The Untold Story: Exploring Jimmy Page's Top 5 Iconic Guitars
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Five of Jimmy Page's most iconic guitars, and stories behind each one of them.
00:00 Intro
00:33 1961 Danelectro DC-2 3021
03:35 1960 Gibson Les Paul Custom
06:59 1971 Gibson EDS-1275 Doubleneck
08:57 1959 Fender Telecaster "Dragon Tele"
12:21 1959/1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard "Number One"
15:07 Outro
Correction: 03:05 "Black Side Mountain" not "Black Mountain Side"
Correction: 05:09 A 1960 Les Paul Cstuom would actually have a 3-way switch.
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Narration provided by 11labs. - Навчання та стиль
The Dragon Tele has now been repaired and repainted. Jimmy got it done around 2019 when Fender then released custom shop models of it in Mirror and Dragon form.
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No one EVER mentions the T-Top detail about the #1 LP. Bravo!
It's all over guitar forums.
Fantastic documentary!! Especially enjoyed the info on the Danelectro, always been a favorite of mine.
Great vid - nice info and production - keep em coming!
Happy birthday to the man Jimmy Page... 80 yrs WOW!! My favorite easily .... 🤘🏼
😍 Love the depths of Jimmy’s guitar picks, licks😛etc., Thrills, chills & Love forevermore 🎸🥁🤹🏻♂️🎹 🥰
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Corrections:
At 03:05 - should say "Black Mountain Side" not "Black Side Mountain".
At 05:09 - a 1960 Les Paul Custom would have a 3-way switch, not a 5-way one.
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Me Jimmy used a Gibson Flying V through a Leslie Organ Amp. The guitar 🎸 was left in the studio from the day’s before session from a prior band.
Don't forget, the Tele was used for the solo in Stairway. Led Zep 4. You can hear the guitar on PG tracks, too. Single coil.
I can watch guitar history stories all day long. This is fantastic.
nice data my friend!!
thanks
thank you great work
Excellent work, Thank You!
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Gee ,sorry to hear about the Dragon Telecaster..OMG. The EDS doubleneck was legendary. Jimmy put his own stamp on that Gibson axe single handedly with his live performances...I remember also the guy from Argent using one in the early 70s but he was never doing the things JIMMY was doing with it......I never realized Jimmy's prize Les Paul Standard was from Joe Walsh to be honest....If guitars had sentient personalities which reacted to who their owners were going to be I think that Les Paul standard would have been BEAMING....lol ....With the Les Paul, did Jimmy do his own modifications on the instrument or could it have been done by luthier Hugh Manson ?....Of Manson guitars. Especially the idea of the push pull pot with reverse phase or single coil options. You see, I know Hugh did some work for Jimmy as he did with John Paul Jones and Hugh incorporated a lot these push pull pots on a lot of guitars he built for me in the 1980s and 1990s.
As far as I'm aware, Steve Hoyland did the mods for him on both his #1 and his #2 Les Paul. I agree that there a chance that Mason had done something for him too, and I see that Jimmy is mentioned on his website, but I can't find about what specifically. Maybe he built the three neck mandolin?
Edit: my bad, it appears that was Andy Manson, Hugh's brother.
@@groundguitar Yes....Andy works in Portugal now I believe. He builds custom Acoustics. He made a beautiful Bluebird Acoustic for me in 2002.
Im a BIG Jimmy Page fan! Thanx. Yes I read the story of the Danelectro resurfacing in Guitar ( Player?) Mag after 47 years. Know what else resurfaced? ROLLING STONES Scarlet from 1973- issued during The Lockdown 2020. Thanx!!
Nice work. Thanks
Actually Jimmy joined the Yardbirds as a Bass player. He occasionally played rhythm, then he eventually became lead for the Yardbirds.
This is correct as Paul Samwell-Smith was the original bass player who quit, so Jimmy came on as a substitute bass player since Jeff Beck was filling the role of soloist.
And as you noted, later the Yardbirds would feature both Jeff and Jimmy for a short time before Jeff's departure.
JP has such a beautiful voice and accent,very old-fashioned somehow,I find it really soothing to listen to.
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Jimmy, a world treasure. Joe Walsh is too.
The Lord of the strings. Period.
The first time I met Jim he turned up at IBC without a guitar and used a very nice red Telecaster borrowed from an engineer as a try out with a view to buying it. After the session he handed it back saying nice guitar but too dear. Asking price was £80. Later in '66 I was at Decca No2 when he turned up with the Danelectro. I swear it was all white. They were about £45 new at the time but this was second hand and he said he picked it up for £30. Well it would have been second hand if it was a '61 model. Jim was a great guy, very easy to get along with, but I got a distinct impression that he was shrewd with the pennies.
He didn’t get the nickname Led Wallet for nothing.😂
@@andyg6967 I hadnt heard that but its fits him well.
FYI: Page did not use the doubleneck for Celebration Day live. The '59 Les Paul was used for that and many others.
I'd never heard of a Lahze Paul up until now.
...wait... it must be sold in the same shops as the Dane-electro
@@didpip Yup, the shop's called Guitar Centor
Les Paul
GROUNDGUITAR, Jimmy Pages guitar tech said that Page SWAPPED the neck and bridge original pickups which gave it a very different sound when using the middle position on the Les Paul. He used this sound on most of his studio albums. Try to find out more about it to make a video lesson about it
I always wondered what happened to his dragon telecaster. I had no idea…with friends like that who needs enemies?
Yes, a real BOTCH job. I heard that Ritchie Blackmore suffered a similar disaster that Jimmy did with the Tele.....This guy thought he was doing Ritchie a favour by sanding down the fingerboard on one of his prefered Strats during the early 1970s Purple days. But this guy sanded so much wood off the fretboard that the neck felt too shallow for Ritchie to feel comfortably playing ANYTHING on it...Jimmy must have been really upset. Understandably.
I really wish I could see what was done to the guitar, but as Jimmy explained - he never showed it publicly, at least not tin that state. Also I must admit I made a mistake and didn't point out that he did restore the guitar around 2019, but when was first doing all this research on his guitars, which was around 2016, that was obviously not the case.
@@groundguitarthey showed a few photos of the body of Jimmy’s tele when the reissues came out. Looked like it was stripped back to natural. The photo’s also revealed that there was an extra magnet on the bottom on one of the pickups .
It'd be cool to see a video of Pete Townsend's arsenal. This was great!
You should do Joe Perry
No mention of the cherry red Les Paul that Jimmy can be seen playing "Whole Lotta Love" in TSRTS before switching to the main Les Paul for the "Boogie Chillun" medley section of the song. Presumably that is the same guitar that was fitted with a B-bender and was used by Jimmy for his 1988 _Outrider_ tour and through his 1990's tenure with Page/Plant.
I was lucky enough to meet Jimmy in 2014 and spoke to him about the stolen Les Paul Custom,at that point it hadn’t resurfaced and he was still upset and pissed off about it getting nicked,he must’ve been mega chuffed to get it back.
He played kashmir on the danelectro
The modification of the Les Paul was done in the 70s not the eighties. You can hear it on some live tracks and studio tracks. Also, per Jimmy Pages own book, the bridge pickup wasn't fully working during the Australian tour of 72 and he sent it to Bill Lawrence in NY to repair and he put it back in the Les Paul.
From what I've heard Jimmy said himself, he first modified the #2, and then realized he liked the out-of-phase switch and decided to add it to the #1. I can't find any conclusive info on when the #2 was modified by Steve Hoyland, but no one ever mentions the 70s - it's usually in the 80s. Do you have any reliable sources that prove that it was the 70s? Would really to get to the bottom of this, as the opinions differ so much.
I have the Swan song logo” Icarus” tattooed on the outside of my right calf. My brother did the tattoo with a homemade tattoo gun years ago. I get a lot of compliments on it when I wear shorts
JIMMY HAS TOLD THE STORY OF THE TELE.
it’s not about Jimmy page, but i heard a story that bonham got a double kick set or was gifted one, and he would just be thumping the kicks non stop and their manager at the time took bonham aside and said if you don’t get rid of that kick i’ll take you out back and break your legs. not sure how true it is, but i thought it was funny
Bring it on home was the black custom 4 sure!!!
SIR Pagey that’s a “WHOLE LOTTA LOVE” of Joe Walsh’s gift to you.
He forgot about the "chet Akins country gentleman" guitar that he first Acquired
Moral of the story: when you're a rockstar people will gift you guitar
It’s a lot cheaper to be rich
The custom lespaul had 3 way switch
Oh it did indeed. My mistake on that one. I'll add a pinned comment to point it out. Thanks!
Bigsby VIBRATO. Vibrato is a shift in pitch, tremolo is a shift in volume. Leo Fender was not a musician and reversed the words, possibly to just be different. Although the Stratocaster's Vibrato does lift the strings away from the pickup as it is lowering the pitch so it does have a slight tremolo effect as well(which is why Kahler style vibratos are preferred by many).
I’ve been playing guitar for 40 years , even though I know the difference between vibrato and tremolo , the Stratocaster will always have a trem , saying strat vibrato just sounds weird
@@valley_robot 😆
@@valley_robot Stratocaster Vibrato, Stratocaster Vibrato, Stratocaster Vibrato. Sounds fine, sounds correct. 😃😄😅
I love when an AI voice tells me all about Jimmy Page
Hay man, we can't all have radio voices. I remember watching your channel btw at some point, hope all is well.
Pauls a cool guy
Do Sonic Youth
The AI jimmy is pretty good isn’t it , a few mispronunciations but overall pretty impressive
I wonder who it was that painted over Jimmy`s original Dragon Telecaster?...And where the body of it is now,he said "it will never be seen again",I wonder if that means he was so angry he threw it away,or just has it stashed away in storage?
"Black Side Mountain"? Is this another artificial audio clip?
Also pops up a photo of a Les Paul when Jimmy says "Telecaster."
That was very good! Your narration is good but that AI generated voice is not cool, I didn't like it. No AI will be able to reproduce Jimmy's naturally sweet voice 😅
Thank you Marcia. Yeah, I thought it would be cool to try it out, but something just feels wrong about it, doesn't it. 😀
@@groundguitar
Yeah, it’s a strange feeling, after all Jimmy is alive and we know his voice. Even if it was someone deceased, like John Bonham for example, it would still be disturbing… it’s my personal opinion, maybe other people don’t care. Thank you, good luck! 🍀🤗
@@marciashiraishi5891 I appreciate that Marcia, and thanks for the feedback! Cheers!
@@groundguitar it's cool you are receptive to feedback. that helps a lot building a channel! best of luck with this!
@@groundguitar I'm glad this got addressed here, its the only thing that bothered me. Great video though, cool information. Cheers!!
theres a story of jimmy getting the les paul and walsh says play it tonight at the Gig'' Go On''...lol Thats Great... #1.... the best was the black Les Paul because it made the whole lotta Love sound .. when jimmy's mom heard whole lotta love she started getting her period Again... One Hell of a Love Song Gott Admit'''
Fun fact: those early lipstick pickups were built in literal lipstick tube’s acquired from a lip stick manufacturer
White Summer/Black Mountain Side*
Yeah, that's a mistake. I'll add a notation to point it out. Cheers.
Jimmy Page's "No 1 Les Paul" is a '59.
5:38 *century (not decade).
10:56 "with the exact same mirror setup"
The mirrors are obviously *not* in the exact same mirror setup.
Fair enough, maybe I should've said say "similar". Although I think a person could see both guitars and say "they are exactly the same" - there are enough similarities to prompt such a response.
@@groundguitar 👍
this voice on the video is familiar,warthog?
It's 11Labs narrator, a few different channels use it.
Regular 5-way switch….
3:04 It’s *BLACK MOUNTAIN SIDE* not Black Side Mountain!
And Danelectro is pronounced DAN-electro not DANE-lectro!
Apart from that quite an entertaining video, I must say!
I have one of those black and white Danelectro DC59’s (not a “DC2”) and they sound great!
And I dunno why several people have complained about an “Al” voice, sounds perfectly acceptable to me.
So many errors but still very informative.
"Black Side Mountain"? I'm assuming you mean "Black Mountain Side".
Page was inspired by Albert Lee to buy a black Les Paul Custom and Supro.
his friend painting his guitars .. oh oh .. would have been better it been lost maybe...lol jimmy ::: just tell me it been stolen '' pleeeeez
Do john frusciante
Probably in a week or so.
@@groundguitar hes got a lot in 92-94 not a lot of people knew about like a 64 burst a 64 candy apple red a black 62
"Narration provided by 11labs" ? I suspect that Jim Page's voice is AI. If so then it should be pointed out!
It is pointed out in the video.
"Black side mountain"???? You mean black mountain side...don't know if you've played a danelectro but they feel like toys and sound like shit....but any guitar tuned in open tuning kind of sounds "phenomenal" :) As you heard Page at the begining had only the Tele, so that Danelectro was a cheap spare guitar, just in case....you make it sound like a fantastic guitar, danelectros are NOT great guitars whatsoever....even if you put 2 tons of mystic on it....then you can put a god pickup on a cube of plastic and sure it will sound quite OK...And I as see it Page can play a 50 dollars Hondo and still will sound fantastic :) Great post! Thanks!
Black Side Mountain 😂
Is Jimmy's voice an AI?
I would really like to know how you did the voice replication for Jimmy Page😁 (I need it for a school project🥲)
Google 11Labs.
Regarding the AI voiceovers, I am on the fence… It disturbs me that, although Mr Page did put most of these words to paper, he’d never spoken them.
I really am thorn. This was good, factful video, but the AI generated voiceover by Page was too much for me.
That's fair. I though I would test it out, as the option is out there, but I do agree that I feels a bit wrong. Probably will not do it anymore.
Jimmy Page's voice that great idea!! I like this video story!!
@@groundguitar
I agree with Andre. The video is very interesting but I don’t like that part of Jimmy’s voice generated by AI. Please…don’t do that again (at least with Jimmy)
Bigsby vibrato.
Led Zeppelin 4ever.
Inside secret. All of this is so inside secret.
having a beloved guitar stolen from me would do a number on my Head. 😡
You mention a band "The Eagles". The correct name is "Eagles", without "the".
No one cares
Great info. But I gotta say. The guy who narrated clearly doesn't know the subject. It sounds like he was just reading off a script. There were some key words that were mispronounced. Otherwise, great video.
It's an AI generated voice, so it's gonna sounds bad occasionally, and yes it was from a script that I wrote. Hopefully I'll get actual professional narrators in the future, but those are pretty pricey.
@@groundguitar Ah OK. Man, that sounds real. A little stiff but I didn't realize it was AI. In that case, nice work!! I take back my comment 🙂
I was the Number 1 Zep fan between 1980 and 2010. Gladly I am no longer that fool. Just ask yourself, how does the most creative force in Rock music (J. Page) write what he did between 1968 and 1979 and then from December of 1980 until 2023 became completely incapable of writing a single song worth hearing? How come? The devil is in the details.
Gee wiz that’s proves it, Wally
Lol
The AI makes it sound like Jimmy is testifying in a courtroom, reading something his lawyers wrote for him. No one will ever make a video about all of the guitars I’ve had stolen over the years. 12:15 someone has to resurrect this Telecaster body, possibly by adding a glass neck. They make them, you know, I’ve seen a video of this modification done. I don’t have Jimmy’s guitar tech’s e-mail address, but I’m sure someone out there can send it to me. I’m not hard to get ahold of. 13:45 Gibson made replicas of this guitar. I’m sure the serial numbers on other components, like perhaps the capacitors, could be used to identify the correct year of this iconic piece of music history. Someone get cracking on it. 14:29 This phase reversing can be heard during the unaccompanied solo on “Heartbreaker” at the Los Angeles Forum, September, 1970, unofficially released as a bootleg “Live on Blueberry Hill”. This modification was done way before the 90’s. Keith Williams of “Five Watt World” has a much more detailed video of Jimmy Page’s guitars. (P.S. I may be wrong about the phase reversing modification. The “Heartbreaker” solo sounds like the pickup selector switch was switched to the middle position, it’s at 5 minutes 44 seconds on the “Live on Blueberry Hill” video.)
Yeah the AI is just not there yet, but I'm still amazed how good it can be. Regarding the phase switch, based on what I've heard Jimmy say, he added that swich after he modified his #2 Les Paul - a guitar that he got around 1973 and had Steve Hoyland modify sometime in the 80s - see www.groundguitar.com/jimmy-page-gear/jimmy-pages-1959-gibson-les-paul-standard-number-two/ . So #1 couldn't be modified before that. 80s maybe, but 70s probably not.
Regarding the Gibson, yeah that's bit confusing to me too. First of all, I don't understand why the back of the headstock needed sanding in the first place. Maybe it was done so the whole of the back of the neck could be refinished at once? And yeah, the pots could be checked too, but it could be that they were changed when the guitar was modded, or maybe that just can't pinpoint the exact year.
Yeah, I exchanged emails with Keith and watch his videos, he's a great guy. He even used our GroundGuitar website as a reference in some of his videos. And since he does these extensive rundowns in his videos, I decided to focus on just few most important guitars - to avoid competing with him directly. And if anyone want's a more detailed list, they can either visit our website, or watch Keith's video.
The use of the middle position on the pickup selector (thereby engaging both pickups) was a long time Page technique for sure. He often adjusted the volumes and tones of each pickup to get a range of tones, and was particularly fond of rolling the bridge PU quite a bit back while mixing in the neck pickup for a "rounded" tone that retains a bit of the high end bite of the bridge PU. A classic example would be "Since I've Been Loving You" intro lines vs the clear click over to pure bridge PU.
the 59 telecaster ::: Even though it was Destroyed Mr Page Should have never Separated the Neck From The Body'' But Kept it too Hang On The Wall.. That Guitar Never Ever Needs too Be Played Again.. Their is no sense of playing the Guitar After jimmy passes On..
Why would you sand off the ss# on the headstock? Taking down a neck ,just takes a little sand paper from 3 to bout 1000 or 1500 grit ,When It feels good stop,Its not as hard as people make out ,No knives needed,Something else up with this story?Sanding back of head is a mistake ,It could make your tunners not fit write anyways.This guy wanted the ss# gone for another reason?
That was unclear to me too. Maybe since this was done way back, people didnt care for serial numbers that much, and whoever sanded the neck decided to sand down the whole back of the neck and repaint it all at once? I really dont know either.
Hows it going guys? I scratched Jimmy Pages guitar while doing work at his house in 2016, wasnt even my fault - he was on something and trying to have me hold his guitar and let go before my hands were there, i caught it but the bottom swung and hit other guitar and scratched it. The guy he talks about in interviews that is supposed to have ducked him and he can't find him - thats me, only i didn't duck him and he's been fucking with me the whole time. He could have filed an ins claim even tho it wasn't my fault but wants me to pay. He has half way stalked me ever since calling all my employers, random messages here and there. He flips between he is sorry and I owe him a million dollars for his guitar.
“AI generated voice” 😮
I keep thinking I'm going to get current Ukraine / Russia reports from the narrator and it never happens.
Haha, I know what youre talking about. I'm switching narrators in the next vid because of that.
@@groundguitar It's all good. You're channel is the best. We appreciate you.
get rid of the plops
Plops gone in the next vid.
9:00 You know that you are in a great band, but without a good enough singer when Jeff Beck is the lead guitarist and Jimmy Page is the bass player and you still fail. (i.e. lead singers are king, you peon musicians.
Turn the crap back ground music off please
Can you believe the gall of tue guy that painted tue tele?! It wasn't his. What a selfish, narcissistic thing to do!!
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