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The rock and roll attitude has always been about having absolutely no fear whenever you get onstage. It might not seem all that dangerous going onstage and playing music for people, but if you have tofill someone else\u2019s shoes and continue to add your own stamp to everything, it\u2019s easy for anyone to have nerves get the better of them whenever they have the houselights turned on them for the first time. If there\u2019s one person who has known the ins and outs of being onstage, though, it should be Jimmy Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite his reputation as this enigmatic figure leading Led Zeppelin in the early days, Page was always like a fish in water when he played every concert. Most session players that he played with may have been too scared to fly blind with a set band onstage, but since Page had everything mapped out in his head before any of his songs were pressed to vinyl, he knew that the concert was the place for him to expand his horizons.<\/p>\n There are only so many things that can be done in the studio, but once people start improvising, anything\u2019s possible, and Page wanted to test that out every chance he could. \u2018Whole Lotta Love\u2019 and \u2018Dazed and Confused\u2019 sounded fantastic in the conext of the records they were a part of, but the midsection of the former was practically an invitation for Page to get weird, whether that was creating white noise or bringing out the theremin onstage to create the sound of organised chaos.<\/p>\n But that kind of creative ingenuity wouldn\u2019t have come without joining The Yardbirds first. Jeff Beck<\/a> and Eric Clapton had made their living out of testing the boundaries of what their instruments could do, and for as much talent is Jimmy freakin\u2019 Page had on his guitar, it said a lot about his bandmates\u2019 talents that he was relegated to bass on the first handful of Yardbirds recordings.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I joined The Yardbirds on bass \u2013 coming in for Paul Samwell-Smith \u2013 that was serious boots to fill, because I was pretty much in awe of his bass playing.\u201d<\/p>\n Jimmy Page<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n