Robert Jimmy
Here is part of an interview about the journey to Morocco as told by Robert, that I used in my Knebworth story during one of Jimmy's memories.
Plant and Page's journeys took them on pretty dangerous routes, especially in view of the growing tension between Spain and Morocco which was bubbling-up at the time. "One day we had lunch with a local police chief and received his blessing before travelling on, and we showed him on an old map where we wanted to go.
"He called round one of his friends who was a tourist guide and the guide told me and Jimmy he had been that route once in his life but wouldn't go again because he was a married man. We still went, driving for hours and hours and the further south we went, the more it seemed like a different country. Gone are the people who can take the back pocket off your Levi's without you knowing it, and you're into a land of nice, honest people who find a Range Rover with Bob Marley music very strange.
"Wet tried to get down as far as the Spanish Sahara at the time when the war was just breaking out. There was a distinct possibly that we could have got very, very lost, going round in circles and taking ages to get out. It's such a vast country with no landmarks and no people apart from the odd tent and a camel.
"We kept reaching these army road blocks where we'd get machine guns pointed at us and we'd have to wave our passports furiously and say we were going to bathe at the next beach. Then we'd go on thirty miles to another road block and claim we were going along to the next beach again.
"We wanted to get down to a place called Tafia which is not very far from the border of the Spanish Sahara. We got, as far as we could but eventually the road got so bad we had to turn back."
And here is part of an interview with Robert talking about Jimmy for Singformebaby.
what about Jimmy Page’s reputed pact with he Devil?
"Jimmy had his moments when he played his games, but none of them with a great deal of seriousness and through his own choice he never really tried to put the story straight. Now maybe he’s fully aware of the fact that it’s gone on a little longer that it needed to. If you’ve heard nothing from the actual individuals for so long, then anything’s possible.
"It was the fun element: Pagey liked the idea of being considered man of mystery. He really should have been a San Francisco version of Simon Templar, hiding in shadows and peeping round corners. He got some kind of enjoyment out of people having the wrong impression of him. He’s a very meek guy, shy to the point where sometimes it’s uncomfortable. But he let it all go on; and it’s his choice whether it all continues. It’s not up to me to start saying the guy plays cricket."
Plant and Page's journeys took them on pretty dangerous routes, especially in view of the growing tension between Spain and Morocco which was bubbling-up at the time. "One day we had lunch with a local police chief and received his blessing before travelling on, and we showed him on an old map where we wanted to go.
"He called round one of his friends who was a tourist guide and the guide told me and Jimmy he had been that route once in his life but wouldn't go again because he was a married man. We still went, driving for hours and hours and the further south we went, the more it seemed like a different country. Gone are the people who can take the back pocket off your Levi's without you knowing it, and you're into a land of nice, honest people who find a Range Rover with Bob Marley music very strange.
"Wet tried to get down as far as the Spanish Sahara at the time when the war was just breaking out. There was a distinct possibly that we could have got very, very lost, going round in circles and taking ages to get out. It's such a vast country with no landmarks and no people apart from the odd tent and a camel.
"We kept reaching these army road blocks where we'd get machine guns pointed at us and we'd have to wave our passports furiously and say we were going to bathe at the next beach. Then we'd go on thirty miles to another road block and claim we were going along to the next beach again.
"We wanted to get down to a place called Tafia which is not very far from the border of the Spanish Sahara. We got, as far as we could but eventually the road got so bad we had to turn back."
And here is part of an interview with Robert talking about Jimmy for Singformebaby.
what about Jimmy Page’s reputed pact with he Devil?
"Jimmy had his moments when he played his games, but none of them with a great deal of seriousness and through his own choice he never really tried to put the story straight. Now maybe he’s fully aware of the fact that it’s gone on a little longer that it needed to. If you’ve heard nothing from the actual individuals for so long, then anything’s possible.
"It was the fun element: Pagey liked the idea of being considered man of mystery. He really should have been a San Francisco version of Simon Templar, hiding in shadows and peeping round corners. He got some kind of enjoyment out of people having the wrong impression of him. He’s a very meek guy, shy to the point where sometimes it’s uncomfortable. But he let it all go on; and it’s his choice whether it all continues. It’s not up to me to start saying the guy plays cricket."