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100 Greatest Guitar Solos: 38) "Whole Lotta Love" (Jimmy Page)

Posted 10/28/2008 at 4:08pm | by GuitarWorld Staff Member

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“I used distant miking to get that rhythm guitar tone,” says Jimmy Page. “Miking used to be a science, and I’d heard that distance makes depth, which in turn gives you a fatter guitar sound. The amp was turned up very high. It was distorting, just controlled to the point where it had some balls to it. I also used a depressed wah-wah pedal on the solo, as I did on ‘Communication Breakdown.’ It gets you a really raucous sound. The descending riff that answers the line ‘whole lotta love’ was created using slide and backwards echo. Backwards echo has been used a lot now, but I think I was the first to use it.”

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mulefan33

November 12, 2011 at 11:32am

Back when I was 15 years old this was one of our songs, I played lead and when my solo came up I started jammin, to my surprise I did really well(thats what my friends told me anyway?) It sure was fun! http://guitarlessonsneworleans.com is a site i'm working on..

jibran_pcc

May 28, 2011 at 3:58am

he descending riff that answers the line ‘whole lotta love’ was created using slide and backwards echo. Backwards echo has been used a lot now, but I think I was the first to use it.”kim