Lucifer Rising_James Patrick Page (takes 1-3)

Jimmy Page-recorded at Boleskine House, Loch Ness, Scotland, November 1973

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• led zeppelin
• robert plant
• jimmy page
• rock
• blues
• lucifer

[LucySzebs]

I'm sure this recording was put together in 1973, but I think It was recorded around 1970, before Jimmy and Robert went to Bron Yr Aur cottage, please correct me if i'm wrong

[anothercountyheard]

@Stargrove777 His biograph makes that clear, but the fact remains; look at his production pre 77 and post and it's like he lost his talent. No other major rock atrist I know of evinces such a sudden decline, it's usually a slow arc...And the whole story plays nicely into the mythology , he sold his soul for rock and roll etc. His best music is soo good and so powerful as to invite the belief that it had some supernatural basis.

see Robert Johnson Crossroads etc

20th century myths

[leddhed]

So mote it be.

[Detheven]

@comcreature I'm not sure if you understand what he was making this music for. It was to be accompaniment/incidental soundtrack music for a movie being produced by Kenneth Anger. If you don't know who Anger is, wikipedia it. He's an underground artist who makes very surreal, bizarre movies, & "Lucifer Rising" called for that kind of stuff. Unfortunately, Anger had a falling out with Page & the collaboration failed. So, this isn't just Jimmy tinkering around making "noise."

[comcreature]

Its amazing to me sometimes how such incredibly talented songwriters and instrument players can put together a spliced series of eerie noises and short riffs and call it anything. It's just meaningless noise to me. I suppose if I were as talented and famous as Jimmy ol' Peter G could splice together a series of me passing wind, call it a potential cover tune, sell it to the cult of personality junkies and make a million off it. Come on Jimmy, you can do better than this.

[Jesuisartiste]

Wow there's so much speculation as to whether Jimmy Page was cursed by Kenneth Anger blah blah. This is nonsense. Jimmy has been very blessed (by God) to have had so much success and look at him now...so many love and follow him. He's old, he's gray and he's always smiling. And you say he's cursed? Lol! And by the way, what you hear on this channel is a man tapping a darker shade of energy in a place where there is perhaps, an abundance of darker energy and voila, these three takes..amazing!

[natash141]

why is he so amazing...?

[mielazul]

Thanks for posting this and not the Bobby Beausoliea (mangled the spelling) version like so many others do.

You might like a song I just posted today - Morning Star, by Rosetta West. Doesn't sound like this, but it's similar in that it tries to evoke a spiritual response.

[MultiPlates]

Lightleds...

[ZoSoVirtuoso1]

if you think something caused jimmy to lose any talent, it was the white lady. (heroin, for those who are not acquainted with her). i dont think he lost any talent at all, seeing as that after he overcame his addiction he was back and at his best again (well, maybe not best). this music was in fact recorded while he was addicted, but really, it is very artistic and creative and incredibly complex. compared to heroin addicts of today, with their simple loops and auto tune, this is a masterpiece.

[ludwigvan17]

@anothercountyheard I wouldn't go that far. After all, without that corpus, we wouldn't have Mr.Page or any other popular music really. But, yeah, his shit's definitely essential.

[anothercountyheard]

@ludwigvan17 I agree about the 8 albums, amazing doesn't really do it justice. I take it from your name and your mention of 'composers' that you are a fan of classical music? I think the title of record producer is

correct, composer to my way of thinking being an anachronism. Recording is the most important development in the history of music, and Page is one of the unsurpassed masters of the art. I wouldn't trade one of those 8 albums for the entire corpus of western classical music...

[ludwigvan17]

@anothercountyheard  Well, he had some things after that. The Death Wish 2 soundtrack had some inspired moments but, yeah, he did fall from grace alot. In his case, it doesn't really matter though. He produced so much during the time that he was creative. We have 8 albums that are, from top to bottom, amazing. And it's feasible that he could end up being remembered as one of the great compsoers.