Albert Lee on His First Guitars & Inspiring Jimmy Page | Reverb Interview 

Just watched the other video first and posted this exactly. He is a living guitar god.

Underrated? To who? Teeny bopper types? Of course. People that like and know good music don't underrate him at all. Musicians hold him in high regard and he has had a great career. Underrated? Bullshit.

@@FYMASMD Okay go ask people that aren't musicians who he is. Of course teeny boppers don't know. Does his name bring the recognition that Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards and the list goes on. He is their contemporary AND he inspired some of them. But I bet the average person wouldn't know who he is. Us guitarist sure we know and love him. Get your head out of your ass. His views on these videos alone are a sign of how UNDERRATED he is compared to let say a Robby Krieger or Peter Frampton who have videos in the hundreds of thousands. That says it all

​@@FYMASMD "Tenny bopper types" ? What "type" would you consider yourself to be then ? Let us know, and take care when you type. . . . . . .

Oh Lawd! Here comes the underrated crowd. Albert was never that. He chose the musician chair and not the front mic. His choice. Underrated? I think not. How bout using a different word? Underrated is only new guys use.

Ah wearing an apron with Strats on it...Music Man shaped chocolate chip cookies.. From dear Granny Lee...:-)

+Bodyknowledge 77 I see you on the guitar of the day comment section a lot haha what's up dude

RackhirTheRed how so?

@@ahmedmubashir7231 I know, RackhirTheRed doesn't make sense.

You are the one that is getting old - not Albert ! And there should be no sadness in ageing - it is all part of the beauty of life

As Ozzie would say, “he plays like a MF”.

Couldn't agree more.

One of the best, for sure.

James Burton

At the awesome old man sweater store.

Goodwill, Salvation Army, thrift store, garage sale you know, those kinds of places......Kurt Cobain's attic?

It’s a mock neck twill sweater. Possibly wool.

to paraphrase Eric Burden, British kids were listening to blues records that Americans kids were throwing in the trash

That's too simple a narrative. There extraordinary American guitar players contemporary with these guys (Lee Page Beck Clapton) who were influence by many of the same things. Michael Bloomfield? Duane Allman? Jimi Hendrix? Roy Buchanan etc. & co.

They certainly did - and thank you especially for mentioning "Big Jim" who I worked with many years ago and who has left many happy memories

Christopher Boyd as far as is known page went in to buy a thunderbolt but they didn’t have one in stock so he settled for a Coronado, which is a 2x10 combo. Jimmy later took out the baffle board & fitted a 12” speaker. This amp is on loan to the rock & roll hall of fame .

Does it really sound alike?

It was his Black Beauty Les Paul that was stolen, but his tele was practically useless after a friend of his painted it with horrible paintjob.

YoYoJimbo There are early Zep & Yardbird vids of Page playing the Tele live......Amazing versions of Yardbirds "I'm Dazed" & Zep "Dazed & Confused" probably within a year of each other both using the painted Tele I think...What blows me away though is how Bonham cops the fills from the Yardbirds version just after they turn into Led Zeppelin : )

It sounds like you guys must have real lives and thus aren't up on your Jimmy Page history. Page used the Les Paul "Black Beauty" Custom in his session days and live with Zep during the tour for II. The Telecaster with the psychedelic dragon painting was used in the Yardbirds and on the album and tour for Led Zeppelin I. Then Joe Walsh sold him "#1," the sunburst Les Paul, sometime in 1969, and that's on LZ II through ITTOD. The Custom was used alongside #1 live, though, but in 1970 the Custom was stolen at an airport. Around `71-`73 he got the purple Norlin-era Les Paul, which I *think* was a gift from Jeff Beck (or was that the dragon Tele?). About `75 he bought #2, another sunburst `50's Les Paul. Somewhere thereafter someone who was house sitting painted the old dragon Tele with a paintjob he didn't appreciate. Then he picked up the "Botswana Brown" Tele that he used on "Ten Years Gone" at Knebworth and with the Firm.

I thought Joe gave him that Paul...JW had a tendency of doing stuff like that...

Art Howard Finely summarized! But that was the Tele (later dragon-painted by Page) that was a gift from Jeff Beck. And even after he got is #1 Les Paul he kept using is Tele in studio, on Stairway To Heaven's solo for example. Cheers

Well, the most recent footage I've seen of Page was from the end of 2015 and he was still tearing up and down the fret board then. Has something happened to him recently to make you state otherwise?

jsilence418 Yeah,your full of shite.

With no respect a shit head like you wouldn't understand . Page hasn't played anything relevant since 1977.

So tearing up and down a fret board is playing good guitar? so are you really young, or really stupid ?

Dietz doesn't that rhyme with shits ?funny you call people cocksuckers and have a picture of an obvious one for an icon, this isn't a dating site shitz .