I’ve often seen the quote, “Music should be like making love - sometimes you want it soft and tender, other times you want it hard and aggressive,” attributed to Jimmy Page. Actually Jimmy was quoting the late Jeff Buckley. The full quote, from an interview with Jimmy in the January 1997 issue of Mojo magazine reads: The album that I’ve been listening to for the last 18 months is Grace by Jeff Buckley. He is a great, great singer. He has such an emotional range, doing songs by Benjamin Britten and Leonard Cohen as well as his own - such technique and command. When the Page/Plant tour hit Australia, we saw him and we were knocked out. It was very moving. Someone heckled him from the audience - ‘Stop playing that heavy stuff!’ - but he made the perfect reply: ‘Music should be like making love - sometimes you want it soft and tender, other times you want it hard and aggressive.’ I felt he paid us a great compliment with his music in that style. On the evening of May 29, 1997, Buckley went swimming in Wolf River Harbor in the Mississippi River near Memphis, while wearing boots, all of his clothing, and singing the chorus of the song Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. When those with Buckley lost sight of him, a rescue effort was was begun. His body was found by two locals on June 4. His death was determined to be the result of accidental drowning. Today is Buckleys birthday. Here is the official video of the title track of Buckleys album Grace, the one that so impressed Jimmy Page. https://youtube/watch?v=A3adFWKE9JE
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:31:00 +0000
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