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[Jools]

Originally Posted by mogwai

Here ya go fella..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-dQVZFY8s4

It had to happen.

On the strength of seeing that I've had to go on a Led Zep nostalgia buying frenzy. Their back catalogue isn't licensed on iTunes so I'm buying up the CD series and downloading them to me iPod.

Incidentally as a very humble muso myself it was interesting to see the instruments that they used on the live version of Kashmir.

Jimmy Page is using a Danelectro guitar that was originally designed as a real cheapo budget guitar with a softwood frame covered in masonite (american for hardboard) and lipstick tube pickups (so called because all the magnets and coils were built into tubes that really were meant to be for lipsticks). So a guitar that was sold in US catalogues as cheap as cheap pie - but later gained a cult following

On the other hand...

John Paul Jones is using a Yamaha GX1 synthesiser, one of only about 10 ever made and the only instrument of it's day that could replicate the complex string arrangements for this song in a live band. Synths of that power are ten a penny nowadays but in 1973 this was the mutha. It weighed 300 Kilos and cost $60,000

$60,000. Let's get that in perspective. Allowing for an exchange rate of 2-1 that's still £30,000 in 1973.

In 1973 the list price of a Ferrari Daytona was $24,000 or £12,000 and the average house price was £5,500


I'm taking my anorak off now and going to bed with a copy of the railway timetable and a nice mug of cocoa