If I consider your monstrous tone, your perfect timing, your interdimensional fretting, and your enthusiasm for that which has endured, and will endure for eternity... I will allow this tiniest of discontinuities from the line of classic rock historical perfection. An absolute masterclass of a video, sir! Please do a follow up companion video about Dazed and Confused.
I have watch so many RU-vid videos where people try to emulate classics guitar player’s tone. It’s the first time ever I can say someone actually nailed it! Very well done, I still can’t believe it, just amazing!
If you could only have one guitar, for the rest of your life and needed it to cover every type of music. There is only one answer and everyone knows it's the Tele. You know it still blows my mind after almost 70 years of guitar making and we find out Leo nailed it out of the gate.
I don't know if I totally agree with this but I 99% I agree with it and that's close enough. I love my Strat and my many humbucker guitars but one choice yeah it's probably my Tele 🤘
Got to give it to him. He knows how to make a commercial and content in 1. Some artists - who will remain nameless - mail in these videos and just read a spec sheet, tell you they would never promote something they wouldn't use, and then remind you to like and sub before they sign off and grab the next piece of gear off the front porch.
"When the band comes in" yeah. I loved my strat until I went to band practice then it was "dude, where's my guitar?" The tele cuts through it all like a knife. Love it.
The fingers have a lot to do with his sound. YOU NAILED IT. Great job. You’re a fantastic player. Your example of the “raw” player sound rather than the technical accuracy is spot on.
Can we talk about how this album came out in 1969! 🤯 I can’t even imagine coming from the Beatles and Elvis and blasting off into this era right along with Apollo 11 landing on the freakin moon!
Those were the days when artists were artists and music had individual character. Nobody wanted to sound like someone else. Those were the glory years, what happened?
Awesome video Ty. I’ve always loved Page’s 1968-1969 telecaster tone. Granted he is more associated with the les paul, there was a reason why he used the tele for the stairway to heaven solo. Rock on 🤘
Fun facts: Jeff Beck gave the tele to Jimmy Page and Page painted the Dragon with “psychedelic poster paint” The Dragon tele is also a top loader but it still has the string through design too
Plus the whole ambience sounded like a deep, echoing well. The whole album was drenched in a mood of dread. They recorded that masterpiece in 36 hours. Page, man, a rock genius.
Yes the combination of Tele and Supro are a match but the thing that puts the magic in this tone (besides the fingers) are those effects is how it seems to me - and you just know which ones to go to - you have a gift for knowing which ones are called for! Excellent job! Thanks for sharing and inspiring!
The sounds of Zeppelin and ZZ Top made me want a Les Paul. I later found out that my favorite sounds from both were on single coils. La Grange, strat. Jesus Just Left Chicago, Broadcaster. Zeppelin 1, Telecaster. I still love Les Pauls but I'm a single coil guy.
Outstanding video. I own a 1952 classic custom shop Tele and I must admit, hard to put that guitar done. Has a character all it's own. Dude, your chops are viciousž1
Me thinks the tele is the greatest electric guitar of all time. I have a great Les Paul and musicman stingray rs. I grab my tele almost every time I have a gig. As much as I love my other guitars every time I play my tele it’s like putting on old glove. It just feels right. It’s always in tune and I can get just about any tone I want with its simple set up. Add to that you can not hide anywhere. What you play comes out the amp, warts and all. I use a fender 65 Princeton reissue and maybe a wampler Tumnus and a boss EQ pedal. That’s it.
Maybe the greatest first listen of a record I ever had, I was a kid in 69 when "Zep" blew the world away! I heard it on my friends really decent stereo system, the sound quality still stands today in every way. They really upped the music game for us all! A special mention also goes out to "Cream" for Disraeli Gears (1967) also a life changing listen for me! Hard to imagine how it could ever be topped for a true rock fan or musician for that matter.....
L.Zep (Page/Bonham mainly) is my biggest musical inspiration… I scored a beat up Supro 6400(66?), last yr, now this week I acquired a 90s Tele; It just now really hit me, I’ve sorta built myself a J Page rig! The universe works in mysterious ways! Now it’s my duty to learn all Page’s LZ riffs…goals!!
I was 18 when LZ1 came out, I saw them for the first of five times at the Fillmore East in May of '69 and it was the best show out of all five. JP played a Les Paul at the Fillmore show, I was on acid so I can't be sure but I think it was the '59 Sunburst. A cool thing about that time was most people had no idea who Led Zeppelin was, it made you feel like you were part of something special!
I got a 67 Supro Statesman head with 2x12 cabinet in 1973. They weren’t considered very good amps at the time and it was cheap. It had the most amazing tone. The reverb and tremolo were great. Kicking myself for not keeping it.
Superb video Tyler! The Beatles changed me in the early-mid 1969’s, Led Zeppelin did the same in 1969. I can’t play just in e song on LZ 1, you play the whole album. It is a timeless masterpiece.
Dude that was awesome. All of it. Never see anybody covering, playing or even hinting at playing their music because of copyright protection, etc. Gotta ask. How did you pull that off? Glad you did
The Dragon Telecaster is the guitar Tyler is referring to and it's nothing short epic. Fender did a signature release of the guitar and I grabbed one as soon as i could. It was worth the money imo
The solo at 4:44 minutes is fucking insane, if Jimmy page would’ve pulled that off during a concert/Recording it would’ve been the fucking ultimate solo of that time
I was actually going to comment that he said the wrong song this is the album that opened my eyes to rock all the way back in middle school. That might have been the 2000s before led Zeppelin I grew up on country in this album alone change my mindset on music all together thank you for one of the best rock bands to ever grace the Earth
Page's Telecaster wasn't originally in Butterscotch but in White Blonde with a rosewood fingerboard. You can find it as a signature model, it's called Jimmy Page Mirror Telecaster (8 round mirrors are provided so you can choose whether to stick them or not).
Kudos. Believe it or not, I was still in high school when that album came out. (yikes!) I was in Tucson, AZ at the time - and it was one of the biggest party albums... everyone was playing it. It was only superseded by Led Zeppelin II. You really nailed the tone. Thanks for a great video.
Freaking awesome Tyler!!! Amazing album and flawless playing. When I started playing at 10 (1972), I wanted to be able to play Led Zeppelin and play it like that. Still trying, though I realize I’ll never get there. So cool to hear you jam those Jams, thought. Greatness. Thanks.
Greetings from Dallas, Texas! I award you 100 points for the term "Duck Face." I'm a bit embarrassed that I've never heard that before. Perfect, though! Suggestion for a future topic... I love Telecasters and SGs (a.k.a. "slabs of wood"). But, never cared a bit for Strats or Les Pauls. Am I a weirdo or is there something to this? Or both, I guess. Thanks!!!
Now that you're in Nashville, I really hope you can get some studio session players in to do some content with. The two that immediately come to mind are Brent Mason and Dann Huff. Huff also made some iconic guitar parts for Michael Jackson, Peter Cetera etc in the 80's with that iconic chorus rack. It'd be really great to hear a newer musician in Nashville trying to work on sessions and record with new people talk to some of those guys. The info could be invaluable to some of us more amateur players out there...
The sloppy tidbits of Page was definitely some added character. And it was like the the bones in the soup. This video was really well done. You need to do more live covers. You are no poser brother, you sounded great. My only complaint was that it had to end.
Sadly a friend borrowed the dragon tele and decided to “make it better” by slathering nasty brown paint all over it. It took decades for Jimmy to restore his beloved guitar because whatever that paint was it was impossible to remove back then!
So my best friends old lady is the sound engineer at a VERY large music venue attached to a brewery that serves thousands of people a day and books no less than 3 bands every day. They have a collection of amps, drums, mics, you name it so the bands just show up with their instruments. They let them use whatever gear they want, and about 1/2 the guitar players pick a Supro of some type.
I have commented similarly before, I would love to see a modern metal/hard rock act dispense with the massively comporessed rectifier, ultra high gain thing, and make an album with some clarity and dynamics, and proper frequency carve outs for each instrument. And no, by this I don't mean it has to be a vintage-sounding or inspired album.
