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Bob Jackson: Tour
built 208 days ago
After the death of Tommy Evans, Bob Jackson was asked to do a tour in the U.S. When he started to form a new band for the tour he first got Mike Gibbins and Al Wodtke. Then somebody proposed to invite Joey Molland. Molland accepted and after the addition of Randy Anderson as second guitarist the new line-up of BADFINGER was complete. They toured in August. People who attended these shows reported that those were not as good as shows from 1982, but the sound was quite okay.
Please keep in mind, Bob Jackson, unlike other manufacturers, does not throw a "TOURING" sticker on a multi purpose frame and try to palm it off as a serious touring machine. All Bob Jackson framesets are hand built and finished in the Jackson factory in Great Britain, no outside work (except chrome plating) is ever performed on a Bob Jackson frame. If you are considering a serious touring frameset, pound for pound and dollar for dollar there is no finer frameset available.
In May 1982 Tom Evans and Mike Gibbins got in contact with Bob Jackson. The three of them planned to have another BADFINGER reunion. They were rehearsing some guitarists, but they could not find the right person for the group. So in June they had the idea to call Joey Molland to see whether he would be interested in the reunion. But before they got in contact with him they got Adam Allen as their new guitarist. After the end of the tour, which earned them no money, Tom Evans and Bob Jackson flew back to England.
Bob Jackson offers a frameset designed with the serious bicycle tourist in mind. This frame is designed from the ground up as a no compromise, light weight touring frameset, which will handle anything from one day trips to fully loaded cross country jaunts.
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