Jimmy Page's best performance of 'White Summer'

Led Zeppelin at Royal Albert Hall (January 9, 1970)

Source: Led Zeppelin (2003)

[dkendr]

As someone once said, "For those who know, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't know, no explanation is possible."

[wackattackjack]

Jimmys awesomeness aside, gotta be the best advertisement for danelctro ever.

[NoradNoxtus]

So many hints of oriental influences, other string instruments, other cultures. Page's depth was unending.

[damonm.]

Sitting at work and talking to coworkers about Top 5 guitarist. He told me to check out Jimmy's White Summer this is great.

[rdhudon]

Most people don't know that he is using a 1963 Danelectro 3021 and that was a guitar you would buy your kid to learn on . Brilliant musicianship .

[Alex-xqjx]

I put this on for my 5 year old daughter and her three cousins and they watched without saying a word. When it finished I said 'How cool was that!' One said 'He has pretty hair.' I asked 'Did you like the song?' and they all said it was like magic. Thank you James Patrick Page! :)

[TheDCcity]

This is why Clapton will always be wrong about Page. Page could play sweet harmony and melodic tones, but he could also give you the raw thrash that your heart desires. Clapton never could get that raw intensity that Page could. IMO Page is way better than Clapton. RIP Claptons Hands

[JohnSmith-clsq]

Page is a genius and especially with open tunings

[marcusberns]

We have to remind ourselves how lucky we are to have this footage saved for all time. Currently massively grateful to see this legend in his prime in an age decades before my own

[jacdale]

I saw Page do this in December, 1968 when Led Zeppelin was a warm up band for Vanilla Fudge.

[RossBayCult]

Jimmy Page and John Bonham live in 1970. Still listening 50 years later in 2020.

[katenkaren]

My husband played this song.
Rip Mark..love you

[LaserGuidedWhitehaus]

I missed The Yardbirds almost entirely; I was too young and, moreover, completely removed by a gulf of distance from world culture, having been born into a remote and isolated industrial backwater plunked into a dark, cold and endless Canadian forest. But thanks to a friend's older brother, I was there for the inception of Led Zeppelin, on vinyl at least; and from that moment on, THAT music (the first SIX albums) was probably the most important thing in my life, from 1969 through 1975, at which point I rejected the past and my life and my origins, and I moved away from home and never returned. And I sold those records, maybe for other records, maybe for food. But it's only now that I begin to truly understand the importance and lofty achievement of Jimmy Page, completely aside from rock and from fame, and his place in the world alongside Davey Graham, and the traditions of English folk music, and Gnawa, and south Indian classical music, and the exodus of musical cultures from north and east Africa, by way of the rural south in the United States, and a host of other influences, and how he, in his own original ways, carried these holy grails forward. I'm learning how to play some of these things on the acoustic steel-string guitar now, and it raises my spirit to find myself come full circle. The end is the beginning.

[andypcochran]

54 years ago .... today! I've been listening to this tune for over 30 years.

[axd]

Jimmy doesn’t play notes. He creates a feeling

[todanceonbrokenglass]

I have now witnessed my end musical goal

[joefowler]

The one person that didn't like this are you out of your mind man

[DScott-pcrd]

I find it so great that Jimmy Page originally performed this with the Yardbirds, and then continued to play it through many performances with Led Zeppelin! Shows how much Jimmy cherished this piece. Led Zeppelin FOREVER!!!

[Treebeard]

This was one of the first things I saw as a kid that made me want to play guitar.

[Ixemile]

Live on Jimmy's 26 birthday !
And what a present he just got us