An absolute legend in British Pop history 🎸🎹👍

Apache by The Shadows is undoubtably one of the classics of pop music. What an incredible sound. It will never date.

@rktmanforsure1431

Жыл бұрын

The song that started me playing guitar. At now 75 still playing jams locally. With the yellow strat kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZHqCmKR_mJbPcpc.html

@davechapman7735

Жыл бұрын

Apache is either first or 2nd worlds most played instrumental

@steviesavage

4 ай бұрын

I used to think Hank Marvin was a poor player, and that his music was simple....until I had to learn some for a show. Nothing but huge respect for him now, such incredible musicianship, specially for that time!!

@12dougreed

4 ай бұрын

Are you sure about that

@briannewman6306

4 ай бұрын

@@12dougreed Why should I not be.

The Shadows were a wonderful group and was the best British group around in the late 1950's and well before the Beatles and the Mersey beat groups that followed in the early 1960's. Each of the Shadows were composers also and were behind the success of Cliff Richard and individually as a group. Before the Beatles the group had made three films with Cliff Richard and had composed the music in them and composed all the music themselves for the stage with Cliff with Cinderella which became big hits. The work of the Shadows covered three decades and had many changes over that period and had the sad loss of John Rostill on bass guitar. Jet Harris was an amazing bass guitar player and I was fortunate to meet him back in the 1980's when he played at a theatre in Telford in a 1960's concert. On one of the songs he played which happened to be Apache he broke one of the strings on his guitar but he carried on anyway. A wonderful man.

@sirstiffpilchard

6 ай бұрын

This is an interesting video. I heard Cliff & the Drifters in 1959 - I had their first album. My favourite album even today is 'Me and my Shadows' released in 1960. The guys had their Fender guitars then.. Listen to Jet's bass on 'She's gone' - brilliant! I still prefer the music of the original 4 Shadows, even though Brian Bennett is an outstanding drummer their last bassist, session mam Mark Griffiths has been very good. John Rostill's death was a big loss. But my favourite were the original 4. They just had ...something, can't explain it.

R.I.P. --- JET HARRIS HE WAS VERY GOOD !!SHAME HE WAS LEFT OUT !!! "THE SHADOWS " WERE EXCELLENT INDEED !!FROM (U.K.).

Great Era.

Jet played 'Diamonds' on a Fender Jaguar tuned down to 'D'. He confirmed it when I met him a few years ago, when he was touring with Marty Wilde. He was a great player and a great man.

@donaldciccone235

Жыл бұрын

Are you sure that was a Jaguar, not a Fender VI?

@davewoodley3716

Жыл бұрын

@@donaldciccone235 Absolutely, Donald! I saw him playing it on TV, in '63. Jet played lots of guitars throughout his career, including a Burns Barracuda. So he probably played a Bass VI as well. Last year I recorded my own version on my Jaguar, also tuned down to 'D', just for fun!

@Elainerulesutube

Жыл бұрын

I thought he played a 6 string bass guitar.

@davewoodley3716

Жыл бұрын

@@Elainerulesutube Jet played many different guitars throughout his career. As well as his Fender Precision, he has played a Burns Barracuda baritone, Fender Stratocaster, and his Fender Jaguar. When I saw him on British TV playing 'Diamonds' on his sunburst Jaguar, I thought it was the most beautiful guitar I'd ever seen.

@donaldciccone235

Жыл бұрын

@@davewoodley3716 Hang on. What we thought all this time was a Bass VI was really a Jag tuned down? I don't know, they have the same body but the Bass VI has a way longer neck. A Jag neck is even shorter than a Strat, isn't it?

If you really want to hear the power of Jet's playing on the Fender Precision Bass, listen to 'Nivram!' Careful you don't blow the cones out of your speakers!!!

@kingstumble

Жыл бұрын

Too true. Jet Harris was a proper bass player. I was an extremely average bass player in my first band when I heard Nivram. I thought I've got to learn this so I bought the sheet music which luckily contained the bass line. I could barely read music but I managed to work it out eventually. It took me ages. This was my first steps in learning walking bass which proved to be very useful. I was so pleased with myself!

I first had a Vox bass then I saw a guy in Italy playing a Burns Vista Sonic bass which was a budget version of the Burns bison bass wow! I got one but later ended up playing lead on a Burns bison lead guitar. I still have five Burns guitars including a Marvin.

@Davidmoore-ib8xg

Жыл бұрын

Hi my friend,how are you doing?

Shadows were instrumental band mostly, Searchers were about vocal harmony.

I agree so true 💘

You only need to listen to Nivram To realise what a good player jet was

Great stuff!

Hank's First Stratocaster had Gold plated parts, When Vox gave Hank and Bruce the Rosewood necked Strats they were nickel plated.

@juantate5978

2 жыл бұрын

instaBlaster.

@davechapman7735

Жыл бұрын

Hanks first strat was imported 1958 -59 and owned by Cliff and it had gold plated hardware, Cliff still owns it but Bruce has it.

Listen to his bass on 'Nivram'.

so many stories about drugs etc ..i loved the Shadows , saw them live with Billy Fury ..did not hear a word ....screaming..i heard that this guy had gone through a car crash that caused his problems , about 2o or so years ago i put my arm around him ..on the isle - of wight Uk he had just done a show with Mike ...sorry can't remember...

Featuring contributions from a host of stars and musicians including Marty Wilde, Wee Willie Harris, Mike Berry, Frank Allen, Mo Foster and Colin Pryce Jones, we meet the first musician in the UK to play the electric bass guitar.

My first bass was a Framus Star bass. I played it for five or six years but it was awful. I was forever breaking strings on it and had to have the neck reset. Eventually I part exchanged it for a second hand Fender Precision which was night and day compared to the Framus.

@Digmen1

Жыл бұрын

I had a big red Framus bass. Then I went to a Telecaster bass. There were not many electric guitars around in those days!

THE SHADOWS sono stati uno dei più grandi complessi degli anni 60/90….quando poi c’era JET HARRIS erano gli anni d’oro.

So very pleased I found this, loved the Shadows and watching Jet play bass was something I always wanted to do but never did. He is a legend in bass playing and also as one of the Shadows, amazing man and part of UK rock history. RIP Jet, we are still listening and loving the sound!

Budapesten volt 2000.aug. 19.Kisstadionban volt ott láttam.

Jet Harris Budapesten volt 2000 aug.19.Kisstadionban .szerencsém volt látni.

He was very good when he was with the shadows. But I didn’t know why he quit playing with the shadows.

The late 50's early 60's Jet says he was making £30 per week. When the average skilled tradesman was earning £12-£15 per week after stoppages he really was earning good money. At that time I think Micky Most and Larry Ponds were the two biggest managers in the business.

@Zacharia503

4 ай бұрын

Larry Parnes... Joe Brown reckons that Larry was paying him £15 a week, but I don't know how long their business reelationship lasted.

I'm assuming that That's Chas McDevitt talking about the Strat; he claims that Hank's Strat didn't have gold plated hardware, but I've heard many times over the years in interviews with Hank and Bruce that Hank's was definitely gold plated.

The Searchers?

Fine guitarist and bass guitarist.

The Shads DID have the gold plated Strats.

HMMMM !! FRANK ALLEN WAS PART OF THE " SEARCHERS" GROUP !!WHO WENT ON TO DO EXTREMELY WELL !!FROM (U.K.)

RIP Terence.

THE SEARCHERS......??????

@alfching2499

4 жыл бұрын

That was the title of the program that this clip came from.

Abbey rd i think.

Pity about Jet Harris. He had his future assured had he stayed with the Shadows. A great bass player when that guy was the poor cousin of lead and rhythm. The Shadows was the NEW sound, and Jet is responsible for two landmarks. The name Shadows was his suggestion, and his bass playing was absolutely ground breaking...

I have backed Jet in Fleetwood Southport and Leyland and he turned up after heavy drinking and swore at the audience, it was all his manager could do to keep him under control. I refused to work with him anymore, very embarrassing

I thought Jet was in the Shadows.

@michaelhampton9493

5 жыл бұрын

He was. But he left them in 1962/63

@seltaeb9691

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelhampton9493 and a great move that was!

@MrPhilfridge

2 жыл бұрын

@@seltaeb9691 well he had a couple of huge hits with Tony Meehan, so it wasn't a disaster

@colindant3410

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPhilfridge ...and Applejack.

jet had nothing to do with the searchers

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Shame we have to endure "Lord Kipper" Mike Read on this otherwise interesting clip.

@eastender1862

5 жыл бұрын

voiskumbeaver ....yes, he is such a prat, don’t know why he irritates me.

@mikewilliams258

5 жыл бұрын

East Ender You said it. Because he's a prat.

I doubt that the shadows got any better with age, they were always very pedestrian and bland imo 😏

@iansutton3176

Жыл бұрын

You must be tone deaf!