RE: VLZC _ Small Faces

["Tim Druck" <tcdruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        The mention is the usual one of the sessions that Jimmy played with
Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton (doesn't Stephen Davis claim this happened in
Mrs. Page's living room?) that were released on Immediate without
foreknowledge of Beck and Clapton, and if memory serves were pulled from
shelves after Beck and Clapton raised holy hell.  Jimmy also claimed that he
was unaware that the sessions were to be released, that they were informal
jams.  Or was it that Jimmy claimed that the others knew?  My own memories
of stories heard long ago is very fuzzy.
        My question concerning the quote below is this:  Is the author
insinuating that Jimmy Page was a producer/session guitarist for Immediate
(and therefore a premeditated undercover recordist, as it were,) or just
noting that Jimmy was both at the time and therefore could have produced the
tapes in release-quality without the knowledge of the others and then
decided on his own to release them after the fact?  The point is very
significant concerning the integrity of one James Patrick Page, and neither
supposition is very flattering, but I'd rather think of him as an
opportunist who figured he could explain/apologize later than the
alternative, a <gasp> BOOTLEGGER.  <lol>



<begin mention of Jimmy Page>

By the end of 1966, the Small Faces had severed their ties with Arden which,
in effect, ended their relationship with Decca (though the two sides would
argue and debate that point for a while), and in early 1967 moved under the
wing of Rolling Stones manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham. At the time,
Oldham was one of the top three or four producers in England, thanks to his
work with the Stones (and a few other acts such as Marianne Faithfull), and
his management of that group was considered one of the most successful
business relationships in pop music. 
Oldham had started his own label, Immediate Records, which was so far
devoted to a few licensed American masters, the work of promising neophytes,
and a few unwitting contributions by star guitarists -- including Eric
Clapton and Jeff Beck -- who thought they were cutting demos and jamming
with producer/guitarist Jimmy Page.

<end mention of Jimmy Page>


TimD