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Love Mr Griggs' tone!

Here's my 2014 Chinese 70's CV, It's currently strung with flats, I love it! Earlier this year I bought a 2020 CV Jazz, and tbh I couldn't get on with it. Wasn't there something about the recent CV's being re branded VM's?

The Phenomenal Buckethead! WARNING Strobe lighting!

Been driving tuther half up the wall with Suzanne Vega's Luka, The Black Kids' Hurricane Jane, The Manics' Sleepflower & From Despair to Where & Olivia Newton John's A Little More Love. I only recently found out the ONJ line was played by Toto's then Bass player, David Hungate.

I think the first song I learnt was Walking on the Moon.

I bought and returned one of their Jazz basses (the JB-75MN Black Vintage series) back in December, play-ability wise it was spot on straight out of the box, Two things that let it down. You could've sliced bread with the sharp frets along the underside of the neck, and it weighed enough to anchor a medium sized fishing trawler.

Did The Damned get a mention? They recorded two of their finest albums there, The Black Album (1980) and Strawberries (1982) and The Damned being The Damned got up to some expected buffoonery. eg. taking the Tubular Bells out into the court yard and blasting them with a shotgun at three in the morning.

The thing is even if he gave you an address, who's to say it's genuine? Also he could easily give you a contact number, verbally entice you into paying him and then just bin the sim card. If I were you I'd would follow my head. There's far too many scammers out there! especially when it comes to musical Instruments.

I wonder what he made of that!

Black Kids - Hurricane Jane.

Michael Schenker mostly played the same Gibson V (# 56) live from 1974 through to 1983, though it did go through a few paint jobs, Originally it was Red, then in '76-'77 solid Black, then in '78 Iconic White, then in 1980 V1 rocket inspired White/Black.

Hideous!

Graham Gouldman - 10cc Live and let Live. Bill MacCormick - 801 Live. Mike Rutherford - Seconds Out. Colin Edwin - on every Porcupine Tree live recording!

As others have said, protect your hearing! I've had Tinnitus for around 34 years and believe me it's not fun. Once you have it, the only time it's gonna stop is when you pop your clogs.

If you're referring to the 1997 bolt on necked versions I'd agree with you, as the only thing Thunderbirdy about them is the body shape, the neck is un T-Birdy, more like a precision. However the Epiphone Classic Pro and Vintage Pro Thunderbird IV's are excellent Basses! Though both are now discontinued as Epiphone will apparently be releasing US builds in the not too distant.

The only sticker I've ever put on a Bass.

I love them, IMHO they look fantastic, you've just gotta be careful with them! The lull headstock looks like something you'd see on a cheapo Strat copy, and the Jackson, well the hideousness speaks for itself.

As a big fan of the Thunderbird, I cringe at the sight of the offshoots that have sprung up over recent decades. I don't care how great they play/sound/weigh etc. IMHO, they're bastardised monstrosities! Ibanez and Yamaha's have never appealed either!

Neither did he around that time with that Davy Crockett hat looking mullet.

Getting back to the title of the thread. I saw Queen twice, once in 1976, at Edinburgh Playhouse and again at Newcastle city hall in 1979. At the Edinburgh gig, he had a Les Paul as his back up, though as I recall he only used his Red Special. (and they didn't play Fat Bottomed Girls like the BR film suggests) At Newcastle he used his Red Special and a Telecaster for Crazy Little Thing, he also had a what looked like a sandy coloured replica of the Red special that remained on it's stand. Brian used a Satellite Strat for the Video of Play The Game, I'm sure I read somewhere back in the day that he also used a Strat on the song itself. There's also footage out there of mimed performances on European music shows where he's uses a Les Paul and a Strat though miming doesn't count does it? oops I forgot about his acoustics.

No never! They should be only be on guitars, as should Mr Sheehan and his ilk IMHO.

Doh!