Barnsbury Boy - Bill Pitt-Jones: the Blue Rondos
Bill,
who was the lead guitarist on "Baby, I go for you?" On youtube there are suggestions it was Page.
James
Yeah a lot of discussion on the forums and media about that. Simple answer is Jimmy Page had been off his head with drugs for years when this was put to him, and I doubt he could recall how many days there were in a week.
He ruffled a lot of feathers claiming to have played on Kinks, Who and other band’s works.
The lie gets compounded by the release of the (Bootleg?) C.D. 'Jimmy Page's Back Pages' containing all the said songs.
Yes he was a session musician for Joe Meek playing on many of his productions.
NO. He wasn’t yet good enough to play on any of our stuff. We had Roger Hall and Micky Stubbs already in our line up, and if needed we could always call up our old GOBB buddy Steve Howe - also a Joe Meek Artist & three good reasons why I ditched guitar to play Bass.
Check out the albums of Micky Stubbs' later band, ‘Home'. Home, Pause for a Hoarse Horse and (probably the first ever concept album) The Alchemist. Micky wrote everything including ALL the guitar work performed by Laurie Wisefield (Later Wishbone Ash) and Cliff Williams (Later A/C D/C) if your into prog rock (I'm not) you will love it.
Baby I Go For You was a 'B' Side written by Joe under an alias. Thus making him as much money on record sales as did the 'A' Side. We considered the song an absolute joke and had no time for it ..BUT.. you did NOT upset Joe Meek. SO... We CAMPED IT UP! We did every thing we could think of to make a 'Mum wouldn’t like it' Rock’n’Roll cliche. Hence the booming Bass and chaotic guitar solo. Joe LOVED it. Thirty years later during reunion gigs we were amazed to learn that - because of more internet misinformation - younger people believed The Blue Rondos were part of the Punk movement and the record featured prominently in the Californian Punk revival scene of the 1990s because of that bootleg C.D. I just wish I could get some royalties from it.
In the words of the then Prime Minister, The Duke of Wellington, ''Print and be damned!''
Only Please make it clear that the solo was definitely played by Roger Hall (I didn’t realise I’d omitted his name in the email).
Bill Pitt-Jones
From Dave Davies, The Kinks.
Another thing that has galled Davies for years is Jimmy Page's claim that he, not Dave, played the guitar solo on 'You Really Got Me'. "He must have said that when Led Zeppelin were riding high and there was a lot of dope being taken," Davies said. "You start to think you are invincible or something. You think you invented the guitar itself. He must have said it in a moment of ego madness. Who'd want to play a solo that crazy anyway? Only Dave Davies could do that."
Buddy Seigel, L.A. Times, April 39, 1997
http://www.kindakinks.net/misc/articles/latimes.html
who was the lead guitarist on "Baby, I go for you?" On youtube there are suggestions it was Page.
James
Yeah a lot of discussion on the forums and media about that. Simple answer is Jimmy Page had been off his head with drugs for years when this was put to him, and I doubt he could recall how many days there were in a week.
He ruffled a lot of feathers claiming to have played on Kinks, Who and other band’s works.
The lie gets compounded by the release of the (Bootleg?) C.D. 'Jimmy Page's Back Pages' containing all the said songs.
Yes he was a session musician for Joe Meek playing on many of his productions.
NO. He wasn’t yet good enough to play on any of our stuff. We had Roger Hall and Micky Stubbs already in our line up, and if needed we could always call up our old GOBB buddy Steve Howe - also a Joe Meek Artist & three good reasons why I ditched guitar to play Bass.
Check out the albums of Micky Stubbs' later band, ‘Home'. Home, Pause for a Hoarse Horse and (probably the first ever concept album) The Alchemist. Micky wrote everything including ALL the guitar work performed by Laurie Wisefield (Later Wishbone Ash) and Cliff Williams (Later A/C D/C) if your into prog rock (I'm not) you will love it.
Baby I Go For You was a 'B' Side written by Joe under an alias. Thus making him as much money on record sales as did the 'A' Side. We considered the song an absolute joke and had no time for it ..BUT.. you did NOT upset Joe Meek. SO... We CAMPED IT UP! We did every thing we could think of to make a 'Mum wouldn’t like it' Rock’n’Roll cliche. Hence the booming Bass and chaotic guitar solo. Joe LOVED it. Thirty years later during reunion gigs we were amazed to learn that - because of more internet misinformation - younger people believed The Blue Rondos were part of the Punk movement and the record featured prominently in the Californian Punk revival scene of the 1990s because of that bootleg C.D. I just wish I could get some royalties from it.
In the words of the then Prime Minister, The Duke of Wellington, ''Print and be damned!''
Only Please make it clear that the solo was definitely played by Roger Hall (I didn’t realise I’d omitted his name in the email).
Bill Pitt-Jones
From Dave Davies, The Kinks.
Another thing that has galled Davies for years is Jimmy Page's claim that he, not Dave, played the guitar solo on 'You Really Got Me'. "He must have said that when Led Zeppelin were riding high and there was a lot of dope being taken," Davies said. "You start to think you are invincible or something. You think you invented the guitar itself. He must have said it in a moment of ego madness. Who'd want to play a solo that crazy anyway? Only Dave Davies could do that."
Buddy Seigel, L.A. Times, April 39, 1997
http://www.kindakinks.net/misc/articles/latimes.html