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Jimmy Page. Private 2 hour Interview with Pete Frame for Zig Zag Magazine  
1972

THIS IS A LOW QUALITY RECORDING....BE WARNED !!! 

I should  say that this is an excellent dub of a poor original 
recording...you will find  no better. 

You'll need to break the long one on your own terms. The  first track is 90 
minutes and you will need to split it if going to CD.  

The information on this upload is incredibly interesting. No doubt about  it. 
It is not easy to listen to. I am not sure if it's one interview session or  
two, as there seems to be a "goodbye" in the middle. I am not able to absorb 
it  all and determine if there are segments out of place (in a single 
interview) or  if there are two seperate interviews. Believe me folks...I tried 
to sort 
this  out...but it's consuming too much time for me to try to continue. It's 
basically  an informational listen, with Page's responses on tape telling a 
story in  itself. The written word doesn't quite convey the reactions you will 
experience.  It's valid. Even if you've read the statements he made 
previously...it's  revealing to hear them said by the man himself. (ie:Jimmy 
reveals that 
he was a  taper, and names 4 bands that he taped!). Oh yes...it's worthy 

The  segments are natural to the reel tape I am copying it from. There is a 2 
minute  overlap of dialouge on the end sequence. You get what I got, because 
I couldn't  really figure out a better way to do it. I could have spliced this 
bit...but  what's the point when I am unsure of the sequence of the whole 
thing? I'm beat  down and broken trying to better this thing. I initially 
envisioned this  wonderfully annotated thing with nice segment breaks, but I 
just got 
broken  myself. Again...the information is there, and you shouldn't be 
listening to this  if it's not for information, and the deliverer's tone. 
Portions 
are almost  unintelligible. You'll need to know semi-obscure English band names 
funneled  thru English accents to get it all. This is probably a cheap 
cassette with built  in mic, sitting on a couch beside Jimmy...yet Pete Frame's 
voice booms in at  times...I don't have a solid picture.. Not wonderful at 
all...yet revealing for  those who put the effort in. And it will be an effort 
to 
understand everything  said...yet it all can be understood. 

I received this as "a tape at  Jimmy's house" with "Charlotte delivering 
tea". This isn't a pussy  interview...Pete riles Jimmy up right off the bat, 
and I 
think Jimmy has him  stop the recorder twice...once on the origin of a Zep 
song and again on Jeff  Beck's behaviour. 

The information was used for a Feb 1972 Zig Zag  fanzine, so the interview 
may actually have been late 1971...I don't know.  

I recommend headphones with your eyes closed to help "put you in the  room", 
and stabilize your focus on the voices...that helps a lot. 

My  source tapes were way worse than this. Boomy bass, low volume levels, and 
no  high end. I tried several combinations of Soundforge presets to improve 
it.  Settled on 1) 6db high end boost, 2) noise redux #1, and 3) normalize 
volume at  90%. That's really the best you'll get outta me. I searched the web 
for 
how to  handle voice recordings and got nowhere. If someone out there can 
turn this  sow's ear into a silk purse...lay it on me. 

This isn't a "kick your feet  up and have a beer while listening to the 
speakers with your friends" thing.  It's for serious researchers to mull over, 
and 
over, in a private setting.  

I probably could have typed out the damn transcript in the time I've  spent 
already...but then you'd miss all the inflections and reactions. 

I  would guess there are about 10 people out there who will salivate over 
this,and  200 who will wish that they had never downloaded it. 

IF YOU'RE NOT SURE  YOU WANT TO HEAR THIS...DON'T TRY...I DON'T WANT TO READ 
COMPLAINTS THAT YOU  WEREN'T WARNED. This is lossless, but crude. 

It's about 2 hours and 20  minutes long. Yardbirds, sessions...the whole 
shebang 



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