RIP: Vic Flick (James Bond Theme guitarist)

This death has shaken my musical emotions.

Spent many a night as a kid watching Bond flicks with my old man.

I remember reading somewhere that he put acoustic strings in his electric guitar to get the Bond tone.

Might have been a radio interview

Not sure but in the video I posted that is the actual guitar he played the part on, a 1939 Clifford Essex Paragon DeLuxe. It was an acoustic arch top so it might have had acoustic strings on it, it was modified with a D’Armond pickup … I found an an interview with him where he said he put a crushed cigarette pack underneath it to get it as close to the strings as possible … and a primitive whammy bar, and he ran it through a Vox AC-15.

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I was lucky enough to grow up during the early years of 007….Great movies and great music…and lots of beautiful Bond girls….

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Same. Corny or not, the Bond movies are still some of my favorites...


I grew up at the start of the Roger Moore era and loved all of them..

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I was lucky enough to grow up during the early years of 007….Great movies and great music…and lots of beautiful Bond girls….

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This! Fond memories growing up watching the Bond films at the cinema. One of the most easily recognizable movie themes. R.I.P.