One of our “musical mornings” with the sounds of Led Zeppelin emanating from the stereo and the vocal chords of the great Boleskine 93, air guitar (or real depending on the motivation) and drums accompanying, of course. I love these mornings. Alive with the music and laughter always coming in bursts. Working on the computer, how can it EVER be too loud? The music fills every cell in my body and ignites and inspires by heart to beat with life and spontaneity. Some can’t think with the music on, I find it a happy, energizing way to begin the day. Light and carefree, releasing any stress that has been or shall be in the days preceding or to come.
So, Back to the music……
The question came up, “Have you seen Page lately?” Well, I hadn’t. Thanks to Google image search it was easy to remedy. The humanity of even guitar 
gods shines bright with the graying hair and wrinkles. (In comparison to the “walking dead” like certain members of a band still touring that I shall not name who I swear have already died, they just don’t know it yet. I think they are actually mummifying as they play. No time to gather moss I guess.) The gradual and graceful aging of those like Page bring into light our own mortality.
How many times have you looked up a star or someone you remember from childhood and they are maybe around your age or a little older and when you look at a current picture you realize how many years have passed? I have even looked at past stars and wondered how can I be older than Marilyn Monroe was when she died.
Some look pretty good for their age. *cough* botox*cough* and others, well, are the walking dead. (Damn good thing they survived all the drug use, eh? maybe that’s what preserved them?) In the end, the fact is that we are all human, guitar god or car salesman, Hall of Famer or internet flamer. The difference is how we are remembered (and by how many). For all time, it doesn’t matter how Page looks now or in 5 years. He will be mostly remembered by millions of past present and future like this:
If only we could all be so immortal. Long live Rock and Roll, Baby.
For more on the life and achievements of the great Jimmy Page, Go to laughinsam.com/SuperStars/Page.htm
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August 29, 2008 at 10:15 am
boleskine93
I cannot BELIEVE you wrote this. Jimmy is NOT OLD. He’s NOT I tell you. This is the man that gave Led Zep it’s LIFE. This is the man that owned Aleister Crowley’s home, Boleskine, on the shore of Loch Ness. How could you?! HOW???
August 29, 2008 at 10:18 am
naufragiobella
HISSS! Down boy! Oh I feel the pain of my own blasphemy!(sarcasm oozing) You’ll live, for now.
August 31, 2008 at 11:57 pm
eisbehr
The music and the man who brought it to us are timeless. Even you would admit the otherworldly etherality of Robert Plant’s voice. Not long ago Page dyed his hair. Zep’s rock was brutal bombastic truth on a steel platter. The fact that the surface has a bit of tarnish diminishes not it’s strength but reminds of of the strength beneath said blemish. Now i talk like Yoda.