Regardless of being well into his late 70s, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page has a whole lotta projects — Ozzy Osbourne's new solo album just isn't one of them.
In a new interview with Classic Rock, Page dropped some nuggets about what he was up to, and why he refused to feature on the Black Sabbath bandleader's new record.
"There's various things I'm working towards," the guitarist told the publication. "It's not just one thing, it's multiple things," he said, going on to explain that he didn't want to say too much about what he's working on. "I don't want to even give a hint, because if you do, you give a one-sentence sound bite — and then if it doesn't materialize, it's like, 'Why didn't you do a solo album?'"
"So I don't want to say what it is that I've got planned," Page continued, "because I don't want to give people the chance to misinterpret it."
Even when pressed to elaborate, the legendary musician kept tight-lipped: "I really can't put on record what the new record is. I'll leave it to your imagination. The thing is, there are so many ways I could present myself right now."
He revised: "Actually, not right now. I'll rephrase that: within a space of time."
As for collaborations — or lack thereof — with contemporaries like Osbourne, Page revealed a resistance to the whole practice of working together remotely.
"I will never be one of those people who'll record alone and send someone a file. I never went into music in the first place to do that; it was for playing together."
In an ongoing pandemic, getting in a room together has been increasingly difficult, especially for these gentlemen of a distinguished age. You can't blame Page for wanting to err on the side of caution, or not having the bandwidth to add another project to his plate. Or maybe this was meant to be a big Osbourne diss! Who knows!
Osbourne confirmed that the follow-up to 2020's Ordinary Man — which he started plotting right after the last release in February 2020 — would be soon on its way in an Instagram post earlier this week.
He reportedly asked Page to feature on the new album alongside the likes of Metallica's Robert Trujillo, Eric Clapton, the late Taylor Hawkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, with Smith claiming he doesn't "think [Page] plays anymore" [via NME]. Dark-smelling perfumer Tommy Iommi is also set to appear on Osbourne's new album, so it sounds like the whole operation didn't collapse too badly when Page turned them down.
In a new interview with Classic Rock, Page dropped some nuggets about what he was up to, and why he refused to feature on the Black Sabbath bandleader's new record.
"There's various things I'm working towards," the guitarist told the publication. "It's not just one thing, it's multiple things," he said, going on to explain that he didn't want to say too much about what he's working on. "I don't want to even give a hint, because if you do, you give a one-sentence sound bite — and then if it doesn't materialize, it's like, 'Why didn't you do a solo album?'"
"So I don't want to say what it is that I've got planned," Page continued, "because I don't want to give people the chance to misinterpret it."
Even when pressed to elaborate, the legendary musician kept tight-lipped: "I really can't put on record what the new record is. I'll leave it to your imagination. The thing is, there are so many ways I could present myself right now."
He revised: "Actually, not right now. I'll rephrase that: within a space of time."
As for collaborations — or lack thereof — with contemporaries like Osbourne, Page revealed a resistance to the whole practice of working together remotely.
"I will never be one of those people who'll record alone and send someone a file. I never went into music in the first place to do that; it was for playing together."
In an ongoing pandemic, getting in a room together has been increasingly difficult, especially for these gentlemen of a distinguished age. You can't blame Page for wanting to err on the side of caution, or not having the bandwidth to add another project to his plate. Or maybe this was meant to be a big Osbourne diss! Who knows!
Osbourne confirmed that the follow-up to 2020's Ordinary Man — which he started plotting right after the last release in February 2020 — would be soon on its way in an Instagram post earlier this week.
He reportedly asked Page to feature on the new album alongside the likes of Metallica's Robert Trujillo, Eric Clapton, the late Taylor Hawkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, with Smith claiming he doesn't "think [Page] plays anymore" [via NME]. Dark-smelling perfumer Tommy Iommi is also set to appear on Osbourne's new album, so it sounds like the whole operation didn't collapse too badly when Page turned them down.
