It's been common knowledge for quite awhile now that Jimmy Page relied on a Telecaster for the ferocious and punchy tones of Led Zeppelin's 1969 debut album, not the 1959 sunburst Gibson Les Paul that he would become so synonymous with (he didn't own it yet).
When that band's story came to an end (aside from one full and a few partial reunion concerts) in 1980 with the tragic death of John Bonham, though, Page was left slightly adrift.
