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I know this video ( a promotion video perhaps) has been mentioned before but I had only ever seen a very very poor quality version of it.

I found this the other day - much clearer.

Just thought I'd share it - sorry if it was already known.

Geoff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgbcyfJgfQ

Hi Geoff, I hadn't seen that one either , how film producers passed over Jet I'll never know !!!. Hank had his stick on HBM below top horn, It sounds like a mime of the original, I could listen to it all day.

Surely one of the first ever music promo videos...???

I'm sure this was for the French market, I have it with the introduction in French, but that is good quality for YT.

Interesting Jet seems to be playing with his thumb, not a pick even if mimed. I wonder if Jet sometimes used his thumb in their studio recordings to get that deep bass sound and used a pick live to get more volume ?

Luigi

And did Bruce play a Jazzmaster on the original recording?

Geoff

bassboogie wrote:Interesting Jet seems to be playing with his thumb, not a pick even if mimed. I wonder if Jet sometimes used his thumb in their studio recordings to get that deep bass sound and used a pick live to get more volume ?

Hi Luigi, That's probably the best excuse I've heard yet for not using a pick!

Having said that, you've possibly hit the nail on the head.

Pat.

A very interesting video from a technical aspect. Shot on film, and almost certainly using just one camera. Now consider the number of shots and the number of camera angles. The Shadows would have been in that studio for many, many hours, miming over and over again as the camera was set up in different positions and the lighting adjusted (a light that was illuminating Tony for a frontal shot would have to be moved to avoid pointing down the camera lens when the camera is looking over Tony's shoulder at Jet, etc).

The way some shots are made with the camera a long way from vertical is also interesting. The necessary tilting head wouldn't have been in the studio by chance, so the shoot was planned by a film director who was accustomed, maybe, to making crime thrillers and who had been influenced by films like The Third Man.

A hard day's work for everybody involved!

Ray

Interesting stuff, Ray. The original video noir!

Bill

geoff1711 wrote:And did Bruce play a Jazzmaster on the original recording?

Geoff

Definitely not! We're talking Gibson J 200 here.

Bill