I've got a two pickup instrument but I'm only using one pickup. In practice it didn't work for me so what I've always done actually is I've always switched the bridge pickup off completely and just used the neck pickup. I use like a dual amplifier system, the low end is separated from the high end and I think the concept was that we would obviously use the bridge pickup for the high end and the neck pickup for the low end. One of the crew wired it so we could split the pickups to two separate amps.
Martin Turner It could well be, that might be the instrument. It's got the extra pot where the hole is on your current Thunderbird, in the cavity. Right: Today the join of the new headstock is clearly visible under the refinished paintwork.įlyGuitars So the bass has been refinished to it's current colour? I've got with me one of the Wishbone Ash albums Live Dates (looking at the inside of the gatefold cover), is that it's original colour there. Notice the unfinished replacement headstock and extra pot from the stereo wiring (see below). Left: This 1973 picture of Martin Turner shows the Thunderbird IV before it's refinish. Away I went and I had to get it rebuilt then. He was fine, he had quite a few of them anyway and it was very sweet of him, very generous of him. I knew because I'd been talking to Mick Ralphs he was quite hard up at the time so of course he said 'oh really um, ah alright well why don't you come over and you know we'll have a cup of tea and talk about it.' So I went round there and chucked the money on the table. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna buy it off you and get it sorted out.' And he's like 'Oh I don't wanna sell it, you know I just lent it to you' and I said 'well that's a pity cause I was just about to drive over to your flat with a fistful of nice crisp, new, smelly bank notes'.
It's a great old machine and it's as pissed as a rat because it's been so badly abused. After about a week I rang him up and I said 'Pete, you're a', I won't repeat the exact expression, and he said 'What da you mean?' and I said 'the bloody way you've treated this instrument, it's a disgrace. I think it was in 13 separate pieces and the road crew had glued it back together on the road. He did however give me this dog of a Thunderbird that he'd smashed to bits. When I rang Peter Watts up and said I need to borrow an instrument he was like 'yeah sure, come round'. They were a brilliant bunch of guys, were really good to us, and the bands I think complimented each other really well. Got on brilliantly with them particularly Mick Ralphs, Peter and Buffin the drummer, I didn't get to know Ian (Hunter) so well. We had been out on the road with Mott The Hoople, we supported them on their first headline tour you know when All The Young Dudes was a big hit. Presumably he had got a few of the Thunderbirds kicking around at that time? Live at the Glastonbury festival 26/5/05 - photo Lauren LargeįlyGuitars Your main stage bass is one you've being playing since 1972 an early 1960s Thunderbird IV that you initially borrowed from Pete (Overend) Watts.
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I think somebody came in at night and replaced all my parts, so I don’t really know how to play bass.’ Feelgood, he says to me, he goes, ‘I don’t think I ever really played on any of the Mötley Crüe records. “I’ve got to tell you a story about Nikki Sixx, this is funny,” said Rock during the interview. The sound bites Rock refers to were volunteered in a conversation with Chris Jericho on the latter’s Talk Is Jericho podcast and were widely reported. “And if the internet wants to latch onto a story from one or two sound bytes, its extremely unfortunate because it doesn’t reflect the truth of the contributions he’s made to music over the last 40 years.” I have worked with some of the biggest bands in the world and I can say unequivocally that Nikki Sixx is one of the most talented players, lyricists and songwriters I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. I respect Nikki for always wanting to be better at his craft and it shows. “Lastly, I was commenting on and commending Nikki because he never stops learning and never stops improving.
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