John McLaughlin-Jimmy Page guitar lessons?

[Alex Van Starrex]

This is an old story - John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page guitar.
When? Where? How?

Considering that Jimmy was working in the studio from about 1963
(or whatever), the lessons must have been earlier than that.

Can anyone assist here?

[Joy Rowe]

If I remember correctly (and I wish I could remember which
interview Page actually addressed this topic in, so I could look it up),
Page took just a couple of lessons with McLaughlin, and I believe it was
actually during his session days, not before, as it was to brush up on some
particular skill or something. (Again, I wish I could find the damn
interview in my mountain of magazines. I checked the Trouser Press '77
interview as well as the Guitar Player '77 interview, two of the most
extensive ever done with Page, but I didn't notice the McLaughlin lesson
reference. It could still be in there, I have about 3 different edits of the
Trouser Press interview and I only checked one of them, or it could be a
later Guitar World or Musician interview. Anyone have/remember the interview
in which Page briefly discussed this topic?)

Sorry for the not-exactly-definitive info,

Douglas Rowe

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[Joy Rowe]

Okay, I've found the article. (Thanks to one Mr.Thomas Gamard for reminding
me which interview it was.) It's the November 1990 issue of Musician. Here's
the exchange:

MUSICIAN: "John McLaughlin gave you guitar lessons?"

PAGE: "He did, that's true. It was great. He could hear things which I
couldn't hear. He certainly taught me a lot about chord progressions and
things like that. He's fabulous. He was so fluent and so far ahead, way out
there,
and I learned a hell of a lot. I must have been about 20."


The question seemed to come out of nowhere, and it seemed to suprise Jimmy a
little. If he was "about 20" that would put it well into his session days. I
thought I remembered another old interview in which Page claimed the lessons
were brief, but I could be mistaken.

Hope this sheds a little light,

[DJMangin]

>If he was "about 20" that would put it well into his session days.

well, he was 20 in 1964, so he would've been a session man for a year or so. I
seem to recall he started sessions work in '63?

[Joy Rowe]

When I wrote "well into his session days", I didn't mean to imply that it
was toward the end of his sessions period, I was simply saying that by the
age of 20, Page was certainly working on sessions, as he started in late
'63, and that the lessons didn't necessarily take place before his session
days, as the original question presumed.

[walte...@my-dejanews.com]

In article <7dfbvu$1j6$1...@toto.tig.com.au>,

> It was probably in the early 60's. McLaughlin worked at a guitar shop and

gave lessons and advice. Another guitar player who claims McLaughlin was
very helpful to his playing through this guitar shop job was Pete Townshend !
In fact, Townshend points this out in an article which appears in the book
"Lessons from the Masters". In addition, Pete apparently wrote a book quite
a few years back. He says one of the short stories in the book is based upon
John McLaughlin !

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