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

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.