Off: Page guitars, was HW: new album ??

[Chris Warburton]

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OK,here's my own litlle starf*cker story...
JP played guitar for an all-star version of Ian Stewart & Charlie Watts'
"Rocket 88" blues'n'boogie band for an Alexis Korner memorial charity gig
that our jazz club in Nottingham put on...
This particular night produced a few good stories which I may relate one
day, but after the show (with the man's permission, of course) I did
actually get to play the LP that he used on the night (unamplified,
unfortunately)... I'm not particularly a fan of Les Pauls, but it was
probably the most beautiful guitar I've ever handled - and so superbly set
up that it almost seemed to play itself!!

As for early Zep recordings, I think he used a Dano as well as the Tele on
some tracks... he certainly played one during the period in question: see
the cover of the BBC Sessions album.

Cheers,
ChrisW

At 16:23 11/04/02, you wrote:
>The LP 1960 Classic has the Page signature ceramic magnet humbucker's and it
>sounds like an Tel...alright I was about to tell a little lie. It sounds like
>a runaway freight train like all LP's and does a wonderful Zeppelin sound.

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Allen" <beautiful_foot at HOTMAIL.COM>
>To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:28 AM
>Subject: Re: HW: new album ??
>
> > One of the Les Paul Studio models has coil-tapping and at least one of the
> > settings sounds eerily Telecaster.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Right!  I think the Page model that Gibson produced a while back
> > > had a coil tap which would yield somewhat Tele-like tones and also
> > > a phase reversal switch that could sound a bit like a Tele in the
> > > middle position...
> >