When Ozzy Osbourne’s crew invited Jimmy Web page to seem on the singer’s upcoming album, the Led Zeppelin legend didn’t take up the supply.
Chad Smith, the drummer connected to Osbourne’s now-completed report, prompt final week that Web page “didn’t play a lot anymore” and that was why he didn’t settle for the invitation. However in a brand new interview with Classic Rock, Web page’s cautious dialogue of a solo challenge appeared to supply an alternate suggestion: that he was specializing in a challenge of his personal.
“There’s varied issues I’m working in direction of,” he stated. “It’s not only one factor, it’s a number of issues, and I don’t wish to even give a touch, as a result of for those who do … you give a one-sentence sound chunk, after which if it doesn’t materialize, it’s like: ‘Why didn’t you do a solo album?’ So I don’t wish to say what it’s that I’ve acquired deliberate, as a result of I don’t wish to give individuals the possibility to misread it.”
He was in all probability referring to a number of experiences in recent times that appeared to recommend new Web page music was imminent. On a number of events over the previous decade, he is stated he needed to be “seen to be enjoying” guitar in public once more, and he assured followers can be “getting stuff from Jimmy Web page.”
In 2020 he stated the pandemic had renewed his dedication to return to the stage. On the identical time, there arose one other indication of why he might have rejected Osbourne’s strategy. “I’ll by no means be a kind of individuals who’ll report alone and ship somebody a file,” he asserted. “I by no means went into music within the first place to try this – it was for taking part in collectively.”
Regardless of wanting to maintain his playing cards near his chest, Web page did supply a number of morsels of knowledge within the new interview. “I actually can’t placed on report what the brand new report is,” he stated. “I’ll go away it to your creativeness. The factor is there are such a lot of methods I might current myself proper now. Really, not proper now. I’ll rephrase that: inside an area of time!”
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