Great Moments in Vinyl plays a 50th anniversary tribute to Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II

May 25, 2019 • Martyrs’ • Chicago, IL

Led Zeppelin was Jimmy Page’s idea. In the book Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page, the guitarist told the story of how “playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing, and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas. But I wasn’t really playing music.

“Then, I joined The Yardbirds, and suddenly— bang!—all that I had learned began to fall into place, and I was off and ready to do something interesting.”

Page definitely had something interesting in mind. As he told Guitar World magazine,

“Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock, and acoustic music topped with heavy choruses – a combination that had never been done before.”

Page summed up his vision like the art student that he was: he wanted to make music that had “lots of light and shade.”