Martin's early 60s Thunderbird IV -circa 2006 - notice the Badass bridge (with original post holes showing to either side), and extra pot hole just to the right of the volume pot - see text - photo Graham FieldhouseįlyGuitars You still use that dual sound now where you split out in to two amps? 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.
1981 Victory Standard (Candy Apple Red).I'll try and take some better quality ones and add them later if possible.
#Gibson thunderbird nikki sixx free
If you live in the area feel free to come take a look at it for yourself! The pics don't do it justice at all.
It will be double boxed and packed with care shipped via FedEx. The selling and PayPal fees are so expensive on here I'll actually be losing quite a bit of money once it's all said and done. I would like to pass it on to someone who'll appreciate it for around the same price which is fair.
I still have the invoice as well and I paid $1799.00 for it.
This model has been discontinued and is no longer available as Nikki recently announced his new signature bass with Schecter guitars. Case candy and original box are included. The plastic film is still on the pickguard and cavity cover. I was going to keep it to collect but I've had a change of heart and decided to pursue other interests that I'm more passionate about right now. I lightly tried it out for a few minutes the day it was delivered and it has been sitting in the case since then. This bass is a closet queen and never got played as I had just previously purchased two other guitars before getting this one. Gibson Nikki Sixx Thunderbird IV Bass & Snakeskin Case Brand New Unplayed Condition! I ordered this from an online retailer on 10/31/12 and the finish build date on the checklist that came with it is less than a week before then so they basically shipped it right to me when they got it in from Gibson.
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