Live At The Paris Olympia Albums

[drakula63]

I envy you Stuart.

If I had a time machine and could go back and watch any Shadows concert or tour, it would be a toss up between the 1975 shows you attended (or the Paris Olympia, of course!!!) or one of the 1977 shows on their 20 Golden Dates tour (mainly 'cos I am a huge fan of Francis Monkman and don't honestly believe that he fell asleep on stage. Or did he?) Once I've built my TARDIS, I'll nip back and find out.

[Jay Bass]

[quote="drakula63"]Live at the Paris Olympia features one of my favourite Shadows sounds. I love the fact that Hank's sound is slightly heavier (he is using different pick ups, I believe) and the addition of John Farrar (an extra lead guitar) on most tracks makes a huge difference. Tarney is the best bass player they had, after John Rostill,

Hi Just listened To Live at The paris Olympia (Magic Cd delivered this morning from leo's den)
What a great Live Bass Guitar sound, & some great Bass playing ,loved every track.
Regards
Jay

[Didier]

If I had a time machine and could go back and watch any Shadows concert or tour, it would be a toss up between the 1975 shows you attended (or the Paris Olympia, of course!!!) or one of the 1977 shows on their 20 Golden Dates tour

If I had a time machine, I would go back to the Shadows' concert I attended at the Paris Olympia in 1961. It was far better than the 1975 one !

Didier

[bob t]

I would go back to watch them all especially the ones I never saw at the time and perhaps I could video them all.
What a wonderful thought.

We could even drop in on the studio recordings and settle all those arguments once and for all

Bob T

[Iain Purdon]

Great record, whichever version you have.

John Farrar's presence was a real enhancement and I agree that Alan Tarney was a great bass player. And then along came Jones....!

Iain

[hansaustria]

I have a copy of the original LP. I find it superb from the perspective of a musician and I think that the band
is not interested in copying the old sound ever and ever.

The effects on hanks guitar are ok and sounding temporarily great ! The vocals are excellent.

Hans

[JimN]

I have a copy of the original LP ... the band is not interested in copying the old sound ever and ever ... The effects on hanks guitar are ok and sounding temporarily great ! ...
Hans

I certainly agree about the guitar sounds, Hans.

At the time, Hank was using a CBS-era Strat, equipped with a Gibson humbucking pickup at the neck position, a standard Strat single-coil unit in the middle position and a Seth-Lover-designed Fender Wide Range humbucker in the bridge position. The bridge pickup was also controlled by a coil-split switch.

Friends who saw the Shadows around the same time report that John Farrar's humbucker-equipped Thinline Telecaster, as well as being outfitted with a customised set of Bigsby Palm-Pedals, was played through an EMS "Synthi Hi-Fli" guitar synthesiser module (if I recall, that unit had a little upright console with the controls at waist height - see: http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/emsprods.html#hifli).

You can hear the Palm Pedals on Nivram and the Synthi Hi-Fli on Guitar Tango...

Best wishes,

JN