New Jimmy Page Sig?

[zoso777]

Originally Posted by ReverendJWblues

I have one that I wont sell ya.

Have you ever wondered about putting the pup cap ? Page used his LP without those cap for a shorter time than with during LZ times. If it was mine I would do this. Just a thought

[ReverendJWblues]

Originally Posted by JimmyAce2006

does anyone remember the regular retail price of the custom authentic from 2004-06? i think it was $4800-5500. and that is before they started going up after they were discontinued. i am talking about the original price.

I remember seeing back in say 94/95 the MSRP was $4299, the MSRP on mine was $10,313.00 of course we all know thats a crock. Mine is an 06 and bought in 06. I dont think, but I could be wrong the MSRP was ever $4800/5500 on one.

[ReverendJWblues]

Originally Posted by zoso777

Have you ever wondered about putting the pup cap ? Page used his LP without those cap for a shorter time than with during LZ times. If it was mine I would do this. Just a thought

Run that by me one more time. I wanted this set as to early 70s type, back when I was at a show he was using the double white, I'm giving away my age but thats no secret. I probably went to damn near every show in my area way back when, from dallas to denver and everywhere in between. tickets were always $7 to $25, I made so much money back then just selling tickets. I'll see if I can find any of my old stubs.

[gui524]

Meeee waaaants ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

[banditguitarist1]

damn Rev! I wish I could have seen Zepp back in there hey-day! oh for the guy that asked about the retail of the 04-06, when I got mine it was around 8k usd.

[ledzeppy]

Originally Posted by monroe

Isn't Number Two the one with an altered radius (bridge) to make single notes with a bow easier? Or is that yet another myth?

It's true, don't remember when it was done though or if he actually kept it. I think Tim Marten (one of his techs) was the one that mentioned it, possibly the one that did it too. I'll try to find an exact quote.

[zoso777]

Originally Posted by ReverendJWblues

Run that by me one more time. I wanted this set as to early 70s type, back when I was at a show he was using the double white, I'm giving away my age but thats no secret. I probably went to damn near every show in my area way back when, from dallas to denver and everywhere in between. tickets were always $7 to $25, I made so much money back then just selling tickets. I'll see if I can find any of my old stubs.

Stop my good man! How I wish I could have seen a single Led show in the good old times!
I have age enough for that but they never came to my country...when there was a possibility Bonzo died

[fjminor]

Originally Posted by ReverendJWblues

Sweet....................I have twin daughters, maybe I need twin Jimmy's.

Hey JW..I have twin daughters too...just turned 13....they drive me insane...a good insane......so to ratchet up the insanity, maybe my Jimmy #1 needs a Jimmy #2...cant wait to hear and see more on this...

[Es Paul]

Originally Posted by fjminor

Hey JW..I have twin daughters too...just turned 13....they drive me insane...a good insane......so to ratchet up the insanity, maybe my Jimmy #1 needs a Jimmy #2...cant wait to hear and see more on this...

I haven't seen you much on this forum. I don't know where you've been hiding, but, thank god you came out. You have a sweet collection of LP's. The Page is to die for. The finish is awesome. You have to get him his brother, #2. I'm gonna get #2. One day I'll have to get #1. I missed my chance last year. It had a refret job that I was a little scared of...

[ReverendJWblues]

Originally Posted by fjminor

Hey JW..I have twin daughters too...just turned 13....they drive me insane...a good insane......so to ratchet up the insanity, maybe my Jimmy #1 needs a Jimmy #2...cant wait to hear and see more on this...

Cool brother, my girls are 23, and have drove me insane for 23 yr's. I guess it never gets any easier.
We do need some #2s if they are winners, just have to wait and see.

[LEFTY LES]

R U kiddin me!!!

[decoy205]

I bet they are not showing the front because it is his #2 reissue so its probably more of a brown tobacco then a cherry burst. People always expect the cherry burst page. Its probably just the surprise that its his #2 reissue.

Either that or its a giant photo of his face on the front.

[banditguitarist1]

GREAT IMAGE TO PUT ON THE FRONT JIMMY LOOKS BOTH ANGRY AND MENACING HAHA

[fjminor]

Originally Posted by Es Paul

I haven't seen you much on this forum. I don't know where you've been hiding, but, thank god you came out. You have a sweet collection of LP's. The Page is to die for. The finish is awesome. You have to get him his brother, #2. I'm gonna get #2. One day I'll have to get #1. I missed my chance last year. It had a refret job that I was a little scared of...

Thanks Es - I have been around, not a big poster, but the recent news of the 50th Anniversary has caused a spike in my posting....

[scooter]

Is Gibson going to reissue #1 again after they are done with this one!? Give Jimmy a rest for a while and give me a pearly gates instead!

[Es Paul]

Originally Posted by fjminor

Thanks Es - I have been around, not a big poster, but the recent news of the 50th Anniversary has caused a spike in my posting....

Awesome, don't go too far. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on

[hot_tube_tone]

Did anyone ever get a picture of the front of the Page #2? The back looks good, but most people don't get that view of guitars.

[Stowburst]

Originally Posted by scooter

Is Gibson going to reissue #1 again after they are done with this one!? Give Jimmy a rest for a while and give me a pearly gates instead!

LOL!!

Yeah, lets see Pearly..i'm sure its in the works? Its take over 10yrs for them to do Bloomfield!

[huw]

Originally Posted by ledzeppy

It's true, don't remember when it was done though or if he actually kept it. I think Tim Marten (one of his techs) was the one that mentioned it, possibly the one that did it too. I'll try to find an exact quote.

Yes, it was Tim Marten.

Here's the quote, from a 1986 interview with Steve Rossen:

"SR: The Les Paul lends itself better to the bowing than the Telecaster or a Stratocaster?
JP: It works on them all, really.

[Tim Marten interjects that it relates to the ‘Physical aspects of the curvature of the bridge.” To this end, Marten sawed the Les Paul bridge to create a more violinesque-type housing and raising the strings to allow for more accurate bowing.]

Yeah, he did that. And it was purely because it was so hit-and-miss. Sometimes it would be dead on and then you wouldn’t change a thing and it wouldn’t work. Last night [referring to The Firm's performance at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida] I didn’t think it came off at all. Not as well as it should have done. It’s almost like pulling at it and that’s alright but when the bow just goes right across the strings it doesn’t work. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t—but you’ve got to try it."

I belive it to have been a short lived experiment.

For one thing, when the radius of the strings doesn't match the radius of the bridge it has a detrimental effect on the playability.

For another, photos of the guitar have never (to my knowledge, anyway) shown any visible signs of alteration.

And for yet another, Page gave up using #2 for bow work when he got the Roger Giffen copy. That one became the bow guitar. At the O2 show he used #2 in regular tuning as one of the main guitars of the night, then switched to either the Giffen or one of the reissues for Dazed & Confused & the bow solo.

Why do that if #2 had the "bow bridge". It wouldn't add up.

[fjminor]

Bowing a Gibson before Jimmy Page - watch him go at 1:44 into the video....

Eddie Phillips

Eddie Phillips

That Blondie in the beginning looks familar.....

[zoso777]

Cool video dude ! Thanks!
Well, as you should know Page used the bow in the Yardbirds years and I don´t know who actually was bowing before who...

[gui524]

Why the "Jimmy Page wirings" are so famous ?? He didn't even use it in Led Zeppelin !!

[banditguitarist1]

I'm fairly certain he had some mods on his les pauls I know #1 during zeppelin, such as the coil splitter, and out of phase when in the middle position. As for the series/parallel and all the splitters and things under the knobs idk.

[banditguitarist1]

Maybe the #2 reissue has a mudshark on it haha

[TnT~55]

Originally Posted by banditguitarist1

I'm fairly certain he had some mods on his les pauls I know #1 during zeppelin, such as the coil splitter, and out of phase when in the middle position. As for the series/parallel and all the splitters and things under the knobs idk.

AFAIK there is no evidence of him pushing or pulling knobs during the '70s. Just turning.

[Preston Meyers]

Originally Posted by banditguitarist1

I'm fairly certain he had some mods on his les pauls I know #1 during zeppelin, such as the coil splitter, and out of phase when in the middle position. As for the series/parallel and all the splitters and things under the knobs idk.

Im fairly certain he had nothing special during Zeppelin, unless a t-top is special.

[huw]

Originally Posted by banditguitarist1

I'm fairly certain he had some mods on his les pauls I know #1 during zeppelin, such as the coil splitter, and out of phase when in the middle position. As for the series/parallel and all the splitters and things under the knobs idk.

No he didn't.

#2 was modified before #1, and that was only in the early 1980s. There was a feature on his guitars in Guitar Heroes Nov 1982 issue (IIRC) that has become the prime source material (directly or indirectly) for just about every subsequent article or website about his guitars. The writer had hands-on access to the guitars himself. He was the author who first revealed the mods that #2 had got. As far as #1 went the only mods he reported were the chrome, not nickle, cover on the bridge pickup & the white (ie non vintage) selector switch. That was all.

During Zep days the Les Pauls were stock. The slightly out of phase sounding quack to the mid position on #1 was basically down to the mismatch of pickups - PAF in the neck, T-top in the bridge from mid/late '72 onwards - and the amps he was using (Marshalls with KT88s).

[Texas07R8]

Originally Posted by ReverendJWblues

JW, man that's a perfect shot. Glad to see you're drive is working again and you can put forth some killer photos.

I really, really like that Page of yours. I think it's one of the nicest ones I've had the pleasure of seeing. How does it sound when you're in single coil mode? To be honest my LP Custom Lite with factory split coils on the bridge pups is weak and a little noisy. Please tell me that isn't the case with the Page setup?

Also, do you or anyone else for that matter think Gibson isn't showing the top because it's going to have the little buttons under the pickguard like his real #2?

Also, there is still some debate online as to what his #2 is, some maintain it was a 58 others say a 59. I guess we'll see what Gibson calls it whenever they finally release it. Sure hope they have them by the time the Dallas International Show comes back to town in April. I WANT TO SEE THAT AXE!

[ledzeppy]

#2's serial no. is 91703, it's a '59 unless there's some neck swap nobody ever knew about which is highly unlikely. And then of course there's the white PAF, one of the reasons #1 is more than likely a '59.

[billy]

Originally Posted by ledzeppy

#2's serial no. Is 91703.

+1