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CocoTone
10-28-2008, 07:24 AM
I don't know what to say!! Try and make it to the end,,I dareya!:worried

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=93ubRaUm2J0&feature=related

CT.
bkd_guitarist
10-28-2008, 08:59 AM
I made it as far as 5:11. It's one of those things that would definitely translate better live...watching it on YouTube it has sort of a Nigel Tufnel vibe. I kept waiting for him to break out a violin and start bowing his guitar strings with it.
The Guy
10-28-2008, 09:17 AM
thats funny. . . eric just sort of looking on in astonishment.
smallbutmighty
10-28-2008, 10:38 AM
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dang....:(

ac
ezyrydr
10-28-2008, 10:45 AM
the worst thing about that video was the drum kit. ...geeeze
6Tones
10-28-2008, 10:56 AM
It wasnt that bad,but I do think page have a few before the show on this one?
Tone_Terrific
10-28-2008, 11:54 AM
thats funny. . . eric just sort of looking on in astonishment.

Eric's thought bubble-
....this is not going well...I'd rather not be here....I don't think I can save it....now what?....oy!...I'll throw in a couple of right notes..too little, too late...IT'S OVER...amen...I need a fag...:)
Gary
10-28-2008, 02:05 PM
Was that for REAL?? OMG!!:worried
Weasel
10-28-2008, 03:12 PM
Fail
rwe333
10-28-2008, 03:20 PM
ARMS tour - Page was a mess back then...
wildschwein
10-28-2008, 03:30 PM
Yeah - that's the absolute worst I've ever seen him play. I can't watch the whole thing. It seems the physical weight of the guitar is too much for him here. Here's something from around the same time period to restore any loss of faith:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FjN_MNaPsyQ
jops
10-28-2008, 03:34 PM
4:39 he dribbles on his guitar :AOK

I know the whole thing is dribble but I'm talking literal. Maybe it helps lube the strings?
Lt_Core
10-28-2008, 03:51 PM
That rules...LOL! He IS human after all.
Bo Faulkner
10-28-2008, 04:06 PM
wow Jeff Beck couldnt even save the day..
Neill
10-28-2008, 04:19 PM
That rules...LOL! He IS human after all.

he's always been a flawed player (in a human way), no?
Neill
10-28-2008, 04:20 PM
wow Jeff Beck couldnt even save the day..

you know it was an off night when...
CocoTone
10-29-2008, 03:36 AM
Yeah - that's the absolute worst I've ever seen him play. I can't watch the whole thing. It seems the physical weight of the guitar is too much for him here. Here's something from around the same time period to restore any loss of faith:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FjN_MNaPsyQ

I think anyone posting here could duplicate what was on that vid without too much trouble.

CT.
VintageKnob
10-29-2008, 04:56 AM
Saw the ARM's concert at the Cow Palace in SF CA, we left before the end to beat the crowd out of the parking lot!

Beck kicked butt as usual, JP, poor dude, looked so skinny and pale. My friend says to me, "He looks like a white spider moving around the stage".

I feel a connection to LZ and JP since much of my teen years have LZ as the sound track.
I just write it off as a phase. ;-) EC's work on "EC was here" isn't much better from what I can remember.

- D
wildschwein
10-29-2008, 04:57 AM
I think anyone posting here could duplicate what was on that vid without too much trouble.

CT.
Oh yeah,you're probably right there. It's not ultra special; but at least he wasn't drooling over the guitar, nearly falling over and playing a pile of bum notes and acting like it sounds great. I just dropped that vid in 'cause it was from the same period and showed him playing with some degree of clarity.
hudpucker
10-29-2008, 06:13 AM
Drugs are bad, mmmkay?
James M
10-29-2008, 06:29 AM
Drugs are bad, mmmkay?

I don't know the history that well...is this just Page as a drunk, or is this Page on heroin?
DWB1960
10-29-2008, 07:20 AM
I don't know the history that well...is this just Page as a drunk, or is this Page on heroin?

Yes on both counts during that time period.
wildschwein
10-29-2008, 07:23 AM
I don't know the history that well...is this just Page as a drunk, or is this Page on heroin?
I think he may have just kicked the Hammer around this time; most references I've seen say he got off the Harry in the early 80s. But, he was obviously in bad physical shape and seemed to be chain smoking on stage and in most interviews. He said in an interview in 82-83 that he hadn't played guitar at all for around 18 months after Zeppelin called it a day and he couldn't even play when he tried to pick it up again. So, these ARMs shows were kind of a comeback for him in some way. Don't know if it was alcohol that was involved, but in the vid he seems to be trying to recapture some lost guitar god status; the moves are all still there but the playing is way, way off. It looks like a teenager in his bedroom with a broomstick - it's almost pathetic but it's also sad to see him messing up his own composition so badly. I'm not sure when he started playing with the Firm but it must have been around this time too or maybe prior to this. I don't think his playing really got back on track until the release of his solo album and his Coverdale/Page work.
James M
10-29-2008, 10:54 AM
Don't know if it was alcohol that was involved, but in the vid he seems to be trying to recapture some lost guitar god status; the moves are all still there but the playing is way, way off.

That may be, but I would hope that he was impaired, if only because he seems totally oblivious to the train wreck he is creating, and the expression/body language of the musicans playing with him....you'd think you wouldn't forget how to pick up on those things...unless drunk/high. Oh, and don't forget the drooling.
Sparky6string
10-29-2008, 11:07 AM
What I get from this is Page's pain and suffering. Clapton and Beck are there as friends to support him in his time of need. It's touching really.
Terry McInturff
10-29-2008, 11:27 AM
What I get from this is Page's pain and suffering. Clapton and Beck are there as friends to support him in his time of need. It's touching really.

I agree
jumpnblues
10-29-2008, 03:19 PM
There's a recent thread asking what "wanking" is. Well...
stuagu
10-29-2008, 03:30 PM
page is always sloppy but in a good way, but this is prety sad to watch. glad hes in a better place now. he is & always will be the best riff writer ever.
DWB1960
10-30-2008, 07:38 AM
What I get from this is Page's pain and suffering. Clapton and Beck are there as friends to support him in his time of need. It's touching really.

I agree too.
dankayaker
10-30-2008, 07:48 AM
Drugs are bad, mmmkay?



My thoughts exactly.
darth_vader
10-30-2008, 08:12 AM
What I get from this is Page's pain and suffering. Clapton and Beck are there as friends to support him in his time of need. It's touching really.

:agree

Everyone could use friends like that to cover their back. It would have been easier for them to stand by the side of the stage and not be associated with it, but they got up there and helped Pagey out. I suspect Clapton knows exactly what Page was going through, since he had (if I've got my timeline right) just come out of the same thing.
mark norwine
10-30-2008, 08:27 AM
I watched it all the way to the end, althewhile "waiting for something to happen". It never did.

What I get from this is Page's pain and suffering. Clapton and Beck are there as friends to support him in his time of need. It's touching really.

While I wouldn't disagree with that thought....

There's a recent thread asking what "wanking" is. Well...

....it is, indeed, hard to ignore the "mindless wanking" aspect of this.

Drugs are bad, mmmkay?

Hard to argue with that.