The Untold Story: Exploring Jimmy Page's Top 5 Iconic Guitars 

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.

No one EVER mentions the T-Top detail about the #1 LP. Bravo!

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 🎸🥁🤹🏻‍♂️🎹 🥰

I'd never heard of a Lahze Paul up until now.

Fantastic documentary!! Especially enjoyed the info on the Danelectro, always been a favorite of mine.

Jimmy, a world treasure. Joe Walsh is too.

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.

Great vid - nice info and production - keep em coming!

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.

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!!

The Lord of the strings. Period.

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.

Actually Jimmy joined the Yardbirds as a Bass player. He occasionally played rhythm, then he eventually became lead for the Yardbirds.

What a great video! Everything about it is awesome. Really enjoyed your work. New Subscriber. Thank you!

nice data my friend!! thanks

Excellent you nailed it. My ears tell me the custom was used for the basics on WLL. I was never buying that the custom was the one that was reformed in 2015 not 2016. Bit your pics of the toggle work convinced me. Nice job!

Excellent work, Thank You!

I can watch guitar history stories all day long. This is fantastic.

JP has such a beautiful voice and accent,very old-fashioned somehow,I find it really soothing to listen to.

thank you great work

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.

Nice work. Thanks

You should do Joe Perry

Your going places love your work

Great video

FYI: Page did not use the doubleneck for Celebration Day live. The '59 Les Paul was used for that and many others.

I always wondered what happened to his dragon telecaster. I had no idea…with friends like that who needs enemies?

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

It'd be cool to see a video of Pete Townsend's arsenal. This was great!

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 forgot about the "chet Akins country gentleman" guitar that he first Acquired

Bring it on home was the black custom 4 sure!!!

He played kashmir on the danelectro

SIR Pagey that’s a “WHOLE LOTTA LOVE” of Joe Walsh’s gift to you.

JIMMY HAS TOLD THE STORY OF THE TELE.

Moral of the story: when you're a rockstar people will gift you guitar

Pauls a cool guy

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

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.

The AI jimmy is pretty good isn’t it , a few mispronunciations but overall pretty impressive

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).

White Summer/Black Mountain Side*

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

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'''

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?

I love when an AI voice tells me all about Jimmy Page

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 😅

Jimmy Page's "No 1 Les Paul" is a '59.

Do Sonic Youth

Fun fact: those early lipstick pickups were built in literal lipstick tube’s acquired from a lip stick manufacturer

"Black Side Mountain"? Is this another artificial audio clip? Also pops up a photo of a Les Paul when Jimmy says "Telecaster."

The custom lespaul had 3 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.

"Black Side Mountain"? I'm assuming you mean "Black Mountain Side".

So many errors but still very informative.

5:38 *century (not decade).

Black Side Mountain 😂

10:56 "with the exact same mirror setup" The mirrors are obviously *not* in the exact same mirror setup.

this voice on the video is familiar,warthog?

his friend painting his guitars .. oh oh .. would have been better it been lost maybe...lol jimmy ::: just tell me it been stolen '' pleeeeez

Regular 5-way switch….

Do john frusciante

"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!

Bigsby vibrato.

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.

"Narration provided by 11labs" ? I suspect that Jim Page's voice is AI. If so then it should be pointed out!

Inside secret. All of this is so inside secret.

You mention a band "The Eagles". The correct name is "Eagles", without "the".

Led Zeppelin 4ever.

having a beloved guitar stolen from me would do a number on my Head. 😡

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.

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.

Is Jimmy's voice an AI?

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?

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..

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.)

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.

get rid of the plops

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!!

CHOMO

I would really like to know how you did the voice replication for Jimmy Page😁 (I need it for a school project🥲)

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