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| Jimmy Page joined the Black Crowes onstage in London, Wednesday, July 13. They played "Shake Your Moneymaker," a blues by Elmore James they last played together on tour over a decade ago. YouTube: brenotube |
London, where many of Page's post-Led Zeppelin gigs have taken place over the past 31 years, on Wednesday night solidified his intention to make a comeback of sorts.
Wednesday's gig was at Shepherds Bush Empire, a venue where Page might remember sharing the stage in March '98 with Robert Plant, during the tour in support of new material on an overlooked album but whose live sets focused on Led Zeppelin hits from another era.
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| Singer Chris Robinson marvels as Jimmy Page plays one of the first guitar solos of a long-awaited and crucial phase of his career, his coming out of retirement. YouTube: dsrc18 |
With the Black Crowes, the very group with which Page embarked on his last tour just over a decade ago, he entertained Shepherds Bush on a blues standard, Elmore James's "Shake Your Money Maker."
Meanwhile, fans who've been aware of an imminent change to Jimmy Page's official site, www.jimmypage.com, prepared to check in on the hour, every hour, until something changed.
Kool-Aid drinkers believed Page would come out of retirement, in one way or another, when, 24 days ago, a daily countdown of Roman numerals first appeared on Page's site alongside an active sandglass.
