08/31/2026
THIS IS MY GUITAR - There are many like it, but this one is mine! 🎸
Jimmy Page’s Dragon Telecaster is a 1959 Fender Telecaster (ash body, maple neck, slab rosewood board, top-loader bridge) that Jeff Beck gave him in 1966 after Page helped Beck land the Yardbirds gig; Page first glued eight circular mirrors to the blonde body in early 1967, then stripped it and, over an evening, hand-painted a swirling psychedelic dragon in poster-paint greens, reds, oranges, yellows and blues, adding a clear acrylic pick guard with diffraction film. It became his main guitar for the late Yardbirds and almost all of Led Zeppelin I, and he later used it for the “Stairway to Heaven” solo before a house-sitter painted over the artwork; Page stripped the body and stored the guitar for decades until he and Fender recreated the dragon finish in 2019.
Paul Hammond, Get The Led Out @ Red Rocks, Sep 2024