Showing posts with label dragon Telecaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dragon Telecaster. Show all posts

Friday, July 28, 2023

On this day 28 July

 Fenders.  It's what was happening.

1958 28 July On This Day Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps release Hot Rod Gang EP 

1984 28 July On This Day Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival
♪  Short and Sweet (Jimmy Page with Roy Harper)

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Sacramento, CA at Governor's Hall
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden (day 2 of 3)
  • 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge Folk Festival
1973:
Day two of the Madison Square Garden show. More firecrackers. The band was asked to wear the same outfits for the sake of the filming that was being done. Mr. Jones was the only one of the four who didn't comply.

1984:
We don't think of Jimmy Page as a folk guitarist, but of course he has demonstrated he can play any musical genre he wants to, and do it well.

The Cambridge Folk Festival's first show was in 1965. Back then Paul Simon and about a dozen others were on the bill, and 1400 tickets were sold. Simon earned £15 for his performance. Since then the festival has expanded and now includes non-folk performers as well. In 2014 there were more than a hundred acts featured over four days, including Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor and Rosanne Cash.

1984 Jimmy Page with Tony Franklin, Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

Saturday, July 22, 2023

On this day 22 July

"There was Keith Richards on electric guitar, myself on electric guitar ... Keith kicked it off and I began to mould a riff around his guitar part to augment the arrangement."

Scarlet, recorded in 1974 by the Rolling Stones & feat. Jimmy Page guitar released 2020


1967 22 July On This Day Jimmy Page with The Yardbirds at Santa Monica
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Gravesend, Kent England at Co-op Hall
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Santa Monica, CA at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
  • 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Birmingham, England at NEC Arena
  • 2020 The Rolling Stones release "Scarlet", recorded in 1974 with Jimmy Page

In late 1967 the Dragon was hatched.


1967 March Jimmy Page's Telecaster before the Dragon

Jimmy Page's famous Dragon Telecaster started out as a generic white.  Page inherited it when Jeff Beck left the Yardbirds in 1966, and by spring 1967 the Tele sported eight reflective circle patches.

"... Jimmy Page stripped the Fender Blond paint off and handpainted a green, red and orange psychadelic dragon on the front of the ash body and replaced the pickguard with a pickguard made of clear acrylic with a sheet of diffraction grating film underneath."
~Achilles Last Stand
1995 Page & Plant at Birmingham UK
2008 July Jimmy Page backstage with The Mars Volta at the Roundhouse, London (Ross Halfin photo)


1974 - 2020
One of the three bonus cuts on the Rolling Stone's remaster of Goats Head Soup, released 04 September, 2020, was 'Scarlet', recorded in October 1974 with Jimmy Page on guitar Read about it at Ultimate Classic Rock's article, How Jimmy Page Ended Up Jamming With Keith Richards on 'Scarlet' 


♪  Over Under Sideways Down (The Yardbirds, 15 March 1967)  
♪  Scarlet (Rolling Stones feat Jimmy Page guitar 1974)  
♪ Page & Plant (Birmingham England Birmingham, England at NEC Arena, 22 July 1995)




Tuesday, July 28, 2015

On This Day 28 July

Fenders.  It's what was happening.
1958 28 July On This Day Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps release Hot Rod Gang EP 

1984 28 July On This Day Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival
♪  Short and Sweet (Jimmy Page with Roy Harper)

  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Sacramento, CA at Governor's Hall
  • 1973 Led Zeppelin - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden (day 2 of 3)
  • 1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge Folk Festival
1973:
Day two of the Madison Square Garden show. More firecrackers. The band was asked to wear the same outfits for the sake of the filming that was being done. Mr. Jones was the only one of the four who didn't comply.

1984:
We don't think of Jimmy Page as a folk guitarist, but of course he has demonstrated he can play any musical genre he wants to, and do it well.

The Cambridge Folk Festival's first show was in 1965.  Paul Simon and just about a dozen others were on the bill, and 1400 tickets were sold. Simon earned £15 for his performance. Since then the festival has expanded and now includes non-folk performers as well. In 2014 there were more than a hundred acts featured over four days, including Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor and Rosanne Cash.

1984 Jimmy Page with Tony Franklin, Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page - Cambridge Folk Festival

1984 Jimmy Page with Roy Harper - Cambridge Folk Festival

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

On This Day 22 July

Scarlet, recorded in 1974 by the Rolling Stones & feat. Jimmy Page guitar released 2020


1967 22 July On This Day Jimmy Page with The Yardbirds at Santa Monica
  • 1966 The Yardbirds - Gravesend, Kent England at Co-op Hall
  • 1967 The Yardbirds - Santa Monica, CA at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
  • 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Birmingham, England at NEC Arena
  • 2020 The Rolling Stones release "Scarlet", recorded in 1974 with Jimmy Page
1995 Page & Plant at Birmingham UK
2008 July Jimmy Page backstage with The Mars Volta at the Roundhouse, London (Ross Halfin photo)

Jimmy Page's famous Dragon Telecaster started out as a generic white.  Page inherited it when Jeff Beck left the Yardbirds in 1966, and by spring 1967 the Tele sported eight reflective circle patches.

1967 March Jimmy Page's Telecaster before the Dragon


In late 1967 the Dragon was hatched.

"... Jimmy Page stripped the Fender Blond paint off and handpainted a green, red and orange psychadelic dragon on the front of the ash body and replaced the pickguard with a pickguard made of clear acrylic with a sheet of diffraction grating film underneath."
~Achilles Last Stand

2020
The Rolling Stone's remaster of Goats Head Soup is due to be released 04 September, 2020, but one of the three bonus cuts is 'Scarlet', recorded in October 1974 with Jimmy Page on guitar, and available on this day, 22 July, 2020.
Read More: How Jimmy Page Ended Up Jamming With Keith Richards on 'Scarlet' |

♪  Over Under Sideways Down (The Yardbirds, 15 March 1967) YouTube
♪  Black Dog (Page & Plant Birmingham 1995) YouTube
♪  Ramble On (Page & Plant Birmingham 1995) YouTube
♪  Scarlet (Rolling Stones feat Jimmy Page guitar  1974) YouTube


[Edited 07/22/20]