Lunch With Anyone
Posted on | May 19, 2008 |
If I could have lunch with anyone in the world (that I haven’t already met and/or had lunch with) to pick their brain, it would be Jimmy Page. Actually, I think I’d like to time travel back to about 1974 (putting me at six-years-old) and have lunch with that Jimmy Page.
If you think that a mastering engineer would want to find someone more erudite to chat it up with over lunch, think again. To me, Jimmy Page embodies the perfect mix of raw musical talent, breakthrough utilization of technology, production chops, and overall mystique to make one person that I still wish I could meet.
I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of talented/smart/famous people in my day: Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Nicolas Slonimsky, Herbert F. York, Doug Sax, and Joseph Heller. But, somehow, Jimmy Page seems like bits of all of them rolled up into one person.
I mean, who else was hip enough and smart enough to play Orange amps and a Theremin, produce some of the most groundbreaking rock albums ever, use a violin bow on a Les Paul, and kick ass on acoustic guitar? Not to mention writing some of the heaviest song riffs ever. I mean, The Immigrant Song…absoutely criminal.
So, that’s my lunch-with-anyone wish…just in case JP is reading. 
(Oh, and the only regret I have on my list of famous people is not stopping Kurt Vonnegut to talk as we crossed paths in a Bridgehampton bar in 1995.)
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