Led Zeppelin – White Summer, By Pat Thomas

This solo/instrumental song, “White Summer,” from 1970, was never on any of their original LPs – but captures perfectly Page’s ability to borrow and steal and make it his own. Yes, I know he got some riffs from Bert Jansch, which Jansch got from Anne Briggs, and let’s not forgot Davy Graham and several American bluesmen – but for every riff Jimmy stole, he came up with dozens of his own – that bad heavy metal bands tried to replicate and never could. Hats off to Jimmy Page.

Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975. The companion disc for the book has been named one of the ten best CDs of 2012 by Time magazine.

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