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Post by Charlie Hall on Jan 6, 2010 13:23:05 GMT
Hi Andy, There was indeed problems with Vox amps around the time of the 80s, apparently every single amp failed. But since then, I had also heard that Hank wanted to borrow a Vox from the current Vox company of that time and they refused. That is more likely the real reason that he will not be seen using them now. Regards, Charlie
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Post by abstamaria on Jan 7, 2010 3:30:23 GMT
Thank you, Charlie. My best,
Andy
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Post by peterbower on Jan 7, 2010 15:07:53 GMT
Charlie Your right about the refusal to lend Hank a VOX. Vox were based in Harrow at that time in the Chrystal Centre business park. Just 2oo yards from where I live.
It was one of the lower ranked staff who dealt with Hank's request. Needless to say he was given his marching orders later. He claimed he had never heard of Hank Marvin, so assumed it was some body on the take. Peter
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Post by TonyL on Jan 25, 2010 12:51:23 GMT
Hi
Just got round to watching the DVD and think it's great.
There's a few thing that I noticed whilst watching:
1. Wonderful Land seemed to be played at a faster tempo to the original recording.
2. Hank seems to use the bridge and not neck pickup for the muted parts of Atlantis.
3. Hank seems to have reverted to a belt transmitter (well actually it was on his strap) for his wireless system whereas on the Final Tour DVD he just has a transmitter stuck directly into the strat jack socket. Wonder why he's changed back to the system he used when wireless first came out.
4 On the outake interviews with the fans in Ireland the American woman has a 1960ish American program of a bloke by the name of Cliff RichardS, any relation to Keith?
5 In the first half Cliff refers to playing to O2 for the first time so I presume that this was recorded on the first night there, in the second half he mentions playing the O2 for the second time so is the DVD a compilation of both performances?
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Post by Charlie Hall on Jan 25, 2010 16:44:27 GMT
Hi Tony,
The radio systems were brand new. I was there when they were being unpacked and helped to set the frequencies up on one or two. I don't remember the brand but might have been Sennheiser.
I was told that the DVD is a compilation of the Friday and Saturday night performances.
Regards, Charlie
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Post by TonyL on Jan 26, 2010 8:47:28 GMT
Hi Charlie
Thanks, just wondered why he switched back.
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Post by abbeyroed on Jan 27, 2010 18:58:43 GMT
Hi All: Just received my copy today from Amazon and because I had read the above comments, I too took note of some differences, especially the (meterspeed) of 'Wonderful Land' as compared to most other recordings. One thing that I particularly noticed was in 'the behind scenes', when Hank was trying to get the trem arm set to his liking on that 'strange-looking' Strat that he used; Cliff seemed to think it didn't matter. Now that really showed me what a real guitarist (Hank) is all about. You just don't expose yourself to something that's going to reflect or not give you what you know to be what's really 'you'. Some words of advice: Let the musician find his own groove, whatever he may think it is. I did enjoy the DVD, but not as much as 'The Shadows' Final Tour. You never know what is learned from watching and being exposed to others. Cheers, Ed!!
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Post by GuitarPhil on Feb 7, 2010 22:17:54 GMT
Amazon seem to have two Editions of the Cliff and The Shadows Final Reunion DVD on sale currently. One is around £19.99 RRP (Amazon price £9.08) and the other is labelled 'Limited Special Edition', which is selling at £54.99!
Does anyone know the difference in the DVDs as that's a big variation in price.
Thanks,
Phil
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Post by jastreet on Feb 14, 2010 20:11:50 GMT
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