Image: Jimmy Page's Dragon Telecaster (1959 Fender, serial no. 50062), received from Jeff Beck ca.1965, hand painted & replaced the pickguard by Jimmy Page, played with violin bow - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.27.12 by Eden, Janine and Jim)
Description: Dragon Guitar given to Jimmy Page by Jeff Beck, used to record the first Led Zeppelin album. Played with a violin bow on "Dazed and Confused." Jimmy Page's Dragon Telecaster (1959 Fender, serial no. 50062), received from Jeff Beck ca.1965, hand painted & replaced the pickguard by Jimmy Page, played with violin bow - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.27.12 by Eden, Janine and Jim) "Dragon" Telecaster (1959, serial no. 50062), Fender. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "Jimmy Page received this guitar from Jeff Beck and used it for his 1967 work with the Yardbirds, even playing it with a violin bow on experimental live versions of “Dazed and Confused.” After the Yardbirds disbanded, he used it to record all of Led Zeppelin (1968). Page hand painted the dragon design on the body and replaced the white pickguard with transparent acrylic over silver-gray diffraction film. The guitar was later stripped by a well-meaning friend, but Page restored the design in 2018. ", "Technical Description: Ash body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard; 25 ½ in. scale; natural finish with dragon design; bolt-on neck with dot inlays; “spaghetti” Fender logo decal on headstock; two single-coil pickups, three-way selector switch, volume and tone controls; chrome bridge, control panel, and knobs, nickel tuning machines; psychedelic dragon design hand-painted on body and clear-coated, clear plastic pickguard with light-diffracting foil underneath ", "Object Details ", "Title: "Dragon" Telecaster (serial no. 50062) ", "Artist: Fender ", "Artist: Jimmy Page (British, Heston, born 1944) ", "Date: 1959 ", "Medium: Ash, maple, rosewood, metal, plastic ", "Dimensions: Length: 39 1/4 in. (99.7 cm) / Width: 13 in. (33 cm) / Depth: 1 3/4 in. (3.8 in.) / Weight: ~7-8 lbs. ", "Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ", "Credit Line: Collection of Jimmy Page ", "Provenance: Jeff Beck; Jimmy Page, 1965 " Violin bow, Jimmy Page. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "At times Jimmy Page has used a violin bow on his guitars, exploring the sonic possibilities of this technique and applying them to psychedelic rock. He played the bowed guitar in live solos with the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, and uses this bow to this day. ", "Object Details ", "Title: Violin bow ", "Artist: Jimmy Page (British, Heston, born 1944) ", "Medium: Wood, horsehair ", "Dimensions: Length: 30 in. (76.2 cm) ", "Classification: Chordophone-Accessories-bow ", "Credit Line: Collection of Jimmy Page "
Title: Jimmy Page's Dragon Telecaster (1959 Fender, serial no. 50062), received from Jeff Beck ca.1965, hand painted & replaced the pickguard by Jimmy Page, played with violin bow - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.27.12 by Eden, Janine and Jim)
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Author: Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City
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