Hank on BBC Breakfast

[RUSSET]

Just found out that Hank is on BBC Breakfast this morning (Thursday) at around 8.40 am.

[LANKY]

A good time to dig out the old Shads track "Snap, crackle and how's your Dad"?

[hbmartin]

How can he look that good at 8.30 in the morning! A massive plug for his album. Never seen the BBC display an album cover so big for so long on the screen. Cant wait to get my copy next week.

[Paul Childs]

Hank mentioned about George Harrison once saying they should do vocals instead. Sure it wasn't sabotage? as they were generally more successful with instrumentals. It's a good thing they didn't take his advice.

[Billyboygretsch]

I do not think the Shadows would have been a strong vocal group. Nice harmonies but not distinctive voices. I also felt their songs were a bit too middle of the road compared to what else was around. Funnily enough last week I was listening to an album of Eric Clapton and JJ Kale - The road to Escondido - and thought how many of the songs were suitable for the Shadows but had a bit more umph. Their backing vocals were good with Cliff who else could have been involved in the band. Sting on bass and vocals!

[KurtFroberg]

The link:
http://youtu.be/ibTZJFeZEXU

[Paul Creasey]

Thanks for posting that link, Kurt!

I missed the actual transmission this morning. The Beeb, I think, did Hank (and us!) proud with an interesting interview - far better than the rather poor effort by Jools Holland earlier in the week.
Like others, I'm really looking forward to receiving my pre-ordered copy of Hank's new CD in the next few days.

Regards
Paul.

[Zaanse Shadow]

Thank you Kurt for putting up the link to the interview with Hank

Bye

Fred

[drakula63]

...The usual questions though; I bet he gets sick of saying the same things again and again and again! I bet if you look back at the last time he was on the show (2007 ??) he was probably asked more or less the same questions then. Still, what do I expect?

Yes, Hank looks remarkable for his age ( ) even at such an ungodly hour!

I thought the best bit was the editor's seamless editing between two different versions of Apache. Seemed spot on to me.

Well done Hank. Top ten album again soon?

[Fenderman]

I was thinking the same thing, he must be sick of telling that story about how he got the Strat but like a true pro, he'll tell you!