Your favourite Shadows drumsolo?

[Lesley Bartholomew]

Mountains of the Moon ( Hank & Brian tour )

Ian

Mountains of the Moon for me as well, (whichever tour it was the Shads first played it live? think it was 1989?),I was at the Cambridge Corn Exchange & couldnt believe my ears when this terrific 'wall of sound' engulfed the theatre when they started playing it ..... there is soooooo much going on in it & its been my favourite ever since that day

[Derek Misselbrook]

Little B has always been Big B for me.
Dead boring.

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[Iain Purdon]

How do you define a drum solo?
Flingel Bunt is a strong drum feature. Does it count?
See You In My Drums has bass guitar all the way through. Does it count?
Brian Bennett, Licorice Locking and Mark Griffiths gave a performance together of Jack's Good at Shadowmania. That was a drum solo and they were Shadows. Does that count?

[roninnes]

Dead right Steve P.
Nice to see the insults are back.
These precious self centered string pluckers think they are God's gift to music.
Some may believe that it is a 10 minute break for them well so be it.
Some only play to BT's so do I value their opinion NO WAY!

A band is not a band without ALL the components so sorry string pluckers you need a drummer, like it or not.

LONG LIVE THE DRUM SOLO.

Ron

[Iain Purdon]

LONG LIVE THE DRUM SOLO. Ron

... words of which you will be reminded when we next gig together Mr Innes!

[roninnes]

OOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ron

[Iain Purdon]

When Tony Meehan died, I remember Brian Bennett saying the great thing about Tony's drumming was that it was so musical, or melodic or words to that effect. I think he meant you could "sing" what he was playing.
Anyway, See You in My Drums is a great example of that. So is Big B. Also neither of them is too long.
So I'll vote them Joint Top in my poll
Iain

[donna plasky]

One of the things I like best about The Shadows' music is that, in my opinion, there are many songs which we all like -- but perhaps for different reasons. My example would be Honourable Puff-Puff, which is one of my all-time favourite Shads tunes. I remember reading an article on the internet, some time ago, that asserted H-Puff-Puff is considered a percussion showcase, or words to that effect. And it's one of the choices on this poll for favourite drum solo, and deservedly so. Funny thing is, if I had to list only one reason why I like Puff-Puff so much, I would say it's the bass playing. So here's a song that has an excellent drum solo, terrific bass playing, and more.

Thanks for listening,
Donna

[Didier]

I am suprised that so few people selected "Captain Haddock is missing", which is really a great drum solo.

Didier

[iefje]

Also, no one has selected "The Drum Number" or the live version of "Arty's Party". This last one is also one of my favourites.