But early the next year, Page bought the Les Paul Standard – his first – from Joe Walsh (who, Page says, “insisted that I buy it, and he was right”), paying $500 for it. He used it to ...

Enter Joe Walsh. Then a budding guitar hero with the James Gang, Page and Walsh had known one another since the former's pre-Zeppelin days with the Yardbirds. And Walsh had a proposition for him.

“Most guitar players would want to impress a hero like that. “We'd trade solos sometimes, like on [Walsh's] Turn to Stone , and he'd give me a solo on [Walsh's] Life of Illusion . It was ...

In 1970, Mr. Walsh gave the Who’s Mr. Townshend an orange Gretsch 6120 guitar and a Fender Bandmaster amp. Mr. Townshend used the pair on the Who’s masterpieces “Who’s Next” (1971) and ...

As you might imagine, Suran learned plenty from Walsh, and was also – he recently told Guitar World – privy to his boss's endless tonal tinkering. “Joe had a semi-truck full of amps and ...