Ten Years Gone

This is a video of Jimmy page jamming some Zepplin Graffiti with the Black Crowes. It’s almost like watching an old English school master deferring to his pupils. In a way it’s sad that he could do a better version of this song with the Crowes than with the remaining members of Zepplin. This is one of my favorite guitar songs. Its really quite easy to play after you have mastered about a third of the Zepplin collection. One of the tricks is drop D on the fat E string. The song is all in A and the main verse is a moving line on two strings- D G with the rest of the strings left open. The solo is really jazzy but it really just a bag of tricks. Three string minor chord blocks on the high strings and some minor key pull offs. Lots of octaves and double stops. Think chord solo, very simple single string bending-lot’s of fun. It’s taken’ me twenty years to get it a third of the way down.

Watching this video makes me feel old but looking at Jimmy makes me feel young. I am leaving this cesspool and moving towards the great beyond. In a way I feel healthy-released after dipping into the cesspool. It feels wonderful.