Jimmy Page Debuts New Songs In It Might Get Loud
By Jeffrey Hyatt
While filming the documentary It Might Get Loud with Jack White and The Edge, rock god Jimmy Page produced a couple new tunes for the guitar guys to jam on. Sure, he can always whip out “Good Times, Bad Times” and everyone goes crazy, but Page wanted to show his guitar movie cohorts he still has plenty left in the creative tank.
“A couple of sort of sketches,” is how Page describes the tracks, “Embryo No. 1″ and “Embryo No.2,” to Billboard. The Led Zep founder says the two songs represent the first step towards making even more new music in the future.
The two songs carry the ‘embryo’ label because they are still… in development, as it were. Page did say he performed the songs with other musicians recently and should be re-working them in the studio – along with other new songs – fairly soon.
“This year I’ve had quite a lot of things going on,” Page explains, “sort of things relative to preparing for projects. There’s a lot of groundwork that’s been going into that so that I can be getting on with things next year. I really intend to be doing some playing and…be seen, if you like. If you’ve got ambitious projects, they take time to put together if you’re going to do them properly.”
Page mentions to Billboard that there was a lot more music performed by the trio during the filming of their private gathering on a Hollywood soundstage than could be fit into the documentary. This is good news. The inevitable DVD will most certainly feature great extras. The trio’s jam session/chitchat is affectionately known as ‘the summit,’ which mixes interviews and archival clips –and a whole lotta guitar jamming!
Page confirms our dream DVD scenario:
“There was a lot that was played at the summit, that Edge did, I’m sure, and Jack. I’m sure there’ll be a DVD, and I can tell you with a certain confidence there’ll be extras because that’s the way things work these days.”
Directed by Davis Guggenheim, It Might Get Loud opens on Friday in New York and Los Angeles.
Check out the rave review from ScreenCrave.
