# The 1970 Byrds album Jimmy Page physically couldn’t play: “Quite amazing”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-1970-byrds-album-jimmy-page-physically-couldnt-play-quite-amazing/
- Published: 2026-10-23T16:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T16:30:16+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-byrds-album-jimmy-page-physically-couldnt-play-quite-amazing/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Page was astonished by Clarence White’s playing on *Untitled*.
- White used a StringBender to create distinctive guitar parts.
- Gene Parsons gave Page one after a Byrds performance.

## Summary

In a 1986 interview, Jimmy Page said Clarence White’s guitar playing on the Byrds’ 1970 album *Untitled* amazed him and included parts he felt he could not physically play. The story matters because it shows how a celebrated guitarist was challenged by another musician’s distinctive technique.

White used a StringBender, a mechanism developed by Gene Parsons and White that altered the guitar’s pitch. After seeing the Byrds perform in Dallas, Page received one from Parsons and fitted it to a Fender Telecaster, broadening his approach to guitar playing.

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