early adolescence. These paths led him to come into contact with various types of music, initially British skiffle.

However, one guitarist in particular 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 recalled when he saw the album cover The “Chirping” Crickets(1957), from BuddyHolly. It was the first time that Jimmy saw a guitar Fender Stratocaster.

Even though this is not a model often used by members of the Led Zeppelinthe image hit him hard. He himself highlighted:

Buddy Holly! On his album cover he was holding this thing, like he was rocking. Her whole design was so avant-garde, basically. I had never seen anything like that. So it was absolutely phenomenal to actually see a Stratocaster for the first time. That’s her he was touching, so you could hear the evidence, you knew it was her he was touching in things like ‘That’ll Be The Day’ and ‘Peggy Sue’etc.”

When discussing other influences, Jimmy stated that the Strato’s visual impact in the hands of Holly it was big, but obviously, the music served as the main element. In the words of the guitarist:

Strato kind of made a visual intervention, but certainly through Buddy Holly and his way of playing, he opened the whole world to us with that. Of course there were others too, who came along, like the Blue Caps of Gene Vincentthe lineup when they all had Stratos, which were actually also colored Stratos. It was a dream to see a band with all Strats, and an electric bass too. We didn’t know they made basses!”

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 house moves, more specifically to 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 behind, very little that I remember, but a guitar was left behind. A camp guitar, with a round hole. Like a jumbo guitar. It was just kind of there and luckily it wasn’t thrown away. They just left it there.”

The find came into action some time later, when Jimmy discovered another boy at school with a similar instrument. His colleague taught him how to tune the strings.

Page then started to carry the guitar around the school. Eventually, the instrument ended up seized by management. Soon the young musician switched to the guitar, bought by his father, and the rest is history.

Collaborated: André Luiz Fernandes.

Source: Rollingstone

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