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Post by earleg on Sept 12, 2019 17:20:30 GMT -5
This is the more expensive version of the two. It is pretty much a custom shop guitar although doesn't have that logo. John does a nice job demoing it. I'm impressed also that the amp is a Fender Blues Junior and not a high end boutique one.
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Post by whitefang on Sept 13, 2019 10:20:04 GMT -5
Nice axe, but I just looked over two pages of Jimmy Page images and saw only TWO photos of him ever playing a Telecaster, and NEITHER looked anything like the axe in the video. So.... What in particular makes it a "Jimmy Page" telecaster? Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 12:42:53 GMT -5
Nice guitar, and he did do a nice job on the demo. Never bonded with tele's. My first electric was a 50's tele, all original, It was lacking something for my taste. Of course other folks do some wonderful things with them. I prefer the Strat over the tele any day.
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Post by earleg on Sept 13, 2019 15:01:44 GMT -5
Nice axe, but I just looked over two pages of Jimmy Page images and saw only TWO photos of him ever playing a Telecaster, and NEITHER looked anything like the axe in the video. So.... What in particular makes it a "Jimmy Page" telecaster? Whitefang He used the Telecaster with the Yardbirds but most known for recording use on the first two Led Zeppelin LPs. He used it live early on with LZ. I think the mirror one got painted with the Dragon thing at some point.
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Post by whitefang on Sept 14, 2019 10:51:30 GMT -5
Well, I stand corrected. And having never seen LZ live( except for concert footage) I can't argue the early telecaster usage.
What I early on found interesting about Zeppelin was in an article about them after II, the writer claimed that the band, despite how loud they were on stage, and the massive equipment they used in concert, they usually only went into the studio with small amps small and light enough for them to carry in themselves. At the time it did make some sense to me, but I'm still not sure if any of that was true.
Whitefang
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Post by earleg on Sept 14, 2019 17:08:21 GMT -5
Yes, Page mainly used a Supro combo amp that probably had about 30 watts RMS. He probably used some type of boost pedal some plus the studio reverb and echo/delay. Not sure if he used the Supro past the first 2-3 albums. Supro was pretty much gone out of business by 1968 then some years ago someone bought and brought them back and all due to the Page story. When I was growing up in the the '60s Supro was considered a pretty good amp but not as good as a Fender but a bit better than a Silvertone or Montgomery Ward which were actually all made by the same company, National, who also made Valco amps.
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Post by whitefang on Sept 15, 2019 10:58:27 GMT -5
Back in the "day" UNIVOX was always the "budget" brand of guitar amplifiers, but some I knew felt the Silvertone and Airline amps from Sears and "Monkey" Ward's were better. I remember reading somewhere that FRANK ZAPPA was, for a while, some kind of product development consultant for Univox( some time in the mid-'60's.) Univox too, made some good looking "clone" guitars, but I don't know if any of them were any good. Here's an oldie(as far as amps go I guess) and no, the guy ISN'T sitting on the toilet of his bathroom. It just LOOKS that way! Whitefang
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Post by earleg on Sept 17, 2019 18:45:09 GMT -5
I saw the Jeff Beck group in the early '70s and he had a LARGE Univox speaker cabinet with something like 8 x 12" speakers. The amp head itself wasn't Univox though. He was extremely loud which think had to do more with the soundmen as they were micing the amps.
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Post by whitefang on Sept 18, 2019 10:41:33 GMT -5
I'll just "sideline" this thread a bit here to mention I've always liked those "tuck and rolled" padded KUSTOM amps in the '60's. Saw them used exclusively by the group BUBBLE PUPPY in '68 and marveled at their extremely clean sound. MUCH cleaner than the wall of MARSHALLS that Henry Vestine of CANNED HEAT was using.(they were on the bill that night along with SPIRIT too.) I don't think Kustom makes them anymore. Whitefang
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