Showing posts with label Ten Years Gone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ten Years Gone. Show all posts

Thursday, February 15, 2024

On this day 15 February

UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG. I'm working on another (time consuming) project that takes precedence. Note that info on this page has not been fully updated yet and links may not work properly. Thank you for your patience.

JP's website is down today, too!


Thee Mage Musician

1969 15 February On This Day Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL (day 2) 
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Miami, FL at Thee Image Club
  • 1984 Jimmy Page - New York City at Glyn Johns’ 42nd Birthday 
  • 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Osaka, Japan at Castle Hall
1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL

1969 Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL
1984:
Glyn Johns is an English musician, recording engineer and record producer, and is the author of Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles , Eric Clapton, The Faces . . . On this day Jimmy Page celebrated Johns' 42nd birthday jamming with Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts, John Entwistle, and Louis Bertignac.
"I’d known Jimmy [Page] forever. We came from the same town, Epsom, Surrey, and we’d even had a little band together for about five minutes. I’d got him a few sessions in the past, and when eventually he decided to put Led Zeppelin together he asked if I was interested. The sessions were actually booked under the name of The Yardbirds and I had no idea what it would sound like, but when they started playing I was completely blown away. I don’t think I’ve come down yet from the buzz I got from being in the room, it was utterly inspiring and incredibly simple to record. They were well rehearsed and masters at what they did, which is why it took only nine days, including mixing.
~ Glyn Johns, Uncut interview


♪  You Shook Me (Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin I 1969) YouTube
♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975) YouTube
♪  Ten Years Gone (Page & Plant, Osaka 15 February 1996) YouTube


Tuesday, June 27, 2023

On this day 27 June

 When Jimmy Page calls...

1999 27 June On This Day Jimmy Page with Black Crowes at Scream charity event

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Provins, France at Tour de Cesar - Provins Rock Festival
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Westminster, London  at Playhouse Theatre - BBC Radio Session 
  • 1972 Led Zeppelin - Long Beach, CA at Long Beach Arena
  • 1977 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
  • 1980 Led Zeppelin - Nuremberg, Germany at Nuremberg Messehalle
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Auburn Hills, MI at The Palace at Auburn Hills
  • 1999 27 June On This Day Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes at  charity event in London for Task Brazil / ABC Trust
1980:
Only three songs played and then the show was cancelled. Plant warned the audience before they started playing that two of the band members weren't feeling well. Bonzo had gorged on bananas prior to the show for some reason, and suffered the inevitable consequences. The show was abandoned.
 
1999:
Task Brasil Trust was established in the UK in 1992. Its mission is to improve the lives and support the needs of children and pregnant girls living on the streets in Brasil. In 1997 Jimmy Page made a major donation to Task Brasil after having seen the plight of children in Rio de Janeiro when he was there performing. The donation was used to buy the land and house for "Casa Jimmy", which provides a home for abandoned street kids and pregnant teens.

Action for Brazil’s Children Trust (ABC Trust) is is also a UK based charity dedicated to helping children and young people in cities across Brazil. ABC was founded by Jimena Pratcha, with Jimmy Page as the founding patron. Other patrons include Brian May, Jeremy Irons and PelĂ©.


1977 27 June Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin final night at LA Forum (Photo Paul Dahbour)

1980 27 June Led Zeppelin at Nuremberg Germany

Led Zeppelin (Long Beach CA at Long Beach Arena, 27 June 1972) 

Led Zeppelin (Inglewood CA at The Forum, 27 June 1977) 

♪ Led Zeppelin (Nuremberg Germany atNuremberg Messehalle [Bonham collapses, show stopped], 27 June 1980)

Chris Robinson:  "When Jimmy Page gives a call and wants us to be his band... you don't turn it down."

♫  Scream 99 Cafe De Paris ABC Trust (Tommy Vance for VH-1, 1999) YouTube




Thursday, May 26, 2016

On This Day 26 May

On This Day Page & Plant performed Wanton Song and were interviewed on Later With Jools Holland.
1998 26 May On This Day Page & Plant on Later With Jools Holland
  • 1967 Yardbirds - London, England at Tiles Club
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - Salt Lake City, Utah at Salt Palace
  • 1977 Led Zeppelin – Landover, MD at Capital Centre (day 2 of 4)
  • 1986 The Firm - Concord,CA at Concord Pavilion
  • 1995 Page & Plant (Unledded Tour) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada at Pacific Coliseum
  • 1998 Page & Plant (North American Tour) - Charlotte, NC at Charlotte Coliseum
  • 1998 26 May On This Day Page & Plant perform Wanton Song and are interviewed on Later With Jools Holland
1977 Led Zeppelin – Landover, MD at Capital Centre
1998 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform The Wanton Song on Later With Jools Holland
1998 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform The Wanton Song on Later With Jools Holland


♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Landover 05/56/77) YouTube
♪  Wanton Song + later interview (Page & Plant, Later With Jools Holland 1998) YouTube

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

On This Day 24 February

Physical Graffi:  Possibly the most perfect album ever released

1975 24 February On This Day Physical Graffiti released
AUDIO Physical Graffiti source music (Soundcloud)

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Cardiff, Wales at Sophia Gardens
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England at Lafayette Club
  • 1975 Physical Graffiti released
  • 1996 Page & Plant - Sydney, Australia at Sydney Entertainment Centre (day 1 of 2)

1969:
The event was John Bonham's wife Pat's 21st birthday party.  From Bonzo's brother Mick's description:
" John took to the stage along with Jimmy, Robert, John Paul and they began to stun the audience with some superb music. They really were amazing and everyone was enthralled with this exhibition of unbridled talent. Like me, most people present had not seen the band before and were all amazed as I was.”
~ Mick Bonham
1975:
Led Zeppelin released their sixth album Physical Graffiti in the UK. Recording sessions had been disrupted when bassist and keyboard player John Paul Jones had proposed quitting the band, supposedly to become choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral, England, although in reality he just needed time to rest after Zeppelin's demanding tour schedule.
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♪  Wanton Song (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975)  YouTube
♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975)  YouTube
♪  Sick Again  (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975)  YouTube
♫  Physical Graffiti remaster Playback Event 2015 (Yahoo Music)
♫  Headley Grange tour (Jimmy Page, It Might Get Loud 2008) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube




Saturday, February 20, 2016

On This Day 20 February

Jimmy Page's website is having technical difficulties, but here we are with On This Day for you.

1974 20 February On This Day Led Zeppelin recording at Headley Grange
AUDIO Ten Years Gone (YouTube)
  • 1972 Led Zeppelin - Melbourne, Australia at Kooyong Stadium
  • 1996 Page & Plant Unledded World Tour - Fukuoka, Japan at Marine Messe Fukuoka


1972 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin Melbourne
1972 Jimmy Page /& John Bonham, Melbourne




♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975) YouTube
♪  Trampled Under Foot (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975) YouTube
♪  Brandy and Coke (Led Zeppelin, remasters 2014)  YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube




Monday, February 15, 2016

On This Day 15 February

Thee Mage Musician
1969 15 February On This Day Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL (day 2) 
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Miami, FL at Thee Image Club
  • 1984 Jimmy Page - New York City at Glyn Johns’ 42nd Birthday 
  • 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Osaka, Japan at Castle Hall
1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL

1969 Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Thee Image, Miami FL
1984:
Glyn Johns is an English musician, recording engineer and record producer, and is the author of Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles , Eric Clapton, The Faces . . . On this day Jimmy Page celebrated Johns' 42nd birthday jamming with Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts, John Entwistle, and Louis Bertignac.
"I’d known Jimmy [Page] forever. We came from the same town, Epsom, Surrey, and we’d even had a little band together for about five minutes. I’d got him a few sessions in the past, and when eventually he decided to put Led Zeppelin together he asked if I was interested. The sessions were actually booked under the name of The Yardbirds and I had no idea what it would sound like, but when they started playing I was completely blown away. I don’t think I’ve come down yet from the buzz I got from being in the room, it was utterly inspiring and incredibly simple to record. They were well rehearsed and masters at what they did, which is why it took only nine days, including mixing.
~ Glyn Johns, Uncut interview


♪  You Shook Me (Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin I 1969) YouTube
♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti 1975) YouTube
♪  Ten Years Gone (Page & Plant, Osaka 15 February 1996) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube

Saturday, June 27, 2015

On This Day 27 June

When Jimmy Page calls...
1999 27 June On This Day Jimmy Page with Black Crowes at Scream charity event

  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Provins, France at Tour de Cesar - Provins Rock Festival
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Westminster, London  at Playhouse Theatre - BBC Radio Session 
  • 1972 Led Zeppelin - Long Beach, CA at Long Beach Arena
  • 1977 Led Zeppelin - Inglewood, CA at The Forum
  • 1980 Led Zeppelin - Nuremberg, Germany at Nuremberg Messehalle
  • 1998 Page & Plant - Auburn Hills, MI at The Palace at Auburn Hills
  • 1999 27 June On This Day Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes at  charity event in London for Task Brazil / ABC Trust

1999:
Task Brasil Trust was established in the UK in 1992. Its mission is to improve the lives and support the needs of children and pregnant girls living on the streets in Brasil. In 1997 Jimmy Page made a major donation to Task Brasil after having seen the plight of children in Rio de Janeiro when he was there performing. The donation was used to buy the land and house for "Casa Jimmy", which provides a home for abandoned street kids and pregnant teens.

Action for Brazil’s Children Trust (ABC Trust) is is also a UK based charity dedicated to helping children and young people in cities across Brazil. ABC was founded by Jimena Pratcha, with Jimmy Page as the founding patron. Other patrons include Brian May, Jeremy Irons and PelĂ©.


1977 27 June Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin final night at LA Forum (Photo Paul Dahbour)

1980 27 June Led Zeppelin at Nuremberg Germany

♪ Moby Dick (Led Zeppelin, Long Beach 1972) YouTube
♪ Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 27 June 1977) YouTube
♪ Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin, LA Forum 27 June 1977) YouTube

Chris Robinson:  "When Jimmy Page gives a call and wants us to be his band... you don't turn it down."
♫  Scream 99 Cafe De Paris ABC Trust (Tommy Vance for VH-1, 1999) YouTube




Tuesday, May 26, 2015

On This Day 26 May

On This Day Page & Plant performed Wanton Song and were interviewed on Later With Jools Holland.
1998 26 May On This Day Page & Plant on Later With Jools Holland
  • 1967 Yardbirds - London, England at Tiles Club
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - Salt Lake City, Utah at Salt Palace
  • 1977 Led Zeppelin – Landover, MD at Capital Centre (day 2 of 4)
  • 1986 The Firm - Concord,CA at Concord Pavilion
  • 1995 Page & Plant (Unledded Tour) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada at Pacific Coliseum
  • 1998 Page & Plant (North American Tour) - Charlotte, NC at Charlotte Coliseum
  • 1998 26 May On This Day Page & Plant perform Wanton Song and are interviewed on Later With Jools Holland
1977 Led Zeppelin – Landover, MD at Capital Centre
1998 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform The Wanton Song on Later With Jools Holland
1998 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform The Wanton Song on Later With Jools Holland

♪  Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin, Landover 05/56/77) YouTube
♪  Wanton Song + later interview (Page & Plant, Later With Jools Holland 1998) YouTube


Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Ear-worms, Redux

Mage Music Earworms Redux jimmypagemusic.blogspot.com
I often wake up in the morning with music in my head. I don't always notice it right away.  I can go for hours with music on replay in my head before I realize what I'm doing.  Sometimes I also realize I can't identify what I've been hearing and let me tell you, that drives me nuts.

You would think that if it's a Led Zeppelin song - which it generally is - that I would immediately recognize it. But sometimes it's just a short musical phrase that's become an ear-worm through repetition. Sometimes there are no lyrics involved and I just cannot for the life of me pinpoint which song it's from. Not that lyrics would help.

I've said it before: I'm not into lyrics (I'm not into poetry either and I don't apologize for it). Not only do I not pay attention to the words of a song, I usually don't even understand them when I do pay attention. When it comes to music, words are simply musical sounds, like the notes of a guitar. This means that even if what I'm hearing in my head over and over and over has got a vocal line, I still don't always know what the words are.

I know, craziness. But truly, I hear the words as musical sounds, and I just can't put meaning to the words unless I really work to reconstruct them.

It would be so much easier if I could carry a tune. I've tried singing the melodic streams out loud. The dogs howl. The horses flee. Heck, I don't want to listen to that noise. 

I don't really care, anyway. There just doesn't seem to be a cross-over for me between music and words. Music communicates in a different way than words do. These ear-worms really bring home to me how the two come from different places in the brain - and the soul.

Meanwhile, when I stopped fretting over it the name of the song popped right into my head.

Ten Years Gone
Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, Live at the Greek



Sunday, May 27, 2012

Mage Music: In Through The Soundscapes


Mage Music: In Through The Soundscapes
Posted with permission, by Dave Lewis, TBL Magazine

Note:  This post was originally published upon Mr. Lewis' receipt of Lucifer Rising.  Links to music and images placed by Lif Strand

Lucifer rises from the underground to offer key insight into Jimmy Page's 'extreme and alternative' 1970s artistic vision

Following the restoration of the Death Wish 2 album to vinyl last December, Jimmy has been readying the release of that great lost project -the soundtrack to Lucifer Rising. Finally in March, the following announcement was mde via his official website:

 "On March 20th, the Spring Equinox 2012, the title music for Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks will have its premiere and release.

"The title music, along with other musical pieces recorded at my home studio in the early Seventies, have been revisited, remixed and released for the first time. This is a musical diary of avant-garde compositions and experiments, one of which was to appear on the film 'Lucifer Rising'.
"The collection has been exhumed and is now ready for public release. This will be available exclusively on the website. There will be a standard release on heavyweight vinyl.In addition there will be a special run of 418 numbered copies. The first 93 copies will be signed and numbered. There are liner notes and commentary to each track." Jimmy Page, March 2012

There was a pre-registration process to apply for the random selection of the 413 deluxe editions and 93 signed, and though I'd put my name down for a deluxe version I initially missed out. However there was a second g for any returns and I struck lucky on that. Come the day of delivery to Bedford (April 5th), I was out when the postman came at lunch time but there was a card left stating that a recorded parcel was awaiting pick up at the central post office in town. Having heard from Gary Foy that he had received his copy of Jimmy Page's Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks album (copy number 392) I'd hoped that my copy was what was waiting at the post office. So the TBL editor author took to the favoured mode of transport (the trusty bike) and duly cycled the mile or so to pick it up. A queue awaited me. I had taken a record bag along to carry it -alas I had forgotten that the Death Wish 2 album had come in a large cardboard wrapper. Anyway said package was handed over and I undertook a bit of a tricky journey home (and I had to take it in the pub when I stopped off for a pint…nerves were kicking in and a beer was required before the grand opening!) As you can see this was a scene that mirrored when I cycled to purchase the In Through The Out Door album on August 20 1979 (six copies with the six sleeves of course!).

33 years later I was off cycling again in pursuit of the same Jimmy Page fix. It was all worth it of course as I am the proud owner of the deluxe edition number 213. A little bit more of vinyl heaven oh yes…So over the Easter weekend I made some time to get intimate with the intense and experimental sounds of Jimmy Page, composer and eternal lord of the strings. Here's my findings:

Well it isn't Outrider 2 but then again it was never intended to be. What we have here is something of a previously unheard missing link in the compositional history of Jimmy Page.

As he explains in the excellent sleeve notes, the guitarist has long since had a penchant for creating unorthodox soundscapes -going right back to the Yardbirds era with Glimpses on their Little Games album. This would subsequently manifested itself on stage with Led Zeppelin during the extensional improvisation of Dazed And Confused and it's various offshoots -latterly the guitar solo extravaganzas on the 1977 tour.

So what is exactly on offer inside the sizeable package sent via Jimmy Page.com.?

The package:  Effective sleeve design based on Gustav Dore's the Eagle.Thick outer cardboard sleeve, heavy weight vinyl inside. For LP enthusiasts such as myself, this is pretty much collector heaven. Effective visuals and informative and deep thinking sleeve notes on the inner sleeve. Each deluxe copy is numbered in gold pen.

The music: Here's how it unfolds over the two sides of vinyl.

The Lucifer Rising soundtrack has long since been a much maligned lost project. Page came up with the piece as a soundtrack for Kenneth Anger's controversial movie but it was only ever aired on early cuts of the film - journalist Nick Kent reported in the NME he had attended an informal screening in Los Angeles in early 1975 where Page had shown a rough cut with his soundtrack on. Anger was allegedly disappointed with Page for only coming up with some 23 minutes of music. The pair had a falling out and Anger brought in Bobby Beausoleil to score it instead -a young musician who went on to be convicted of murder under the influence of Charles Manson's notorious ''Family''. A poor quality bootleg of Page's version surfaced in the 1980s.

On this freshly mixed version, the basic theme of the Lucifer Rising Main Track is undercut by a drone that is similar to the In The Evening intro (particularly the live arrangement opening loop used on the Over Europe 1980 tour). It's then further embellished by chants and mellotron and ARP Odyssey synthesiser effects. A typically bleak eerie sound texture that would have also perfectly fitted as the soundtrack to The Hermit hill climb sequence in The Song Remains The Same movie.

Side two opens with Incubus which continues the drone effects theme.

Damask contains six string bowed guitar effects that hark back to the onstage exotic experiments he was applying on the guitar solo segment that preceded the performances of Achilles Last Stand on Zep's 1977 US tour.

Unharmonics has the clipped effect that can be hard on Shadow in the City on the Death Wish 2 soundtrack (Page explains two of his ideas would later surface on Death Wish 2 ). There's also some precise guitar overdubs with a hint of the revolving style of Over The Hills And Far Away.

Damask (Ambient) continues the bowing theme while the final track Lucifer Rising Percussive Return features additional white noise effect reminiscent of the 1970s work of the German outfits Can and Tangerine Dream and also echoed traces of the sort of experimental recordings to be found on side 2 of David Bowie's Low album.

These sonic soundscapes were originally prepared to be matched to film visuals and they make for decidedly uneasy listening heard in isolation. Repeated plays therefore might not be high on the agenda, but there is little doubt of their value as key reference recordings in the development of Page's career.

What these avant garde experiments starkly reveal is the expansiveness of Page's compositional vision. It was this vision when applied in a more conventional setting that would light up the like of Ten Years Gone, In The Light, Achilles Last Stand and In the Evening. Indeed the back cover photo of him working alone in his home studio in Plumpton (as seen in clips on the official DVD) offers a captivating image of his often solitary quest to open up new horizons and avenues for his music. It could also be argued that without this process of experimentation in, as he puts it 'the extreme and alternative', Page may not have achieved the depth of compositional brilliance attained on the aforementioned Zep epics.

Lucifer Rising And Other Soundtracks therefore offers key insight into the mind of a musician who has constantly expanded the parameters of his ability. As he states it in the sleeve notes - ''I had an interest in underground everything''.  Lucifer has duly risen from the underground to tell us a little more about Jimmy Page than we already knew…

And of course that thirst to hear and know more remains unquenchable. Now that the Death Wish 2 and Lucifer Rising soundtracks have emerged from the Jimmy Page.com archives, the question is of course what might be served up next? Over the past few months Jimmy has aired tantalising extracts on his web site of work in progress home demos of Sick Again, The Wanton Song and Ten Years Gone. There's also been clips from sessions such as the 1999 Depot rehearsal recordings with the late great drummer Michael Lee. There could be scope to gather these work in progress demos and sketches into an album that again presents a portrait of the artist at play.  

Also on my wish list would be a career expanding box set that chronicles the 1960s sessions he often logs and goes through The Yardbirds into Zeppelin and beyond - in effect a 50 year career overview. Now that would be something special.

Ultimately I am sure we all also crave new music from the man and it would be fantastic for that to happen. There is little doubt though, the establishing of Jimmy Page.com has offered a unique platform for the once reticent and private musician to re- connect with his vast fan base.

The release of the Lucifer Rising And Other Sound Tracks LP is another significant milestone in the recent reaffirmation of Jimmy Page, musician and composer. Long may his underground archives rise up to enlighten and inform.

Dave Lewis  Copyright Dave Lewis/TBL 2012 not to be reproduced without prior permission
Thank you Dave!

Sunday, May 20, 2012

The Music and The Magic

Mage Music: The Music and The Magic
What I’m listening to as I write: Ten Years Gone
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin Atlanta 1977
Led Zeppelin Seattle 1977
Led Zeppelin California 1977
Led Zeppelin MSG New York 1977
Led Zeppelin Knebworth 1979
Led Zeppelin Cleveland 1979
Page & Plant Rehearsal 1996
Page & Plant Japan 1996
The Black Crowes with Jimmy Page New York 2000

Jimmy Page is often referred to as a Mage or Magus. A mage is a person who performs a paranormal kind of magic as opposed to magical tricks like a stage illusionist in Las Vegas. It's likely the label originally reflected Mr. Page's interest in the occult teachings of Aleister Crowley, although today it holds true for a different reason: Jimmy Page's uncanny musical ability.

A mage can also be referred to as an enchanter, wizard, magus, thaumaturgist, or simply magician. Each term has a subtly different meaning - some more negative than others - but all terms that refer to the occult kind of magic revolve around the manipulation of reality through supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws.

Magic is similar to religion in many ways. Although magic is generally more result-oriented and religion more worship-oriented, both (ideally) are about spiritual growth. And, as with religion, magic may take different approaches: That of the holographic or sympathetic universe (the practitioner's actions cause a parallel effect elsewhere), or that of collaboration (the practitioner gets supernatural beings to cause the effect).

In some ways all meanings apply to Jimmy Page as magus, especially since he, himself, described his life as “a fusion of magick and music” (Guitar World, January 2008). (Note the alternate spelling: magick. Crowley chose the spelling with “k” at the end to differentiate between occult vs. stage illusionist practice).

Rituals are sets of symbolic actions, performed in a certain order. Almost all religions and magic use rituals in their practice, however those more "purely" spiritual are seen as being able to practice without need of ritual. For most practitioners, pure or otherwise, ritual is a tool that serves as a means of settling the mind into the right frame to achieve the transformation desired.

The specific ritual used in magic depends on the type of magician and his/her approach to the practice, but the purpose for using ritual for all practitioners is the same: To create a focus of the will (focused desire) of the mage in order to bring about the desired transformations and to focus and unify the other participants in the ceremony (ceremonial participants are generally a source of power for the magician).

It would be easy to simply say that Jimmy Page’s musical work is magical because it is so very good, but that says nothing much at all.

It would be more accurate to say that Jimmy Page’s musical work is magical because it is about manipulation of reality through music and, in my opinion, because it is also for purposes of spiritual growth.
In his own words and actions, Mr. Page shows that his music speaks for him in a magical way. In a 1973 interview he stated that “We're all still seeking for truth - the search goes on", and “…at those times when I've hit it [when performing], it's just like I'm a vehicle for some greater force."

Of course, people grow, people change. The beliefs of the young are tempered by age. The Jimmy Page of 1973 is not the Jimmy Page of today, yet in 2010 Mr. Page still believed in the power of music: “ I think it’s got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music” (The Scotsman interview).

Pure magic, the transformation of the world, is achieved almost every time that Jimmy Page performs. Mr. Page has been dismissed by critics for his sloppy playing, for not always staying in tune – basically for lack of perfection - but even on his worst, most tuneless, sloppy days, his music conveys an extra layer of meaning, a communication that makes the manner in which it is performed almost irrelevant. It is magic coming through, as Jimmy Page says about Embryo, a work in progress that he plays in the movie It Might Get Loud.

It is what we, the participants in the ritualistic ceremony of the music of Jimmy Page, understand is the guitar alchemy of a powerful mage.