Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[uwe]

Ex-Damned Paul Gray during his UFO stint playing a TB (as such with UFO unsurprising), but a Non Rev one (modded with a P split coil). I saw that particular line up at the time and though they received a lot of flak I liked them best next to the various Schenker line ups.

[Basvarken]

Was it a modded NR Tbird or just the (cheap-ass) Epi NR Tbird?

[uwe]

This is from the mid-eighties, were the Epis even around back then? I also didn't see a bridge pup.

[Basvarken]

After closer inspection it can't be an Epi. Those have a reversed headstock.

The bass in the vid has a Thunderbird pickup at the bridge. Bridge is a two piece (with separate tailstop).
But the knob layout is different... The three knobs run in a diagonal line (like the Epi NR Tbird has) That puzzles me. If it is a sixties Gibson Tbird it should have the knobs parallel to the strings.

[uwe]

 It must have been a real Thunderbird, according to what he writes here (in part 5, the link takes you to part 4 first),

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhomepage.ntlworld.com%2Fpaul.gray%2FUFOjpegs%2Fplive1.JPG&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhomepage.ntlworld.com%2Fpaul.gray%2Fufo4.htm&h=181&w=150&tbnid=IbUX5ZvZk2w_5M%3A&docid=SrY7uxSCfwEbjM&ei=VphwVojmDsLM0AT3-JvIDQ&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=514&page=1&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=0ahUKEwiI6eeD-d7JAhVCJpQKHXf8BtkQrQMIJDAC

he first had one that he broke the headstock off and then got a Bicentennial Rev.



No, wait, apparently he had three, two Non-Revs (though he credits one of them as "1964") and one Rev!

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.gray/basstuffjpegs/tb1.JPG&imgrefurl=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.gray/basstuff%2520%26%2520FAQ's.htm&h=214&w=150&tbnid=jpSlt5ckFw2qCM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=63&docid=di5wL33hF05trM&usg=__0Gdq9hUBJDY9am8cYnI2nA0ufVE=&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ5dy7_d7JAhVGjJQKHTyLACgQ9QEIKDAD

1985:

Gibson Thunderbird 1968 non-reverse body, twin p/u with 1 humbucker and 1 1958 Precision bass pickup (sunburst - ex Love Affair)

1986:

Gibson Thunderbird 1976 reissue,twin humbucker p/u's, reverse body (sunburst). Used on every gig since! Bought in Stockholm in 1986 and the best bass I have ever played. The headstock has come off 3 times so far and been superglued between shows!

Gibson Thunderbird 1964 non-reverse body, single p/u

1988:

Overwater Custom bass with 2x Kent Armstrong pickups (sunburst). Used on Rene Berg album and all work with Andrew Ridgeley. Nice bass, but a little too clean sounding for my tastes. Looked good too!.

1991 onwards:

Gibson Thunderbird 1976

Fender Telecaster bass, lipstick p/u, blonde, maple neck, 1968. I saw my mate Craig Addeccott playing this one day at a gig, it sounded awesome and I bought it from him the next day. Very Loud. Used on some gigs as a spare or when I fancy playing without a pick.
Laney DP 150 bass amp
Laney 4x12 cabinet
Marshall 4x10 cabinet

[Denis]

One I never expected to find. Glenn Cornick with a Thunderbird II in 1969. Very brief clips around 1:50-1:60 or so.

[Highlander]

... and him with that Thunderbird at the IOW gig in 1970...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_imPt3NIhg

[Denis]

Nice! I've been searching high and low for color photos of his second NR, which was metallic green, but so far I've only found two (one stock and one without a pg which I guess was in the process of being modified). And so far I've found NO live footage of him with that NR.

[Highlander]

iirc the whole of the Isle of Wight show is available to view...

[Basvarken]

[Stjofön Big]

Is that Kral with the T-bird? Or is it Kraye?

[Dave W]

Is that Kral with the T-bird? Or is it Kraye?

That's Ivan Kral.

[Alanko]

One I never expected to find. Glenn Cornick with a Thunderbird II in 1969. Very brief clips around 1:50-1:60 or so.

That clip is a bitsa mashup of footage from 1976 and a later lineup and period of Tull. The 1976 clips come from the show 'Supersonic', and a more complete copy is here;



This is the Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! incarnation of the band, so the bassist will be John Glascock. He used a P bass, and then moved on to a Stingray, so I don't know where the T-bird II came from, unless the band repo'd it from Glenn when he left? In the Isle of Wight footage, Glenn's bass has a black pickguard with a USA/CND flag on the pickguard. In the Supersonic clip the bass has a white pickguard, so it might not be Glenn's bass at all!

I'm not sure if this clip has been posted before, but it is quite good. In the interests of science a bloke plays 3 different Greco T-birds from the '80s. Does that make it a three bird roast? A Turducken?

[Chris P.]

Did we already have this one?

[Hörnisse]