“COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN”
LED ZEPPELIN | LED ZEPPELIN, 1969 | GUITARIST: JIMMY PAGE
STORY BY CHRIS GILL
TONAL RECALL
THE SECRETS BEHIND FAMOUS GUITAR SOUNDS
FOR DECADES, ALL that tone chasers knew about the mysterious amp that Jimmy Page used to record the first Led Zeppelin album (as well as his legendary “Stairway to Heaven” solo) was that it was a Supro with a 12-inch speaker. In 2019 the mystery was definitively solved when Page, working in partnership with producer/guitar collector Perry Margouleff, loaned his original Supro to amp builder Mitch Colby, who painstakingly duplicated every detail for the Sundragon amp project.