Amused Cynic

Came across this old Led Zep thing on YouTube while looking for “Over The Hills and Far Away” the other day. One of the first songs I ever learned to play with a band. It’s really fun, classic lip-sync sixties stuff that makes you laugh, but check out the gear. For one thing, many, if not most of Jimmy Page’s classic guitar workouts were done on a Telecaster, not the vintage Les Paul he’s usually associated with.

But in this vid, the things to look at (besides John Bonham’s perfect Spinal Tap drumstick twirl) are the amps! Those are those 18 watt “student” Marshalls that everyone covets now. The ones that all the boutique amp makers try to copy, and sell for thousands. The ones they’re “playing,” with the original speaker cabinets (as they have in the vid) would go for big bucks today. However, they were probably just there as promotional stage-props for this lip-sync video. Ha!!

OK, I’m off to the train station, heading for New England ahead of the blizzard…consider this a communication breakdown until sometime Sunday.