“I always dreamed of playing Whole Lotta Love! I took 20 different fuzzboxes in with me. Finally, I get to play some metal”: Marc Ribot went into a session with Robert Plant equipped with Zeppelin-esque gear – only to find out it was a folk record

Marc Ribot plays acoustic guitar as he performs a solo set during the 11-hour 'Wall to Wall John Coltrane' marathon concert at Symphony Space, New York, New York, June 9, 2019.

If you could describe Marc Ribot's career with one word, it would have to be “storied”. The veteran electric guitar and acoustic guitar player made his start transcribing jazz solos, and earned $50 a session recording novelty albums for kids' characters, such as Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake.

Joining the eclectic outfit the Lounge Lizards in the ’80s opened up the doors that Ribot had relocated to New York for, and the move eventually lead to a long spell with Tom Waits. As Lounge Lizards bandleader John Lurie later wrote in his memoir, “Marc is a musical genius. So many ideas are coming out of that guy that it is actually often a problem.”