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This Reverb listing has an ex-Schenker JMP Marshall https://reverb.com/item/36155309-marshall-jmp-50w-head-ex-michael-schenker-scorpions-ufo-1980-black which mentions custom circuit modifications, although interestingly it is stencilled "Viva" which was his sister's band!

Hello, Michael and Eddie are my favourite guitarists, but I know very little about Michael's amps, other than he liked 50 watt Marshalls and you often see that cool double-stack arrangement of a wall of two heads on two cabs in the 70's and 80's photos. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a...

Blocks on Vs were 75-79 in terms of production I think, and then quite small unlike the LP Custom. I don't know what the rationale for issuing them was. But I think the Flying V is an interesting case regarding Gibson design aesthetics anyway. Both the 50's, 60's and 70's models all had the...

Hello, Okay, here's the Hamer talk video. It's very long but here is a time stamp for the Schenker content. That confirms the dot-inlay half-black, half-white V was created at the very end of his time in UFO in the 70's. Lots of interesting stories on that big discussion. If you keep...

Great video - I notice this has the standard 60's/70's "triangle" control layout that the latest Gibson 80's ebony Flying V's do not have. I noticed when MS moved to Dean that their new guitars made for him had the same triangle control layout - Dean V's traditionally had the three-in-a-row...

Hello, newbie here and huge MS fan. I just noticed the Gibson's appearing after years of Dean. @Kapo_Polenton I spotted too the backdrop where the Dean headstock has been taped off! I think the split black and white Vs start from the time he re-joined the Scorpions after UFO in the late 70's...