FBI 1961 on the Maple board strat

[rockinscott]

Just came across this on you tube, The first time ive seen this played live on the maple neck strat.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ7DSivoB-I&feature=related

Enjoy

Scott

[roger bayliss]

Thanks not seen that one.. looks like the Cliff Richard Show.. noticed Hank switching to mid PU at times in similar fashion to Crackerjack video. Good to see the amps as well wonder which on is Phil Kelly's

[Amanda]

Hi,



Drat you Mr Bayliss I was going to say I wonder which one is Phil's!

Note also the Vox / Meazzi wheel Echo behind Hank!


Amanda

[rockinscott]

Hi

I thought the same thing re the amp lol. It certianly looks like the Cliff Richard show. Just thinking to myself now that most of the Shads tv appearences from what i have seen ie not backing Cliff have mostly been with the rosewood strats.

Scott

[roger bayliss]

Hank dropped a note in the solo just like the rest of us when we are under pressure

[JimN]

I thought the same thing re the amp lol. It certianly looks like the Cliff Richard show. Just thinking to myself now that most of the Shads tv appearences from what i have seen ie not backing Cliff have mostly been with the rosewood strats.

Scott

Of the few Cliff/Shadows early sixties TV appearances which still exist, most are from the ATV archive. Though ATV's premier variety programme ("Sunday Night At The London Palladium", on which Cliff and/or The Shads appeared many times) was not generally kept in telerecording or VTR format, one or two of those do survive - particularly a late 1965 edition wherein The Shadows played The Warlord and Cliff sang a medley of his bigger hits. It was from that medley that the (short) version of Lucky Lips on the "Hit List" video was sourced.

Other than that, most of the ATV surviving archive material is from the major 60m spectaculars televised in 1960/61 (from which FBI above was taken) and from a series of 60m shows from 1965 (on one of which, Lisa Minelli made her first UK TV appearance as a guest). Almost all the ATV stuff shows either the maple-neck Strat or the Burns guitars. There doesn't appear to be much from the period spring 1961 - Feb 1964 when the rosewood Strats were in use. There was a half-hour ATV show made in the autumn of 1962 (featuring Licorice), and it was a recording when shown, but the film or tape has gone missing, as has the early 1962 Rediffusion programme "Dan Farson Meets The Shadows" (which featured the Harris/Bennett line-up). If anyone finds them, I'll have a copy, please.

JN

[dave robinson]

Brilliant stuff - notice the sound of the guitar is THAT SOUND, with minimal echo and I suspect it wasn't the 'right' echo either but still sounded great ! Hank also made more than one cock up and it makes me feel good . . .

[OLDEREK]

I like the bit where Bruce forgets to turn back around.....He He He.

[BobGreg]

Apart from the one or two mistakes for which I make no comment - just superb material. What I find most interesting is Hank's tremolo technique - vastly different to his technique today. Non of the grabbing for the arm for effect - when in use now he tends to palm it most of the time, almost as a steady for his hand - much smoother transition?

[bgohara]

what age were the guys in this clip - hank and bruce - 19? jet slightly older, tony slightly younger? incredible!