Good News , Schenker gets the Signature “V”

[ibmorjamn]

The bad news is , only 50 are being made.
It’s not what I wanted them to build and Michael didn’t really have a lot of ideas from what had heard a year ago in an interview.

 

[Far Rider]

I'm perfectly happy with my DEAN Schenker V. So Gibson, you can go... well. you know.

 

[jtcnj]

NIce!
I like that a lot, but $$$$ is a no go for me.
I dig my Dean '79 V, but just cant get good tuning stability at the nut due to the string angles to the tuners.

 

[ibmorjamn]

NIce!
I like that a lot, but $$$$ is a no go for me.
I dig my Dean '79 V, but just cant get good tuning stability at the nut due to the string angles to the tuners.

I don’t know why but my Dean seams to be stable. Even though due to the angle the strings look like they could come out of the nut.

 

[ibmorjamn]

NIce!
I like that a lot, but $$$$ is a no go for me.
I dig my Dean '79 V, but just cant get good tuning stability at the nut due to the string angles to the tuners.

I couldn’t find a price but I would guess about $10,000 ?

 

[ibmorjamn]

I'm perfectly happy with my DEAN Schenker V. So Gibson, you can go... well. you know.

Schenker said in an interview from 2022 he liked Dean. He had of course met Eliot and toured the factory. He was impressed.
He was always rough on his guitars. Bowing the necks to drop a note slightly.Back then he said Gibson didn’t do anything for him.
Gibson are well known for broken headstocks.

 

[ibmorjamn]

The video says you get a chunk of Mahogany with a Medallion on it , that’s part of the puzzle but the whole guitar he played before it was painted , a reissued would be cool.
After all , the songs that made him and the black and white guitar more famous were written and played on the red 71 medallion (same guitar )with the Medallion still attached. I just think of that guitar from all of the early video’s and it’s so unique.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Maybe my memory has faded, but wasn’t Michael playing a white V in the late 70’s when they were touring with Rush ?

 

[67plexi]

I seen UFO 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 guitar was a red 1971 medallion Gibson V

 

[SG John]

I've been trying to find info on the guitar, and am coming up empty. It seems a base model Murphy Labs is in the 6500-7500 dollar range, so I'd also guess starting in the 10K or much higher range. Awful lot of money for a guitar that would be more of a collector piece than anything else.

 

[ibmorjamn]

Maybe my memory has faded, but wasn’t Michael playing a white V in the late 70’s when they were touring with Rush ?

I believe it was white before the black/ white scheme.
The early years like 67plexi said it was the red medallion (original)
I don’t remember the year Mitch, was it 77 or 78 ? For Rush, it was Farwell to Kings.
I think UFO was Obsession ? The same tour they recorded live possibly. After that , Schenker split.

 

[67plexi]

 

[ibmorjamn]

Yes , thats the one.
That guitar is the same one , he pulled the medallion off and if I remember correctly painted it. It ended up with a broken headstock and was sold, KK downing had the exact same model of course different number but he kept his original. Also sold it.

 

[ibmorjamn]

Here is the Medallion V page

Medallion Link

The Lisec Collection & Gibson Flying V Website

flyingvguitars.weebly.com

 

[ibmorjamn]

The page has several pictures of Michael and the guitar. I saved this pic from who knows where.

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[ibmorjamn]

https://imgur.com/a/pV03MoF

 

[67plexi]

I did see on facebook that the NAM guitar Gibson has only built one so far

 

[gball]

Not terribly surprised it would be so limited. As much as I revere MS, it's not as though he is at the current forefront of the musical landscape.