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[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='554257' date='Jul 28 2009, 06:25 PM']Amazed to discover the Flying V guitar was built as early 1956!!! Examples are contenders for the fabled $1,000,000 guitar title.[/quote] Same with the Explorer - strange to think that those iconic "metal" guitars date from the era of Chuck Berry & Elvis!

J.

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You can't keep a good band down, :). its a great read. In mid-1967 the Klubs were invited to EMI's Abbey Road for a recording test, which was to be overseen by staff producer David Paramor. Unfortunately Paramor took an instant dislike to them ("Everybody in authority hated us on sight", recalls Norris Easterbrook), and after a marathon twelve hour night-time session on 14/15 July (held in the Beatles favoured console, Studio Two), a frustrated Paramor dismissed the band as "unrecordable".

[url="http://www.midnightmusic.co.uk/The_Klubs.htm"]http://www.midnightmusic.co.uk/The_Klubs.htm[/url]

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[quote name='beerdragon' post='554699' date='Jul 29 2009, 07:17 AM']You can't keep a good band down, :). its a great read. In mid-1967 the Klubs were invited to EMI's Abbey Road for a recording test, which was to be overseen by staff producer David Paramor. Unfortunately Paramor took an instant dislike to them ("Everybody in authority hated us on sight", recalls Norris Easterbrook), and after a marathon twelve hour night-time session on 14/15 July (held in the Beatles favoured console, Studio Two), a frustrated Paramor dismissed the band as "unrecordable".

[url="http://www.midnightmusic.co.uk/The_Klubs.htm"]http://www.midnightmusic.co.uk/The_Klubs.htm[/url][/quote]

Excellent link!

So [i]that's [/i]where [b]Strife [/b]came from ... they must have been the support act at half a dozen big shows I went to in the 70's.

I never actually heard them cos I wuz in the bar, right?

:rolleyes:

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[quote name='Bassassin' post='554287' date='Jul 28 2009, 06:48 PM']Same with the Explorer - strange to think that those iconic "metal" guitars date from the era of Chuck Berry & Elvis!

J.[/quote]

Apparently it was to do with all the space travel and rockets that was going at the time. Gibson reasoned that they should make guitars in outlandish shapes to resemble rockets and stuff like that. There's also a reverse Flying V guitar...



and a reverse Explorer...

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[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='554833' date='Jul 29 2009, 10:18 AM']Apparently it was to do with all the space travel and rockets that was going at the time. Gibson reasoned that they should make guitars in outlandish shapes to resemble rockets and stuff like that. There's also a reverse Flying V guitar...



and a reverse Explorer...

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And don't forget the Moderne:



Designed in 1957, but never manufactured until 1982. Details like that didn't stop Ibanez/Antoria/Greco/whoever copying it in the early 70s:



Note they didn't know what the headstock should look like! If it's a copy of a guitar that didn't exist, is it still a copy? And couldn't they have sued Gibson in 1982? :)

J.

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[quote name='steve-soar' post='554341' date='Jul 28 2009, 07:42 PM']I worked for Keith Bennion for 4 years. That's a sh*tty bass.[/quote]Hi guys, let me clear this up. I didn't work for Keith in 1989 but I can honestly tell you that any conversions done by KGB will be excellent.

When I said it's a sh*tty bass, I was refering to the shape and appearence, as I tried a V bass and it was the most uncomfortable bass I've ever played.

Steve.

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[quote name='Happy Jack' post='555210' date='Jul 29 2009, 03:28 PM']Think I might just have me a gratuitous, unnecessary and probably very foolish punt. :)

Do I hear any competition?

:rolleyes:[/quote]

Not from me. my car needs a new clutch so i'm gasless for awhile. by the way Happyjack. talk about a small world. i was talking to the drummer of a band called Nightwing who lives just down the road. Gordan Rowley is the bass player who was in Strife. [url="http://www.myspace.com/nightwinguk"]http://www.myspace.com/nightwinguk[/url]

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[quote name='beerdragon' post='555218' date='Jul 29 2009, 03:35 PM']Not from me. my car needs a new clutch so i'm gasless for awhile. by the way Happyjack. talk about a small world. i was talking to the drummer of a band called Nightwing who lives just down the road. Gordan Rowley is the bass player who was in Strife. [url="http://www.myspace.com/nightwinguk"]http://www.myspace.com/nightwinguk[/url][/quote]

OK - now that's pretty bizarre. :)

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[quote name='Ou7shined' post='554982' date='Jul 29 2009, 12:10 PM']the headstock which kinda looks like Jeremy Beadle's wee hand somehow.[/quote]


+1 :) me and a mate were in a hotel bar in Polworth in Edinburgh one sunday and Beadle was at the bar...my mate pretending that he hadn't seen him started making some rather uncomplimentary comments about how much of w***er Jeremy Beadle was...luckily Beadle never saw the funny side of this and pissed off in huff, leaving us to drink our pints without having to be in the same company as the untalented twat.

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