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    Jimmy Page tele

    Dose anyone have any info on Jimmy Pages tele. I know he recorded the starway solo whith it and used it on zepplin one and two but thats it dose anyone know where it is today??? or if fender will do a page model ????

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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    http://www.led-zeppelin.org/referenc...immy-yardbirds

    Look under 1959 Fender Telecaster

    Used throughout first Zeppelin LP except for Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. (electric guitar on that track was the Danelectro)

    Not used on the second LP.

    Used for the guitar solo in Stairway To Heaven as well as the solo riffs in The Song Remains The Same.

    Also used on Ten Years Gone and All My Love.

    Page's primary guitar in The Firm.

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    Is that B-bender Tele supposed to be the same one he used with the Yardbirds and early LZ days?
    I always assumed they were different.

    And in one of those shots it looks like he has a maple neck.

    Aside from its evolving paintjob, the main practical difference btw his '59 Tele and most box-bridge Teles is the toploader bridge.
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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    From what I understand, the "Jimmy Page Tele" wasn't a B-bender at all. The B-bender he used was a completely different guitar, but I could be wrong.

    I also thought I heard that someone botched the paint job and now it's brown.

    Other than that, it was simply a 1958 Blonde Telecaster with a top-loader bridge and a rosewood fretboard that Jeff Beck gave him. Funky paint job too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tugboat View Post
    From what I understand, the "Jimmy Page Tele" wasn't a B-bender at all. The B-bender he used was a completely different guitar, but I could be wrong.

    The B-bender Tele was a different animal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Huckleberry View Post
    The B-bender Tele was a different animal.

    Same guitar. He had it repainted brown then had the Parsons/White B-Bender installed.

    He also had a B-Bender installed in his red les paul. (Can be seen in The Song Remains The Same film prior to the installation)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpense View Post
    He also had a B-Bender installed in his red les paul. (Can be seen in The Song Remains The Same film prior to the installation)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpense View Post
    Same guitar. He had it repainted brown then had the Parsons/White B-Bender installed.

    He also had a B-Bender installed in his red les paul. (Can be seen in The Song Remains The Same film prior to the installation)

    Negative. The brown Tele with the B-Bender was purchased during Led Zeppelin's 1980 European tour. He also had a B-bender equipped cream-colored '66 Tele.



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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    He appears in the "ARMS" concert ripping up "Tulsa Time" with a black Tele but the film quality is so bad its hard to get a good look at it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Huckleberry View Post
    Negative. The brown Tele with the B-Bender was purchased during Led Zeppelin's 1980 European tour. He also had a B-bender equipped cream-colored '66 Tele.



    -Huck, currently reading a pretty compelling & detailed Page biography.
    You are wrong.

    Go back and listen to Ten Years Gone live during the 77 tour. It is THAT telecaster installed with a maple neck and B-Bender. Same guitar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dlylem View Post
    He appears in the "ARMS" concert ripping up "Tulsa Time" with a black Tele but the film quality is so bad its hard to get a good look at it.
    Sigh...................The same brown tele folks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpense View Post
    You are wrong.

    Go back and listen to Ten Years Gone live during the 77 tour. It is THAT telecaster installed with a maple neck and B-Bender. Same guitar.


    Just going by what the the biographer, after extensive interviews that included the artist & roadies, wrote regarding the brown Tele. I'm not saying he didn't have a Tele with a B-bender. I'm saying he picked up the brown one on tour in 1980, and used it at the ARMs concert and in the Firm.

    I surely did not mean to befoul anyone's Wheaties.
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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    Quote Originally Posted by Huckleberry View Post
    Just going by what the the biographer, after extensive interviews that included the artist & roadies, wrote regarding the brown Tele. I'm not saying he didn't have a Tele with a B-bender. I'm saying he picked up the brown one on tour in 1980, and used it at the ARMs concert and in the Firm.

    I surely did not mean to befoul anyone's Wheaties.

    And now the interweb is telling me that the brown Tele is a '59 with the neck from Jimmy's '58!

    If there is a more elusive instrument, I have not yet encountered it!
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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    Jimmy Page in Oakland July 24, 1977



    Another pic from the same show in Black and White



    Jimmy Page at Knebworth 1979



    Hey Huckleberry, do you believe everything you read in books or on the internet? If so, I've got some great swampland in Florida to sell you.


    The ONLY valid source would be Jimmy Page and/or his guitar tech. And being a Zeppelin fan for over 30 years, I've read many interviews with Jimmy Page along with seeing actual footage of this guitar with Zep, the Arms Tour and The Firm. Same guitar that he installed a maple neck on for the 70s tour but put back the rosewood neck for 79 and going forward. He also stated that routing out the guitar to put the B-Bender did chage the sound of the guitar.

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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpense View Post
    Jimmy Page in Oakland July 24, 1977



    Another pic from the same show in Black and White



    Jimmy Page at Knebworth 1979



    Hey Huckleberry, do you believe everything you read in books or on the internet? If so, I've got some great swampland in Florida to sell you.
    Rude. I was pretty certain my last post had show I was having doubts about what I had previously posted.



    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpense View Post
    The ONLY valid source would be Jimmy Page and/or his guitar tech.
    And since I doubt you've spoken to either with more frequency than I have, you can only get the information through quotes & intervews. As I did. And as I said, I'm pretty sure my last post made it obvious that I was conceding that I was no longer certain.



    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpense View Post
    And being a Zeppelin fan for over 30 years, I've read many interviews with Jimmy Page along with seeing actual footage of this guitar with Zep, the Arms Tour and The Firm. Same guitar that he installed a maple neck on for the 70s tour but put back the rosewood neck for 79 and going forward. He also stated that routing out the guitar to put the B-Bender did chage the sound of the guitar.
    I've seen all the same stuff. My apologies for posting something I read.
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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    Dose anyone know if jimmy still owns the guitar and if not where is it today? It a shame it was painted I want to have a tele painted just like in this pic.

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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    Quote Originally Posted by fezz parka View Post
    OOOOoooooh! The world will stop turning if no one gets this one right.
    The wonderful world of the internet where someone says something which MUST be true in fact is not but BECOMES truth because no one challenges the assertions with FACTS.

    This is a telecaster appreciation forum where I would think we would all like to get it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DAVELECTRO View Post
    Dose anyone know if jimmy still owns the guitar and if not where is it today? It a shame it was painted I want to have a tele painted just like in this pic.

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    http://www.mrjimmy.jp/equipments.htm

    The gutarist of a japanese Led Zep cover band seems to have had a replica made for him. I'm sure there are a few guitar painters out there who could reproduce this. (I have see a website where someone replicated Eric Clapton's Cream SG)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpense View Post
    This is a telecaster appreciation forum where I would think we would all like to get it right.

    No, the TDPRI is here.

    In general, I haven't seen any members here at TFF get really worked up about the number of screws in a specific celebrity-owned instrument.
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    http://www.mrjimmy.jp/equipments.htm

    The gutarist of a japanese Led Zep cover band seems to have had a replica made for him. I'm sure there are a few guitar painters out there who could reproduce this. (I have see a website where someone replicated Eric Clapton's Cream SG)[/QUOTE]

    That japanese dude has it together he has all of pages guitars reproduced

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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    Quote Originally Posted by fezz parka View Post
    It ain't worth getting worked up over. There's a way to communicate the facts, and then there's some posts in this thread that are down right rude. Guess who's posts those are?

    Be nice, or pay the price, dig?

    Who is worked up? Seems like you are. None of my comments were rude. Someone INSISTED they were right, I responded with photos to prove my point.

    You then respond like its a joke.

    I'm not laughing.

    I'm just trying to help people with answers to questions. Check my posts. The original creator of the thread wanted to know where he could get a copy of that guitar, and I did a search and provided a link which can help him.

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    I'd LOVE to have an exact copy of this guitar!

    I pretty much blame Jimmy Page for giving me the GAS all these years anyway!




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    A group buy would be kinda KOOL...
    kinda sorta maybe

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    Re: Jimmy Page tele

    I just read all of this crap on the web (right here in this thread).

    Which is accurate?

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