Jimmy Web page: Led Zeppelin had been the most effective band of all time

Music followers can argue for days about which act is the best band of all time, however Jimmy Web page thinks his personal legendary group Led Zeppelin ought to take the title.

In a brand new interview with Uncut journal, the guitar icon makes the case for Zeppelin, saying, “It’s actually exhausting to say one thing like that and never sound immodest, however through the years, plenty of different musicians have informed me they thought we had been the most effective. I’m not speaking about document gross sales or live performance attendance, though I feel we will maintain our personal with anybody.”

He added, “What I imply is: once you speak about a band as a collaborative musical unit, we had been the most effective. I’m not speaking about one or two genius songwriters, and everybody else tagging alongside. I’m speaking a couple of assortment of musicians who’re every on the high of their craft in their very own proper. In Led Zeppelin, we had been precisely that.”

Web page continued, “If you’re a younger musician and also you need to hear how a band works nicely collectively, then we’re a reasonably good blueprint. John [Paul Jones] and me. Robert [Plant] and me. John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Each mixture of the quartet may carry one thing particular.”

Web page additionally declared Zeppelin the most effective band when Charlie Rose chatted with the surviving Zeppelin members in 2012. Nonetheless, Plant downplayed the notion of Zeppelin being the best throughout that interview.

In referencing that older interview, Web page informed Uncut, “Robert in all probability stated, ‘Oh, nicely, there have been plenty of nice bands,’ to that interviewer as a result of that’s the gentlemanly reply. And I agree with him: there’s plenty of completely implausible music on the market made by a number of completely different artists. However if you end up speaking about rock ‘n’ roll alchemy, I needed to say what I assumed. We had been the most effective.”

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Followers of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and some different bands might imagine in any other case, however Web page makes a reasonably good argument on the subject of pure musicianship and chemistry.

As as to whether followers will ever get to expertise Led Zeppelin in live performance once more, Web page informed Uncut, “It could have been good to do extra [shows after the 2007 one-off 02 Arena gig in London], however for one purpose or one other, we misplaced the momentum. There was willingness to play from John and me. However there you’re.”