Terry Reid?

1/1/2016

While breaking in as a college DJ the fellow who was teaching me the ropes suggested I play a Terry Reid record. I gave him a quizzical look as I had never heard of Reid. My tutor gave me a sour look and shook his head as if to say 'you really don't know anything do you?' I put an album called "River" to a track called "Live Life". From the first notes I became a life long fan of Terry Reid.
Terry's big claim to fame is the fact he was asked by Jimmy Page to become the lead singer for The New Yardbirds soon to become Led Zeppelin. Jimmy turned Page down and suggested Robert Plant. Reid went on with his solo career while Plant Page and crew went on to make history.
From the 1973 album "River" the track "Live Life".

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unome2L

1/13/2016 08:05:48 pm

I don't know if it got made, but I read something about a film biography of his life. I'd watch that.
He and Plant do sing in the same vocal range, but if LZ went with Terry, they never would have had their "Golden God," (ha!) Page does a few things acoustically on the 12-string that make me think he was also listening to Terry's acoustic playing.

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