Nifty pics of Leon Wilkeson with T-birds.

[Denis]

Interesting NR with black pickups. I THINK this was taken post-plane crash. Not sure though.




Leon and Ed King in the background. Yet another interesting pickup in his T-bird.

[Hornisse]

Some cool shots!  Leon was a very cool looking bass player too.  After the plane crash he couldn't use his left arm very well so that is why he had the extensions put on the T-Bird's.  Wish I could have seen him with Rossington Collins band.  I really dug their first LP.

[doombass]

Nice pics! I believe I have already posted these somewhere here before but for those who have'nt seen them before:





Same custom inlay bass modded quite heavily. Refinned, Schaller 460 bridge, (looks like) EMG pickup(s?) and the earlier mentioned strap button extension.

[godofthunder]

Glad that daft extension didn't catch on.

[nofi]

check his left hand. django.....

[uwe]

Bill Wyman'esque, only with a long scale.

[TBird1958]

I thought it was Wilkerson 

[godofthunder]

Glad that daft extension didn't catch on.

Opps sorry missed the part about his right arm being injured in the plane crash.

[Chaser001]

I'm still inspired by Leon Wilkeson.  Just been listening to "Gimme Three Steps." 

[godofthunder]

Always loved his playing but I was never a big LS fan.

[Highlander]

Denis' post - top pic is (I think) Ros/Col or early reform era, next are pretty early - '74?

Doom's pics are approx '76 and again early reform...

The "interesting" pup was (iirc) a Mudbucker...

Robert... R/C were scheduled to tour the UK in the early eighties and play the Rainbow Theatre in North London; Allen Collins' wife died and the tour was (understandably) cancelled - I never did get a refund and I still have the ticket...

[Chaser001]

Always loved his playing but I was never a big LS fan.

I was never a LS fan, either.  But I always liked Leon Wilkeson's playing and even saw him once in a chance encounter. 

[Bionic-Joe]

I still have his T bird Bridge and posts for sale or I would trade it for a set of unnotched 60's t bird saddles .

[TBird1958]

How's that beautiful blue 12ver Baz?

[uwe]

I wasn't aware that the opti-hang came from an arm injury in the crash. That makes sense and perhaps also explains why he holds the neck so close to his body.