even the great John Miles had been instructed to be a copy of Plant and write standard stuff to please MTV … yet with a Page finally in great shape, the October and November months of that 1988 OUTRIDER tour they were thrilling … a musician finally back in full control of his instrument … “ The first dates of the tour (as often happened with Page are not very good from the guitar point of view, Page still seems to be behind in the preparation, but then things change (especially from late October and in the rest of the tour you will have the best Page since 1973, a Page that not even the 1993 tours with Coverdale & Page and the 1995/98 tours with Page & Plant will see again.