John Paul Jones Contributing Greatly To Led Zeppelin, John Was a Fan Of Jimmy Page

John Baldwin was born in Sidcup Kent on 3 January 1946, He started playing piano when he was six, learning from his father Joe Baldwin, a pianist and arranger for big bands in the 1940s and 1950s notably with Ambrose and his Orchestra, and His mother was also in the music business which allowed the family to often perform together touring around England as a vaudeville comedy act. His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus to the classical piano of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Because his parents often toured, Baldwin was sent to boarding school at a young age, He was a student at Christ's College Blackheath London where he studied music formally. At the age of 14 Baldwin became choirmaster and organist at a local church and during that year, he also bought his first bass guitar a Dallas Tuxedo solid body electric followed by multiple basses which he part exchanged until he finally bought his 1962 Fender Jazz Bass which he used until 1976. The fluid playing of Chicago musician Phil Upchurch on his You Can't Sit Down LP which includes a memorable bass solo, is cited by Jones as being his inspiration to take up the instrument. Baldwin joined his first band The Deltas at the age of 15, He then played bass for jazz rock London group Jett Blacks, a collective that included guitarist John McLaughlin. His big break came in 1962 when he was hired by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan of the successful British group the Shadows for a two year stint. Shortly before hiring Baldwin, Harris and Meehan had just had a number 1 hit with Diamonds. Baldwin's collaboration with the Shadows nearly prevented the future formation of Led Zeppelin, when the parties engaged in talks about the possibility of Baldwin replacing their bassist Brian Locking, who left the band in October 1963, but John Rostill was ultimately chosen to fill the position. It was during his time as a session player that Baldwin adopted the stage name John Paul Jones, This name was suggested to him by a friend Andrew Loog Oldham, who had seen a poster for the 1959 film John Paul Jones in France. He released his first solo recording as John Paul Jones entitled Baja, A Foggy Day in Vietnam as a single on Pye Records in April 1964. During his time as a session player Jones often crossed paths with guitarist Jimmy Page a fellow session veteran. In June 1966 Page joined The Yardbirds, and in 1967 Jones contributed to that band's Little Games album. The following winter during the sessions for Donovan's The Hurdy Gurdy Man, Jones expressed to Page a desire to be part of any projects the guitarist might be planning. Later that year The Yardbirds disbanded, leaving Page and bassist Chris Dreja to complete previously booked Yardbirds dates in Scandinavia. Before a new band could be assembled, Dreja left to take up photography, Jones at the suggestion of his wife asked Page about the vacant position, and the guitarist eagerly invited Jones to collaborate. Vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham joined the two to form a quartet, initially dubbed the New Yardbirds for the Scandinavian dates, the band soon became known as Led Zeppelin.
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[@zwastiunburzy3688]

John Paul Jones was the quiet genius that was the glue that held the multiple, fragile yet huge egos of Led Zeppelin together. And they never gave him his due. And they suck because of that. I believe they've made their peace with him now, but for a long time there, his massive contributions to the bands sound were by and large, maybe not ignored as such, but mostly buried under the giant egos of the rest of them, especially Plant and Page. 5:18

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He wasn't far off Jimmy with the instruments he specialized in, Bass, Keyboard etc In fact he could play anything!