Vic Flick

Born: May 14, 1937
Died: Nov 14, 2024

CURRENT OWNERSHIP:

Collector Melbourne AU

Auction Juliens 2015

Most Assosciated With:

PREVIOUS OWNERS:

• Vic Flick
• Pawnshow Rick Harrison
• Collector (2014)

Here is one guitar that has seen tons of studio work.

He might not  be super known, but he should be. Every classic James Bond movie you see you will hear this guitar played in the Theme Song by John Barry Seven Orchestra.

Yes, Vic Flick (Victor Harold Flick) was the british studio man who laid down those spaghetti western theme staccato pickin’ on this particular guitar on the original theme but he has done tons of other work as well.

If you listen to many of the old Tom Jones hit, you will hear him.. “It’s not Unusual” for one features this very guitar. Jones used Flick many times over his highlight years.

Funny enough, as i write this, Petula Clarks big hit “Downtown” was just on the radio.

Who can be heard playing guitar on this recording? Yep, its Flick. Some say it Jimmy Page.

He was probably the closest to the British Wrecking Crew than any, and was a leading session player in London in the sixties trough the 80’s working on music and movie scores (with John Barry´s Seven Orchestra).

Dusty Springfield, Ringo Starr, Cliff Richard, Nancy Sinatra, a whole bunch of the old crooner singers had Flick playing for them.

In modern times, Flick came back into the prominece again when he sold this guitar to Rick Harrison in the reality show “Pawn Stars in 2012 to sell his 1961 Strat. He got $55.000 for it. With it was over 30 pages documenting the use of this guitar.

Just after the Pawn Stars, It has since gone trough Julien’s auction house twice. Once for $25.000 in December 2014, and just a few months later in May 2015 for only $20.000

A collector in Australia sits on it for the time being.

If Rick Harrison took a $30K loss on selling it on is a curious thought.