Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page talks about the guitar he used for "Whole Lotta Love" in this interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying, "To get my guitar to sound surreal, I detuned it and pulled on the strings for a far-out effect. I was playing a Sunburst 1958 Les Paul Standard guitar I had bought from [James Gang guitarist] Joe Walsh in San Francisco when we were out there on tour. The Standard had this tonal versatility, allowing me to get a blistering high pitch."

Jimmy Page famously used this guitar with Led Zeppelin throughout and classics such as Kashmir, Page bought this guitar while he was a studio musician and still uses it now, it can be seen in the documentary 'It Might Get Loud' with Jack White and U2's the edge.

The guitar was used on songs such as "In My Time of Dying", "Kashmir". According to The Met, Page bought this guitar in 1963 at London's Selmer Shop, and was firstly used in 1967, during his tenure with The Yardbirds.

Jimmy Page acquired his 1964 Fender Lake Placid Blue Stratocaster in April 1975 from Sam Ash in New York City and used it at the 1975 Earls Court shows for "No Quarter" and "Over The Hills And Far Away". It was also used in 1979 and 1980 for "In The Evening". You can see it around the 1:50 mark.

In the studio, Page used the Fender Stratocaster in the Presence sessions, on "For Your Life" and "Hots On For Nowhere".

Page continued to use the Stratocaster into the 1980's with The Firm.

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Jimmy Page worked with Gibson to create his "Number Two" signature guitar based on his own 1959 Les Paul Standard.

This custom made Fender Telecaster is known as Dragon Telecaster and was played by Jimmy Page.

This YouTube video showcases Jimmy Page at a live concert in London 1969 playing the Fender Dragon Telecaster for the Led Zeppelin song, "Dazed and Confused".

"I still have it,” he told Guitar World in 1998. “But it’s a tragic story. I went on tour with [a] ’59 Les Paul that I bought from Joe Walsh, and when I got back, a friend of mine had kindly painted over my paint job. He said, ‘I’ve got a present for you.’ He thought he had done me a real favor. As you can guess, I wasn't real happy about that. His paint job totally screwed up the sound and the wiring, so only the neck pickup worked. I salvaged the neck and put it on my brown Tele string bender that I used in the Firm [in 1985 and 1986]. As for the body, it will never be seen again!"

As noted by this Rolling Stone article, Jimmy Page used the Gibson EDS-1275 to play "Stairway to Heaven" Gibson created a EDS-1275 Signature Model for Jimmy Page in 2007.

Page (pictured with the Firm 1984) initially toured and recorded with Led Zeppelin using a Fender Telecaster as his primary electric guitar, but then switched to the Les Paul; but Page never stopped using Telecasters, he used them whenever he wanted the infamous "b-bender" effect pioneered by Clarence White and Gene Parsons. Page used on the guitar on the Led Zep 1977 US Tour for Ten Years Gone, 1983 Arms Concert, The Firm 84-86 and in 1984 with Roy Harper at English festival.

Guitar Show with Jimmy Page onhis b bender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIYpuovgLo&feature=youtu.be

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Jimmy can be seen in this picture playing a Fender Electric XII 12-String.

Jimmy used this 1965 Fender Electric XII 12 string guitar in the studio to record “Living Loving Maid”, “Stairway to Heaven”, and later on “The Song Remains The Same” from Houses Of The Holy released in 1973. This Fender Electric XII model was introduced in late 1965, and it was a purpose-built 12-string guitar with individual saddles for each string. The guitar had a Jazzmaster-shaped alder body, rosewood neck with “hockey-stick” headstock, and two split single coil pickups.

Jimmy Page started using the 1969 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe 'No. 3' ca. August 1970, presumably as a replacement for the 1960 Gibson Les Paul Custom 'Black Beauty' according to this article.

Having purchased it from Mike Rudd in Memphis, Tennessee after his "Black Beauty" Gibson Les Paul was stolen, the guitar, which had started its life as a Goldtop Les Paul Deluxe, had been fitted with double humbuckers that had replaced its original minihumbuckers, was painted red and was later fitted with a B-bender mechanism.

The present of this guitar is viewed in the Led Zeppelin's reunion Celebration Day Live at 02 Arena in 2007, it's seen with the full-size humbuckers with black rings and the B-bender system, here's a clip from this exact reunion where the system, paintjob, humbuckers and tuner can be seen as described before: https://youtu.be/rCBXd1uXPVA?t=6022

In the film "It Might Get Loud," Jimmy Page can be seen playing a Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar, as shown in the photo from Feelnumb.

Jimmy can be seen here with an Ovation CSE225-RRB. His appears to be fully black instead of having a red sunburst, but appears to be otherwise stock.

Used for the recording of “You Shook Me”, as stated in this June 11, 2014 Guitar World interview.

A debate has raged for many years on what electric guitars were used on the first album.

It’s hard for people to believe, but I just used my Fender Telecaster for the entire album, except for one track. Somebody was trying to sell me a Gibson Flying V at the time. I don’t what made them think I could afford it, because I clearly couldn’t, but I asked them if I could just try it out. I brought it into Olympic and used it on “You Shook Me.” With those big humbuckers, it was so powerful you can hear it breaking up the amp in the middle of the song. I could’ve tidied it up, but I really liked hearing the amp really struggle to get the sound out. It’s really fighting through the electronics to get out of that speaker. I’m not sure what happened to the guitar. It might’ve found its way to Keith Richards or something, but I really don’t know.

Jimmy Page can be see in this image with a Eko Ranger VI. According to Pro Guitar Shop, "This acoustic was used to record the rhythm track for Thank You at Morgan Sound Studios in 1969."

Page is shown here playing a traditional Les Paul Goldtop.

According to Jeff Strawman's preview of his book, which offers 600 pages of Led Zeppelin gear examination, he clearly describes this guitar and her use in 90's mainly.

"Jimmy Page has always looked to explore new frontiers, and he found a worthy partner in that journey with the TransPerformance automatic tuning system, which he noted "allows you to store over a hundred different tunings. That opens all kinds of possibilities." Page took possession of his first TransPerformance-equipped guitar, a goldtop Gibson Les Paul Standard, in late 1991 during the Coverdale-Page sessions. He memorably used it in the "Pride and Joy" video with David Coverdale, in the 1994 Unledded show with Robert Plant and then the accompanying 1995-96 world tour, and as recently as 2007 at the Led Zeppelin reunion concert. He used a second TransPerformance-equipped wine red Gibson Les Paul Standard Premium on the 1998-99 Walking Into Everywhere tour with Plant. He personally nicknamed a third TransPerformance-equipped guitar “Pepto Bismol,” because of its pinkish finish. Page then traded this guitar back to Transperformance for a fourth guitar, which he dubbed “Eerie Dess,” due to its maroon red crackled finish. This is the guitar that was seen on Saturday Night Live in 1998, when Page appeared with Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs for a performance of "Come With Me."

Used during 1998 on the Walking Into Clarksdale tour

Jimmy is seen playing this Yamaha FG-403MS in a video for a charity auction for the guitar. He mentions the model just after 0:45.

This Gibson article discussed Jimmy Page's Black Beauty, saying, "Although more often associated with his #1 and #2 sunburst Les Pauls, Jimmy Page used a ‘Black Beauty’ Les Paul with 3-pickups and a Bigsby for most of his session work and solo singles (1963-68), as well as using it for the recording of 'Whole Lotta Love'. He bought in 1962 for £185 ($5300 today). He did take it on tour with Led Zeppelin from January 1970 through 1971 but it was stolen at an airport in September ‘71. Page even placed an ad in Rolling Stone offering a reward for its return, but it was never recovered. The compilation of early work, Hip Young Guitar Slinger, credited to Jimmy Page and his Heavy Friends shows mid-‘60s Page with the guitar on the cover."

The session work is confirmed in Ultimate Guitar interview. "...then one of those Gibson "Black Beauties" which stayed with me for a long time until some thieving magpie took it to his nest. That's the guitar I did all the '60s sessions on."

In the same interview, Page says he traded his Gretsch Chet Atkins guitar for the Les Paul. "The Gibson "Black Beauty" Les Paul Custom. I was one of the first people in England to have one, but I didn't know that then. I just saw it on the wall, had a go with it, and it was good. I traded a Gretsch Chet Atkins I'd had before for the Les Paul. "

After almost 46 years ago, this guitar was finally returned to him.

Jimmy is seen here wielding a Gretsch G6120TM Chet Atkins Electric Guitar.

In the source picture, Jimmy Page is pictured in the studio playing this acoustic guitar.

This picture of Jimmy Page playing a Fender American Standard Stratocaster was taken on November 5, 1988. in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Fieldhouse, New York.

Jimmy page is seen here with Robert Plant playing the unique Giannini Craviola on 6-23-1972 at Sports Arena in San Diego Playing his 1970 model Giannini CraViola 12 string guitar for Tangerine. He used this guitar to record “Tangerine” and on stage from 1971 to June 1972. It had gold plated tuners, rosewood sides and back and sitka spruce top.

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Jimmy Page’s acoustic tracks on “The Rain Song” were recorded with a D-28. A long and winding ballad, Page is believed to have written the song in response to George Harrison’s complaints to John Bonham that Led Zeppelin rarely wrote slow jams. Page has said the song’s first two chords are quoted from the Beatles’ “Something.”

Jimmy Page didn't use this guitar. This is an incorrect entry. The actual guitar he used here was a 1968 E-Ros 606 Dakota

Jimmy Page can be seen playing this Gibson ES-350 regularly and in this video at 18:44.

Jimmy Page is seen playing the Fender Bajo Sexto Baritone Telecaster in the documentary "It Might Get Loud." Additionally, he was photographed with this guitar in the 1990s, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Photobucket titled "jimmypage-tele00."

Photo taken around 1998. Used from 1998 to around 2001. Used for "Going to California" at a performance in Molson amphitheatre.

Jimmy Page used a Gibson ES-335 Satin Finish Electric Guitar during live performances of "Dazed and Confused," as seen in the photo from Rosshalfin.

Developed in collaboration with Page. It is a replica of the original, which Page had customized.

This Gibson J-200 Standard Acoustic-Electric Guitar was used by Jimmy some time in 1970. This photo shown is from "Julie Felix show" in 1970.

It’s a ‘64 in Cherry Tea Burst

Jimmy played this Harmony Sovereign H1260 on famous songs such as "Ramble On" and "Stairway To Heaven." He can be seen holding it in a more recent photo as well.