Page Jimmy – Jimmy Page founder of Led Zepplin
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Page_Jimmy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grant_(music_manager)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Page
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/752453
Page Jimmy is a lowly page in Abbey Road. He longs to be a full-fledged Knight one day. His master is Peter of the Grant. One of the Quests Jimmy sends you on is called “In Through the Out Door.”
After his master is slain by the Horned Brocket, Matkis Axetheif, Jimmy sends the Wizard to recover two sacred axes, the Less Paul and the Greater Paul.
Peter Grant (April 5, 1935 – November 21, 1995) was an English music manager, best known as the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their breakup in 1980. With his intimidating size and weight, confrontational manner, and knowledge and experience, he procured strong, and unprecedented, deals for his band, and is widely credited with improving pay and conditions for all musicians in dealings with concert promoters. Grant has been described as “one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history”.
James Patrick Page OBE (born January 9, 1944) is an English musician who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Page is prolific in creating guitar riffs. His style involves various alternative guitar tunings and melodic solos, coupled with aggressive, distorted guitar tones. It is also characterized by his folk and eastern-influenced acoustic work. He is also noted for occasionally playing his guitar with a cello bow to create a droning sound texture to the music.
Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as “the pontiff of power riffing” and ranked him number three in their 2015 list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”, behind Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. In 2010, he was ranked number two in Gibson’s list of “Top 50 Guitarists of All Time” and, in 2007, number four on Classic Rock’s “100 Wildest Guitar Heroes”. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995).
Jimmy Page purchased his “Number One” Les Paul Standard in 1969 from Joe Walsh, who was in the band James Gang at the time and later became a member of the Eagles. When Page received it, the neck had already been shaved down to a thinner profile. It has been Page’s main axe (musician slang for primary musical instrument) throughout his career, used in every Led Zeppelin performance and recording from 1969 to the 2007 reunion and in his post-Zeppelin work with the Firm and others. It remains in active use today as his primary guitar.
In Through the Out Door is the eighth and final studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
Lefty Fretz has a really good article on why guitarists refer to their instruments as an “axe”.
The current list of all the (known) Avalon references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references, I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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