Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll" Metropolitan N.Y.

By VMZ Staff on January 24, 2023

 Although the exhibition has temporarily ended, the museum's website still offers an extensive photo gallery of the exhibition and a good book worth reading.

Watch photogallery at Metmuseum

"Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll" is billed as the first major exhibition in an art museum dedicated entirely to the iconic instruments of rock; featured are more than 130 instruments dating from 1939 to 2017 - played by artists like Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, James Hetfield, Elvis Presley, Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more.- including the acoustic guitar he used to write "Stairway To Heaven", among other Led Zeppelin classics -  Source Antimusic.com

"I've loaned my Harmony guitar, which was a Harmony six-string acoustic," Page tells the Associated Press in a new video report.

"That guitar I had way back in the early '60s, and it was with me all the way through to the point that I used it as a writing tool.

And that particular guitar is the vehicle whereby the first album of Led Zeppelin is written, the second album is written, the third album is written, and the fourth album is written. And it's the guitar that actually culminates in playing 'Stairway To Heaven'."metropolitan

Co-organized by Jayson Kerr Dobney, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments at The Met, and Craig J. Inciardi, Curator and Director of Acquisitions of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the concept of the exhibit was an immediate hit with the Led Zeppelin legend.Risultati immagini per play it loud museum ny

"Jason and Craig came to my house in London; I invited them to my house to get some idea of what it was that they planned," explained Page. "And they had like a floorplan of how they wanted to display things. And they said, 'You approach the gallery through Greco-Roman statues, and then the first thing you see is Chuck Berry's guitar.' I said, 'What, the original one? The blonde one?' They said, 'Yes.'

"I said, 'What would you like? Just tell me what you want to help this along, and you can have whatever it is that you want.'" Read more and watch the video clips here. 

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