Mr Lee is a 4 and 6 twin neck and has been featured on here several times.
Mr Lee also inspired me to do research on Reeve Guitars and I went on to post several articles about Reeve and the instruments they made.
I have been lucky enough to be contacted by the original owner, who being a big Rush and Geddy Lee fan, commissioned his tribute twin neck.
Over several emails, he sent me this image.
As he explains below, this is Mr Lee, on stage, many years ago - I just love the four necks being played at the same time - as my mate often says. . . . Progtastic!
Here’s something from ancient history… a student band competition from 1986, both twins were mine at the time. We had a 20 minute slot and as a reaction to all the other bands playing six three minute pop ditties we performed one 20 minute epic. We didn’t win 😊
I’m still a huge Rush fan of course, I was at the last ever show in LA and was lucky enough to chat to Geddy at his (fairly) recent book signing events. After enduring no end of nagging from various friends who had heard some of my stories, I’ve even written a book about my various travels over the years to see them (andyfaulkner.net if you’re curious enough to take a look).
On the last tour Geddy pulled out a couple of Rickenbacker double necks for the first time in decades, and that triggered something in me again, finding your blog again was the final piece slotting into place.
Some more info you might find interesting, the 6/12 doubleneck also came from Reeve. It’s a Japanese something or other (I’ve either forgotten or never knew what!) and was being restored at the same time that Mr Lee was being made. I watched them both coming together and ended up falling for this one too so when the time came to collect Mr Lee I brought them both home. Eventually I sold it to the guitarist in my first proper gigging band (Walking on Ice) but again, this was forever ago, and he passed it on at some point (and now can’t remember what happened to it at all!).
You might be interested in this,
https://www.facebook.com/andy.faulkner.3114/posts/pfbid0vn77BCGLpwhzxHNLdARdRpUipJruxVZPCS9LA2Pbhb1Pm2mZZdyMYRoL7WxwaZi1l
Something I posted a few years ago on facebook when I was going through my basses
Another of those strange coincidences happened some years ago too. Do you remember me saying that the only other Reeve guitars I had seen belonged to the guys from Twelfth Night? I think you posted a photo of Clive Mitten with his doubleneck at some point. I was a huge Twelfth Night fan in the 80s (still am to be honest), I saw them dozens of times at the Marquee and all around the country. Well, in late 2011 I was introduced to Andy Sears, the Twelfth Night singer, by a mutual friend (Clive Nolan of Pendragon & Arena). Andy was looking for a bass player for a solo album he was working on and Clive kindly recommended me. The album never materialised in the end, but a week or two after we met (and based solely on Clive’s recommendation) Andy contacted me again saying Twelfth Night had been asked to play a festival in America and Clive Mitten was unable to do it, would I be interested? I didn’t take too long to think about it! So I ended up doing a couple of shows with TN, including a fabulous prog festival in Pennsylvania – no doublenecks involved but it was one of the greatest weekends of my life.
https://twelfthnight.info/?people=andy-faulkner
I’ve since spoken to Clive Mitten about the Reeves, the guitarist Andy Revell still has the explorer (although I believe he’s since passed it on to another mutual friend and it’s been stripped and refinished) but Clive’s doubleneck disappeared somewhere along the years. A real shame as I would have been very tempted to put an offer in for it if he had still owned it!
I’ve rambled on a bit here, but I get the feeling you like some of the background info 😊. Feel free to use whatever you want on the blog, including any of the links and maybe you could mention the book (https://andyfaulkner.net) as it’s kind of Geddy related.
Magic!!
I have more images of Reeve guitars and basses, that have been sent to me.
I will be doing those over the next couple of posts.
Cheers. 😎
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