Page’s Dragon Tele

robgilmo

This guitar will be remastered every year for the next four decades.

monofin

This is the guitar I always hoped Fender would build.

fields5069

Apparently Fender got it 110% or 150% right. Gammon statz ftw! 

Neil

It will no doubt cost a fortune but much as I respect LZ and Pagey in particular his amateurish art school effort dragon is for acolytes only IMO.

stimpsonslostson

Will you be given special dispensation to play Stairway on it when you try it out? 

meltedbuzzbox

Neil said:

It will no doubt cost a fortune but much as I respect LZ and Pagey in particular his amateurish art school effort dragon is for acolytes only IMO.

He didn't paint it

stimpsonslostson

meltedbuzzbox said:

Neil said:

It will no doubt cost a fortune but much as I respect LZ and Pagey in particular his amateurish art school effort dragon is for acolytes only IMO.

He didn't paint it

I thought he did but a friend repainted it & "ruined" it. 

Neil

meltedbuzzbox said:

Neil said:

It will no doubt cost a fortune but much as I respect LZ and Pagey in particular his amateurish art school effort dragon is for acolytes only IMO.

He didn't paint it

You surprise me as I always read that he painted it.

If not Pagey - who?

stimpsonslostson

Neil said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

Neil said:

It will no doubt cost a fortune but much as I respect LZ and Pagey in particular his amateurish art school effort dragon is for acolytes only IMO.

He didn't paint it

You surprise me as I always read that he painted it.

If not Pagey - who?

It looks like it was drawn in school art class. Maybe Lori Maddox moved from crayons to paints while Jimmy knew her. 

proggy

Neil said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

Neil said:

It will no doubt cost a fortune but much as I respect LZ and Pagey in particular his amateurish art school effort dragon is for acolytes only IMO.

He didn't paint it

You surprise me as I always read that he painted it.

If not Pagey - who?

I heard Jimmy's quite close to Stevie Wonder, and going by the look of that dragon....

JayGee

robgilmo said:

This guitar will be remastered every year for the next four decades.

...and turn out actually to be the work of some old black guy who never saw a penny from it. :-)

Philly_Q

impmann said:

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...

I agree that it's just as worthy of commemoration as many other iconic guitars which have already been given the tribute/recreation treatment by Fender and/or Gibson, but would you actually consider buying one?

robgilmo

JayGee said:

robgilmo said:

This guitar will be remastered every year for the next four decades.

...and turn out actually to be the work of some old black guy who never saw a penny from it. :-)

Maybe they should get Ibanez to build the Fender guitar and get Page to change it a little but not by enough to actually change anything about it?

usedtobe

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

It really is fantastic, isn’t it! Still blows me away after all these years!

springhead

^^ yep, amazing entrance for a band. 

Cols

thermionic said:

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

Goddammit, beat me to it.  £900 for a graffitied Squier Tele, bargain.

guitars4you

No info pack yet at my end but initial chat with the Fender UK guys and what we know so far is a USA production version so I dare say along the lines of other signature models like the Clapton, Beck, Johnson models etc etc - no prices yet  and not sure if this is a one off with a limited run/supply or part of a continual run like an EC Strat

The other is a Paul Weller Master Built model - no quantities issued yet or indeed price, but expect one to be low and one to be high - Not even been told about allocations yet of this - all will apparently be relieved soon - Not even sure if we can order one as it might just be allocated to big accounts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mikeyrob73

Cols said:

thermionic said:

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

Goddammit, beat me to it.  £900 for a graffitied Squier Tele, bargain.

BUT i has a tinfoil pick guard 

axisus

I'd forgotten that G&R started off looking like a poncey hair band

Cabicular

https://youtu.be/k-WSbMW7BPc