{"id":792348,"date":"2019-01-24T13:29:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783965"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:29:32","slug":"see-jimmy-page-explain-how-he-cloned-his-led-zeppelin-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-jimmy-page-explain-how-he-cloned-his-led-zeppelin-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"See Jimmy Page Explain How He \u2018Cloned\u2019 His \u2018Led Zeppelin\u2019 Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Page<\/a> unveiled four new \u201cclones\u201d of his famous \u201cMirror\u201d and \u201cDragon\u201d guitars that he made in collaboration with Fender yesterday. The instruments are based on the Led Zeppelin<\/a> guitarist\u2019s 1959 Fender Telecaster, and their release is timed to the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin<\/em>, on which he played his \u201cDragon\u201d telecaster. The Fender Custom Shop will be releasing two high-priced models, which its calling the Limited Edition Jimmy Page Telecaster Set, in March and two other models will come off Fender\u2019s regular production lines and be available in the spring or summer.<\/p>\n

A video that Fender released with the announcement chronicles the history of the instrument. Jeff Beck gifted Page the \u201959 Tele in 1966 when both guitarists were playing in the Yardbirds. Page added eight round mirrors to the instrument in February 1967 and by the middle of the year he stripped it down and painted its now-famous \u201cdragon\u201d design on it. You can hear Page playing the guitar on the live album Yardbirds \u201968<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of the instrument is the whole journey of it \u2014 from Jeff having it, to passing it on to me with such good spirit,\u201d Page said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of love in that gesture and the journey of it through the Yardbirds and how it was used on the first Led Zeppelin album \u2026 the journey all the way through here today. Now, it\u2019s been restored back to its true beauty and we\u2019ve actually been able to sort of clone it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fender Custom Shop versions are each priced at $25,000; the company will produce only 50 copies of each and will provide certificates of authenticity for them. The Fender production line \u201cMirror\u201d Telecaster will be going for $2,499.99 and the \u201cJimmy Page Telecaster\u201d will have a price tag of $1,399.99.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Mark Keraly\/Fender<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cJimmy actually invited us to his house in London to spec the guitar out,\u201d Fender Custom Shop Master Builder Paul Waller said in a statement. \u201cMore than a year later, we\u2019ve managed to bring this guitar and the evolution of Jimmy\u2019s career back to life. As the guitar evolved, so did Jimmy\u2019s career. As the Dragon is born, he moves in and Led Zeppelin is born as well. It\u2019s a pivotal moment for the guitar and music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Page played his original \u201959 Tele from his time in the Yardbirds through the recording of Led Zeppelin<\/em>. When he returned from a tour in 1969, he discovered that a friend of his had stripped the body and painted over the dragon. This modification changed the sound of the instrument and rendered only the neck pickup usable. He took the neck off the instrument it and put it on a brown string bender Tele. He has subsequently restored the original body.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Page unveiled four new \u201cclones\u201d of his famous \u201cMirror\u201d and \u201cDragon\u201d guitars that he made in collaboration with Fender yesterday. The instruments are based on the Led Zeppelin guitarist\u2019s 1959 Fender Telecaster, and their release is timed to the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin, on which he played his \u201cDragon\u201d telecaster. The Fender Custom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 21:10:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}