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When Jimmy Page<\/a> struck out on his own with Led Zeppelin, there was nothing that was off the table. He had the ability to work in many different lanes and still be interesting, and while it didn\u2019t always make for the best song, it was impossible not to look on in amazement whenever tunes like \u2018Kashmir\u2019 and \u2018Whole Lotta Love\u2019 came on the stereo. But out of all the material he had to work with, Page knew enough to realise that certain genres were off the table when he began working with his new outfit.<\/p>\n But it should be mentioned that Page wasn\u2019t the judge, jury and executioner when it came to Zeppelin\u2019s material. He was the one who had the idea and it was his baby in many respects, but it took everyone in the group to make it what it was, whether that was John Paul Jones adding the perfect accompaniment to a song or John Bonham turning in a drum solo for the ages in the middle of \u2018Moby Dick\u2019.<\/p>\n And as much as Page had a history of working in the session scene, a lot of what he was doing came out of exploring new sonic textures no one had touched. There was hardly anyone who could have squeezed a song out of the weird tuning that \u2018The Rain Song<\/a>\u2019 is played in, but after fiddling around with it for as long as he could, Page finally was able to make something that made artistic sense without having to do any major musical leaps.<\/p>\n But those kinds of leaps were always what Page excelled at. There are countless Zeppelin tunes where even he probably didn\u2019t know where it was going, but as long as he had a guitar in his hand, he knew that he was going in the right direction. This was progression done right, but when listening to what his old band was doing, he was convinced that prog was far from his genre of choice.<\/p>\n Although The Yardbirds had been where Page had cut his teeth, it was clear that he was starting to move on to something different. It would never hurt to have someone like Jeff Beck on his team, but considering how many times he was getting pushed to the side, he knew that he couldn\u2019t handle sitting in the background and focusing on making something that served someone else\u2019s muse.<\/p>\n