Re: VLZC _ Small Faces

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tcdruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


>     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,) 


EXACTLY the question I was trying to raise!!!  I'm glad you got it. Is 
this a snipe at Jimmy by yet another fallen foe ?   Read the following:
source: The Led Zeppelin Biography Ritchie Yorke

 In 1965, Andrew Oldham, head of Immediate Records, approached Jimmy 
with a suggestion. The Label, formed buy Oldham with the money he'd 
accumulated as manager/producer of the Stones , planned a special 
Britishblues series. Would Page produce Clapton ? Although the four 
tracks they went on to record are among the finest examples of British 
Blues from any period, the subsequent non-musical problems left Jimmy 
with a very bitter taste. "It was really quite a tragedy for me" he 
claims. Actually it was simply an early confrontation with the great 
music industry malady - greed.

 The tracks cut by Page at the Clapton session were Telephone Blues, 
I'm your Witchdoctor, Sittin on Top of The World and Double Crossing Time.

 "I have a theory that one of the tracks I did with Eric, Double 
Crossing Time, turned up on the John Mayall album, Bluesbreakers with 
Eric Clapton. I'm convinced that Mayall took that track away to Decca 
records and did a separate deal with them for it. He's a real 
opportunist. I'm Convinced it's the same track I produced with Eric. 
They simply put a new guitar track in the background. That's the 
impression I got"

 " Eric used to come over to my parents' house in Epsom and we'd jam 
together. We did some dirt recordings between the two of us on a small 
two track home recorder...mainly instrumentals with distortion and 
stuff. I happened to tell Immediate that I'd been doing some home tapes 
with Eric. Then Mayall and the rest of the Bluesbreakers signed to Decca 
and Clapton left Immediate"

 When the Decca signing was announced, Immediate contacted Jimmy and 
told him to deliver the Clapton home tapes to their offices - they'd 
been recorded the company said, while Eric was still signed to Immediate 
and therefore belonged to them. Immediate's intention was to release the 
home tapes on an album an idea which understandably annoyed Jimmy quite 
a bit. But Immediate insisted and forced Jimmy , who felt highly 
compromised anyway, to arrange the overdubbing of other instruments to 
give the tracks more depth and polish.

 Despite Page's continuing protest, Immediate released the tracks as 
part of a blues anthology. " The liner notes were even attributed to 
me," says Jimmy, "but only on the first pressing. I didn't have anything 
to do with writing them. And I didn't get a penny out of any of it. The 
whole thing was really quite a tragedy"

 Immediate also released tracks cut by the Cyril Davies All stars - 
material put down for a laugh by a group of musicians including Bill 
Wyman, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, Nicky Hopkins and Page. " 
They were just a few old songs we'd done for fun when the real session 
had finished," says Page. " Then Immediate hustled together those 
albums. I was really embarassed. I think everyone thought that I had 
somehow been responsible. Of course I hadn't"

 Clapton and Page recieved joint credit on the blues variation tracks 
done at Page's house, but Jimmy doubts that Eric saw any money either.

 Eric refuses to comment on this or any other part of his past. 
Presumably, he incorrectly , if genuinely, believes  that Jimmy was just 
another perpetrator in the great re-issue rip off conspiracy which had 
haunted his career.


  Conspiracy Theory indeed.  Ooh, good boot!