Jimmy Page Performs ‘Rock and Roll’

Jimmy Page made his first live appearance in four years at an awards ceremony in Seattle on Thursday.  The guitarist, who was collecting the EMP Founders Award at the Experience Music Project, joined a host of musicians including Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Free and Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers. Check out the clip of the group performing Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” below.  For the entire night, the party line was that there was absolutely no way that Jimmy was going to perform. No matter that this event, a benefit show held at Seattle’s Experience Music Project Museum, was built to honor the guitarist; Page’s people insisted that he wasn’t going to take part in the festivities.

Jimmy Page, who recently completed an extensive remastering project of Led Zeppelin’s back catalogue, is reportedly planning to pursue a “new project.”

“The one thing I haven’t been seen to be doing recently is playing guitar,” he said. “So now I’ve got the opportunity to put all my drive into playing the guitar and working out what way to present myself next.” “I think it’s safe to assume that will be a new project. I don’t know who with yet because I haven’t had a chance to work on it, but I’ve got material that’s written I want to revisit and well, it’s an exciting time.”