Jack-Flash-Jr
The new Uncut (and Mojo for the other Jimi) are pretty cool this month. Most classic is an interview with Jimmy Page about 'It Might Get Loud' and what he's up to in general (an unspecified/unspecifyable project). These are the corkers from the interview (my italics):
'Most encounters Page has with other musicians must be like that though [referring to the grinning White and Edge as JP plays Whole Lotta Love] - freighted with imbalance similar to that attending any handshake Neil Armstrong exchanges with another pilot. Did Page perceive Edge and White as peers, descendants, or something else? .... ...."I'd had more of a point of access with Jack." says Page. "Up to that point I hadn't been to a U2 concert and I'd only briefly met Edge, at the O2, for a few minutes. But I'd seen the White Stripes in concert three or four times... ... I really respected the work that he'd done. I could understand where he was coming from, his roots in the blues, and I admired the way he presented himself - that whole artform that he is. Edge I got to understand a lot more, and it actually endorsed what I thought about him previously. He works really hard, almost like a scientist." '
On Robert Plant's collaboration with Alison Krauss:"Mmmm."
