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Originally Posted by Flames_18_22_12
Not knocking you on Prince or anything, I personally don't like his music but to each their own. Not denying his versatility either.
But grouping Page into that group with Jack White and The Edge?
You Shook Me - Blues
Traveling Riverside Blues - Slide
Whole Lotta Love - Riff
Immigrant Song - Heavy
Stairway to Heaven - Ballad
The Rain Song - Classical
D'yer Maker - Reggae
Going to California - Finger picking acoustic
That's the Way - Acoustic (he also always used different mic placements)
Fool In the Rain - Samba...ish???
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp - Folk
The Crunge - Funk
Hot Dog - Rockabilly
Down By the Seaside - Effects
Kashmir - Indian
Hats Off to Roy Harper - Slide/Blues/Acoustic
All of these songs have a completely different and unique style to it, and there are many more. Page is far from formalistic. Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page can now be considered mainstream due to the sheer popularity of the band, but cannot be slotted into any one particular genre. Best live band too.
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I put all those into the traditional western evolution of the classic rock genre (which Page was instrumental for as well). Rock was an incorporation of blues reinvented and popularized largely by white muscians. The incorporation of reggae into rock is nothing new and folk music has it's place in that millieu as well and many of the other experiemental things developed into a prog rock, etc. Page was instrumental in a lot of this stuff, as were all the muscians of the era. To me, it's all part of that entire movement. In no way am I catagorizing Page with The Edge and Jack White as the same kind of music or limited in the kind of stuff they can play...but for me, it falls into a certain catagory in how my brain sorts out music as it always tries to hear the root of things. Maybe not for you.
I always seem to go back to the original blues, trying to imagine the stuff that Clapton and Harrison and Richards, etc. were hearing on the imported R&B records they were buying as youngsters from America to develop what would evolve into rock. But oddly enough, I never really enjoyed any of the actual 60s/70s nacsent rock developing or the real Page era. I sort of jump to the late 70s into prog rock, into glam rock, the early Police doing their reggae songs, late 70s Pink Floyd, 80s New Wave, Heavy Metal etc...but honestly. Never a fan of Led Zepplin at all (nor the Stones...or early Deep Purple...or early Sabbath really).
What I guess I really meant by lumping those guys from this movie together is I am tired of all the classic walls that I feel a movie about guitar heroes is supposed to fall into. If you are playing blues, slide, folk, R&B, rock, etc...they all fall into the same catagory for my brain as it naturally sorts things out by music history. I am just someone who really is sick of those traditional walls. I really need a fusion of styles or some crossover between pop, rock, jazz, blues, funk, electronica, etc.
Would I want to meet Page? The Edge? Jack White? Probably not. Honestly, I guess in the end it boils down to me not being that big fans of them...I'd probably ask the Edge about the original ebow he used for the sustain on "With or Without You" or about the delay timing he uses for his effects. I like sounds like that as filler. I'm also really sick of guitar stuff. I taught myself for 5 years and invested heavily into it and I'm just on burnout from the whole thing and the whole atmosphere of guitarists. Now my heroes are pianists lol (of which Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Johnson, and Prince are also great at haha).