Jimmy Page is one of the founding members of Led Zeppelin. Page is one of the best guitarists of all time after years in the music industry. When he was a kid, he found an old guitar and fell in love with the instrument.
Page was born in 1944 and in 1952 he and his family moved to a house on Miles Road. This is where Page found his first guitar, according to The Biography.
The cheap Spanish-style guitar that had come with the house, according to the book. It was nothing more than a neglected ornament in a corner of the living room that no one had bothered to put in the attic.
Page said he found the guitar as a child and felt like divine intervention.
Page practiced with his friends and classmates after finding the guitar.
The guitar and Jimmy were joined at the hip from the beginning, according to Williams. He was able to teach himself how to play once he got those chords down.
Robert Plant says that old rock bands are in danger.
Page got a book called Play in a Day by Bert Weedon to help him learn how to play the guitar.
Page said in The Biography that he was too impatient.
Page was able to play by ear because he started making his own arrangements.
Page said to lift the tone arm and put it back down to listen to the solo.
While finding the abandoned guitar in his house sparked his interest in the instrument, Page outgrew the limits of the guitar very quickly.
Getting a guitar like that was like dreaming about a Cadillac for Page, who said that he wanted a guitar that was something you would see on albums by GeneVincent and the Blue Caps and BuddyHolly.
Page was told by his father to take a paper route to earn money for a new guitar.
Page said he got a Hofner Senator in a paper round.
It was enough for Page to start his own band with friends from his neighborhood because this guitar did not suit his needs as much as an electric guitar would.