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Jimmy's "Domino" guitar 1999


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Not sure if this has been discussed before... but I was watching Jimmy play his song Domino from Net Aid 1999 and his guitar is just freaking amazing sounding. Was that a custom guitar built for him? I know it's a Danelectro, it looks like a standard six string and then a baritone below it that he uses for the song. Whatever it is, the song is so mesmerizing

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Pretty cool as I remember watching this back then. Felt it was a bit disorganized in part in its' construction. Perhaps it needed a bit more work or practice from Jimmy etc on this as they probably hadn't played it much before this show.

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Pretty cool as I remember watching this back then. Felt it was a bit disorganized in part in its' construction. Perhaps it needed a bit more work or practice from Jimmy etc on this as they probably hadn't played it much before this show.

It is a really good song IMO, lots of potential. This was the only time he ever played it live if my memory serves me right, so figures it's gonna be a bit disorganized. Jimmy also played a part of this in It Might Get Loud under the surname "Embryo No. 2" so he still has this piece in his head to fiddle with. Hopefully this will show up on the "new material" that he's supposedly been working on for next year, one can only hope!! :whistling:

This is sort of cool. :bubble:

I knew about the Danelectro Longhorn bass (both the regular version and the doubleneck version, Rinus Gerritsen of Golden Earring plays them).

I had no idea there also are guitar-versions.

Maaike

I did some more research and this company Jerry Jones Guitars made really high end Danelectro reproductions and they made this Longhorn baritone double neck, which is kick ass. It's always fun to see what weird ass stuff Jimmy can get his hands on :P

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It is a Jerry Jones built guitar, but it is called a Double5 Longhorn & it was purchased by Jimmy in December 1993.

Jones gave me the details about it a few years back. The top guitar neck has three pickups and the bottom neck is a Bass6 tuned "E" to"E" an octave down from standard guitar.

Page also purchased a 2 pickup and a 3 pickup Original Shorthorn (think Danelectro 3021) at the same time and then 2 Master Electric Sitars in 1998 from Jones.

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It is a Jerry Jones built guitar, but it is called a Double5 Longhorn & it was purchased by Jimmy in December 1993.

Jones gave me the details about it a few years back. The top guitar neck has three pickups and the bottom neck is a Bass6 tuned "E" to"E" an octave down from standard guitar.

Page also purchased a 2 pickup and a 3 pickup Original Shorthorn (think Danelectro 3021) at the same time and then 2 Master Electric Sitars in 1998 from Jones.

Cool info, thanks for the insight!!

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It is a Jerry Jones built guitar, but it is called a Double5 Longhorn & it was purchased by Jimmy in December 1993.

Jones gave me the details about it a few years back. The top guitar neck has three pickups and the bottom neck is a Bass6 tuned "E" to"E" an octave down from standard guitar.

Page also purchased a 2 pickup and a 3 pickup Original Shorthorn (think Danelectro 3021) at the same time and then 2 Master Electric Sitars in 1998 from Jones.

Yup, thanks for the info.

Maaike

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Cool info, i always thought that was a bass guitar on that aerosmith song. I really like the sound on domino there, wonder if page used that guitar on, sons of freedom. One of the things about jpj's guitar in 77 and 80, i like the way it doubles page's rhythm guitar, or accents in, the song remains the same.

Also when the bass guitar doubles the lead rhythm in bands like motorhead, its to great effect. Or morphine,where its the only guitar.

Its also interesting to trace back pages sound to white summer, whether its here w domino, ten years gone, or rhythm derivatives on tear down the walls or that choppy acoustic piece on it might get loud.

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It is a Jerry Jones built guitar, but it is called a Double5 Longhorn & it was purchased by Jimmy in December 1993.

Jones gave me the details about it a few years back. The top guitar neck has three pickups and the bottom neck is a Bass6 tuned "E" to"E" an octave down from standard guitar.

Page also purchased a 2 pickup and a 3 pickup Original Shorthorn (think Danelectro 3021) at the same time and then 2 Master Electric Sitars in 1998 from Jones.

It may have been built as a bass6, but it's definitely tuned baritone style "A" to "A" for Domino. How do I know? Because I play along with it on my Gretsch baritone
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