{"id":1235,"date":"2013-03-27T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:32:52","slug":"totally-guitars-presents-a-conversation-with-jim-page-part-1-a-little-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/interviews\/totally-guitars-presents-a-conversation-with-jim-page-part-1-a-little-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Presents &#8211; A Conversation With Jim Page Part 1: A Little History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Presents - A Conversation With Jim Page Part 1: A Little History\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tCzA1OuVteQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Totally Guitars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/onlinelessons\">Totally Guitars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seattle based songwriter\/guitarist dropped by TG Central recently and we sat down for quite a while and talked about a bunch of things. <strong>Jim first came to my attention because of a lesson we put up here at TG<\/strong>, <a title=\"Ivory Salamander - Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/1\/4523-busted-down-around-oconnelly-corners-guitar-lesson\">The Ivory Salamander<\/a>, aka Busted Down Around O&#8217;Connelly Corners, as it was titled on the Doobie Brothers album The Captain And Me.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Jim and I were taking lessons in Los Gatos in the late 1960s from the same teacher, Alan Beilharz. Our paths never crossed then due to a few years age difference and he was firmly planted in a bustling music scene in town that included the likes of Pat Simmons and Jorma Kaukonen, along with many other great, albeit less known players.<\/p>\n<p>This 13-part series covers a lot of territory and includes Jim performing some great songs.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 of our conversation started with just a little <strong>comparing notes about our past and how our paths almost crossed<\/strong> 45 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Conversation With Jim Page Part 2: Some Old Songs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/totally-guitars-presents-a-conversation-with-jim-page-part-2-some-old-songs.html\">Watch Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle based songwriter\/guitarist dropped by TG Central recently and we sat down for quite a while and talked about a bunch of things. 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Our paths never crossed then due to a few years age difference and he was firmly planted in a bustling music scene in town that included the likes of Pat Simmons and Jorma Kaukonen, along with many other great, albeit less known players.<\/p>\n<p>This 13-part series covers a lot of territory and includes Jim performing some great songs.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 of our conversation started with just a little comparing notes about our past and how our paths almost crossed 45 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[1068,1070,1069,1067,298,1071,29,178],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-alan-beilharz","tag-busted-down","tag-ivory-salamander","tag-jim-page","tag-jorma-kaukonen","tag-pat-simmons","tag-totally-guitars","tag-totallyguitars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Totally Guitars Presents - A Conversation With Jim Page Part 1: A Little History - On The Beat with Totally Guitars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/interviews\/totally-guitars-presents-a-conversation-with-jim-page-part-1-a-little-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Totally Guitars Presents - A Conversation With Jim Page Part 1: A Little History - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seattle based songwriter\/guitarist dropped by TG Central recently and we sat down for quite a while and talked about a bunch of things. 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