75-501: Pensacola Bay Center (formerly Pensacola Civic Center ) is an indoor arena located in Pensacola, Florida . It is owned by Escambia County and operated by ASM Global . The Bay Center has a capacity of 8,049 for hockey games, and as much as 10,000 for non-hockey events. The arena contains 23,000 square feet (2,100 m) of space and 10,000 square feet (1,000 m) of meeting space. The Escambia County Commission voted to rename
150-505: A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award with Led Zeppelin. In November 2006, Led Zeppelin was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame . The television broadcasting of the event consisted of an introduction to the band by various famous admirers (including Roger Taylor , Slash , Joe Perry , Steven Tyler , Jack White and Tony Iommi ), an award presentation to Page and a short speech by him. After this, rock group Wolfmother played
225-565: A cello bow to create a droning sound texture to the music. Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and, by the mid-1960s, alongside Big Jim Sullivan , was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Britain. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. When the Yardbirds broke up, he founded Led Zeppelin, which was active from 1968 to 1980. Following
300-470: A Yardbirds concert at Oxford . After the show, he went backstage where Paul Samwell-Smith announced that he was leaving the group. Page offered to replace Samwell-Smith, and this was accepted by the group. He initially played electric bass with the Yardbirds before finally switching to twin lead guitar with Beck when Chris Dreja moved to bass. The musical potential of the line-up was scuttled, however, by interpersonal conflicts caused by constant touring and
375-573: A brief songwriting partnership with then romantic interest Jackie DeShannon . He composed and recorded songs for the John Williams (not to be confused with the film composer John Williams ) album The Maureeny Wishful Album with Big Jim Sullivan. Page worked as session musician on Donovan Leitch's Sunshine Superman , on Engelbert Humperdinck 's Release Me , the Johnny Hallyday albums Jeune homme and Je suis né dans la rue ,
450-540: A ceremony at Guildford Cathedral , he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey . For the 2008 Summer Olympics , Page, David Beckham and Leona Lewis represented Britain during the closing ceremonies on 24 August 2008. Beckham rode a double-decker bus into the stadium, and Page and Lewis performed " Whole Lotta Love ". In 2008, Page co-produced a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim entitled It Might Get Loud . The film examines
525-569: A charity concert at the O2 Arena London. According to Guinness World Records 2009 , Led Zeppelin set the world record for the "Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert" as 20 million requests for the reunion show were rendered online. On 7 June 2008, Page and John Paul Jones appeared with the Foo Fighters to close the band's concert at Wembley Stadium , performing " Rock and Roll " and " Ramble On ". On 20 June 2008, at
600-416: A cure for] cancer, if it isn't discovered by then." In an interview with Guitar Player magazine, Page stated that "there was a lot of busking in the early days, but as they say, I had to come to grips with it and it was a good schooling." When he was fourteen, and billed as James Page, he played in a group called Malcolm Austin and Whirlwinds, alongside Tony Busson on bass, Stuart Cockett on rhythm and
675-524: A drummer named Tom, playing Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis numbers. This band was short-lived, as Page soon found a drummer for a band he'd previously been playing in with Rod Wyatt, David Williams and Pete Calvert, and came up with a name for them: The Paramounts. The Paramounts played gigs in Epsom, once supporting a group who would later become Johnny Kidd & the Pirates . Although interviewed for
750-527: A few occasions, most notably in 1985 for the Live Aid concert with both Phil Collins and Tony Thompson filling drum duties. However, the band members considered this performance to be sub-standard, with Page having been let down by a poorly tuned Les Paul. Page, Plant and Jones, as well as John Bonham's son Jason , performed at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary show on 14 May 1988, closing
825-704: A highly successful mid-1990s tour to support No Quarter , Page and Plant recorded 1998's Walking into Clarksdale , featuring the Grammy Award-winning songs " Most High " and " Please Read the Letter ". Page was heavily involved in remastering the Led Zeppelin catalogue. He participated in various charity concerts and charity work, particularly the Action for Brazil's Children Trust (ABC Trust), founded by his wife Jimena Gomez-Paratcha in 1998. In
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#1732794069307900-491: A job as a laboratory assistant, he ultimately chose to leave secondary school in West Ewell to pursue music, doing so at the age of fifteen – the earliest age permitted at the time – having gained four GCE O levels and on the back of a major row with the school Deputy Head Miss Nicholson about his musical ambitions, about which she was wholly scathing. Page had difficulty finding other musicians with whom he could play on
975-574: A lack of commercial success, although they released one single, " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago ". While Page and Beck played together in the Yardbirds, the trio of Page, Beck and Clapton never played in the original group at the same time. The three guitarists did appear on stage together at the ARMS Charity Concerts in 1983. After Beck's departure, the Yardbirds remained a quartet. They recorded one album with Page on lead guitar, Little Games . The album received indifferent reviews and
1050-400: A marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music topped with heavy choruses – a combination that had never been done before. Lots of light and shade in the music. Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980 following the death of Bonham at Page's home. Page initially refused to touch a guitar, grieving for his friend. For the rest of the 1980s, his work consisted of a series of short-term collaborations in
1125-556: A mispronunciation as "Leed Zeppelin". Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music groups in the history of audio recording. Various sources estimate the group's worldwide sales at more than 200 or even 300 million albums. With 111.5 million RIAA-certified units, they are the second-best-selling band in the United States. Each of their nine studio albums reached the top 10 of the US Billboard album chart, and six reached
1200-528: A multitude of spectators. The word derives from Latin harena , a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome , Italy, to absorb blood. The term arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl , but such a facility is typically called a stadium . The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with
1275-418: A new supergroup featuring Beck, along with The Who 's John Entwistle on bass and Moon on drums. However, the lack of a quality vocalist and contractual problems prevented the project from getting off the ground. During this time, Moon suggested the name "Lead Zeppelin " for the first time, after Entwistle commented that the proceedings would take to the air like a lead balloon. Within weeks, Page attended
1350-500: A public concert at the venue. On August 13, 1990 MC Hammer performed for his Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em World Tour .He then returned on September 2, 1992 for his Too Legit to Quit World Tour . On April 9, 1991, Yes played the first show of their Union tour at The Pensacola Bay Center. This show is notable because it was the first show Yes played with the 8 man line up of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Alan White, Bill Bruford, Trevor Rabin and Tony Kaye, which
1425-621: A regular basis. "It wasn't as though there was an abundance. I used to play in many groups ... anyone who could get a gig together, really." Following stints backing recitals by Beat poet Royston Ellis at the Mermaid Theatre between 1960 and 1961, and singer Red E. Lewis, who'd seen him playing with the Paramounts at the Contemporary club in Epsom and told his manager Chris Tidmarsh to ask Page to join his backing band,
1500-493: A track called "Scarlet" was cut (the same year he played acoustic guitar on The Stones' "Through the Lonely Nights"). Page reflected later in an interview with Rolling Stone ' s Cameron Crowe : "I did what could possibly be the next Stones B side. It was Ric Grech, Keith and me doing a number called "Scarlet". I can't remember the drummer. It sounded very similar in style and mood to those Blonde on Blonde tracks. It
1575-508: A tribute to Led Zeppelin. During an interview for the BBC in connection with the induction, Page expressed plans to record new material in 2007, saying: "It's an album that I really need to get out of my system ... there's a good album in there and it's ready to come out" and "Also there will be some Zeppelin things on the horizon." On 10 December 2007, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, as well as John Bonham 's son, Jason Bonham played
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#17327940693071650-421: Is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre , musical performances , and/or sporting events . It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate
1725-428: Is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin . Prolific in creating guitar riffs , Page's style involves various alternative guitar tunings and melodic solos, coupled with aggressive, distorted guitar tones. It is also characterized by his folk and eastern-influenced acoustic work. He is notable for occasionally playing his guitar with
1800-486: Is cited by Page as being his inspiration to take up the guitar, and he would reprise Moore's playing on the song in the live version of " Whole Lotta Love " on The Song Remains the Same . He appeared on BBC1 in 1957 with a Höfner President acoustic, which he'd bought from money saved up from his milk round in the summer holidays and which had a pickup so it could be amplified, but his first solid-bodied electric guitar
1875-531: Is hard to remember exactly what he did given the enormous number of sessions he was playing at the time. In a radio interview, he explained that "I was doing three sessions a day, fifteen sessions a week. Sometimes I would be playing with a group, sometimes I could be doing film music, it could be a folk session ... I was able to fit all these different roles." Although Page recorded with many notable musicians, many of these early tracks are only available as bootleg recordings , several of which were released by
1950-644: The Death Wish III soundtrack, were recorded and produced at his recording studio, The Sol in Cookham , which he had purchased from Gus Dudgeon in the early 1980s. In 1983, Page appeared with the A.R.M.S. (Action Research for Multiple Sclerosis ) charity series of concerts which honoured Small Faces bassist Ronnie Lane , who suffered from the disease. For the first shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Page's set consisted of songs from
2025-846: The 2008 presidential race , both Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama used the venue for political rallies as the November election drew close. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited the venue for a campaign rally on November 3, 2012 as part of his final push in the United States presidential election Republican candidate Donald Trump visited on January 13, 2016, during the Republican primary. Trump also visited again on September 9, during his presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton . 30°24′59″N 87°12′34″W / 30.416485°N 87.209372°W / 30.416485; -87.209372 Indoor arena An arena
2100-477: The Al Stewart album Love Chronicles and played guitar on five tracks of Joe Cocker 's debut album, With a Little Help from My Friends . Over the years since 1970, Page played lead guitar on 10 Roy Harper tracks, comprising 81 minutes of music. When questioned about which songs he played on, especially ones where there exists some controversy as to what his exact role was, Page often points out that it
2175-649: The Billboard pop albums chart and went gold in the US. It was followed by Mean Business in 1986. The band toured in support of both albums, but soon split up. Various other projects followed, such as session work for Graham Nash , Stephen Stills and the Rolling Stones (on their 1986 single " One Hit (To the Body) "). In 1986, Page reunited temporarily with his former Yardbirds bandmates to play on several tracks of
2250-496: The Box of Frogs album Strange Land . Page released a solo album entitled Outrider in 1988, which featured contributions from Plant, with Page contributing in turn to Plant's solo album Now and Zen , which was released the same year. Outrider also featured singer John Miles on the album's opening track "Wasting My Time". Throughout these years, Page also reunited with the other former bandmates of Led Zeppelin to perform live on
2325-510: The Death Wish II soundtrack (with Steve Winwood on vocals) and an instrumental version of "Stairway to Heaven". A four-city tour of the United States followed, with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company replacing Winwood. During the tour, Page and Rodgers performed "Midnight Moonlight", which would later appear on The Firm's first album. All of the shows featured an on stage jam of " Layla " that reunited Page with Beck and Clapton. According to
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2400-1115: The Pensacola Ice Flyers of the Southern Professional Hockey League began play. Other minor professional teams have used the Civic Center as its home. From 2000 to 2002, the Pensacola Barracudas played in the af2 .The Pensacola Tornados of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) played at the Civic Center from 1985 to 1991. In 1998, the Pensacola Flyers of the Eastern Indoor Soccer League played for one season. Various sporting events have taken place at PBC, including wrestling and rodeos. WCW hosted their November 1993 pay-per-view event Battlebowl at
2475-789: The 12-hour show. In 1990, a Knebworth concert to aid the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre and the British School for Performing Arts and Technology saw Plant unexpectedly joined by Page to perform " Misty Mountain Hop ", " Wearing and Tearing " and " Rock and Roll ". The same year, Page appeared with Aerosmith at the Monsters of Rock festival. Page also performed with the band's former members at Jason Bonham's wedding. In 1993, Page collaborated with David Coverdale (of English rock band Whitesnake ) for
2550-689: The Civic Center. It has also been the multiple-time home of the U.S. Roller Skating National Championships. Additionally, the Bay Center has served as the host venue of the Sun Belt Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments since 2021. Bon Jovi performed to the arena's largest crowd ever for a concert on February 4, 1989 as part of their Jersey Syndicate Tour . On February 27, 1990, Janet Jackson opened her Rhythm Nation World Tour in Pensacola. The tour's dress rehearsal at
2625-698: The Led Zeppelin catalogue and old blues and rock standards. The last two concerts were recorded in Los Angeles and released as a double live album , Live at the Greek in 2000. Following the release of the live album, Page and the Black Crowes continued their collaboration by joining a package tour with the Who in 2000, which Page ultimately quit before completion. In 2001, after guesting with Fred Durst and Wes Scantlin 's performance of " Thank You " at
2700-571: The Led Zeppelin fan club in the late 1970s. Examples include early jam sessions featuring him and guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton covering various blues themes, which were included on compilations released by Immediate Records . Several early tracks were compiled on the twin album release, Jimmy Page: Session Man . He also recorded with Keith Richards on guitar and vocals in Olympic Sound Studios on 15 October 1974. Along with Ric Grech on bass and Bruce Rowland on drums,
2775-805: The MTV Europe Video Music Awards, Page once again continued his collaboration with Robert Plant. After recording a cover of "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" for a tribute album, the duo performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 2005, Page was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his Brazilian charity work for Task Brazil and Action For Brazil's Children's Trust, made an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro later that year and won
2850-585: The MacGregors and Themselves. Also in 1984, Page recorded with Plant as the Honeydrippers the album The Honeydrippers: Volume 1 and with John Paul Jones on the film soundtrack Scream for Help . Page subsequently collaborated with Rodgers on two albums under the name The Firm . The first album, released in 1985, was the self-titled The Firm . Popular songs included " Radioactive " and "Satisfaction Guaranteed". The album peaked at number 17 on
2925-503: The Miles Road house: "I don't know whether [the guitar] was left behind by the people [in the house] before [us], or whether it was a friend of the family's—nobody seemed to know why it was there." First playing the instrument when aged 12, he took a few lessons in nearby Kingston , but was largely self-taught: When I grew up there weren't many other guitarists ... There was one other guitarist in my school who actually showed me
3000-773: The Night ", Dave Berry's " The Crying Game " and "My Baby Left Me", Brenda Lee 's "Is It True", Shirley Bassey 's "Goldfinger" , and Petula Clark 's " Downtown ". In 1964, Page contributed guitar to the incidental music of the Beatles ' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night . In 1965, Page was hired by Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to act as house producer and A&R man for the newly formed Immediate Records label, which allowed him to play on and/or produce tracks by John Mayall , Nico , Chris Farlowe , Twice as Much and Clapton. Also in 1965, Page produced one of Dana Gillespie 's early singles, "Thank You Boy". Page also formed
3075-729: The Pensacola Bay Center hosted the largest Rock for Choice concert in history, which was organized by the band L7 and headlined by Pearl Jam . On February 26, 1995, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant played a show on their No Quarter Tour in Pensacola. Page & Plant opened their Walking Into Everywhere Tour in Pensacola on May 19, 1998. On March 11, 1995, Van Halen opened The Balance "Ambulance" Tour in Pensacola. In March 2000, Britney Spears kicked off her Crazy 2K Tour here. In February 2012, Jeff Dunham appeared performing for his Uncontrolled Chaos Tour. Springfest , an annual music event in downtown Pensacola, used
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3150-547: The Pensacola Civic Center issued 7,600 tickets to the public as a benefit to local charity, which sold out in less than an hour. KISS was the first band to perform at the arena, and continues to make Pensacola a destination on its North American tours. Perhaps the biggest concert ever at the Pensacola Bay Center never took place. Michael Jackson used the venue to rehearse for his Bad World Tour from January 22nd to February 18th in 1988, but did not perform
3225-854: The Redcaps, after the departure of guitarist Bobby Oats, Page was asked by singer Neil Christian to join his band, the Crusaders. Christian had seen a fifteen-year-old Page playing in a local hall, and the guitarist toured with Christian for approximately two years and later played on several of his records, including the 1962 single, "The Road to Love". During his stint with Christian, Page fell seriously ill with glandular fever and could not continue touring. While recovering, he decided to put his musical career on hold and concentrate on his other love, painting, and enrolled at Sutton Art College in Surrey. As he explained in 1975: [I was] travelling around all
3300-726: The Who's first single " I Can't Explain " (although Pete Townshend was reluctant to allow Page's contribution on the final recording; Page also played lead guitar on the B-side, " Bald Headed Woman "). Page's studio gigs in 1964 and 1965 included Marianne Faithfull 's " As Tears Go By ", Jonathan King 's " Everyone's Gone to the Moon ", the Nashville Teens ' " Tobacco Road ", the Rolling Stones " Heart of Stone " (along with "We're Wasting Time") (also, Van Morrison & Them 's " Baby, Please Don't Go ", "Mystic Eyes", and " Here Comes
3375-516: The Yardbirds, but he declined out of loyalty to his friend. In February 1965, Clapton quit the Yardbirds and Page was formally offered his spot, but unwilling to give up his lucrative career as a session musician and worried about his health under touring conditions, he suggested his friend Jeff Beck. On 16 May 1966, drummer Keith Moon , bass player John Paul Jones , keyboardist Nicky Hopkins , Jeff Beck and Page recorded " Beck's Bolero " in London's IBC Studios . The experience gave Page an idea to form
3450-510: The album Coverdale–Page and a brief tour of Japan. In 1994, Page and Robert Plant reunited as Page and Plant for an initial performance as part of MTV's " Unplugged " series. The 90-minute special, dubbed Unledded , premiered to the highest ratings in MTV's history. In October of the same year, the session was released as the live album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded , and on DVD as No Quarter Unledded in 2004. Following
3525-447: The arena in its final years. Lynyrd Skynyrd has also performed there and the arena also featured moderately in the music video for " What's Your Name " (with Johnny Van Zant and a newly reformed Lynyrd Skynyrd performing a live concert as part of the music video). Widespread Panic performed on Labor Day weekend, 2019. The Pensacola Bay Center has also had various guest speakers, including President George W. Bush in 2006. During
3600-586: The arena the Pensacola Bay Center on October 18, 2012 as part of a citywide rebranding effort begun by Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward . The Bay Center opened in January 1985. Beginning in the fall of 1996, it was used primarily as the home of the Pensacola Ice Pilots hockey team until the team's exit from the ECHL on June 23, 2008. Hockey returned to the Civic Center, however, in fall 2009 when
3675-592: The bands the Firm , the Honeydrippers , reunions and individual work, including film soundtracks. He also became active in philanthropic work. Page made a return to the stage at a Jeff Beck show in March 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon . Also in 1981, Page joined with Yes bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White to form a supergroup called XYZ (for former Yes-Zeppelin). They rehearsed several times, but
3750-562: The book Hammer of the Gods , it was reportedly around this time that Page told friends that he had just ended seven years of heroin use. On 13 December 1983, Page joined Plant on stage for one encore at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. Page next linked up with Roy Harper for the 1984 album Whatever Happened to Jugula? and occasional concerts, performing a predominantly acoustic set at folk festivals under various guises such as
3825-407: The death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham , he participated in a number of musical groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s, more specifically XYZ , the Firm , the Honeydrippers , Coverdale–Page , and Page and Plant . Since 2000, Page has participated in various guest performances with many artists, both live and in studio recordings, and participated in a one-off Led Zeppelin reunion in 2007 that
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#17327940693073900-464: The facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium . Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the outdoor game that is designed for
3975-710: The first chords that I learned and I went on from there. I was bored so I taught myself the guitar from listening to records. So obviously it was a very personal thing. This "other guitarist" was a boy called Rod Wyatt, a few years his senior, and together with another boy, Pete Calvert, they would practise at Page's house; Page would devote six or seven hours on some days to practising and would always take his guitar with him to secondary school, only to have it confiscated and returned to him after class. Among Page's early influences were rockabilly guitarists Scotty Moore and James Burton , who both played on recordings made by Elvis Presley . Presley's song " Baby Let's Play House "
4050-582: The greater incorporation of brass and orchestral arrangements into recordings at the expense of guitars. He stated that his time as a session player served as extremely good schooling: My session work was invaluable. At one point I was playing at least three sessions a day, six days a week! And I rarely ever knew in advance what I was going to be playing. But I learned things even on my worst sessions – and believe me, I played on some horrendous things. I finally called it quits after I started getting calls to do Muzak . I decided I couldn't live that life any more; it
4125-661: The group with a new line-up to fulfill unfinished tour dates in Scandinavia. To this end, Page recruited vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham , and he was also contacted by John Paul Jones , who asked to join. During the Scandinavian tour , the new group appeared as the New Yardbirds, but soon recalled the old joke by Keith Moon and John Entwistle. Page stuck with that name to use for his new band. Manager Peter Grant changed it to "Led Zeppelin", to avoid
4200-628: The label was the recording " Diamonds " by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan , which went to Number 1 on the singles chart in early 1963. After brief stints with Carter-Lewis and the Southerners , Mike Hurst and the Method and Mickey Finn and the Blue Men , Page committed himself to full-time session work. As a session guitarist, he was known as 'Lil' Jim Pea' to prevent confusion with the other noted English session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan . Page
4275-591: The later 1970s, the band's output and touring schedule were limited by the personal difficulties of the members. Page explained that he had a very specific idea in mind as to what he wanted Led Zeppelin to be, from the very beginning: I had a lot of ideas from my days with the Yardbirds. The Yardbirds allowed me to improvise a lot in live performance and I started building a textbook of ideas that I eventually used in Zeppelin. In addition to those ideas, I wanted to add acoustic textures. Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be
4350-727: The next 18 months I was living on ten dollars a week and getting my strength up. But I was still playing. While still a student, Page often performed on stage at the Marquee Club with bands such as Cyril Davies ' All Stars , Alexis Korner 's Blues Incorporated , and fellow guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton . He was spotted one night by John Gibb of Brian Howard & the Silhouettes, who asked him to help record some singles for Columbia Graphophone Company , including "The Worrying Kind". Mike Leander of Decca Records first offered Page regular studio work. His first session for
4425-417: The number-one spot. Led Zeppelin were the progenitors of heavy metal and hard rock, and their sound was largely the product of Page's input as a producer and musician. The band's individualistic style drew from a wide variety of influences. They performed on multiple record-breaking concert tours, which also earned them a reputation for excess. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, in
4500-574: The project was shelved. Bootlegs of these sessions revealed that some of the material emerged on later projects, notably The Firm's "Fortune Hunter" and Yes songs "Mind Drive" and "Can You Imagine?". Page joined Yes on stage in 1984 at Westfalenhalle in Dortmund , Germany, playing " I'm Down ". In 1982, Page collaborated with director Michael Winner to record the Death Wish II soundtrack. This and several subsequent Page recordings, including
4575-433: The same year, Page played guitar for rap singer/producer Puff Daddy 's song " Come with Me ", which heavily samples Led Zeppelin's " Kashmir " and was included in the soundtrack of Godzilla . The two later performed the song on Saturday Night Live . Following a benefit performance in the summer where the Black Crowes guested with him, Page teamed up with the band for six shows in October 1999, playing material from
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#17327940693074650-400: The time in a bus. I did that for two years after I left school, to the point where I was starting to get really good bread. But I was getting ill. So I went back to art college. And that was a total change in direction. That's why I say it's possible to do. As dedicated as I was to playing the guitar, I knew doing it that way was doing me in forever. Every two months I had glandular fever. So for
4725-474: The type of event. Football (be it association , rugby , gridiron , Australian rules , or Gaelic ) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball , volleyball , handball , and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of the larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University men's and women's basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but
4800-586: The usual smaller playing surface of most arenas; variants of other traditionally outdoor sports, including box lacrosse as well as futsal and indoor soccer , also exist. The term "arena" is also used loosely to refer to any event or type of event which either literally or metaphorically takes place in such a location, often with the specific intent of comparing an idea to a sporting event. Such examples of these would be terms such as "the arena of war", "the arena of love" or "the political arena". Jimmy Page James Patrick Page OBE (born 9 January 1944)
4875-420: Was a personnel manager at a plastic-coatings plant and his mother, who was of Irish descent, was a doctor's secretary. In 1952, they moved to Feltham , and then to Miles Road, Epsom , in Surrey. Page was educated from the age of eight at Epsom County Pound Lane Primary School, and when he was eleven he went to Ewell County Secondary School in West Ewell . He came across his first guitar, a Spanish guitar, in
4950-510: Was a second-hand 1959 Futurama Grazioso , later replaced by a Fender Telecaster , a model he had seen Buddy Holly playing on the TV and a real-life example of which he'd played at an electronics exhibition at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. Page's musical tastes included skiffle (a popular English music genre of the time) and acoustic folk playing, and the blues sounds of Elmore James , B.B. King , Otis Rush , Buddy Guy , Freddie King , and Hubert Sumlin . "Basically, that
5025-405: Was getting too silly. I guess it was destiny that a week after I quit doing sessions Paul Samwell-Smith left the Yardbirds and I was able to take his place. But being a session musician was good fun in the beginning – the studio discipline was great. They'd just count the song off and you couldn't make any mistakes. In late 1964, Page was approached about the possibility of replacing Eric Clapton in
5100-449: Was great, really good. We stayed up all night and went down to Island Studios where Keith put some reggae guitars over one section. I just put some solos on it, but it was eight in the morning of the next day before I did that. He took the tapes to Switzerland and someone found out about them. Richards told people that it was a track from my album". Page left studio work when the increasing influence of Stax Records on popular music led to
5175-440: Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Many other large touring acts, including Gloria Estefan , AC/DC , Page & Plant , David Bowie , Rush & Van Halen have used the arena for pre-tour rehearsals in the past, thanks to the venue's relatively inexpensive rental rates and availability for extended occupation. (Rush opened their Counterparts Tour in Pensacola on January 22, 1994.) On March 9, 1994,
5250-466: Was mainly called into sessions as "insurance" in instances when a replacement or second guitarist was required by the recording artist. "It was usually myself and a drummer", he explained, "though they never mention the drummer these days, just me ... Anyone needing a guitarist either went to Big Jim [Sullivan] or myself." He stated that "In the initial stages they just said, play what you want, cos at that time I couldn't read music or anything." Page
5325-455: Was not a commercial success, peaking at number 80 on the Billboard 200 . Though their studio sound was fairly commercial at the time, the band's live performances were just the opposite, becoming heavier and more experimental. These concerts featured musical aspects that Page would later perfect with Led Zeppelin, most notably performances of " Dazed and Confused ". After the departure of Keith Relf and Jim McCarty in 1968, Page reconfigured
5400-546: Was ranked number two in Gibson 's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, number four on Classic Rock ' s "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995). Page was born to James Patrick Page and Patricia Elizabeth Gaffikin in the west London suburb of Heston on 9 January 1944. His father
5475-614: Was released as the 2012 concert film Celebration Day . Along with the Edge and Jack White , he participated in the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud . Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked him number three in their 2015 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", behind Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton , and ranking 3rd again in 2023 behind Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix. In 2010, he
5550-459: Was the favoured session guitarist of record producer Shel Talmy . As a result, he secured session work on songs for the Who and the Kinks . Page is credited with playing acoustic twelve-string guitar on two tracks on the Kinks' debut album , "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain", and possibly on the B-side "I Gotta Move". He played rhythm guitar on the sessions for
5625-458: Was the start: a mixture between rock and blues." At the age of 13, Page appeared on Huw Wheldon 's All Your Own talent quest programme in a skiffle quartet, one performance of which aired on BBC1 in 1957. The group played "Mama Don't Want to Skiffle Anymore" and another American-flavoured song, "In Them Ol' Cottonfields Back Home". When asked by Wheldon what he wanted to do after schooling, Page said, "I want to do biological research [to find
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