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Very interesting. Used to seeing Mike Pender with a Double Six but not John McNally...

Apparently they disliked the Burns guitars.

George

Did John McNally play a Sonic and Pinder a Vibra Artiste originally ? The Burns look huge on all three of them - no room for the drums The clip is a great promo for Rickenbacker. I had one of those Gretsch basses and it was huge. Enjoyed that - thanks

Good to see one of our best singers from the 60s - the very much missed Billy Fury!

I think John McNally played a Hofner Club 60 early on when Mike Pender had a Burns Artist.

John played a sunburst Telecaster when I saw them here in Australia in 1964- Mike and Frank Allen had the white Burns 12 string and Shads bass.

cockroach wrote:I think John McNally played a Hofner Club 60 early on when Mike Pender had a Burns Artist.

John played a sunburst Telecaster when I saw them here in Australia in 1964- Mike and Frank Allen had the white Burns 12 string and Shads bass.

Frank Allen never, to my knowledge, used a Shadows Bass.

He did use the (quite similar) white Bison Bass, which was a post-Marvin model from mid-1964. The guitar version of the Bison had also been revised to feature Rez-O-Matiks and the Rez-O-Tube bridge.

I beg your pardon, oh great guru!- they look alike to my old eyes...bloody great clumsy looking white horned things! ...and it's 49 years since I saw Frank on stage playing it...

According to his book Frank never liked playing the Burns bass. He used it on stage, under sufferance, for appearance purposes.

JimN wrote:

Happy days... I'm not quite sure, though, what Cathy made of the Pete and Dud interview! If I recall correctly, the Ventures' Damaged Goods was the play-out tune of the show at the time, although not included in the video.

Bill

And immediately after the two Burns, Jerry Marsden with his Ricky 12. I've had both, and I prefer the Burns.