Jimmy Page les paul #2

[rainsong86]

I see that Gibson is making his number 2 59... but I was wondering if this was the guitar that Page used with his violin bow... didn't he have an arched tune-o-matic on one of his 2 main les pauls?.. I don't remember whether it was his number 1 or number 2 that he did this with... I also remember one guitar made by Gibson coming with an extra, arched bridge

 

[j9fd3s]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

http://www.freewebs.com/wholelottaled/

 

[Diocletian]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Jimmy used so many different guitars I wouldn't worry about this stuff.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Yeah - we care about this why?

Extra arched bridge? WTF? Sounds like internet rumour.

I have played 79 LP with a cello bow. It sounded as bad as PAge. I have to assume normal bridge.

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

This signature stuff is ridiculously out of control. Blues lawyer fodder. Take this to The Gear Page.

- Keith

 

[GoDrex]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Ok

according to tim marten, a tech of page's in the 80's, they also tried to reshape the bridge to make it easier for bowing.

 

[Fikealox]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Yeah - we care about this why?

Obviously the OP cares about it. You might not, but noone forces you to read this stuff (or post).

This signature stuff is ridiculously out of control. Blues lawyer fodder. Take this to The Gear Page.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I swear, this forum is getting more and more catty.

 

[bobtrack]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Sorry to hi-jack this thread but on the whole lotta led page where they're talking about Les Paul #3 and they show a pic from the 02 reunion show, and I was wondering what the 3rd amp is? Is it one of his Hiwatts?

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I swear, this forum is getting more and more catty.

Naah, I just think manufacturers are going hog-wild with the signature series stuff. I'm sure if I charted the prevalence of signature products over time, it would be a hockey stick.

 

[tmmblues]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Perhaps we all just want a 59 LP…tobacco sunburst…cherry sunburst…Jimmy Page…Peter Green…Albert King…it doesn't matter which our fantasies fled

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Perhaps we all just want a 59 LP…tobacco sunburst…cherry sunburst…Jimmy Page…Peter Green

Got that right!

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

I see that Gibson is making his number 2 59... but I was wondering if this was the guitar that Page used with his violin bow... didn't he have an arched tune-o-matic on one of his 2 main les pauls?.. I don't remember whether it was his number 1 or number 2 that he did this with... I also remember one guitar made by Gibson coming with an extra, arched bridge

Think of this- Page didn't get #2 until... what... 75?

Most of Page's real bow work was done by... what... 70?

So figure, he was using the bow on the Tele and #1 mostly. The stuff on LZ1 is all the Tele- I can't think of any other studio recorded Page bowing stuff. (maybe the In The Evening intro)


I generally don't care about people going nutty for signature guitars... but for ****'s sake- Jimmy Page pretty much used 4 guitars for most Zeppelin stuff that matters. Over the course of 12 years. Yeah there's a couple of different things thrown in here or there- but there's gazillions of people that think Page used the "Jimmy Page Wiring" scheme in Led Zeppelin... #2 is the guitar with the switches on it... Even then, it was #2 not #1. The "Jimmy Page Wiring" scheme wasn't cooked up until 1994/5 or so... Has nothing to do with Zeppelin tones. You want a Jimmy Page sound, get a Les Paul (it doesn't have to be a Historic) plug it into an amp, crank up the highs, keep the bass around 8 and lower your preamp volume to 2 and the master to around 8. There you go.

 

[j9fd3s]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

Sorry to hi-jack this thread but on the whole lotta led page where they're talking about Les Paul #3 and they show a pic from the 02 reunion show, and I was wondering what the 3rd amp is? Is it one of his Hiwatts?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ficial&hs=lOC&q=petersburg+amps&aq=f&aqi=&oq=

 

[Diocletian]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

You want a Jimmy Page sound, get a Les Paul

I'm pretty sure a lot of his stuff, even the later stuff when he was using LPs all the time live, was done on a telecaster. Listening to it a lot recently, it just doesn't sound like an LP to me in a lot of places.

Chasing Jimmy's tone really is a race you're never gonna get close to winning. Zep's music was a lot more eclectic than people give them credit for.

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

His live tone is nothing short of desirable, though

I for one am happy that you can plug a gibson into an AC-30 and get a great page-esque tone. If you start playing Zep through it it'll probably sound good.

Personally I like having my setup a bit different that my guitar heros'. It's close enough that I can approach their tones but different enough to inspire me to be original. I use the basic idea of my fav guitarist's tone as a starting point for other stuff.

 

[WhoFan]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

they reissued his Black 57 custom, and his 59... can't wait until they get around to a PAGE Signature LP guitar that copies his 70's Back Up Les Paul that has the pancake body... not many people know his solid colour Cherry Red Les Paul he took on the road with Zeppelin was a refinnished 70's sunburst LP... he had it refinnished with that red top... later on he added the B Bender to it...

and not a lot of fans know Pages Number 1 had a 60's Gibson Humbucker in it... not an original PAF... at least from what i've read it has a 60's humbucker in the bridge

 

[j9fd3s]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

they reissued his Black 57 custom, and his 59... can't wait until they get around to a PAGE Signature LP guitar that copies his 70's Back Up Les Paul that has the pancake body... not many people know his solid colour Cherry Red Les Paul he took on the road with Zeppelin was a refinnished 70's sunburst LP... he had it refinnished with that red top... later on he added the B Bender to it...

and not a lot of fans know Pages Number 1 had a 60's Gibson Humbucker in it... not an original PAF... at least from what i've read it has a 60's humbucker in the bridge

that's right, i guess the original failed, and was replaced with a t-top, currently its supposed to have a duncan in the bridge and a non original PAF in the neck.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

"tried" to bend the bridge - AAhahaHahHhAhahHahahahHahHahHA. fail.

I'm just saying this sounds like utter internet ridiculousness. Pages sound is totally accesible by anyone with an Epiphone LP, a pair of 59's and any vox model setting.

I can't even begin to fathom what the cost of this monstrosity will be.

I'm not catty - I'm just saying every bit of sensibility in my says this is pure foolishness. And there is nothing wrong with foolishness...as long as you woke up and said "I think I'll be a dumb@$$ today." I've done it on occasion.

 

[WhoFan]

Re: Jimmy Page les paul #2

I'm pretty sure a lot of his stuff, even the later stuff when he was using LPs all the time live, was done on a telecaster. Listening to it a lot recently, it just doesn't sound like an LP to me in a lot of places.

Chasing Jimmy's tone really is a race you're never gonna get close to winning. Zep's music was a lot more eclectic than people give them credit for.

The whole Pressence album was a Strat according to Page in an interview done a few years ago around the 02 show... Page gave it to Jones in the late 70's... John Paul Jones gave that White late 50's strat back to Page as a gift when they started rehearsals for the 02 Arena show... Page is photographed with the strat in the article and he said he used that custom colour 50's strat a lot in the studio with Zeppelin... he also said he has no idea why he gave it away other then that there was a lot of drugs around the band at the time...

Page is also been photographed with a 2-tone strat in the studio recording Houses Of The Holy... and most people have seen the Lake Placid Blue strat he used on stage in the later days of Zep... but until i saw that article on that White strat i had no idea he had used a strat on Pressence

 

[Jeff5]

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From a purely marketing stand point I understand why Gibson does this. From an overall business stand point I have to wonder if the revenue from something like this justifies the considerable investment they have to put into it. It could, but I don't know. A guitar that expensive has to be targeted at a fraction of their customer base. From a guitar players stand point, I typically think that stuff like this is a rip off. (Obvioulsy there are exceptions, aka the Eric Johnson strat)