Burns Tunes

[RogerCook]

Not sure if this is a "General" or "Burns" topic so I've posted on both.

Is there a list of numbers that Hank used the Burns on?

Thanks

Roger

[David Martin]

Depending on who you believe everything from Atlantis on... but generally accepted as everything from Flingel Bunt onwards until the 70's reunion.

[BobGreg]

The one minor (very trivial) disappointment I have regarding the last Shadows' tour and the current tour is that Hank hasn't made more use of the Burns for those numbers so distinctly associated with the Marvin - that's apart from the 12 string usage. He makes a number of strat changes for obvious reasons (string gauge and tuning) so to slot in a marvin wouldn't have presented too many problems.

He is clearly more comfortable with a strat and despite Barry's attempts to promote the burns usage, it's only ever been a token gesture. Commercial sponsorship clearly is not an issue as Hank isn't signed up to Fender or anyone else - he's a free agent as far as I can tell.

That distictive sound (some might say growl) that the marvin makes with that special tremolo system is quite a unique and a very distinctive sound to my ears anyway.

[Bojan]

I agree with you completely Bob, the Burns is just as much a part of "THAT SOUND" as the Strat.

I would have liked to see Hank use the new Apache on the tour at least once.

[BobGreg]

Bojan - I'm pretty sure that Barry Gibson will have tried hard to get the Burns in a more prominent position on this tour. As I said the red burns did make a token gesture on The Shadows final tour - both Bruce and Hank have their signatures on the trem plate. Similarly the trem plate on the new Apaches have signature endorsements so why they don't feature is quite a mystery to me too. They are using Vox amplification - or appear to be - so to have that distinctive burns sound for those recordings that had the Marvin Burns guitars on would have been the icing on the cake for realism.

[d jones]

As a Burns and Shadows fan it would be nice to see the inclusion of a Marvin or even better an Apache on the tour, but having said that the twelve string certainly looked and sounded the part last night in Sheffield!

Dave

[George Geddes]

I believe that the amps are JMI rather than Vox?

George

[BobGreg]

Thanks George - I couldn't make out if they were Vox or JMI versions from the back of the NIA last week. From a distance you can't make out the subtlety.

[Rover]

Hi, I too am disappointed that Hank and Bruce didnt use apaches or marvins. Seems odd that they endorse them and dont use them, anyone have an answer to this. I understand that Bruce still has his original 1964 marvin, if that is the case you would think he would want to use it.
regards Rover

[Geoff Alderton LH]

Hi. I thought the 12 string Burns, Hank is using on the tour, is an Apache. Its got the Indian engraved on the trem plate.
Regards Geoff.