Author Topic: John Mc Vie (Read 4803 times)

2400wattman · « **on:** December 13, 2006, 07:29:23 PM »

It seems ther are no pics of John Mc Vie, I sure can't find any. I was reminded of this as I watched my first installation of DVD's from the Midnight Special. Fleetwood Mac was on this one performing Rhiannon and I noticed John was playing an early Series-1 ,the p/ups mounted with two screws and the bridge not quite as refined as the one we know and love so well. Still a beautiful bass but I don't think the sound man got the tone of the bass happening. It sounded like a P bass w/flats, arrrgh the soundman. However Lindsay's tone was fantastic and remarkably clean & transparent for using a Les Paul Custom. The overall performance was great(nobody was bad) as was the other performances of the other artists. The Midnight Special review will be for another thread, especially if there are more Alembics to be seen. Don't want to take away from this being a John Mc Vie thread, where's those pics!!

keavin · « **Reply #1 on:** December 14, 2006, 06:30:08 AM »

scroll to the bottom of this page & there's john with alembic#27!.http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/john.htm

fretted4 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 10, 2007, 01:19:05 PM »

Does anybody have any details on john's basses? Does he still have this bass? Ive been trying to find out some info on the particular bass pictured in the link for quite sometime, thanks!

fretted4 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2007, 10:31:25 AM »

Here are a few pics that I FINALLY was able to locate, the first one appears to be an early model series1, I would love to know more about this bass, the second picture appears to be the same bass mentioned in the alembic "long version" history with the stainless fingerboard...

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2400wattman · « **Reply #4 on:** May 24, 2007, 11:24:02 AM »

Ah, very nice indeed.

extraterrestrial · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2007, 07:26:45 AM »

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=john+mcvie&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-98690814_q-7XijnJ/hqpc0Er5yL.77OAAAAA@@

bigbadbill · « **Reply #6 on:** May 28, 2007, 05:42:21 AM »

Judging from most of the interviews with John I've read, a P-Bass with flats would seem to be pretty close to how he wants his bass to sound; he's remarked previously that a P Bass is the benchmark by which all other basses are measured.

He's one of my favourite bassists, BTW.

keavin · « **Reply #7 on:** September 04, 2007, 10:01:19 AM »

jacko · « **Reply #8 on:** September 06, 2007, 04:41:38 AM »

There's not enough bass in that clip keavin. John doesn't appear until 1'22;-( too much stevie nicks if you ask me.

Graeme

chuck · « **Reply #9 on:** September 06, 2007, 09:02:28 AM »

Of course Stevie gets most of the face time.As she is A lot better looking than John(my hero).As for his current basses he mostly uses Rick Turners products but always has a P Bass laying around .Flats have always been his strings of choice.I have read somewhere that he lost his older Basses when he went bankrupt but that could be just rumor, He has also had some stolen.

Chuck

bracheen · « **Reply #10 on:** September 07, 2007, 08:50:15 AM »

I saw a Fleetwood Mac documentary on VH1 Classic that had a lot of John/Alembic footage. Not as much as Stevie but more than I would have thought. Several of the people in the show were very complimentary towards John's playing. Mick called him a monster IIRC. I think it was part of their Classic Albums series that featured Rumours.

Sam

bigbadbill · « **Reply #11 on:** September 11, 2007, 12:29:20 PM »

John was the first guy that turned me on to Alembic (well, JPJ was prior with his 8, but as his was a Becvar I'm not sure if it counts). I remember seeing the pics on FM Live and freaking out over his fretless (shown above).

fretted4 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2009, 09:28:56 PM »

Here is another great pic of McVie with his series 1 with the stainless steel fingerboard!

fretted4 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 15, 2009, 01:54:30 PM »

Hello there again folks, stumbled across a few more rare mcvie-alembic photos.... This bass however kinda stumbles me, as far as i know, john only had 3 alembis, the early series 1, the stainless fingerboard fretless, and the first graphite alembic. Anyways, this one resembles the early series 1, but the pickups are black, and the master volume is gone. What do yall think?

fretted4 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 15, 2009, 01:56:30 PM »

And found another pic, this is a good one and shows the details of number 27!

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