http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP1cG4Wqanw

This concert was on December 2, 1983. It was a charity concert given at the Albert Royal Hall for research into Multiple Sclerosis. Ronnie Lane hosted this concert (bassist for The Small Faces) who had the chronic, inflammatory disease himself.

This segment features Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page (all ex-Yardbird guitarists) doing "Stairway to Heaven".

Page is evidently in the pits of his heroin addiction....

That was like watching a bunch of guys playing Guitar Hero.

I was at that....it was pretty depressing. Page's problem during that time was Cocaine and not Heroin. Page had looked a lot worse at times during the later years of Zeppelin.


I give you his infamous picture from 1977.





Anyhoo, the only way he would agree to play Stairway is without a vocalist.

I saw a good many in the audience crying as they watched and heard him playing.

They would later all tour with Paul Rodgers and that would lead to the creation of The Firm.

i like when he drools on himself after about 4 and a half minutes of playing the freaking same 4 chords.

I remember talking to a roadie on the Outrider tours and asked him about Page. His words: "He still drinks like a fish and does a lot of blow."

I think sometime after this concert, he dropped about 118 stone and went into a coma where he almost died. He was always dangerously underweight. I think, if I remember correctly, when Richard Cole (Led Zeppelin's tour manager) found out that a member of Led Zeppelin had died he thought it was Jimmy. Poor guy.




Yeah, I remember reading that too. Evidently after John Bonham died, he didn't pick up a guitar or anything. I think this is his first public appearence since 1980.

Hell if I didn't know any better I'd think it was Izzy Stradlin!

sad and depressing, but he is still out there and performs this and that is what matters the most... At least in my opinion...