Why Jimmy Page never talks about Blackmore - review by Kar

actually Jimmy Page has never mentioned ritchie blackmore in his interviews Brian May commented on that people don't talk about Blackmore enough I don't know why but he was such a trailblazer and technically incredible unpredictable in every possible way apparently it's a taboo to talk about Blackmore in public as Richie confessed in the interview to John Young in 1978 I have a bad reputation but I don't mind evidently Blackmore got that reputation for being very moody saying obnoxious things about others and buzzing off people players like Jimmy Page Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck never mentioned Blackmore's name in the interviews it's always the second generation of rock guitar players who usually talk about Blackmore Richie says that he neither like attending press conferences nor interested in getting awards perhaps Jimmy Page was taught that if you don't have anything good to say about people then don't say anything in 1977 in the interview to Steve Rosen John Paul Jones commented on Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore is another guy I don't like he was supposed to have been a big session man but he must have done demos because he was never a regular session player I'm getting out all my pet hates the thing is that in the 60s there was an elite circle which featured the top session players in London such as big Jim Sullivan Jimmy Page John Paul Jones Bobby Graham and Klemke teeny Blackmore wasn't part of their inner circle because he rarely played on top-tier sessions with the major labels in 1960 Ritchie began to work as a session player for Joe Meeks music productions where he backed popular British artists and he also played in several bands such as The Outlaws and screaming Lord Sutch in the savages as a session player Jimmy Page couldn't read music but he was an excellent improviser he could improvise a lead part that gave the song a unique sound and that set it apart from other recordings Jimmy Page's session work ritchie blackmore once told Jimmy used to run around telling everyone that he played on certain records I asked him if he played on The Crying Game that was Dave Barry and my baby left me he said yes I played guitar on that what he didn't say was that he played rhythm guitar on it big Jim Sullivan played the solo on The Crying Game he was livid when he heard what Jimmy was running around saying because Jimmy had always used his guitar and everything Jimmy played rhythm guitar because the lead guitar 'but was a reading part and jimmy couldn't read actually the session player Jim Sullivan got his nickname Big Jim when Jimmy Page came into the session world people called them Big Jim and Little Jimmy in order to differentiate one Jim from the other on working with Page Jim Sullivan recalled I'll always remember the first time I met Paige we had a session at Decca studios for Dave Barry it was the session for my baby left me Jimmy played lead guitar and I played rhythm I remember the great solo that he did on that session it is one of the best constructed rock solos on record after that first session Sullivan and Paige played together many times and became good friends Big Jim also confessed the amount of recordings we did together was amazing when Jimmy Page said that he and John Paul Jones were going to leave to form Led Zeppelin Big Jim said I should join them too eventually Sullivan did not join the two members of Led Zeppelin however he did loan Paige a Gibson acoustic which Paige used extensively on the first two Led Zeppelin albums Ritchie Blackmore actually took some guitar lessons from big Jim Sullivan and Jim recalled Ritchie was a precocious talent even then he learned to be an individual very quickly to be truthful I think that telling him to be an individual and making him use his little finger is all I needed to tell him the rest was natural to him Ritchie in the interview called just steal from everybody by Martin Webb said Big Jim Sullivan was a big influence he plays with Tom Jones now he's very good but he's kind of wasted with Tom Jones Big Jim used to live practically next door to me he had only been playing about two years but he was just about the best guitarist in England straightaway later Jimmy Page left his session work when the label started incorporating brass and orchestral arrangements into recordings for popular music at the expense of guitars Jimmy formed his own hard rock band Led Zeppelin which got huge success in 1970 after the immense success of whole load of love Ritchie Blackmore immediately tuned in with that type of style and switched from playing with orchestras to hard rock however deep purple only got their huge success with the release of the Machine Head album in 1972 so apparently Jimmy always looked down upon Blackmore even if it was just a subconscious thing on his part actually in an interview on a local New York radio station in the late 80s Robert Plant told that Jimmy used to call purple deep Sabbath obviously that wasn't a compliment in fact Zeppelin was the first British hardrock band to get huge success in the United States with her second Led Zeppelin album in 1969 all the following albums got number one on the charts and went multi-platinum so apparently Zeppelin considered deep purple and Black Sabbath has substandard groups actually Robert Plant once said that Coverdale was in a lot of substandard groups certainly there was a lot of competition in the Hard Rock business at that time on the early rivalry with deep purple Tony Iommi actually revealed that when they released the single paranoid which reached number four on the UK Singles Chart they were unpleasantly surprised to see Deep Purple's single black night reaching number two on the same charts you

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Keywords: Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Karen's Guitar Channel

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Length: 6min 11sec (371 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020