Page guitars, was HW: new album ??

[Steven Skane]

Right. He did dribble on a Danelectro.

Nice gig to be at too.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Warburton" <desdinova at MADASAFISH.COM>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:20 AM
Subject: Off: Page guitars, was HW: new album ??


> <unlurk>
> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> >----- 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...
> > >
>