Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Pete Agnew of Axl Rose faves Nazareth with a TBird, that is relatively rare with him:

[TBird1958]

Pete Agnew of Axl Rose faves Nazareth with a TBird, that is relatively rare with him:

Do suppose that' Roger Glover's Bird since he was producing them at the time?

[uwe]

Naw, it crossed my mind too, but Roger only discovered the TBird during the sessions for Rainbow's Down to Earth in 1979:



And Hair of the Dog (1975) was actually the first album Nazareth recorded without Roger (Manny Charlton produced it) after he had produced three Naz albums in sequence and Naz began finding their feet in the studio.


But you never know - there were always friendly relations between Nazareth and the DP camp, maybe Agnew's bass ended up with Roger? Roger produced and played bass (this time for real) on Dan McCafferty's first solo album in 1975, but I'm not passing judgement on what type of bass Roger played here (but his mannerisms are obvious):

[TBird1958]

Pete (Agnew) was all Marshalls and EB-3 when I saw them in '75 or'76, Rampant had just been released, 8th row seats at The Paramount in downtown Seattle, not more than 6 blocks from where we had dinner!

[wellREDman]

So after the shock of finding out my love of T-Birds was started by hearing an RD I've done a bit more watching and perhaps I was not mistaken, this video dates from not too long after my epiphany and although its mostly and RD or an EB there are several shots where it looks like craig is playing a bird, can you guys confirm? the most obvious being at 4:19


and just in case I'm wrong, to justify this posts prescence on this thread, Craig playing a bird for sure a few years ago

[Basvarken]

The bass in the Deliverance video isn't a Thunderbird, RD or EB.

It does have a 4 in line headstock that looks a little bit like a Non reverse Thunderbird headstock.
But the body shape is completely different.
The upper horn looks Fenderish and so does the lower horn.
The bass has 24 frets and the 24th position has tiny position markers that are rather wide apart.
I see (at least) one black humbucker with three screws. And no mount rings.

[Basvarken]

24 position dots clearly visible

[Basvarken]

Found this on a google image search

[wellREDman]

Found this on a google image search

so what is it?
looks like the love child of a Tbird and a Jbass

[Basvarken]

Could it be a Status Buzzard II?




Or is it the Overwater?



http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/overwater-bass/6557


It must be the Overwater bass

[wellREDman]

imma go with the overwater, a google image search for Craig Adams Buzzard just turns up pictures of birds of prey

but for overwater theres this
https://overwaterbasses.com/players/past-present/

also found this interview where he's talking about his basses and he says he got the overwater when he broke the headstock off his Thunderbird, if hes playing the overwater (and the RD) in the deliverance video then the tbird he broke would have been before that so in fact he may have had one during the early days of the mission, and it may have been a Tbird that night after all..

http://thealarm.com/line-up-craig-adams/

but of course now I've fallen for the  overwater

[Basvarken]

There's just one bass in that deliverance video that you posted. And that's the Overwater.
No sight of an RD. The 2x2 headstock would give it away immediately.

I did see an early picture of him with an RD when I googled him earlier tonight.

[wellREDman]

There's just one bass in that deliverance video that you posted. And that's the Overwater.
No sight of an RD. The 2x2 headstock would give it away immediately.

I did see an early picture of him with an RD when I googled him earlier tonight.

your absolutely right, I could have sworn I saw a promo where theyd cut together two different shows, one where he was playing a 2x2 EB shaped  and one where he was playing a 1x4 birdlike bass, thats what i thought i'd linked to, but it turns out i must have compounded them in my head as i cant find it now
he plays the RD in the one I linked to in this thread http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=10941.480

[uwe]

Tsk, tsk, tsk ... non-recognition of a non-TBird headstock as such must be dealt with swiftly and mercilessly ...