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Near the end of the movie, you all play Zeppelin's In My Time Of Dying. Jimmy, did that come from you?

Page: It did. We were playing bottleneck steel, and I wanted to see how it would go. I thought it could be quite interesting. I think they kind of knew it.

White: That came out of us playing some slide songs. We had played Bullet The Blue Sky and it built into this crescendo, and it just kind of came up to play that one. Jimmy taught us how to play it. There was a real connection happening at that point.

"He just went roaring into this bottleneck lead, and it was really trippy to hear him play so off-the-cuff and do it so well" Jimmy Page on The Edge playing In My Time Of Dying

Edge and Jack, it almost seemed as if you two were a little tentative at first, as if you were pupils at the feet of the master. But then, Jimmy, you seemed to give them this little signal that said, "Go for it," and then suddenly they started playing in their own unique styles.

Page: Well, that would have been the natural process of us all coming together and saying "hello" on the stage and knowing there was going to have to be some musical delivery. But Davis wanted to get a real meeting of the minds, and it turned into a real organic thing.

I have to say, it was great to hear The Edge play that song. He just went roaring into this bottleneck lead, and it was really trippy to hear him play so off-the-cuff and do it so well.

Edge: It was fun to delve into. There's moments where you're trying something out and you think, This is how it goes, and then, suddenly, music happens. That's what happened there. It was great.

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Want to read more of this interview? Of course you do! Then be sure to pick up the September 2009 issue of Guitar World, on sale now.

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