Tracks you wish they had never recorded

[Pedro]

Well understood Tab. The air certainly get thin around 1:35

[Iain Purdon]

I have a midway stance on Turn Around... I agree that it's lush and beautifully performed - and it did indeed mark the return of the Shudders (as Wogan said when he first played it) However it was the nearest thing on that album to the old sound everyone knew. This single release may be have been a deliberate marketing ploy to win back the old audience ... I wonder how a new audience might have taken to them if one of the other more progressive gems had been issued instead?
Iain

[Stageleft]

Well it's a top E so 24th fret or of course one could play it with a full tone bend or a slide or on a guitar with 24 frets--contentious eh!( or even record at half speed octave down but can usually hear if this trick is used as the timbre of the octave up replay sounds a little odd) I think it's unlikely to have taken a strat 1st string up to F# just for this but I'll ask at sound-check if Hank can remember.

[dave robinson]

I'd be interested to hear Hank's take on this, I remember playing 'Turn Around And Touch Me' on the Strat with a tricky 'bend up' when I got the backing track on 'Casting A Shadow' back in 2000.

[dolmo333]

I´m surprised to see so many people here that don´t like the 80´s/90´s recordings. Personally i think they are great. However there are some lows, i can agree with that. As previus said i can agree that Sailing is really boring and Diamons was´nt that good either. How about a thread with the recording you wish they did. And another on the recordings that are really good but a bit "forgotten".

/Daniel

[stratmantd]

I´m surprised to see so many people here that don´t like the 80´s/90´s recordings. Personally i think they are great. However there are some lows, i can agree with that. As previus said i can agree that Sailing is really boring and Diamons was´nt that good either. How about a thread with the recording you wish they did. And another on the recordings that are really good but a bit "forgotten".

/Daniel

I can't say that I am surprised that so many people don't like the 80s/90s recordings because they were mostly covers of songs that should never have been done as instrumentals. Personally, I think that the only people who really liked those recordings were the same people who wouldn't accept Marvin, Welch & Farrar, i.e. "fans" as long as they were playing instrumentals and not trying anything else. As in "Hi Hank, I'm your greatest fan, I have all your albums, but keep doing instrumentals and not something that makes me think about what you're playing or I'll come to your concerts and demand you play Apache and make you walk off stage in silence if you don't."

IMO, once the original recordings ceased, there wasn't really a good reason to buy the albums rather than for completeness.

The Shadows must be one of the few bands who's creativity, which they had in abundance, was stopped in its tracks by the "fans" who wouldn't allow them to progress.

Oh, and there already is a thread called "Tracks you wish they had recorded".

[dolmo333]

Hi Tom!

Take it easy.

I can´t say i dislike any of the stuff Hank has done over the years. I think it was good instrumental covers in the 80´s/90´s. May or may i not be a minority. Every fan does´nt fall in to a category. Everyone has their own taste.

I´ll look into that other thread.

Respectfully

/Daniel

[Fenderman]

I believe it was the record company was the one who would demand cover versions, it made them easier to market. Polydor would give them a list of tracks to do and they would pick and choose which ones to do. This was probably not helped by the failure of 'Guardian Angel' which i think was their last 'great' album, despite being a flop when it first appeared.

[rogera]

Absolutely right Roy.

[stratmantd]

Sorry Daniel, I didn't mean to get at you. This is another occassion where typing cannot convey the same emotion as speech.

I just feel very strongly that the material recorded in the 80s/90s, after Guardian Angel, was, in most cases, unfortunately, just recorded to fill album sides. They churned out lift-music. It was a very sad period.

Another track that should not have been recorded - Sound of Silence. Not an instrumental at all.