BRING IT ON HOME – JIMMY PAGE WALKS INTO A NEW FUTURE WITH AN OLD FRIEND by H P NEWQUIST

BRING IT ON HOME – JIMMY PAGE WALKS INTO A NEW FUTURE WITH AN OLD FRIEND by H P NEWQUIST

It’s time to take a few steps back in time and pick up a little bit of rock and roll history about one of the guitar greats of our day.  He was a member of The Yardbirds and the theremin playing guitarist of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page.

H P NEWQUIST  is a gifted writer and guitarist whose works have made there way across the planet more times than anyone can even begin to guess at.  He has received numerous awards and citations for his works.  A former Editor in Chief at Guitar Magazine, HP Newquist is the man responsible for The National GUITAR Museum  and serves as the Executive Director.  He has also written many guitar books including Legends of Rock Guitar which he co-wrote with author and guitarist Pete Prown  as well as articles for Billboard, Guitar Shop, and Guitar Player Magazine.  He has conducted interviews with many of the “greats” in the guitar world. He is also responsible for The Way They Play books, which teach “guitarists how to play and sound like their favorite artists“.  His co-writer on the series is RichMaloof, author, guitarist, and editor.  Jackaboutguitars is proud to be able to reprint another of HP Newquist’s fine works, an interview he did a while back with Jimmy Page.  Newquist’s works are truly a pleasure to read!  Many thanks HP for all of your contributions to this fine instrument which we all treasure.   Enjoy. – Jack

 

JIMMY PAGE IS THE ONLY ROCK GUITAR ICON FROM THE BLUES-BASED BRITISH INVASION WHO STILL MATTERS.  THINK ABOUT IT.

 

As the blues-rock of the late ’60s hurtled towards the hard rock of the ’70s, four men were pushing the limits: Jimi Hendrix, and the Yardbird triumvirate of Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Page.  Jimi Hendrix is gone.  This apparently doesn’t affect his legacy, but it does affect his ability to create new music that still matters, regardless of how many “lost” recordings are posthumously released.

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BRAIN FOOD

THIS is the BIRTH of BRAIN FOOD.

I will continue to add titles to the BRAIN FOOD section of the blog as time permits.  Some of the resources might help you to play even better than you do now and others will help you to even want to play better, no matter how skillful you may be at your craft.  I hope that you’ll take advantage of some of these fabulous reads.  –  Jack

HERE ARE SOME RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FOR YOUR READING AND VIEWING PLEASURE

Brain Food will be offering a selection of guitar delicacies from time to time which will be most gratifying to your cerebral palette.  You’ll be pointed in directions that will soothe your consciousness, indoctrinate your faculties, and perhaps even assist you in embracing this excellent instrument even more than you do now.  In JackTalk that means you’re gonna love it…

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