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Dingus
Silver Member
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 Posted - 08/01/2006 : 21:35:07
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Ok, so this has been driving me nuts for a few days now, I realized I have no idea what that bridge pickup in Jimmy Page's '59 LP, the guitar he used mostly in Led Zeppelin, besides a Telecaster for the first album and for the Stairway to Heaven solo and whatever else, and besides that double headed SG beast.
it looks like:
http://www.gibsoncustom.com/flash/products/signature/page/JimmyPage.html
Which is the latest version of the Gibson Jimmy Page Signature LP
it says it's got Custom Jimmy Page Burstbuckers, which was definitely not the case when he had it in Led Zeppelin.
I'm pretty sure that it's a Gibson '57 Classic in the Neck, but what the heck is in the bridge??
I've heard suggestions that it might be a Dimarzio Super Distortion, but I dont know how likely that is.
If anyone happens to know, please let me know, I don't even like Jimmy Page or Led Zeppelin that much, I'm just amazed that this information isn't easier to find. |
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Goran
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Sweden
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Posted - 08/15/2006 : 09:36:55
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| In the early 70īs there was no Super Distortion pupīs around so at that time it was probably a PAF he used. As you know PAFīs varied a lot in output from example to example, Billy Gibbons Pearly Gates is said to have PAFīs with very high output. |
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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
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Posted - 08/15/2006 : 14:30:07
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| So you think they were both PAF's and the bridge one just had the cover removed? |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
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Posted - 08/15/2006 : 14:58:52
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If we are talking about the early 70īs my qualified guess is that it is a PAF, what would be around at this time that was hotter??
The pupīs made by Gibson in the late 60īs/early 70īs was not any good compared to original PAFīs.
There was a trend during this period to remove the covers of humbuckers. But as you say, why just remove one of the covers??? Maybe somebody sold him a really hot PAF with the cover removed!???
DiMarzio began making pupīs in the middle of the 70īs if Iīm not remembering wrong. And I also think (not sure here) he was the first to make really hot pick ups.
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stahlhart
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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
472 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2006 : 15:27:55
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| Ok, Stahlhart, so you think the bridge PU is a Hotter Rewind of a Gibson PAF, or one of Seymour's own inventions. It said in the Bio that he was working for Fender at the time, which doesnt exactly explain why he was rewinding a Gibson pickup. But that's cool with me, if that's definitely what the pickup is. It makes sense though that Page got in touch with Duncan through Jeff Beck, because they were probably both in the Yardbirds together at this time. |
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stahlhart
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Posted - 08/15/2006 : 16:08:49
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I'm not suggesting anything really, because the information is somewhat vague. It just suggests that Seymour was doing work for Jimmy at that time. It might have only been on his Telecaster for all I know.
But he must have at least been working on Gibson pickups on the side at that point, just to have been learning more about them, if not at the request of any particular guitarist.
So you could probably at least come to the conclusion that they were stock PAFs that had a particular tone that Jimmy liked, or that possibly Seymour rewound them. I'm wondering if perhaps the cover or covers got removed as part of the rewinding, and weren't put back on afterward.
Photos also indicate that the covers on the pickups for the 6-string side of the ES-1275 (doubleneck) were also removed.
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Goran
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Sweden
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 07:29:55
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| I looked at some pictures of Pageīs Les Paul yesterday, it sure looks like a Gibson, re-wound or not, but itīs impossible to see if it is a PAF or a later one. The bridge pick-up was actually not original in the early 70īs as the text below one of the pictures said. |
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What Pickups Does Jimmy Page have in his '59 LP
