COVER STORY
Page reached for new heights on his fretboard
with the help of that tight-but-loose band
structure. “This was the vehicle to be able to
just go for the stratosphere with my guitar
playing. I felt pretty positive about what I was
doing. We each knew we’d never heard anything
like this before. And so that was it – everyone
came onboard and we started working with
it. That’s what’s reflected so well in all of the
studio material. We continued to push things
because we had the ability to do so. I mean,
who knew what was beyond the next horizon?”
It turns out, beyond that horizon was the
wherewithal to create dive-bombing, Sunburst
1958 Les Paul Standard riffs, and intertwine
them with a squealing theremin in the freeform section of “Whole Lotta Love” ( Led
Zeppelin II, 1969), to hammer out the nowiconic 1959 Fender Telecaster solo that climbs
to the stars in the back half of “Stairway to
Heaven” (Led Zeppelin IV, a.k.a. Zoso, 1971),
to conjure the DADGAD-tuned middle-Eastern
dirge of “Kashmir” (Physical Graffiti, 1975),
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