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drakula63 wrote:A bit desperate... but the puppets of Hank, Bruce and John (in the film Thunderbirds Are GO!) were playing little duplicates of the Burns guitars... built, I would guess, by the ladies and gentlemen at Century 21 Productions............

A good shout, but no, We're talking real live Shadows , not puppets . I will say though, you're going in (very) broadly the right direction with that answer and it's probably just as desperate .

I'll give my answer later today.

Cliff

There was that set of matching mock-ups in the early scene in Wonderful Life, when they blow the ship's electricity supply and get set adrift for their efforts!

Bill

GoldenStreet wrote:There was that set of matching mock-ups in the early scene in Wonderful Life, when they blow the ship's electricity supply and get set adrift for their efforts!

Bill

And we have a winner!! Honestly thought it would have taken longer - when I stumbled on the clip on Youtube I honestly thought no-one would ever get it. Really should have known better

I believe they're Vox guitars, but could be wrong, and note: I did say "used" rather than "played"

Back to the forum archives... !

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=14273&p=98112&hilit=wonderful+life#p98112

Bill

GoldenStreet wrote:Back to the forum archives... !

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=14273&p=98112&hilit=wonderful+life#p98112

Bill

Shame on me! I should have known this place would have the answer before I've even asked the question

Cliff

Would never have noticed that! Mind you, now I know, the shape of the headstocks give it away!

The exploding red guitars in “Wonderful Life” were Vox. The Shads didn’t exactly use them though!!

Oops / I hadn’t read the link above when I answered the question.

Iain Purdon wrote:The exploding red guitars in “Wonderful Life” were Vox...

And they were all basses.

And here's the Before and After