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 ...

“When I was about a 13- or 14-year-old kid in my room in Oklahoma trying to learn how to play the guitar, this song right here was one of the first songs I ever learned by the great Joe Walsh ...

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.

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 ...