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3 hours ago, Xolo1974 said:
In the 1977 tour, Jimmy used a Tele to play this song. I’m not a guitar expert in any way, so I was just wondering why…particularly given he used the LP when he played with the Black Crowes.
CheersHe used it because he'd had it fitted with a 'B' bender that allowed him to do some pedal-steel style string bends. He obviously invested a fair bit of time learning how to use it well, and it became his main guitar whilst he was in 'The Firm'.
In the early 90's he had a Les Paul fitted with a 'B' bender too, and since then that's had a lot more use than the tele... he must prefer the sound/feel of the Les Paul.
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7 minutes ago, Stryder1978 said:
80% increase on investment after only 4 years. Those are pretty good odds. Who needs the stock market, eh?
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25 minutes ago, zeplz71 said:
Must be a huge price tag. You have to contact them to find out how to purchase. Sounds like one of those "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it".
And this is what makes me quite sad about it.
Jimmy's target audience for the last decade or so seems to have been rather wealthy collectors/investors, rather than the everyday people who bought and still buy his records. It all feels horribly cynical to me.
I mean.. I'd put money on the amp that he used to play 'Rumble' being specifically sold at a premium (were talking silly money now) simply because it can be sold as an amp he'd played through in a live performance. It's not very creative, is it?
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So.... it seems that Jimmy's appearance wasn't just to honour Link Wray....
It was also an excuse to market his latest vanity project - a limited edition recreation of one of his stage amplifiers, courtesy of Perry Margoulef and Sundragon Amps.
https://www.sundragonamps.com/
Obviously a very cool thing..... but...
Interesting to see what sort of price they'll sell for. The first run of his little 35 watt Supro amp sold for £12,500 each...and this is a major step up from that. They're a lot of money, even for a boutique amplifier.
Bit of a shame that he didn't do the performance simply for the love of doing it, but at least he actually did get up in public and play - something I genuinely thought we'd seen the last of.
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4 hours ago, reids said:
Jimmy Page (double neck guitar)
Anton Fig (drums)Who is the bass player?
R😎
Tim Givens on Bass, according to Jimmy's FB page.
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47 minutes ago, paul carruthers said:
Fairlight synthesizer is what Jonesy used for the 80 tour....
Yup.
The Fairlight CMI (computer musical instrument) was one of the very first samplers, and a fully fledged digital synthesiser (and sequencer) - meaning you could not only create sounds from scratch, but record and manipulate sounds that had been recorded (sampled) into the computer.
It meant that Jones - who obviously loves keeping up with the latest music tech - only needed two keyboard instruments on the stage - the piano and the Fairlight. No need for the unreliable mellotron, and a clavinet (and maybe something to handle organ sounds, and something else for the weird sounds at the beginning of In The Evening too) - the Fairlight did it all in one box that was a lot smaller and lighter than a Hammond B3, let alone the ridiculous weight of the GX1 (just under a ton for the full setup. The keyboard section on its own weighed 300kg, which is a serious consideration if you're touring).
Because it was a sampler, it's more than likely he sampled his favourite string sounds from the GX1 to play during Kashmir/The Rain Song... which explains:
17 hours ago, Hedgerow_2001 said:to my ears anyway you can clearly hear the GX-1.
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The guitar is so fake it's almost funny.
Firstly, the guitar is out of focus and the signature are clear and sharp - clearly an appalling photoshop job.
Looking closer....
The whammy bar and part of the bridge has been cut off by the scratchplate, which doesn't match the shape of the actual scratchplate it's covering up. The guitar knobs and pickup selector are missing, but you can't see the posts they would be mounted on (and why would you take them off anyway? ). The guitar strings disappear behind the scratchplate!
Run away!
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Here we go….
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I think it may have been this place:
https://www.salcombefarm.co.uk/the-recording-studio
now available on Air b’n’b!
Their FB page has some comments about ‘home of Led Zeppelin…’.
I clearly remember some of the footage appearing on Antoine deCaune’s “Rapido” program… I may even still have the clip on a video somewhere.
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South Bound Saurez... without a doubt. If you listen super-carefully you can hear the hi-hat being hit open and closed simultaneously on a few occasions, and there are also a few two-handed snare fills that happen at the same time as hi-hat hits - impossible without either at least three arms, or by overdubbing. They probably decided that the driving hi-hat was a super important element of the song, and a natural playing style (coming off the hats to do fills etc.) spoiled that flow.
Over The Hills and Far Away... I don't think so. There's a huge amount of drum separation on this song (I reckon they'd been listening to Steely Dan's 'Can't Buy A Thrill' album a lot, and that uses similar over-accentuated panning of drum kit elements. "Dirty Work" has very similar drum production), and I think the hi-hat is just very close-mic'ed and panned off to the left. It's not doing anything slightly odd, like in 'Saurez..'. To my ears 'Houses of the Holy' sounds like the first album that they'd properly experimented with close mic'ing instruments in the drum kit, rather than using the tried-and-tested Andy Johns technique (which in its most basic form only requires two mics, a good sounding room and an excellent drummer).
'Over The Hills...' is a great example where you can hear this - at the beginning the drums sounds close and dry (not really possible without close mic'ing), but as you get to the guitar solo they open up the room/ambient mics and the drums start to 'breathe' and sound far more live. Really interesting bit of production! -
3 hours ago, JMH said:
How was this done?
Using demixing software, similar to this....
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5 hours ago, Cookie0024 said:
Looks like the film is back to being called "Becoming Led Zeppelin" https://ledzepnews.com/2023/03/13/becoming-led-zeppelin-is-now-called-becoming-led-zeppelin-again/
Nice to see that they're concentrating so hard on the really important stuff... 🙄
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He's not played live in front of an audience in nearly 12 years. He's 79 and, by the looks of it, not terribly steady on his feet any more.
He's turned down or ignored multiple opportunities to play live or record with others.
His main guitars spent a significant amount of time displayed in a museum - meaning if he actually does any practise at all (as he claims.... I have my doubts), it's mainly been on the acoustic.
He's done as a player.
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8 hours ago, Plant77 said:
Your explanations are always so on point and well thought out. Thank you for explaining these things to a novice like myself when it comes to guitar. Shout out to Woz 70. Have a great weekend.
Aw shucks *embarrassed face*. Thank you.
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52 minutes ago, Ian Smith said:
I have been reading up what it is and the Solfeggio frequencies aka "The Holy Frequencies".
The Solfeggio Frequencies (as opposed to Solfeggio which is the name given to the Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do system of denoting diatonic pitches, still used in teaching singing today) is a load of dodgy numerology, supposition, incorrect reapplication of terminology, conspiracy theory and downright misinformation, all leading to/from the idea that having A=440Hz as concert pitch is "designed" to be unhealthy for us.
It's all (more then) a bit hokey. There are much more useful things to waste your time on. Like playing the guitar.....😊
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Solfeggio_frequencies
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17 hours ago, Ian Smith said:
Long time guitar player here and I wanna add this to a project but I can not hear what key it is in. Closest I can hear is D#/Eb.
I have put it into some online key finders and they came up with 3 different keys. And the more I listen and jam with it the more confused I get.
Any help would be much appreciated.
If you've posted the correct YouTube link... then you're asking what 'key' an hour and ten minutes of a drone is in?
It's pretty much one note, and that's an E. The note starts very flat, and finally ends up almost settling on that E.... it's still pretty flat (compared to concert pitch) but it's still an E.
You can't really say it's in a 'key' because there's no other harmonic information..... if there was a G in there you could say it was E minor. If there was a G# you could say it was in G major.
It's simply a drone, and you can add your own tonality to it by playing different scales or pitches over it. Any diatonic scale or modal scale with E as the root will work equally well.
Maybe it does something else as it goes along..... but I'm not really prepared to listen to over an hour of a tonic drone just to hear if they add some major or minor information to it 😳
If you're obliquely asking about the apparent 'healing qualities' of the 852Hz & 963Hz stuff, be prepared to go down an absolute rabbit-hole of unevidenced and contradictory information. I'd strongly advise not wasting your time!
852Hz is about halfway between G# and A, so not really harmonically useful (especially as it's a couple of octaves above the drone note). 963Hz is about halfway between A# and B - again not useful harmonically in relation to E (it's almost the dominant... but that doesn't give you 'key' information), and it also creates a dissonant interval combined with 852Hz. -
On 2/5/2023 at 3:10 PM, Brigante said:
8.7lbs? Can that be right? That's about 4kg. Aren't Les Paul's supposed to be notoriously heavy? If these have been designed to be much lighter than the originals, what effect will that have on the sound? Not criticising - genuinely interested in how these things work. Excuse my ignorance - I'm a drummer, so I don't actually know anything about music. 😉
My '69 deluxe weighs 9.7lbs, so it's about right for the period, and it's the heaviest guitar I own. A 9lb guitar hanging on your shoulder for an hour or so can be a bit of a burden.
Newer Les Pauls have weight relief (holes in the body underneath the carved top), or are chambered (specially shaped holes in the body underneath the carved top) to reduce the weight. Whether or not it significantly changes the sound is a matter for an entire forums worth of discussion - i.e. mostly opinion rather than empirical evidence. -
22 hours ago, jsj said:
Very nice. How much do they go for? Crazy money I expect
The price it sold for is on the website. If you take a minute to read the whole thing it gives you loads of info.
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13 hours ago, z1inspector said:
if someone was to take a pole NOW putting all known facts aside due to their being a controversy and were asked to NAME who could be a candidate for the true composer of the riff ?
You don't need a poll.
Clapton is already on the record saying he didn't write the riff for Layla.
According to him the riff came from Duane Allman. Clapton had written the song as a ballad, but Allman's signature riff transformed the song into a rocker.
Aside from that, from my point of view the riff does quite a few definitely non-Page things, in terms of rhythm, use of tonality and general attitude.
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4 hours ago, chillumpuffer said:
Absolute bollocks.
Nuff sed.
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On 12/1/2022 at 4:14 AM, pattytheleadballoon said:
I'm not trying to fuck anyone over.
Considering the reserve price for your repro object had already been met - a price that was in the ballpark for a genuine object - then some poor sod has already been fucked over.
On 12/1/2022 at 4:14 AM, pattytheleadballoon said:That would be being a dick, like going batso when some guy makes an honest mistake on the web.
You had your 'honest mistake' pointed out repeatedly and yet still reposted the auction link to the fraudulent item, without acknowledging or addressing the points that had been made That is being a dick.
On 12/1/2022 at 4:14 AM, pattytheleadballoon said:At any rate, thanks again, although maybe assume a little better about people
If you sign up to a site like this and the first thing (and the second thing.... and the third thing) you post is a link to an auction to sell an obviously fake piece of memorabilia, then you've already hung yourself with the short length of rope you brought with you.
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, you can't really complain if people call it a duck.
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5 hours ago, pattytheleadballoon said:
Posting the same thing over and over doesn't make it any more genuine Patty.
Isn't trying to get someone to buy something that's fake called 'fraud'? Surely there are laws against that?
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Just now, Cookie0024 said:
To me, this appears to be the auction house attempting to promote auction listings to Led Zeppelin fan communities.
.... with a certificate of authenticity for an item that is an obvious fake.
Jimmy Page to Autograph a back plate on a Gibson Les Paul
in Musician's Corner
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Not gonna happen.
He stopped signing autographs a looooong time ago. He rarely signs anything these days, even his own official products.