Page’s Dragon Tele

impmann

https://www.theguitarmagazine.com/news/fender-jimmy-page-telecaster-reissue/

Ooohhh. Not often i get excited about things like this but the sounds this guitar made made me want to play guitar.

impmann

Gives me an excuse to share the greatest opening track on any debut album ever IMHO. And yes, all the guitar sounds are the Dragon Tele

https://youtu.be/FSiUTSJ2NWY

Philly_Q

Every time I glance at this thread title my mind is giving me this:

mudslide73

I'm a Page fanboy but I can't see myself with any of these because I can't play out with them. I always preferred the dragon Tele in monochrome and was disappointed when I finally saw it in colour (Supershow footage). 

thecolourbox

impmann said:

Gives me an excuse to share the greatest opening track on any debut album ever IMHO. And yes, all the guitar sounds are the Dragon Tele

https://youtu.be/FSiUTSJ2NWY

But I thought this was the greatest opening track on any debut album ever

57Deluxe

yes colour didn't kck-in until about 1968. Before then everything was black and white and grey.

Tenebrous

thecolourbox said:

impmann said:

Gives me an excuse to share the greatest opening track on any debut album ever IMHO. And yes, all the guitar sounds are the Dragon Tele

https://youtu.be/FSiUTSJ2NWY

But I thought this was the greatest opening track on any debut album ever

Great shout, but I'd have to go with this all the same...

Good Times Bad Times is absolutely killer.

stimpsonslostson

Tenebrous said:

thecolourbox said:

impmann said:

Gives me an excuse to share the greatest opening track on any debut album ever IMHO. And yes, all the guitar sounds are the Dragon Tele

https://youtu.be/FSiUTSJ2NWY

But I thought this was the greatest opening track on any debut album ever

Great shout, but I'd have to go with this all the same...

Good Times Bad Times is absolutely killer.

Both wrong. 

thermionic

But, but, but... what about this?

Strat54

. Not sure what the press release is going on about giving a new generation of players access to  two great instruments in honor of Jimmy, his storied career and amazing musical body of work created and performed on this guitar. Surely this will be bought by middle aged fanboys? I mean there can't be many younger players willing to drop thousands on a pretty ugly painted Tele? I'm sure it will sell out before NAMM. 

thecolourbox

I recall that video of a young Jimmy Page saying how he hoped to fund his art career through his music. I think looking at the art he applied to a perfectly good telecaster, he made the right choice in sticking to the music side of things

meltedbuzzbox

stimpsonslostson said:

Tenebrous said:

thecolourbox said:

impmann said:

Gives me an excuse to share the greatest opening track on any debut album ever IMHO. And yes, all the guitar sounds are the Dragon Tele

https://youtu.be/FSiUTSJ2NWY

But I thought this was the greatest opening track on any debut album ever

Great shout, but I'd have to go with this all the same...

Good Times Bad Times is absolutely killer.

Both wrong. 

All of you are wrong

stimpsonslostson

meltedbuzzbox said:

stimpsonslostson said:

Tenebrous said:

thecolourbox said:

impmann said:

Gives me an excuse to share the greatest opening track on any debut album ever IMHO. And yes, all the guitar sounds are the Dragon Tele

https://youtu.be/FSiUTSJ2NWY

But I thought this was the greatest opening track on any debut album ever

Great shout, but I'd have to go with this all the same...

Good Times Bad Times is absolutely killer.

Both wrong. 

All of you are wrong

DEBUT album. Only Revolutions isn't a debut, it's album number 5 I think. 

Winny_Pooh

meltedbuzzbox said:

stimpsonslostson said:

Tenebrous said:

thecolourbox said:

impmann said:

Gives me an excuse to share the greatest opening track on any debut album ever IMHO. And yes, all the guitar sounds are the Dragon Tele

https://youtu.be/FSiUTSJ2NWY

But I thought this was the greatest opening track on any debut album ever

Great shout, but I'd have to go with this all the same...

Good Times Bad Times is absolutely killer.

Both wrong. 

All of you are wrong

I am confused by your sense of humour, am I missing some meta-joke?

Hattigol

I shudder to imagine the cost of this. Especially the ltd edition masterbuilt pair.....£15k? More?

monoamine

The dragon tele was great because it was cheap, cheerful and different. It really isn't the sort of guitar that needed a high profile reissue costing way more than labour and parts combined. Anyone who really wanted one would happily make their own as a tribute partscaster.

kossofffan

Tell Mr Page I'll buy one if it helps him fund them pair of idiot neighbours of his 'disappear'

meltedbuzzbox

@stimpsonslostson my bad. All I saw was opening track

p90fool

Strat54 said:

 Surely this will be bought by middle aged fanboys? 

It's 2018 and the first album was half a century ago, I think they're more likely to be elderly.

impmann

monoamine said:

The dragon tele was great because it was cheap, cheerful and different. It really isn't the sort of guitar that needed a high profile reissue costing way more than labour and parts combined. Anyone who really wanted one would happily make their own as a tribute partscaster.

I disagree to a point.

The real guitar is a ‘59 Fender Tele - hardly a ‘cheap guitar’. It was also once the property of Jeff Beck who used it extensively with the Yardbirds. It’s alleged by some that *this* is the Over Under Sideways Down guitar (young uns might want to check that out on YT - and then try playing it...).

If this was one of those “fabled” Les Paul Standards from the same era, instead of the negativity there would be pant creaming about flame maple and sunburst finishes. But because it’s a Fender somehow it has to be cheap - perhaps there’s less Unicorn Tears used in the process of building one... 

Sneer all you want but a reissue of this guitar is long overdue AND the really exciting piece of this puzzle is that Jimmy has had the real guitar restored. That for me is far more bloody interesting than any sunburst Pudding. I want to see the man play it again - and if the rumours are true that he and Plant are planning another Zeppelin or Zep-based outing, this could be brilliant.

As you all were - back to the negativity...

monoamine

Difference of opinion but I respect your point - it does have historical significance now that you put it into context for me. I have always thought of building and painting one myself, so at least now I will have a standard to compare it to I guess