This is rock adjacent trivia.
Famed nature documentarian David Attenborough, who recently turned 100, was Controller (network head) of BBC2 in the 1960s. One of the shows he greenlighted was Monty Python's Flying Circus.
He is also the reason tennis balls are yellow. They used to be white...
I'm getting noise, similar to a test pattern, from my MXR Bass Synth. Sound engineers are complaining, but I rely heavily on this pedal for one of my bands.
What could be causing this? Is there a fix?
Correct. I think they only made three, all of them green. He used one when he toured with Ringo.
Years later, when a customer requested they make him a Buzzard, they said they didn't have the rights, so they created the Dragon.
That's his original 1964 Epiphine Casino. On some tours he would break it out for "Paperback Writer" saying this was the guitar used on the record. He aslo used it on several Wings tours.
The only other electric guitars he's used live are:
Circa 2007 "Crowd Goes Wild" Les Paul
1959 Les Paul...
He uses the real '63 every night on stage. He has a newer (exact age unknown) Hofner as a backup. There are photos of him using it occassionally. It does not have the finish wear where the pickguard would be that the original '63 has.
Last week he broke out his stolen '61 Hofner for one song...