Jimmy Page is, of course, famous for playing a double-neck guitar for Led Zeppelin. But former bandmate John Paul Jones has thrown down the gauntlet:
Will we see an escalation? Is this the musical equivalent of a Gillette razor?
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Did you see Colbert's "shred off" with Decemberists guitarist Chris Funk? Talk about escalation...check out Colbert's five-necked guitar.
Ah, the quintuple-necked guitar. It belongs to Rick Nielsen, who still plays it on tour. Not very easy to move around with it, though.
actually, that's a triple-neck mandolin. guitars have either 6,7, or 12 strings. Mandolins, on the other hand, have 8 strings. so if you look closely at the knobs at the heads of the mandolin, you can see that there are indeed 8 knobs on each head.
A mandolin. Well, now I just feel silly.
Ah yes, John Paul Jones. Few people realize how huge his contribution was to Led Zeppelin. In terms of musical ability he is more impressive than even Jimmy Page. He plays almost a dozen instruments, and plays each better than most musicians who dedicate their lives to only one.
The 2008 Grammy awards featured the Foo Fighters playing with an orchestra. I noticed JPJ was the conductor.
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Dan
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Yes, I didn't realize how many instruments he played (beyond, obviously, bass and Mellotron). His bass for Led Zep is just outstanding -- sometimes he plays so quickly it just sounds like a deep bubbling -- but looking at the footage of LZ playing, he always seems to get shafted, with the cameras focusing on everyone else but him. I wonder if he's just introverted and that comes out in the footage that gets cut. In any case, he's a real inspiration.
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