Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - Happy Birthday Jimmy Page 🎂 Why Led Zeppelin Still Moves Me After All These Years

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

Fan MailA great guitar line doesn’t just fill a room—it changes the air you breathe. To honor Jimmy Page at 82, we share a personal tribute to the craft, presence, and lasting influence that turned a late discovery into a lifelong compass. This isn’t a timeline tour; it’s a lived account of why certain Zeppelin tracks still stop us cold and how Page’s choices—tone, space, tension—taught us to listen and to create with care.We start with the spark: finding Page after Zeppelin had ended and realizing the music still felt immediate. From The Rain Song’s elegant swell to the tender haze of Tangerine and the kinetic joy of Celebration Day, we explore what makes these songs work on the inside—arrangement, dynamics, and that producer’s ear living inside the guitarist. We push back on tired myths about playing Stairway backwards and look at a different kind of devotion people rarely question. Along the way, we talk study rituals set to low-volume Stairway, why melody can carry you through bad days, and how a single riff can reframe your mood.Then we move beyond Zeppelin. The Firm with Paul Rodgers, later collaborations with The Black Crowes and David Coverdale—Page keeps reinventing without losing his center. We break down the stage command you see in live videos: the stance, the grin, the bow on strings, and the way he listens to the band in real time. The throughline is a blueprint for creativity—respect the craft, build tone like architecture, let the song breathe, and aim for work that outlasts the moment.If Page’s music has ever steadied you, this tribute is for you. Press play, revisit your favorite performances, and tell us which track proves his genius. Subscribe for more artist spotlights and leave a review with your go-to Page moment—what song still changes the air for you?Music My free gift to the company Show endSupport the showContact [e-mail]

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Aritina Sarne, thank you so much for joining me. for a very brief moment. And I did say brief because I don't want this to take forever. Things I have to say about Jimmy Page does not take all day. Well, actually it could take years to really complete, but I do have some things I want to say about the man, Jimmy Page. And what exactly drew me to his great music? Um, I'm on location right now, so I've already told everyone, hey, if you want to talk, talk,

if you want to say something, say something. But there would be a few noises in the background. Yeah, it will be. But for the most part, I just want to pay tribute to the great and wonderful James Patrick Page. I'll be right back. Okay. Hey, welcome back over to June this morning for my Jimmy Page tribute. Now, this is his birthday today, so every year I celebrate in one way or the other.

Some days I just go through the whole day just playing nothing but Jimmy Page music, nothing but Zeppelin music, nothing but the firm music band set Jimmy Page was a part of Plant Page. I'm going to give me your words to me, except your Pallant Page, you know, what he was doing stuff with Robert Platt. But for the most part, I do play a lot of Zeppelin, and I want to tell you how I came about becoming a fan of Jimmy Page. Sure, she was before my time. By the time I learned of Jimmy Page, what Zeppelin had broke up, but it was his art, his music, his style that drew me in as it draws so many in, you know, like I say. So a little bit about Jimmy Page.

I'm not going to go through too many of the details. You have to go and check out a podcast that I did about four years ago, where I went in detail. I dive deep into his musical history. I think that was about four years ago when I did that for his birthday. So you have to kind of go back into some of my older podcast, find that. You'll notice it under Jimmy Page's birthday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This time I just want to speak briefly. You know, I don't want to take up a whole lot of your time. But if you are your fan,

I'm sure you are celebrating today just as much as I am right now. A little bit about Jimmy Page, just a little bit. James Patrick Page was born on this day in 1940. making him today 82 years young. Jimmy Page is an English musician and producer. He achieved international success through many bands, but basically as one of the co-finders of Led Zeppelin, along with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones and John Bonham. and before that we all know that

Jimmy Pace was a part of many, many different bands specifically Eat the Yard Birds with Jeff Beck. Yeah, so he'd go back a little, he'd go back quite a bit. He has quite a library of great music artistry. He's such a great, great musician. And that's why so many people, you know, and so many people find,

him quite amazing. I think it's the word. Maybe that would be quite the word I was looking for it, but let me have a little bit of something to sip on. And I think I want a little bit of my pineapple juice. I love pineapple juice. I'll just hold on a second, please. One second.

Mmm. I love pineapple juice. Gosh. Water first. then pineapple juice. Okay. Oh, then tea. Tea, of course.

In my own words, what did Jimmy Page mean to me? Well, Jimmy Page, again, I learned about him. I guess I probably was listening to him and didn't even know it when I was a really super little kid. And my sister, Lori, and I grew up listening to rock and roll music. But I didn't really get into Jimmy Page until later. later, later, later on, you know, in life. I know a lot of people say stuff, like, I'm sure some people are going to listen to this and say,

oh, but you know, if you play stairway to heaven backward, and I do like the song, I love the song, Starway to Heaven, if you play Starway to Heaven backward, it has a, it has a satanic meaning to it. And, you know, one guy says, said to me one day. He said, oh, my understanding, you like Jimmy Page, but do you know, da, da, da, da, da. I mean, here's going on and I'm saying a lot of things. And I was like, oh, my God. The same guy, as he was telling me that, he said, I just wanted to tell you that. And I,

and I wanted to talk to him more. I went to delve deeper into what he was talking about, all he was trying to say, because I always try to listen to people what they're saying, trying to at their point of view. The guy told me, he said, we could talk a little bit more later about what I think of Timmy Page and in Sterwood Heaven. The song played backward. He said, but right now I got to go and I'll take out my football game. Check out his football game. And this is the same guy that said, you cannot make stars an idol. And this is the same guy that said, I don't believe in Christmas. This is the same guy. But he, he, he, He told me, he said he got to go.

He said, I get back with you after my favorite football team, you do playing. And I didn't go into detail with him, but I said, I said, football? He said, yeah, I got to go. He named out his team. I think it was to Houston somebody. And he said, I got to, I can't miss my football. I got to get my football in. It's my favorite team.

And I ask him one more question before I let him go. I said, do you bet on the games? He said, no, I don't bet on the games. He said, but I would die. I would lose my arm or I lose my whatever if I miss one of the games every Sunday. Meaning that he worshipped that team and worshipped the players on that team. That's exactly what it meant. But yet the same guy was trying to tell me that if you play zero way to have him,

even back where you hear satanic messages. What I wanted to know from him, but he never got back with me because he was so caught up into his game, his football game, as he called it. You know, I don't, one thing I don't get is why people got to sit around and judge other people. I don't, I don't get that. openly he told me that he would get back with me after he watched his football game. He said that there is not a Sunday that go by that he got to see his game. Nothing comes before that game. Yet you're the same person that's sitting here telling me that if I play stairway to heaven backward,

I'm going to hear a satanic message in there. And I'm thinking to myself, what kind of messages are, am I getting from you if you cannot miss that football game? People got a double standard here, a total double standard. And I mean that because they're saying, I've had some of my sisters and some of the people say, I don't believe in Christmas. Just cut me down.

I don't believe in Christmas. But some of these same people will sit back and they would sit back and talk about people, have bad things to say about people. You know, you know where I shop? I shop right online, right from the comfort of my own home. At Duna's Perception. For the latest, in fashion, clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, and so much more. Shop www.com.com.com.com.com.com.

Govade your vision. Tell them I sense you. Two wrongs don't make no right. So I'm wrong, but you're right. I don't think so. Not if you all caught up into that. If you're not walking this straight and narrow, and I know very people that did that or that is doing that,

if you're not walking straight and narrow, please don't be out of your trying to take. tell other people what to do and how to do it. Don't do that. I had to say that because I do like Stairway to Heaven. I do like listening to Stairway to Heaven. And I know that people like this guy. Like this guy.

He owns a big church. He owns a big church that I think of about two or three hundred members, I believe. and he teach against all rock and roll music, all music practically. And I'm trying to figure out, but he can teach against music but not the football. Okay, not your favorite team or not your favorite player. Okay, they're your idol, but you don't teach against that. Okay, I get you. I got you.

Yeah, I got you. I love Jimmy Page. I love Led Zeppelin's music. And one of my favorite songs by Zeppelin, love, I really do love Star Way to Heaven, but one of two of my favorite songs by Let Zeppelin is Celebration Day. I love how Jimmy dances around on stage and celebration. Excuse me, I love how you dance around a stage in celebration. And I love, thank you.

It's a beautiful song. But then I can go on and on and say, well, I love tangerine. Tangerine. Tangerine. Liminary reflection from a tree. Oh, I said, oh, she was my queen. And now a thousand years between. I love the way rubber plant just kind of smooth that right on now. But, you know, Chimmy Page has been a lot.

to me in my life. Again, when I play Stereway to Heaven, for those of you out there who's not going to try to come against me and debunk anything, when I play Stereward Heaven, I use it as sometimes, I used to use it as a study music.

I really did. When I was studying for a test, when I was going through some nurse classes back in the day, when I was studying, I would put Scarwood to Heaven on. I would play it first, and then I would just have it very low in the background, playing very low

in the background. And it really took me right through my study without a shadow of a doubt. So, in my own words, what Jimmy Page means to me, and I cannot speak for the masses all across the world. What do you mean to me is a musician, who really took and take his craft very, very seriously.

You know, as a songwriter, as a musician, as a bandmate, you know, as a legend, as an icon, I behold him, and I'm like, this man is amazing. He's amazing. And some of my favorite music by Jimmy Page after Led Zeppelin, I love what he did with Robert Plant, you know, Plant Page. I love what they did together because they were still performing Led Zeppelin music. One of my, and I forgot to mention this, one of my very, very favorite songs why Led Zeppelin is the Rain song. The lyrics to that song is so powerful and the things that Jimmy is doing on the guitar and it's just so beautiful.

I love that's so many of my growing. I love that song. There's so many Zeppelin songs that I love. I had to go back to that for a minute. But outside of Zeppelin, I love the music that Jimmy Page did with Paul Rogers, the firm. They made a few albums together before they kind of went their

separate ways, but they made a great body of music. It was a little short span of time, but one of my favorite songs is tear down the walls. Oh my God. I love that song. She was pretty as a picture. She was sharper than a boat graph. She was everything I needed. And a smile on the way. She left. You got to go watch the video but tear down the walls. Jimmy Page and Paul Rogers with the firm. You've got to watch

that video and see all the different moves. All the different moves that Jimmy make. He got this presence on stage that totally command you. The only thing I hate is I never got

the opportunity to see Zeppelin as a kid because I was I was a baby practically. So I never had a chance to see Zempleyn alive. I never had a chance to see Jimmy Page live. But watching his videos and watching him perform on stage is just, can you sort of magical without people saying, oh, my God. It's totally magical watching Jimmy Page on stage, perform on stage,

the way he moved. Just like taking you back to the song's celebration. the way he moved in that song, you know, because it was, I think it was on their movie, the song remains the same. Check out the song's celebration. Check out the way Jimmy moves. He command the entire stage. And then he started a movie. Then he started to the movie across the stage.

Just even to this day, he's 82 years old today. even to this day Jimmy Page got this presence on stage and he's performed with many bands Black Crows David Carvedale I mean he's performed with so many

different artists and bands it's unbelievable and he always command the stage always even at the age that he is 82 years old Jimmy Page is awesome on stage.

Even when he's teaching guitar, even if his videos, I sit there and watch his videos and I'll watch how he sit there and play and how he teach. And how I'm just sitting there like a little kid watching his videos and just taking in every single word, he says. Every single word.

See, what I am drawn by when it comes to music, is the art itself, is the music itself, is the lyric itself. And I'm not one of those that sit back and say, oh, that's the devil right there. Because if that's the devil, certainly you get into your basketball or your baseball game or your football game. What is that? You ain't going to miss that for the world. So I'm going to keep bringing that up because I got to keep bringing this up what Jimmy Page means to me. You know, and I really adore this man.

I'm not going to say I worship him because I don't worship nobody, but the Lord. But I do adore him a great deal. I really admire what he has done, did in music. He had left a blueprint for musicians to follow in people who like his music like myself, who's a singer. I can listen to him on guitar and it inspires me to be just a cut above the rest, just be my best. You know, I can play Stereway to Heaven and if I'm having a bad day, and this is so true, if I'm having a bad day I put on Stairway to Heaven, I feel better. I don't feel much better.

And that's why I say I do adore Jimmy Page. toward the things that he bring and has brought to music, which is why I wanted my tribute to him to be just slightly different than most tributes are. People are doing different things around the world, the way of celebrating him. And again, if you want to get a deep, deep dive into all the music, all of its different bands and songs, and you have to go visit my other podcast that I did, I think he's about four years now. It's about four years ago.

So you got to go check that out. My podcast that I did of Jimmy Page. But I love him. I absolutely love Jimmy Page. I love his music. I love his music. I am so glad that he was born on this day, 82 years ago, January to 9th. 1984, making him 82 years old today.

And I'm really glad that he was born because he has brought so much to the table. He's built his own table practically, you know, because so much to live up to all the different musicians out there that love his music, that adore him, that play his guitar, that play his songs, all the bands that he's worked with, all the artists he's worked with. And of course, Zeppelin, who was before my time, but it was great. They were before my time, but I can go back and listen to a Zeppelin song right now. And it takes me right back in time. And when I say before my time, I got to say the fact that I like movie stars from way before my time,

like from the 30s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s. So I love Zephyl's music because of Jimmy Pays. And I love also Adore Robert Plant too and John Paul Jones, I want to say. But I want to go ahead and say this because I might be missing this out if I don't say this. You guys remember when Hart did Starwood Heaven for the Kennedy Center? Remember that a few years back? And Wilson just, ooh, hit a home run. And to see the faces of Robert Plant with tears in their eyes,

Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, to see them there enjoying that music, enjoying heart, do you start away to heaven. And, oh, God, it was so perfect. It had the choir in the background. And to see Jimmy Page's face, I love when he gets so excited that he's so excited, it's like he can't be still. He gets so excited. Jimmy Page gets so excited that he cannot be still.

He just, you guys have seen that before that side of him, but he just, he just, oh God, you want to get up, he want to do something, you know. I love that about him. And like I said, taking my mind back to the song celebration from the song remains the same. He's just all over the place. Jimmy Pace, even at this age, is phenomenal. He's a great, great guy. He's a great musician.

He's a great producer. He's a great innovator. He's a great, he's a genius. And I am so happy that he was a part of Zeppelin. I'm so happy that he was born this day in 1944, January 9th. I'm so glad. I'm so glad. Because I love what he has brought to music.

You know, this blueprint that he has left, this legacy that he has put out there, you know. And I'm not saying that we can never live up to it. It's just the fact of just following in his footsteps and just playing the music, singing the music in my case, singing the song. And the only thing, I just, I'd never met him before. I'd never met him before. But I'm going to tell you right now, his music has really, has done a lot for me in my lives.

Again, if I'm having a bad day, and I know people would say, are you kidding? When I'm having a bad day, I'll play Starway to Heaven. If I'm having a bad day, I'll play the Rain song by Zeppelin, and it makes me feel better. And I just want to thank Jimmy Page for all that he has brought to music. I want to thank him. Because without his music, without his great artistry, and without his music, I would not be doing some of the things that I do. So I want to take this moment. That's why Jimmy Page, in my own words, my tribute is totally different again for

anything that I've created in the past, it's different from whatever else is doing out there today. This is in my own words and what it meant me and has meant to me. And for me, I don't know if you'll ever hear this. I don't know.

But I want you to know that. I appreciate what you have done for music has done for music. I appreciate it. I appreciate the songs that you co-wrote or wrote. I appreciate all the bands that you were a part of. I appreciate just everything. I appreciate the blueprint that you have left here for us to go by,

the musicians, the singers. I appreciate that. I thank you for that, Jimmy. And again, I don't know if you'll hear this. You might hear this. You might just hear this. I don't know. If you do or if you don't, it does not matter.

Well, it matters if you hear it. Woo-hoo. But if you don't, somebody's going to hear it. And this is a tribute to Jimmy Page in my very, very own words, because he's meant so much to me, so much. And I just thank him for everything he's brought to him. music. Happy birthday to me. Happy 82nd birthday. You know, they say you're always as young as you feel. I can't tell by the age with the things that he can do on guitar or the productions that he has created or the books he wrote or co-wrote or whatever. I'm just so happy to be here now being

able to tell this story and talk about Timmy Page. So happy birthday, Jerry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That was some music in the background. But I just want to thank you so much for all the music you were brought to the public. And keep up the great work, Jimmy.

I love you. Okay, that concludes another great broadcast. Thank you so much for joining. me for Regina Swaring Audio Series. If you like to be a part of this series, please send me an email at Swarineregina at gmail.com. I want to thank all of my wonderful friends, fans, and guests for being a part of this show. Most of all, I'd like to thank the Lord. Until the next time, take care of yourself and be safe.