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  • Whoever found this, thanks a lot for putting this up. I think it's just great and I don't know why anyone would have anything negative to say after having watched this. I mean, I can't play like that.

  • The bend the neck vibrato at the end is classic.

  • @MrXAVIERDB Oddly his acoustic playing is often very clean while his electric playing is sloppy. How is that even possible? Every other person on earth is usually the opposite.

  • i would give my leg to learn how to play this bit

  • Best electric guitarists ever check them out, Michael Angelo Batio, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ed Van Halen, Tony Iommi

  • @bogdan4550 big deal there all great guitarists they guys but so are jeff beck and jimmy page there all good at what they do there is no best guitarist

  • @bogdan4550 They all bow to Jeff Beck . All of them

  • wow, i had in other tab porn waiting to watch but when i heard/saw this- there was jizz in my pants...porn not needed any more

  • This tune is a traditional: Jimmy probably heard it from Davey Graham.

  • this is exactly why jimmy page stands alone amongst any guitar "god " you can think of. everybody else needs to be plugged in to have their sound . page gets as heavy as any body on an electric but can write / play acoustic like a mother also .............

  • Love the photography very retro... the coolest guy on the planet

  • if i look at all 9 zep lps , and realize how much great riffs , chordprogressions , and playing style he crerated .

    and ..oh his SOUND was worlds better than the most guitarsounds i hear today including metallica ( i love theyr guitar sound on the early records)

    together with this riffing and beaautiful drums and jones and plant ...

    jimmy is just nr 1 , Led Zeppelin are Nr 1

    Its cool , its groovy , its ...Led Zeppelin

  • magical music

    

  • As a guitarist Jimmy Page may not be the "best" technically when compared to some of the wizards out there, certainly folks like Eric Johnson, Neal Schon, Steve Howe, etc... can play circles around him at his peak... BUT, he sure IS CERTAINLY one of the most creative of all time in creating musical soundscapes to take you to new places. All in all: a treasured and brilliant VERY unique musician.

  • Well, if you want to have Bert Jansch (who I love as a player), why not go the whole hog and mention John Renbourn?

  • this is white summer black mountainside....there's the proper live version in better quality on youtube....all u guys saying he cant play eastern music can suck it....he is one of the few musicians who has successfully incorporated so many different kinds of music into rock and roll....u cant expect him to play like sitar maestros and if u think i dont know what eastern music is all about i m from india and i have learned the tabla for a few years...so i know what i m talking about...

  • watch?v=MhLpYW7b99g if u want to listen real eastern music instead of fake one can listen this  watch?v=MhLpYW7b99g

  • not that good even bad i think..hes trying to play east music but he cant clearly........

  • @esraretin Yes, but for the Western ear.

  • The best guitarist to ever live on this planet. 

  • @RockerForLife74 That would be Joe Satriani.

  • @guitarconasor haha you're funny. The best guitarist in this to ever live on this planet is in this video.

  • @RockerForLife74 Page is my favorite because of his use of odd tunings, odd meter and rocking riffs, but I'm sure Page would even say there are better players than he is.

  • @guitarconasor Joe Satriani is not one of them. I'd say Jimi Hendrix is arguably better than Page, but there is evidence that Page is better than Hendrix. I'd say Page is the best guitarist to ever live because of how good he was at his peak. Hendrix didn't live long enough to set a bar Page couldn't pass. In 1972, Page passed Hendrix in How the West was Won. The heroin fucked him up, and he could of easily died from many things that involve heroin use, but Page is alive and the best.

  • The music really hits my heart. :)

    Led Zeppelin's lyrics are amazing, but even without the words. . . its just beautiful

  • over the hills and far away solo :)

  • WHO on earth could dislike this?! i mean seriously! jimmy page is a living legend!!!

  • Incase anybody is wondering;

    He's playing "White Summer/Black Mountain Side"

  • Incase anybody is wondering;

    He's playing White "Summer/Black Mountain side."

  • He has the face of an angel. He is so beautiful.

  • @TheBlackQueen1974 He was. He now looks like Ernest Borgnine.

  • He has such lovely hands and such a light touch on the guitar. It's fascinating to watch him play.

  • I have to admit.. he is a very good looking man ,  U got the talent and look , what more could u ask for??

  • hd quality.

  • hd quality.

  • Nr 1_______________THE BEST ever !!!

  • jimmy kicks ass

  • jimmy page is the best ever

  • @SuperRosomak I agree he's very talented and smart as well to form the greatest rock band the world has ever seen. It's very interesting to see four guys on stage who look and and sound like gods on stage. Led Zeppelin is a one of a kind band, and more and more people are now realizing how awesome they are. Good job Jimmy! And good job to Led Zeppelin as well!

  • aye she walked through the fair

  • I like celtic music, especially dadgad

  • It hurts that the image is not good, exceptional.

  • This is a actually an old english folk melody called black waterside. He borrowed his arrangement largely from Davey Graham.

  • This is a traditional song but apparently Page did borrowed this version from Bert Jansch. though Page has added an eastern arabic indian feeling to the song witch makes it feel quite different.

    I don't like some of Page's guitar solos but when it comes to playing the Rhythm guitar I think he really is a genius.

  • @safir9045 - the things he's added are from Davey Graham, pretty much note for note.

  • The reality is, none of the (few) songs that page/plant sampled from would ever even have been known about outside of an eclectic uber subculture of diehard fans of said artists had Zeppelin not made them popular. Its a standard case of someone "inventing" something, failing miserably, then when someone else comes along and tries to pay some tribute to something that influenced them, suddenly they're plagiarists. Led Zeppelin will *always* be the greatest rock band.

  • @kutark good point .....Bert Jansch.....look it up....

  • @kutark Well said.

  • @SCROGY I couldn't agree with you more. Hats off to you Kutark for one of the best comments I've ever read regarding Led Zeppelin /Jimmy Page as rip off artists or plagiarists! I think it might be fair to add that had LZ not attained the success and fame that they did..............you wouldn't have heard much at all about them being plagiarists?

  • @gar669 Word. Everybody steals something. It's weather or not you steal it and put your own mark on it and make it different or just plain take credit for it when it's not yours. Two different things all together.

  • @SCROGY very good point. perhaps Leslie West said it best when he confessed to stealing a bit of Whole Lotta Love for Mississippi Queen............" it's all a matter of how well you hide it!"

  • @kutark They're plagiarists if they didn't give credit to those whom they 'sampled'. Did they give credit?

  • This is utter S***T! He;s playing note for note Davey Graham. Maybe it's a homage? I doubt it. What a fraud. Anything for the the money. "it's a shit business" as they say,

  • Why does it have to to be 'fraud'? Why cant it just be that Page was inspired by other great guitarists of his time. It seems to me that while you gripe about it all being about the money; the basis of your argument is about money. After all, plagiarism and copyright infringement didn't really come along until people started making money off of music. Before that, having another artist perform your tune was desirable, it meant it was being passed on. Music is meaningless unless its heard.

  • @bpitsenb - Fair points, it's true. But in the folky world, you're meant to introduce the song by saying "now I'm going to play Bert Jansch's version of whatever"; it's giving acknowledgement . I've never heard of Page giving due credit - I could be wrong about this; maybe he did. But the fact that everyone thinks he invented all these riffs himself suggests he didn't. I love Page's guitar playing. It's just that I don't think it's original.

  • @rapperfrgman I agree with you on that. He definitely should have given credit; if only out of respect for his fellow artists. It just annoys me that whenever this debate comes up, it tends to be framed in such a way to make it look like a slimy business deal. I just don't think this was the case. I realize that my previous comment about it being about music is an antiquated take on the situation. It was the only way I could think of to illustrate my point without sounding hostile.

  • @bpitsenb I think you're right - I was wrong to weight in on the money side of it (I try to imagine Page at the proverbial record company meeting, persuading fat cat businessmen that he can make a killing by plagiarising some fingerpicking ragas mixed with obscure English folk tunes... and I can't exactly see dollar signs ringing up in everyone's eyes like a cash register).

  • Some people are ignorant, Page is a genius

  • @TruthAxe Hey man, I got the Clap from from a girl while listening to Zeppelin too. I don't hate Page though. Don't hate. (&

  • Jimmy can make ANY tuning, and ANY figure of guitar playing sound wonderful. I just wonder, what is his tuning in this video?

  • DADGAD

  • I should've guessed so. Thanks.

  • @BibleBlack42

    DADGAD I think

  • @BibleBlack42 This tuning is DAGDAD brother.Every fun to play in.!

  • listen to black waterside by Bert Jansch

    jimmy was heavily influenced by him

  • Influenced? Jimmy Page ripped of Bert Jansch, same as he ripped-off others.

    Page is a hack and this video shows it.

    This performance is frat party quality.

  • he didnt rip off jansch. black waterside is an old english folk song. page adapted it and called his version black mountain side

  • First off, Gaybe, it's an Irish folk song, not an English one.

    Secondly, specifically, Page stole Jansch's personal arrangement for it, his take on the song.

    So get smart. Read up on stuff before you go blather on.

    How you amuse, GaybeFed.

  • @TruthAxe well first off i can assure you that your not the first asshole on youtube who used that very clever pseudonym of my name, second thats homophobic when you use that as an insult, and third jansche's arrangement was the first recorded version of the song so neither you or i can know how the song is traditionally arranged

  • You amuse, GabeFed.

    Mere words have set you off into rage and hallucination. Look at you go!

    A well-known recording of "Down by Blackwaterside" performed by Mary Doran exists as far back as 1952.

    Thus, your babbling about Bert Jansch shows that you're like most retards who comment on YT.

    Dipshits like you who suffer from low IQ cannot see how stupid you appear to the world.

    Oh how you amuse.

  • もの凄。

  • Sorry 4 the typos ..

    Again Jummy always does somthing differnt in his playing I can't put my finger on it but it's like he breaks the rules or slants somthing? Always some note that should be there but there it us.. It's a flat or dark thing he always does. Like a mystical note that always hangs or accents overtones or somthing aaaaaah!..lol does anyone elses get this or am I nuts.. Not just this tune but all his stuff.. A subtle sound that is his.

    Anyone?

  • @homenote

    I definitly understand what you mean. its that dark subtle feeling. So you´re not nuts. Or we both are... Lets just thanks Jimmy for such great music!

  • @homenote I agree completely

  • I believe the guitar us a "pre war" J200(Jumbo) explaining the redish burst. The pre war Jumbos were Brazilian Rosewood unlike the Maples that came later.. I would say that I heard a combo of blugrass and Spanish folk classical(Witch he studied) as a youngster. The "eastern flavor" u hear us I feel is that "dark" magical thang that is tipical Jimmy Page.

    But this is just my opion.

  • he is like a witch!!!!!!!!! I cant stop looking at him!!!!!!!! Incredible.

  • my grandpa had that kind of guitar it got smashed though.....sad...they are really nice guitars

  • White Summer - Black Mountain Side

  • Anyone know what type of guitar he is playing, and it's hard to tell with the video quality, is this nylon or steel string? It looks to be dreadnought but the make I am not sure.

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  • It's a Gibson J-200 guitar, steel-string.

  • Steel, it's a Gibson J-200 jumbo

  • @67bridget

    He is playing a gibson hummingbird.

    Steel strings.

    DADGAD tuning.

  • @Darknvo

    No way!! Its a Gibson J-200 with Vintage Sunburst finish.

  • I love that guitar, Gibson makes beautiful acoustics.

  • @67bridget

    It's a Gibson J-200! Very nice.

  • o my that was sweet he the devil hands

  • theres a riff from every song he plays in there, Black Mountainside is the most noticeable

  • There is something from Over The Hills And Far Away on the beggining

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  • i dont think he stole it. he recreated it. cant u just dig both of em

  • a master piece

  • White Summer/Black Mountain Side!!

  • A complete RIP OFF of Davy Graham's arrangement of 'She Moves Through The Fair' & Bert Jansch's arrangement of 'Black Water Side', and no credit given to either. Don't get me wrong, I love Page's work and Zep are one of my fav bands but I hate it when people steal and give no credit.

  • jansch took page to court for this i think..

    and very justly i might add

  • i think its called white summer

  • I'm not familiar with this music, but it there seems to be an Indian influence.

  • sadly.....

    watch?v=a9XkWbKBs80

    i still love it tho. great performance and i think he makes it his own, but i do wish he credited davey graham with something at least.

    JP is an amazing player tho

  • Jimmy's playing make me fly, only Hendrix was on his level. love him!!

  • probably early to mid 50s , similar to prop used by crow soak up the sun..i have seen a few of these on ebay..

  • j200 borrowed/used on zep 1. i play sj200 , aka king of the flat tops ! preferred for finger pickers do to volume and bass..

  • 4:56 aprox. play strings without fingers; isn't standard tuning, I don't know now what's the tuning... : /

  • uhhh are you talking about at the end where he carrys the note by pushing on the string above the fretboard by the tuning knob

  • DADGAD

  • The tuning is not normal during the whole song I think. But the thing you're talking about is that he is deffinitly playing on harmonics there in the 12th fret.

  • The tuning is in DADGAD

  • superb...just....superb.

  • It is plausible,but I am trying to find some proof. Supposedly, Mickie Most had a J-200 which Beck mentions on the 'Truth' album cover that someone in a Gibson forum claimed to have used-a natural/blonde finish exactly like Elvis's-the one Jimmy is playing here is in the faded cherry sunburst-more unusual because of the pronounced 'red' color as opposed to the brown-burst color more common on most sunburst J-200's-the tone here does sound simliar to the Little Games and Zep 1 tone to me...

  • Internet legend has it that this is the J-200 used to record the first album that he borrowed from Big Jim Sullivan-any hardcore Zeppelin obsessives have any proof that this is THE guitar?

  • I have no proof but I have heard the same thing and it sounds totally plausible.

  • brilliant musician!

  • LONG HAIR!!! LOL

  • Rock

  • That is legendary music right there.

    The man is from another planet.

    BTW:

    The tuning is DADGAD.

  • this is guitar playing at it's best!

  • It makes me very envious to see how extremely good he can play.

  • God ..... Jimmy Page was so good lookin.

  • electric id say sometimes sounds better than acoustic but acoustic is so much harder than electric thats how you can tell good guitar players from bad ones

  • enough said

  • that is very true what you say. I have always felt the same way... the acoustict is how you know when they are great!...

  • @orangetransformer not true, electric is a harder instrument, as you really need to be more accurate with it.You dont play guitar do you?

  • @jambi111

    actually, you have to be much more accurate with an acoustic guitar, cause you don't have any of the bells and whistles of electricity like distortion and such like. I find it much harder because the strings are thicker, and harder to press down and slide and all that stuff.

  • @xKinseh they should be equally well to play, if you have good instruments. i have a very high quality 2003 Gibson SG electric, and an incredible 2005 Taylor 614ce. both outstanding guitars. so the difference in playability lies in the strings. i always use Ernie Ball light gauges, for the perfect combo of playability, sound, and how long they last

  • @jambi111 I disagree. I can tell you that to put on a 2 or 3 hour show and play well with an acoustic rather than electric is far more challenging both mentally and physically. To say you need to be more accurate on the electric is, well, inaccurate. Inaccuracy sounds equally bad on both. Good electric players are a dime a dozen, good acoustic players far less common. There are far more techniques to rely on with electric.

    And yes, Ive been playing both for 25 years.

  • @jambi111 i play guitar and uhh i gotta disagree with that, there is much more ways to cover up mess ups on an electric, and the strings are easy to hit down, but i mean if you think that it is easier for yourself then thats totally cool, but id say acoustic is harder because you cant bend strings that easily, if you mess up everyone hears it, you gotta be in tune all the time, and most of all you dont have any distortion of affects to make you sound better

  • @jambi111 "Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it but it’s more difficult." - Dave Mustaine.

  • Page is the best, of course...

  • He makes the guitar to look like a banjo

  • Practice practice practice, an never give up

  • AMAZING.

  • To me, that noise sounds like poor audio quality. I've noticed this tends to happen a lot with videos from the 60's, I like the sound though...

  • So do I. Supose thats what Blur were copying and that s why they called themselves Blur, because it is kind of Blury.

  • jimmy is god

  • he's the best blues/rock guitar player ever

    just a genious

  • I did ,and it was weak .And so are  you.

  • he played so well before the drugs

  • there wasn't really any "before the drugs" with jimmy, only "less drugs."

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  • Here's the history of the song. Annie Briggs (folk singer) did the version Blackwater Side, Bert Jansch redid and made the guitar playing more intricate, Page came along(influenced by Bert) and came up with White Summer(with the Yardbirds) and then did his version called Black Mountain Side, same theme as Jansch's but also added new parts, hence the new name. Everybody lifted from somebody but they all sound different. cheers

  • actually, Davey Graham is the author of "White Summer," so essentially Page combined Graham's and Jansch's songs into one.

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  • ooh jimmy you big showoff. i think the poor quality tape adds to the atmosphere,sounds a bit alastair crowley! god bless dadgad. whats this, on blue peter?

  • The truth, I believe, is that Bert Jansch's "Black Water Side" preceded Jimmy Page's "Black Mountain Side. It's encouraging to hear that Mr. Page acknowleges Mr. Jansch's influence on him.

  • 3:28 on is the fucking most amazing !

  • Oh SHITTT i rated this one star by accident FUCKK i tried faving it crap sorry guys :(

  • We all make mistakes. Forgivable!

  • he is a fucking genious

  • 0:50 one very deformed looking jimmy page

  • that's about trippy enough to be an album cover

  • what do you mean

  • the qualities bad so his face looks messed up

  • yes thank you i love this song

  • i see you are a jeff beck fan yourself. jeff and jimmy were good friends the gave each others guitars. jimmy gave beck his bolero and beck gave page a telecaster. But he wrote this with the yardbirds and later led zeppelin. He is not a rip off

  • Jimmy didn't write this song. Its basically taken from a Bert Jansch song called black waterside.

  • Yes, but even Bert Jansch didn't write it. And Jimmy Page didn't copy Jansch's style. It would be more correct to say that he was very much inspired by it, and his version should be considered a homage, not a rip off.

  • Jimmy admittedly said that he was inspired by Jansch.

  • Dude page wrote it and the name is actually

    Black Mountain Side

  • The song "black waterside" is what jimmy took to make this song....

  • this song is called White Summer btw guys

  • cool

  • which year this tv show from?

    and why this song like a chinese tibet style

  • 1970 (it ses it in the video AHAHAHA)

    and for ur other question... scroll down...

  • I agree, this song has that eastern feel to it. Love it.

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  • Many people don't realize this was a cover of a Bert Jansch song just like many other songs that Jimmy Page covered. It's a very beautiful though!