Glen Campbell's Hamer 12-string

[HamerCustomEr]

From:  http://glencampbellforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=99

Around 1991, American Airlines damaged one of Glen's Ovation Bluebird 12's, by crushing the neck on it. Jeff sent the damaged neck to Hamer (which was part of Kaman Music Corp at the time). He asked Hamer to copy the Ovation's neck profile (the Bluebird was not a production guitar) and design Glen another electric 12 string with:

1. Two Mini Humbuckers 
2. One Volume
3. One Switch
4. A Top Loaded Bridge (this was so that Glens hair would not get caught in it when he played the William Tell Overture. They actually used an old Ovation bridge for that.)

Glen used this Hamer 12 string until his last concert.

[HamerCustomEr]

The blue Hamer in action (never mind the thumbnail), and at 2:29, he goes over his head!

 

[ARM OF HAMER]

                                                 COOL GUITAR INCREDIBLE GUITARIST.........................

[hamerican gigolo]

Sadly missed... 😔

[Biz Prof]

Love Glen's attitude and playing style.  An American original, he was.  Here's an old video of him shredding on a Bluebird 12 at the very beginning.  The Bluebird is kind of interesting, but I definitely prefer the custom Hamer he adopted as its replacement. 

 

[crunchee]

Not to derail the topic too much, but I'd forgotten all about The Captain And Tennille since the '70's, so I looked up Toni Tennille's bio on Wikipedia.  Guess what?  She apparently did backing vocals on Pink Floyd's album The Wall:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Tennille

[kizanski]

1 minute ago, crunchee said:

Not to derail the topic too much, but I'd forgotten all about The Captain And Tennille since the '70's, so I looked up Toni Tennille's bio on Wikipedia.  Guess what?  She apparently did backing vocals on Pink Floyd's album The Wall:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Tennille

Yes.  It's in the liner notes.  

"You wanna take a baaath?" 

[RobB]

Why does that 12ver remind me of a beluga whale?

[HamerCustomEr]

1 hour ago, crunchee said:

Not to derail the topic too much, but I'd forgotten all about The Captain And Tennille since the '70's, so I looked up Toni Tennille's bio on Wikipedia.  Guess what?  She apparently did backing vocals on Pink Floyd's album The Wall:  

I always loved this song:

 

[topekatj]

On 11/24/2021 at 5:31 PM, HamerCustomEr said:

I always loved this song:

 

Is that part of the Captain she’s grasping?