Jimmy Page Gibson Les Paul No 2

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Jimmy Page is probably the most famous Les Paul player in history. Gibson have now replicated his No.2 Les Paul. Jimmy Page has 2 1959 Les Paul's, 2 holy grails, and not only that, only he had the balls to modify them both, but the value of a Les Paul owned, played and modified by the grand master himself is definitely worth more than an original Gibson Les Paul 1959.

Gibson being the company they are have done it again, now having replicated both of Jimmy Pages Les Paul's.

"the artist's hallowed "Number Two" Les Paul is available to mere mortals"

 Even though this Les Paul is amazing Gibson as always get criticized again for it's through the roof prices, and claiming that its available"mere mortals" has been received with negativity, as the cheapest VOS version comes to a whooping $11,176. Well, I like many are still just dreaming about getting a Les Paul full stop, let alone this masterpiece, and when I do get a Les Paul maybe dare to get the pickups looking like Page's and some Grovers.

Jimmy modified both his guitars to have push and pull knobs and extra switches to enable coil splitting and phase-reverse options, the fact that these kind of knobs are available is due to Jimmy Pages informativeness for search of tone through his favourite guitar. Other mods include Grover tuners, Page claims that they are more sensitive and stable, and with the extra weight on the headstock it gives a bit more sustain.

After seeing Gibson's new release I found a clip of Jimmy talking about his No 1 1959 Gibson Les Paul, theis video has been around for a while dunno how I missed it before:

Jimmy Page interview on his guitars: Jimmy Page Les Paul

I finally got round to editing the Jimmy Page interview and got all the parts when he's talking about his guitar.

Jimmy talks about his famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul given to him by Joe Walsh, his Martin Acoustics, briefly talks about his double neck, and mentions some of his cherished guitars such as the Gibson Everly acoustic given to him by Ronnie Wood.

The Jimmy Page Les Paul was later copied by Gibson Custom shop, creating an exact replica with scatches and all.

I'm planning to upload the parts where he talks about his amps and effects as well, so stay tuned for them in the future.
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Jimmy Page gear interview, more coming soon on his Gibson Les Paul and Marshall

Since I started this blog I've been searching for footage of my top guitar hero Jimmy Page talking about his gear, and what I've found is that it's damn rare, impossible to find, or doesn't exist. But now I've finally found what I've been looking for, there's no footage but an audio interview. The interview is with Steven Rosen for Guitar Player magazine in 1977. The interview is about an hour and a half long, with Jimmy talking about alot of other stuff. As this blog is just on guitar heroes talking about their gear I only want that part of the interview to show to you guys, he talks about his Gibson Les Pauls, Marshall Plexi and more. So I plan to take excerpts of when he's talking about his gear and compile it into sections such as Amps, guitars, effects, etc, and post it up. It will take some time, I'll try to do this when I get more time.

Keep tuned in for this post in the future.

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For now here's a more recent "audio" only video of Jimmy Page and his Signature Gibson Double Neck SG that was released.