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Here's the Birds in a scene from the 1967 film The Deadly Bees.

A young Ron Wood can be seen playing a Telecaster....The Ric can be best spotted around the 1:55 mark.

Great post Marty.Classic.
One more?

Nice one scotty .

You don't happen to know where the picture on this album cover was taken do you?

http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/Birds.html

Someone asked on another forum and the suggestion is that it's a London pub.

Could say could be anywhere sorry.Erm we will throw it out to others maybe to answer.Anyone?

Loved their cover of "Leaving Here" it's much more accurate to the original Motown version, even if I like the High Numbers version more.


sidenote: Right after the Birds, Ron Wood briefly joined The Creation before forming The Faces....the rest is history. I think he's got the best luck in R&R..!

The Birds was the group that Dick Ashby managed before becoming the Bee Gees road manager. When they split, he was apparently left with most of their gear, (which he had paid for) and so he took it, and the Bee Gees used some of it in their very early days...

GREAT BAND!!!

They released some killer singles that didn't sell. That's surprising since they had a huge live following.

wints wrote:The Birds was the group that Dick Ashby managed before becoming the Bee Gees road manager. When they split, he was apparently left with most of their gear, (which he had paid for) and so he took it, and the Bee Gees used some of it in their very early days...

Interesting....there wasn't an RM1999 included in that gear was there

Also interesting is that the Ric guitar in the video appears to be Azureglo....couldn't of been many Azureglo Rics in The UK in 1967 as most of, if not all the Rose Morris models appeared to be Fireglo.

The Birds' version of "Run, Run, Run" isn't bad, but I prefer The Who's version from the "Quick One" album, with Pete clanking the riff on his RoMo 1998.

marty wrote:

wints wrote:The Birds was the group that Dick Ashby managed before becoming the Bee Gees road manager. When they split, he was apparently left with most of their gear, (which he had paid for) and so he took it, and the Bee Gees used some of it in their very early days...

Interesting....there wasn't an RM1999 included in that gear was there

I haven't seen one, but you never know...