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I am just curious. is there's photos or something about George and Jimmy friendship? because Robert Plant has said something in one interview:

http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/38/Robert+Plant-Mali,+2003

Banning Eyre: Were you ever tempted at the time when you were discovered that music in Morocco to bring your vast audience along?

Robert Plant: With Led Zeppelin, from the beginning to the end, we touched on the music of Morocco and India. And being English, I was surrounded by people of India and Pakistan from the beginning of time. So we were very aware of that and Jimmy Page's work and relationship with George Harrison from the Beatles and our links through Ravi Shankar with musicians in Bombay, we recorded some amazing stuff there in '71, it was always there in our hearts--"Kashmir" and songs that came out of the ether. We weren't following in anybody else's footsteps. We were just playing the way we felt. But to take an American or English audience into this, it's just

[BlueMeanie]

He may well have known George through his friendship with Eric Clapton, though I don't think they ever performed together, live or in the studio.

He may well have known George through his friendship with Eric Clapton, though I don't think they ever performed together, live or in the studio.

well yes it's truth. Clapton had even stated that his best friend was George, though I don't know if George has said that too. also I know Page used some chords from The Beatles "something" into Led Zeppelin "the rain song". which is also cool.

I don't know if this thread will ever be interesting, but here's some more with Jimmy and George:

from: http://www.iem.ac.ru/zeppelin/docs/interviews/page_93.gw

  GW: So the indian music was your influence?

  Page: Lets put this way; I had a sitar before George Harrison, I wouldn't say
      I played it as well as he did, though. I think George used it well.
      "Within You and Without" is extremely tasteful. He spent a lot of time
      studying with Ravi Shankar, and it showed.

      I actually went to see a Ravi Shankar concert one time, and to show you
      how far back this was, there were no young people in the audience at all
      -- just a lot of older people from the Indian embassy. This girl I knew
      was a friend of his and she took me to see him after the concert, she
      introduced him to me and I explained that I had a sitar, but did not
      know how to tune it. He was very nice to me and wrote down the tunings
      on a piece of paper.

also a good sentence from a Page about The Beatles:

   GW: Although your playing styles were different, you and Jimi wee similar in
    that you both tried to achieve these great aural landscapes.

   Page: Well, there were a lot of people going in that direction. Look at the
      Beatles. Here was a band that went from "Please Mr. Postman" to "I am the
      Walrus" in a few short years.