He's the only one, no matter what
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| On this day in 1976 |
- 1966 The Yardbirds - Birmingham, England at Odeon Theatre
- 1972 Led Zeppelin visit Hong Kong (almost certainly incorrectly posted as 1976)
1972 vs 1976:
Although the jimmypage.com website has posted that Jimmy Page visited Hong Kong in 1976, it more likely during the Japan '72 tour. Jimmy Page said in the Led Zeppelin 1972 section (p. 203) of his photo autobiography Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page, "I had this suit made in one of those 24-hour tailors on a visit to to Hong Kong", so we know he was in that city in 1972.
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| Click on photo to read caption in Jimmy Page's autobiography |
Jimmy Page also refers on his webpage to the "recently scuppered" ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth, which had been sold to a Hong Kong businessmen who had renamed the ship the Seawise University and who had begun to convert the ship into a floating university. In 1972 the Seawise University caught fire in the Hong Kong harbor and was capsized by the water used to fight the flames. Before 1976 the vessel had been declared a shipping hazard. It had already been dismantled for scrap and the remains of the hull were underwater by 1976, so Jimmy Page wouldn't have been able to take that photo of it shown on his webpage in that year.
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| October 1988 Guitar World Magazine |
Jimmy Page was about one third of his way through the Outrider tour, in October 1988, so this seems to be a good time to post this Guitar World Magazine cover with a photo of Jimmy Page playing a harp-guitar [photo by Ross Halfin].
People talk about JP playing a harp guitar for Outrider or the Coverdale-Page collaboration, and there's a lovely promo video of him playing Coverdale-Page 's Take Me For A Little While. What we see isn't what we get to hear though. The harp guitars were photo props. We know for sure JP played his double neck to get the sound he wanted on the Coverdale-Page Japan tour.
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| JP using his doubleneck on Take Me For A Little While during the Japan tour |
One final note on Coverdale-Page: the promo video for Take Me For A Little While features Coverdale sitting at a banquet table, a glass globe moving about in the air. To me it's clearly homage to the David Bowie movie, Labyrinth. JP's harp guitar becomes a Gibson Les Paul and then is a harp guitar during the course of the video. No doubleneck.
♪ Liquid Mercury (Jimmy Page, Outrider 1988)
♪ The Only One (Jimmy Page, Outrider 1988)
♪ Take Me For A Little While (Coverdale-Page promo video 1993)
♪ The Only One (Jimmy Page, Outrider 1988)
♪ Take Me For A Little While (Coverdale-Page promo video 1993)
