Jimmy Page: Lucifer Rising

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Has someone heard Jimmy Page's soundtrack for the Kenneth Anger movie?
I'm very curious to know if it is worth of listening and it is possible to find somewhere...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought you were going to argue that Jimmy Page was the antichrist.
Very disapointed.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmh, sorry...Jimmy Page was just a well-intentioned apprentice.
The antichrist is hanging around here from a while and its name is Doris Day.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Death Wish 2 is better.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the actual soundtrack to Lucifer Rising is by Bobby Beausoleil. I don't think Page ever actually recorded anything. (And Anger subsequently put "a curse" on him).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Page did record 20 odd minutes of stuff and gave the tape to Anger. The Page soundtrack was played during one of the screenings of the film (maybe by Page himself can't quite remember)around 76 or so and from this came the vinyl bootleg of Page's rendering of the Lucifer Rising soundtrack. It's a blue vinyl album on Boleskin House records. It has some liner notes inside the record but I'm too lazy to go downstairs to dig it out but it does exist. Mostly Page playing guitar through an ARP synthesiser. A pretty amusing listen though I haven't dug it out in years and probably well worth hearing at least once despite the dodgy sound quality.

― dbva, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not believing it. can you scan or post a photo of the cover?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the art of google:

http://www.fact-index.com/l/lu/lucifer_rising.html

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Here 'tis:
http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities/ARjplucifer.html

Pretty slow download. If everyone on ILM clicks, will probably break internet.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

YA MIGHT SAY HE INVENTED DRONE

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

GUESS WHAT I HAVE A DVD COMING IN THE MAIL OF LED ZEP PERFORMING LIVE IN '79 SO FUCK YOOOOOZ I'LL HAVE IT BY THANKSGIVING GOD WILLING!

IN THE MEANTIME THE NEW WHO ALBUM IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE

DON'T MISS IT YOU IDIOTS

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Sunday, 19 November 2006 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

Definitely backwards masking in it, too. Some chanting I can't make out.

I'm pretty convinced the Stairway To Heaven thing was intentional and that it "slipped out" intentionally to boost sales. I mean, Page was a Crowley nut to the extreme of opening an occult bookshop named after Crowley's Equinox, republished Crowley's Goetia on camel hair paper just like the original, is the 2nd largest owner of Crowley art and books, and even owned his house for a while. Ya don't think he read the bit where Crowley suggested backwards messages to influence the subconscious mind?

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

is the 2nd largest owner of Crowley art and books

The 1st largest is a mere 5'2".

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

last time i downloaded this it was just the beausoleil soundtrack. last two times, actually.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 19 November 2006 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

try again

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago)

that link is def the page version based on the descriptions I've read of what he created for the film.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

This is actually pretty interesting -- it's droney guitar put through ARP (I guess) with Mellotron flutes and strings. Not exactly Outrider...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I thought. I listened to it twice last night. The only thing I don't like about it is that it's supposed to be evil. But, since all of LZ has that tinge to it, whatever.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know, man, if this is page it sounds like he realized he had to get it in the mail the next day and spent 30 seconds dicking around in the studio.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 19 November 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

30 minutes. it could be anyone, really.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 19 November 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds like his work to me. Plus there's the sound of the vinyl it was copied from and this was released as a vinyl single on Boleskine House Records BHR666. I suppose the vinyl sound could've been faked. Or it could be a really obscure band from the 70s. But, I tend to believe by the sound that it is Page's work. It sounds like Page and it sounds like something that might've pissed off Kenneth Anger, who said he basically delivered roughly this amount of nothing but drone.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.trocadero.com/MuseXX/items/364391/item364391store.html

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

You know I really should hear this. It occurs to me that one of my favourite bands, Crispy Ambulance, had a song called Lucifer Rising. In fact it was the only one of their old songs that they did again when they reformed. Also they were quite good at drone, themselves, I think ("Travel Time").

So yeah I am going to listen to this now.

― Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen (Bimble...), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

listening right now.

this is kinda creeping me out.

starts slow, but stick with it thru abt. the first five min. and it gets wiggy.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 November 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

around minute 14, jimmy invents trip hop.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 November 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

SASSY! You naughty boy! HAhhaahahah

― Only The Stones Remain (Bimble...), Sunday, 19 November 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

I will return to this thread in a good three hours when I've finally successfully downloaded the Jimmy Page WIGOUT.

― Only The Stones Remain (Bimble...), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

This is a pretty well known recording, guys, it's most certainly not a fake, it's been bootlegged dozens of times, and it's great (just not as great as Bobby's version)

― Juan Milius (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 20 November 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

Really enjoying this. Thanks for the link Bobby.

― def zep (calstars), Monday, 20 November 2006 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

My pleasure!

Speaking of Bobby, I just watched the Lucifer Rising film with Bobby BeauSoleil’s soundtrack over on Youtube. Bobby's is definitely better. It's well-composed "classical music" (I think that's what it would be called). While I dig Jimmy's, I think Anger's film is beautiful to look at and Bobby's music is certainly more beautiful and elegant and seems more suited to the film, as if it was actually scored. Page's sounds more sinister, which I'm not sure was the point of the film. "Lucifer Rising" actually appears to refer to redemption here, not a power grab or evil evocation.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 20 November 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

this music is dark magik

i feel like bad things are going to happen

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:13 (seventeen years ago)

There's an interesting new novel called Sway that is a fictional imagining of different narratives: the Stones up to death of Brian and Altamont, Kenneth Anger, and Bobby Beausoleil. Worth a read

― iago g., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

who wrote that, john shirley or mick farren?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

wha? the author's name is zachary lazar, pub'd by Little, Brown...most excellent book

― iago g., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)

j/k, the two dudes i mentioned have a habit of writing books based on dead rock stars.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)

ohhhh, that's ok...fictionalized or bios? this is "serious writing" of a sort, not at all trashy

― iago g., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:30 (seventeen years ago)

like sci-fi/horror fiction, i think, i've never read them.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Hello:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jimmy-page/lucifer-rising-and-other-sound-tracks-released-20th-march-2012/345362075499533

On March 20th, the Spring Equinox 2012, the title music for Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks will have its premiere and release.

The title music, along with other musical pieces recorded at my home studio in the early Seventies, have been revisited, remixed and released for the first time.

This is a musical diary of avant-garde compositions and experiments, one of which was to appear on the film Lucifer Rising.

The collection has been exhumed and is now ready for public release. This will be available exclusively on the website.

There will be a standard release on heavyweight vinyl.

In addition there will be a special run of 418 numbered copies. The first 93 copies will be signed and numbered.

There are liner notes and commentary to each track. The tracks are:

Side One
1) Lucifer Rising - Main Track

Side Two

1) Incubus
2) Damask
3) Unharmonics
4) Damask - Ambient
5) Lucifer Rising - Percussive Return

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:39 (thirteen years ago)

YES PLEASE

― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:44 (thirteen years ago)

!!!

― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:44 (thirteen years ago)

fuck yes

― plastic surgery dizbusters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:52 (thirteen years ago)

93 and 418 being the numbers of Aiwass, brrrr.

― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:07 (thirteen years ago)

What, pray tell, is a "Percussive Return"?

― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 16 March 2012 17:08 (thirteen years ago)

bongo jam

― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:08 (thirteen years ago)

albeit a satanic one

― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:09 (thirteen years ago)

fuuuuck

― Chris S, Friday, 16 March 2012 18:38 (thirteen years ago)

hailllll satan

― tylerw, Friday, 16 March 2012 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

man this albums scared me to my very bones

consider this jawn copped

― konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:59 (thirteen years ago)

<i>93 and 418 being the numbers of Aiwass, brrrr.

― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, March 16, 2012 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</i>

Also Jimmy the fact that yr dropping some deep mystical numerology satanic cryptic devil references in 2012 fills me w/so much joy I cannot even tell you

― konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:03 (thirteen years ago)

totally!^

― Chris S, Friday, 16 March 2012 19:11 (thirteen years ago)

debts to be paid amirite

― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

The only-once-seen bootleg version of this (damn you and your amazing record collection, Aar0n Dill0way!!) has been on my wantlist for twelve years. Add to motherfuckin' cart, dudes.

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 16 March 2012 20:54 (thirteen years ago)

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