re: REPOST: Jimmy Page's guitars NO WAY!!!!

[Jay Dogg <jaysen137@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also the original '58 wasn't shaved. The '59 was shaved to match the '58. The
pickup cover was lost. Dunno about the push pull pots.
On the '59 there were 2 switches under the pickguard, as well as the push pull
pots.

Jay Dogg


--- tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> There are many post I automatically print out and save for future 
> reading and this was one of them. So during a bit of downtime today 
> between the rigors of work, rippin burning, editing , mastering and 
> dithering I got down to reading this and WHOA NELLY!!!!!!!! Some glaring 
> snafus I'm amazed noone  else called out
> 
> 
> >>
> >>Number One:  a 1958 Gibson Les Paul Studio, modified with a shaved 
> > neck,
> >>push-pulls in the pots, and missing the tailpiece cover, which Jimmy
> >>says was lost from "years of beating on it with a violin bow" and he 
> > has
> 
> ARRRGK!!! No way Jose!!! You absolutely must mean STANDARD...the studio 
> series didn't exist till 1983! And I'll be damn hard pressed to find ANY 
> Les Paul with a tailpiece cover my friend!! If anything Jimmy and ergo 
> you must have been refering to the tele...
> 
> >>Number Two:  a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Studio, given <<<2007 Note - 
> > sold?>>>
> >>to him by Joe Walsh in
> >>Los Angeles in the late 60s.  It's been modified by shaving the neck 
> > to
> >>match Number One, the addition of push-pull switches in the pots, and 
> > an
> >>arched bridge for use with the violin bow to allow the playing of more
> >>individual notes.  It is also missing the tailpiece cover, as shown in
> >>photos. 
> 
> Again...see above!!!! The tailpiece on an LP is one solid hunk of metal 
> unless it was outfitted with a Bigsby!! And I wonder what photos are you 
> refering to ?
> 
> 
> Again, I'm ashamed I didn't read this earlier and that noone spotted 
> this before me...a lowly half assed guitar guy.
> 
> Nech
> 
> 


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