Track Listing

1. Wasting My Time
2. Wanna Make Love
3. Writes of Winter
4. Only One
5. Liquid Mercury
6. Hummingbird
7. Emerald Eyes
8. Prison Blues
9. Blues Anthem (If I Cannot Have Your Love...)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42600 in Music
• Released on: 1996-03-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing packaged in a paper sleeve. Universal. 2008.

Customer Reviews

MOTTSIDER
For those dogs that like their Led Zeppelin without any frills, this is the bone for you. Years after the tragic end to Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page released Outrider to very little fanfare, but if guitar rock is your thing, then this is definetly one for you, not a single keyboard used, and don't let that fool you into thinking the sound isn't full, think again this is Mr. Jimmy Page we're talking about here. Jason Bonham occupies the drum stool for seven of the nine tracks, and a more than adequate job he does of it to, you can never compare two musicians fairly, but let us just say that his father would have been more than proud. To these floppy ears it's the instrumentals on the album that really take the biscuit, showing the likes of Eric Johnson & Kenny Wayne Shepherd how to play with flash but keep it interesting. Although all the songs sound as if they have been recorded by a band who've known each other for years, actually Jimmy uses 2 drummers, 3 bassists & spread over the 6 vocal tracks 3 vocalists, the very underrated John Miles (he of "music" fame) handles the first brace with his usual aplomb. Chris Farlowe ("Tears Go By", Atomic Rooster & Colosseum) takes the final curtain calls, when he engagingly stutters his opening delivery of "I've be a b-b-b-b-b-bad b-boy and I've been a bad boy all night long" you can actually hear him smirk & wink over Page's bleeding electric guitar, of course after this the lyrics descend even further into bloke rock, and the guys seem to be having the time of their lives. The final vocalist used is of course Jimmy Page's old sparring partner, Percy himself Mr. Robert Plant, and it's a credit to the other two that this song is not the stand out track of the album, I think that has to go to the 12-bar of "Prison Blues", if Mott could get his paws round a guitar neck, this is the way he'd play guitar, with legs astride, head thrown back, in front of 250,000 screaming women. As in the last quote this album may be a little self indulgent, but they sure don't make albums like this anymore, and to make sure it was just right Jimmy Page even produced the whole thing himself. If you still not convinced, try lending an ear to Jimmy Page's latest release with the Black Crowes where he revamps his old Led Zeppelin Catalogue as well as bashing through some old chestnuts. Listen & Believe. Mott the Dog.

He's smokes on this album....
All right, anytime there is a review of Jimmy Page you have to tread lightly, especially the post-Zep stuff. Well, I'm here to tell you that this album is very, very tasty. Great chops displayed here throughout, any serious fan of Zep or Pagey's playing needs this in their collection.

I don't know what it is, but the man has the tone of the ages, my favorite for sure. Wow. This album is worth it for Prison Blues alone, and I'm seeing it for sale used at .99 cents, come one! No brainer. Prison Blues is blues as only Pagey can play it, "somewhere left of heaven" as Plant described it once.

Great to hear Plant and Page together on one song as well. Highlights for me are Prison Blues, Emerald Eyes, Liquid Mercury, and the Plant and Page collaboration The Only One.

Play this loud, you won't be disappointed. Check out The Firm albums as well, and while you're at it pick up The Black Crowes collaboration with Pagey. Thanks Jimmy, we love ya!

Worth the price for a couple of fantastic tunes:
"Prison Blues": Absolute blooooze; very slow, great singing by Chris Farlow with Page doing his usual Page-esque, dirty bends and cramming fills. And the great song "The Only One", featuring Jason Bonham and Robert Plant on drums and vocals, respectively.

Some can take or leave the other cuts on the album, but bear in mind this 1988 effort featured a theretofore unheard-of collaboration between Page and Plant, and excellent drumming by Bonham's son. Some of you might remember: In the late 80s, this was incredible--nobody thought there'd be a coming-together of these talents again after Zeppelin disbanded.