Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[amptech]

Is that odd? Have you seen the video where he plays the oboe?

[uwe]

I was more surprised about the Dean - given the age of the vid, earliest 80ies - than I would have been about any oboe. I thought the Flying V involvement of the Schenker Brothers with Dean wasn't really older than 10 years or so. Michael certainly only plays Dean these days.

Francis Buchholz did have contacts to Gibson though (as did Rudi Schenker), they even made a Rev all korina TBird for him in the early eighties, but he didn't like the way the sunburst turned out (probably due to the korina underneath), so he didn't take it and it became forgotten until the then new boy luthier Phil Jones began working on it in the late eighties as his pet project. Rumor has it that that TB ended up in the hands of an unknown German Gibson bass collector, but you know how people tend to write all kinds of things.

[gearHed289]

Francis Buchholz did have contacts to Gibson though (as did Rudi Schenker), they even made a Rev all korina TBird for him in the early eighties, but he didn't like the way the sunburst turned out (probably due to the korina underneath), so he didn't take it and it became forgotten until the then new boy luthier Phil Jones began working on it in the late eighties as his pet project. Rumor has it that that TB ended up in the hands of an unknown German Gibson bass collector, but you know how people tend to write all kinds of things.

I wouldn't mind seeing a photo of that 'bird...

[TBird1958]

It has shiney gold pickups and should be promptly repatriated to the Northwest corner of the U.S.!  

[uwe]

Chrome can really only take you so far.  Wars have been fought over gold and empires fallen because of it


THE SPANISH INVADERS NEVER ASKED FOR CHROME!!!

but who ever started a conquest for chrome, always a material for the wretched, insecure and naive?  







And unlike many other "legendary items" that then sound only so-so, it actually sounds the part too: More transparent than any maho-bird, but retaining the maho-liveliness and warm musicality, yet not sounding as dead as some zebra wood and maple wing TB experiments have.

Francis made a bad choice - not just only when it came to tax consultancy matters. That said, I always liked his economic, yet somehow very engineered and Germanic bass style. Also the only Scorpion of the classic line up that had a schooling that would have allowed him to go to university.

[Nocturnal]

That bass is a beauty. And I am not a fan of gold hardware.

[TBird1958]

Love the bass!






P.S.

It's black plastic that wars aren't fought over 

[uwe]

I don't like gold either, but somehow on the plain Jane korina it works.

[Dave W]

The gold goes well with it. Don't like the block markers though.

[uwe]

I think Phil Jones' Fender leanings came out on those!

[TBird1958]

I love the Blox = Sex! 

[Highlander]

Gold T'birds = JAE = PC

[gearHed289]

THAT should have been the 50th Ann. model!

[Highlander]

Placed this where it also belongs, featuring our "Blackbird" regular...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gEjNyo0_aQ

[Highlander]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqIDO_PyR_c

Yes, you will find a NR T'bird (0.40) during the Bye Bye Love excerpt but this is for Phil, who we lost today... RIP Phil Everly...