The Frightened City

[negninegaw]

At that time the most exciting music you could think of, was Latin American inspired music. See James Bond.
Quite complicated music/rhythm for a rock group.

[Clarry]

I've seen it played recently on the channel "Talking Pictures".

[Martin Page]

The film is being shown twice on Friday 17 March on the Talking Pictures channel.

[JimN]

Norrie Paramour from the film score. There is some use of a tremolo at the end but doesn't sound like Hanks style. I suppose it was a session man of the day - Vic Flick, Big Jim, Little Jim ?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMxG2ypy7lA

Listening to the audio postings..thanks JimN BTW!....my money's on Vic Flick...sounds like a Strat to me and Vic certainly had his white Strat around that time...also I don't think Big Jim had started major sessions at that time- e.g. film process work with orchestra requiring sight reading, and certainly not Page- who only really started sessions in 1963 IIRC...

For what it's worth (which probably isn't much), the group seen in the club scenes consisted of two guitars, bass and drums. The instruments are two white Stratocasters, a double bass and a drum-kit. The amps are very difficult to make out, though.

[RayL]

I've not seen the film, but the usual caution applies - 'live' music on film sets is pre-recorded, so guitars and amps are 'props' and may not be what was used for the recording.

[JimN]

I've not seen the film, but the usual caution applies - 'live' music on film sets is pre-recorded, so guitars and amps are 'props' and may not be what was used for the recording.

And that is precisely the reason why I suggested that the visual information from the film itself isn't worth much!

[cockroach]

I've not seen the film, but the usual caution applies - 'live' music on film sets is pre-recorded, so guitars and amps are 'props' and may not be what was used for the recording.

And that is precisely the reason why I suggested that the visual information from the film itself isn't worth much!

Exactly!

And that's why I HATE musicians miming- in films, TV, video clips, pop music shows etc etc!!!! So there!

I realise that the recording studio is meant to provide a perfect musical performance for posterity, and to best present an artist's music, so multi-tracking etc became the norm..

But I still prefer to hear any music played live- either in person at a show as a listener or watching video or film of a live performance.

In many ways, recordings from the days before multitrack etc are more honest to me- where the whole band or whatever stood up to a mic or mics and the actual live performance was recorded..

Apart from any other consideration, IMHO, it also sorts out the sheep from the goats- as in, who can really sing and play and who can't!

[Iain Purdon]

I quite agree with all that.

However, it is a fact of present-day showbiz that "live" shows are often enhanced by recorded material - sometimes you know, sometimes you don't - so the yardstick has to be slightly different. In effect, can the artiste or band pull it off? If yes, what's not to like?

[Billyboygretsch]

The film is on Talking Pictures Channel at Midday today

[JimN]

And it's on again tomorrow (if I remember correctly).