Mike Pender

Many times during the scene of the film "Saturday Night Out" where The Searchers play the title track of the same name, Mike Pender can be seen playing a Burns Vibra-Artist / Burns Tri-Sonic in cherry red.

From The Searchers' official website, while talking about the early recording years of The Searchers, it is stated that "Mike Pender at this time used a Burns Tri-Sonic, a three pickup cherry red model".

In the YouTube video titled "The Searchers - Love Potion Number 9," Mike Pender is seen playing a Rickenbacker 360 Electric Guitar, although it is often mistaken for a Rose Morris 1993/12.

In this performance at "Beat-Club" in 1966, Mike Pender is seen playing a 1964 twelve-string Rickenbacker Rose Morris model 1993. His export Rickenbacker had dot inlays, two toaster pickups and a flat tailpiece. Also worth noticing is the classic f-hole, rather than the slash shaped hole seen on domestic 330/12:s.

According to bassist Frank Allen, "this was stolen from outside the Lafayette Club in Wolverhampton in the late 60s".

In this 1965 photograph from Thank Your Lucky Stars, Mike plays a Harmony Sovereign H1260.

Mike Pender is often seen playing his Gibson ES-345 in a sunburst finish, here performing the #1 hit "Needles and Pins" live with The Searchers on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

From The Searchers' official website it is stated that "When they could afford better instruments, Mike bought a very expensive Gibson ES345 in a sunburst finish".

Mike Pender had two Burns Double Six:s, according to The Searchers' official website. The first was given to him by Jim Burns; a translucent green finished one which was used to record "When You Walk in the Room" in 1964.

The second one, seen here live on Sunday Night at The London Palladium in 1965, was a white model which was sent by the Burns factory as part of a set of instruments for the band. It was used on recordings such as "What Have They Done to the Rain" (1964) and "When I Get Home" (1965).