Hank on Jools Holland Later

[Uncleboko]

At the end of the day, I doubt very much if the BBC would arrange, and pay, for Hank to actually perform on Later just to keep a dozen posters on this site happy

[Fenderman]

Thats about four TV appearances and not one track from his new album played, very poor show, and i'm getting sick of the old 'where did you get the strat from?' story. By now Bruce must be having a guilty conscience about the whole thing! Why don't they ask him something different like 'Do you still see the other Shads?' or 'What's your next move going to be?'.
I also saw him on the One Show and he did look quite uncomfortable, not sure why, he seemed to smile through the entire show and just did a fake laugh at all the 'jokes' the presenters and other guests made, it seemed strange him appearing on an edition that was more sports focused.
I also noticed that red Burns on the Jools Holland show and also wondered if that was a nod to Hank, pity the song itself was utterly dreadful.

[ecca]

He's saving himself for when he comes to the Hankies on Tuesday......

[Admin]

I noticed, during the 30 seconds I watched the programme, that Jonathan Ross was there. Now I'm no fan of his but an element of this thread prompts me to praise where praise is due.

Some years ago I worked with Jonathan and I couldn't help being impressed by the fact that he spent a vast amount of time, several days per guest, researching and talking to his guests before each of his weekly shows. I can't imaging many presenters being prepared to put as much time in as he did (and presumably still does) for a 1 hour show.

Bob.

[bgohara]

At the end of the day, I doubt very much if the BBC would arrange, and pay, for Hank to actually perform on Later just to keep a dozen posters on this site happy

Spot on Stephen

The thing people are ignoring here is that Hank isn't on a concert tour - and doesn't have a ready made band to turn up and play a track from his new album 'live' on a show like this. Of course I'm personally disappointed that he hasn't played anything (and the original post on this thread led us to believe that he would) but he is on a promotional tour to sell a CD- and just this week has been doing extensive tv and radio appearances, including twice on Jools, One Show, Breakfast etc. The aim is to make people aware that he's still out there - and has a new CD out. I'm sure he must be very happy with the level of exposure he's been getting - even if it means sitting on a 30 min magazine show on BBC 1 primetime (and talking a fair bit of crap!) . Hopefully this will all result in a good chart placing (he is currently number 8 on Amazon's overall chart, and number 1 on both their 'pop / rock' and 'instrumental' categories).

Of course he owes his success to what he did with the guitar in the early sixties - and of course interviewers (in the course of a 5 min interview, aimed at a general audience, not a bunch of trainspotters) will focus on those early days, the sound, the steps, the guitar, the image...I don't know what people otherwise expect? It's quite amazing that he is still recording / releasing albums over 50 years later - and he needs to let the general public know that he is still out there...As for more insightful questions, maybe the Lee Hodgson interview will address some of these (the one he did with Bruce which is online from a couple of years ago was superb - there is well over an hour of video of this interview online)

I thought that Jools was complimentary / warm towards him - and did make a comment about him coming back...

Finally - he was on Radio Oxford this morning (Tim Smith show) and again the question of the original strat came up! He gave an interesting response...(check it out on iplayer)...and also made a joke about recommending Bruce to John Foster (in 1958) being one of the most stupid things he had ever done in his life!

He likes to stir it up

[Uncleboko]

Mind you, I should think that the Imelda May Band would have provided him with excellent backing, as they did for Jeff Beck!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlyunWX6Y9s

[bgohara]

Mind you, I should think that the Imelda May Band would have provided him with excellent backing, as they did for Jeff Beck!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlyunWX6Y9s

That's a good point! I'd say big Darrel would have been up for that!

Who knows - he might even have been a late booking for Jools? The One show wasn't announced until Wed night - and he was on it on Thurs!

[Alan Prudhoe]

Not a waste of time for exposure of the album, but It was a waste of MY TIME.
We were told that he would be playing - he didn't, so for me it was a waste of time listening to re-hashed questions about the original Strat and the obvious agenda to discredit Bruce.
My recollection of that story is that Cliff gave that guitar to Bruce back in the seventies, in appreciation of getting Cliff back into the mainstream when nobody was buying his records. Bruce ressurected Cliff's career big style and then was dumped again after he'd done the job. Why don't they tell that story?

Also, the crap about Cliff wanting to buy Hank a good guitar - if he bought it for Hank, then why did he want it back?
If I buy something for somebody it's theirs to own forever. They're an odd bunch and not like the folks I was brought up with. Doesn't anyone else see this ?

Spot on, Dave.
Hank never seems to miss an opportunity to get the "borrowed guitar" dig in - and we all know Bruce's answer

Ans as for the Management.
Remember the website they created for the 2004 Tour.
They even spelt Bruce's name wrongly.

[Billyboygretsch]

Hank came to promote the CD for sure. Most of the sales will go to Customers who already appreciate his and the Shadows music. He and his management should have prepared better for the promotion. It would have been great for him to play and I'm sure if some more effort had been made before coming over - bare in mind how long it was before he arrived - more could have been done. I think it is a bit of a snub to his loyal followers. More has been said on his site than he did.
I hope Bruce doesn't leave him the guitar and leaves it to me instead ( joke)

[hbmartin]

Not a waste of time for exposure of the album, but It was a waste of MY TIME.
We were told that he would be playing - he didn't, so for me it was a waste of time listening to re-hashed questions about the original Strat and the obvious agenda to discredit Bruce.
My recollection of that story is that Cliff gave that guitar to Bruce back in the seventies, in appreciation of getting Cliff back into the mainstream when nobody was buying his records. Bruce ressurected Cliff's career big style and then was dumped again after he'd done the job. Why don't they tell that story?

Also, the crap about Cliff wanting to buy Hank a good guitar - if he bought it for Hank, then why did he want it back?
If I buy something for somebody it's theirs to own forever. They're an odd bunch and not like the folks I was brought up with. Doesn't anyone else see this ?

Spot on, Dave.
Hank never seems to miss an opportunity to get the "borrowed guitar" dig in - and we all know Bruce's answer

Ans as for the Management.
Remember the website they created for the 2004 Tour.
They even spelt Bruce's name wrongly.

I'm always the first to criticise the management, but it was not him I think it was Universal Records that created the website in 2004, not the Shadows manager. Same manager now for more than 35 years, so Hank must think it works ok and will have made big profits for Bruce and Brian also.