TWO Burns Double Sixes...

[JimN]

At 36:25.

[George Geddes]

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

Apparently they disliked the Burns guitars.

George

[Billyboygretsch]

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

[neil2726]

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

[cockroach]

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.

[JimN]

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.

[cockroach]

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...

[JimTidmarsh]

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

[GoldenStreet]

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

[Uncle Fiesta]

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