Jimmy Page

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 this Guitar Lobby article they discuss Jimmy’s use of this amp for Led Zeppelin’s 1972 US tour.

https://www.guitarlobby.com/jimmy-page-guitars-and-gear/

Jimmy has been using the echoplex from the 1972 US tour to present-day. He has used 2 echoplexes over the years, one for his guitar, and one for his theremin.

These amps were custom versions of Hiwatt’s Special All Purpose amps with a few modifications. Page used them on stage from July 1969 to November 1971. The amplifiers were powered by four EL34’s, with three 12AX7, and a 12AT7.

Two were used in series for "Black Dog", as stated by producer Andy Johns in this Universal Audio interview. The article is accompanied by a photograph of Johns with three 1176LNs.

Would you like the “Black Dog” guitar tone story?

Absolutely! Which Led Zeppelin album was that?

That is the fourth one, the really, really big one. “Stairway To Heaven,” “When The Levee Breaks,” and “Black Dog.” It sold about 18 million — something bloody ridiculous. Who would have known, you know? I had been trying to get this sound from Buffalo Springfield for a long time and I met Bill House. He said, “I just put two of them in series.” He didn’t really want to let me know what “they” were.

It was a direct sound and I thought that I knew what to do. There were three guitars on “Black Dog” so I triple tracked it. When I mixed it, these three guitars were down here and the rest of the tracks were up here. Since the sound was so loud, it gave me much more room for the other stuff. Anyways, he meant two 1176s in series, one of which has the compression buttons punched out, so it is like an amp. You hit the front of the next compressor really hard and make the mic amp distort a bit with the EQ —a bit of bottom to make it sing. So “Black Dog” has a direct Gibson Les Paul Sunburst 52 or something, going right into the mic amps on the mixer, which is going through two 1176s, and it sounds like some guy in the Albert Hall with a bunch of Marshalls. I couldn’t have done it without the 1176s. There is not another compressor that will do that, because you can take out the compression stuff.

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.

"For Jimmy's stage system, we fitted additional high impedance pre-amps between each effect to further isolate each one from the next in line. We also provided two send/return circuits so that new effects could be added at a later date and another send/return to Jimmy's Echoplex. The four isolated outputs to the stage amplifiers each had a line driver fitted to overcome the very long across-stage cables (total length 64m)." - via Pete Cornish

Jimmy Page used Petersburg P-100/JP-100 Amplifiers from 1995 up to the reunion concert of Led Zeppelin in 2007

According to Pete Cornish's website, Boss CE-2 chorus pedal is a part of his pretty massive pedalboard.

When Jimmy plays the intro and the camera gets futher away, your able to see on the floor a gray wah wah pedal, really similar to the vox grey wah (used by amney artist like George Harrison).

In this photo, Jimmy Page can be seen with an Orange OR200.

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.

https://www.groundguitar.com/jimmy-page-gear/

http://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/june-23-1972

"The fact that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones left most of their Transonics in the U.S. after returning to England in ’69 at the end of the tour also leads some to assume they weren’t thrilled with the Rickenbackers. No doubt the Marshall head and cab ultimately suited him better live, and a little Supro and others did the trick in the studio, but Page had already recorded the main guitar part to “Heartbreaker” on one of his Transonics, and did purportedly retain another in his home collection for many years." -via Vintage Guitar magazine

In this picture of Page with the final line up of the Yardbirds you can see his Tonebender Professional MII. See also this shot with Zep:

http://www.bigmuffpage.com/images/Tonebender%20Images/Screaming%20Lord%20Such_May%201969_TB.jpg

and this informative article on the history of the Bender family of fuzzes with a healthy dose of 'ol Pagey interspersed: http://www.bigmuffpage.com/The_Tonebender_Timeline_4.html

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

According to Ant Macari, Led Zeppelin bandmate John Paul Jones recalled Page bringing in a MKI to early rehearsals.

I spoke to John Paul Jones a couple o' years ago and I said "Do You remember Jimmy Page with his first fuzz box, when he first brought it in to rehearsals?" And he said something that absolutely flattened me, he said "Yeah, I remember it looking like a piece of cheese." Which makes me think he had a MKI.

Jimmy Page uses the 2001 Fender Vibro King CSR4 Stack, as detailed on his official equipment page for Led Zeppelin.

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.

In this dated image of Page you can just make out the Rotosound Tonebender MK III.

In this clip from "It Might Get Loud", you can just make out the Whammy 1 behind Jimmy at :23s. Woodytone tries to decipher exactly what gear he uses in this move from this accompanying article, where they also mention the Whammy 1.

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.

In the book Secrets from the Masters, Jimmy Page discusses his use of the Supro Thunderbolt. On page 176 he states, "I was using the Supro amp for the first album and still do. The “Stairway To Heaven” solo was done when I pulled out the Telecaster, which I hadn’t used for a long time, plugged it into the Supro, and away it went again."

The mentioned model was Supro 1690T modified with a small 12 inch speaker.

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.