If Jimmy Page did biological research

[FuzzWatt]

I'm almost ready to buy into that "pact with the devil" craziness -- in 1977, nobody thought Jimmy would be around 45 years later, nor to have aged so well as to play the "rock's elder statesman" role.

I don't know much about Page or his personal life, though I do love Zeppelin - but I seem to remember reading an interview of his long ago wherein he talked about how he always viewed booze and drugs as synonymous with rock n roll, which explains his Zeppelin days - but that once the band was over he was able to just turn that off and move on with living clean because he wasn't part of that lifestyle anymore.

 

[kuch]

He would have written more songs about bacteria, plants, and animals.....

 

[ndcaster]

In an alternative universe

Acetylation Breakdown
Babe I'm Gonna Leaf You
Bramble On
When the Membrane Breaks
RNA to Heaven

 

[Ed Driscoll]

I don't know much about Page or his personal life, though I do love Zeppelin - but I seem to remember reading an interview of his long ago wherein he talked about how he always viewed booze and drugs as synonymous with rock n roll, which explains his Zeppelin days - but that once the band was over he was able to just turn that off and move on with living clean because he wasn't part of that lifestyle anymore.

It took Page quite a while to detox. According to Stephen Davis (I know, I know), he quit heroin during the American ARMS Concert Tour in 1983. He was still drinking pretty heavily throughout most of the 1980s, but he dialed that back by the early 1990s. Smoking took a while longer -- he was still smoking at times on the Page & Plant tours of the mid-1990s.