The Shads Playing the tune "Chicago"

[Bluesnote]

I remember in 1965(if my memory serves me right) a guy I was working with told me he had been to a private party that Hank had also attended and during the night he played jazz on his guitar, I remember being quite taken aback by this information being an ardent Shad fan and player at the time. Must have been correct then
Hugh.

[cockroach]

Are you sure it's a duffle coat in your boot Jim?

It might be an anorak...

[Fenderman]

Shame the video clip has terrible sound quality, i had to turn my speakers up to full to hear it.
And is that a cigar Bruce has in his mouth?

[GoldenStreet]

Interesting sound by Hank from a Gibson J45 flattop!

Bill

[AlanMcKillop]

There are very good (both visual & audio) material around of this show, and I believe that Bruce (from memory) has a kazoo in his mouth.

[RayL]

(A question for the man in the duffle coat)

In that setting the Burns Shadows bass looks out of place. These days it is easy to buy a bass guitar with an 'round-hole acoustic guitar'-style body. If John Rostill had wanted one in 1968, was there anything available?

Ray

[JimN]

(A question for the man in the duffle coat)

In that setting the Burns Shadows bass looks out of place. These days it is easy to buy a bass guitar with an 'round-hole acoustic guitar'-style body. If John Rostill had wanted one in 1968, was there anything available?

Not if you mean a bass version of the jumbo dreadnought.

Available options that might have looked less jarring would have included a sunburst Fender bass, or a Gibson EB-2 or similar 335-styled bass (preferably in sunburst, though blonde would have looked OK). Or even a double bass.

[cockroach]

Maton guitars here in Australia made the acoustic Bindarra bass from 1967-1972. (Check www.matonmuseum.com.au)

Extra large, deep jumbo body, with full scale bass neck- either acoustic or with a pickup. They later made a short scale model too.

That is the earliest roundhole flat top bodied type acoustic bass guitar that I've ever seen, and that I'm aware of, although Ernie Ball made a similar bass in the US called the Earthwood sometime back then....

Gibson of course made f-hole archtop electric bass guitars and electric standup basses well before WW2- there is a music museum in Seattle Washington USA with a bunch of such electric bass guitars made in the late 1930's - long before Leo's Fender Precision... including a Vox Phantom style SOLID body bass made by an amplifier firm called Audiovox in about 1940!

Nothing new under the sun folks!

[GoldenStreet]

Apparently, Kay developed the first acoustic bass guitar in the mid 50s.

More on Wikipedia:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_bass_guitar

Bill

[cockroach]

http://www.empsfm.org/at-the-museum/mus ... lume.aspx#

The link above will lead to a picture of the museum display of bass guitars etc

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