cliff and the shads on TV today

[specky]

hi I was watching Hank and Bruce on the Paul O'Grady show
on C4 this evening (now it could have already been broadcast before) but if now shown in your area yet keep a lookout for it.

they had a chat with yer man Paul

at the end of the show they joined Cliff for "Singin the Blues"

a really great version (dave edmunds)of their latest CD
they looked good

[olemuso]

They were on The One Show on BBC1 later.
Their second performance (Move It) was better as I think they mimed Singing The Blues on Paul O`Grady`s show.
I know they didn`t mime Move It cos Hank hit a couple of dubious ones ;D

[piotrek]

If someone's interested in watching the interview, it's here on Youtube:



And here's Singing the Blues played using Vox AC30 amps. Interesting, isn't it?



And here's The One Show

[marvingers]

Hi!

Thanks for sharing this. My heroes. I did a playlist for this at www.youtube.com/marvingers and made a link to it at Instrumental Nordic.

www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2E834E658BA5CA0E

Best regards!
Lars G. Vinger, The MARVINGERS

[malcolm]

Hi Everyone,

Just wondered if anyone could clarify what the story is behind the Shads Vox's?, i couldn't see them clearly live at the M.E.N. in Manchester, but later watching virtually the same show on dvd at the O2 Arena what was clear is that the gold VOX logo had been replaced with a gold JMI logo. It probably all amounts to nothing much, i was just curious as to why?

Thanks,
Malcolm

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Malcolm,
They were JMI badged from the start. I know because I saw the amps being unpacked before rehearsals began.
Regards,
Charlie

[malcolm]

Thanks Charlie...........you wouldn't happen to know what make of guitar bruce was using on the same tour with cliff? (used for just 1 number), it was a sunburst strat style guitar with gold hardware, i thought he may have had it made for him but i noticed the bridge was a tremolo version but of course without the arm.

Thanks
Malcolm

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Malcolm,
I think Bruce's sunburst Strat was made for him by Mick Johnson.
Regards,
Charlie

[malcolm]

Thanks again Charlie, but i wonder why he chose to have a tremolo version bridge? anyway, i believe Phil Kelly also uses a Mick Johnson made Strat which sounds very excellent (to my ears anyway)!!! as demonstrated on YouTube

Thanks Charlie,

Malcolm

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Malcolm,
Tremolo versions of the Strat sound a bit different to hard tail versions. It is thought that the tremolo springs cavity acts as a sound chamber and that the springs themselves have some effect. Presumably Bruce thought the tremolo version sounded fine and was advised that a non tremolo version would sound different, so he would have taken that advice, unless he figured this out for himself.
Regards,
Charlie

[malcolm]

Thanks Charlie,

I suppose when you look at it logically it does make a lot of sense sound wise, it's just that i have never owned a hard tailed Strat, and have never thought about it that way. I'm curious now, i wonder if the Strats supplied to Bruce by Jennings in the early 60's were hard tail or trem.!!!

Thanks again Charlie, you are a mine of information,

Malcolm

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Malcolm,
I don't remember seeing a hard tail Strat in the Jennings catalogue so probably all Jennings had were tremolo versions. All I remember is that there were two prices, 153 guineas for a sunburst and 160 guineas for other colours.
For those who don't know or remember what a guinea was, it was one pound + 5%, in other words twenty one shillings (twenty shillings made a pound in those days), or one pound and one shilling, or one pound and 5 pence in today's money.
Regards,
Charlie

[malcolmv]

I can imagine that Bruce would have chosen the Strat on its sound. I talked to him at an Albert Lee concert at Woburn Sands. He had just designed the Sound for the Holly stage production and he said that some guitars seemed to suit him 'right off' and he stuck with them.

Thanks for posting the vids. I missed them on TV and it was nice to see it.

[Tone]

Hi Charlie

Oh yes! I remember that price of 153 guineas so well! I used to drool over the Strats in Kitchens music store in Leeds around 1962 and that price is forever etched on my mind. I'd just started my first job earning £6 per week so the Strat was way out of my league and I had to make do with a second hand Hofner V2 costing £20. It looked quite Stratish and it was red but, of course, it sounded nothing like one.

I had to wait until I was 40 before I managed to get my first Strat (in sunburst) but I've rather made up for it since then!

Cheers.

Tony

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Tony,
They may have been expensive in those days and everywhere was selling at the same price! There is so much choice today with prices to suit all pockets, and I think it's fair to say that quality across the prices ranges is higher today than it ever was, in many ways. You do of course still get what you pay for most of the time (there are exceptions if you know what you are doing).
Regards,
Charlie

[richie]

these videos wont play they have been removed by the user
so i cant watch them