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Hi, John, No, The Shadows never used the Burns Bison model (with one rather esoteric exception, see below). The group swapped from a Stratocaster/Precision line-up to a set of signature Burns instruments called the "Marvin" (six-string) and "Shadows Bass" (er... bass) during 1963...

I run a ShadowMusic club in south-east England, and there and elsewhere, I get the chance to hear a lot of different players, at a variety of skill and experience levels. They tackle a wide range of Shadows and similar material. I agree with Goran that Slaughter On 10th Avenue isn't that hard to pla...

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the genesis of the title of that track, although it is pefectly possible that it is so obvious that it hasn't been thought necessary to discuss it... I'm sure that most of you will have heard of the phenomenon known as "Cockney rhyming slang", in whi...

Whoa! Not so fast... In the article: Before purchasing the Hofner, John McNally owned a Futurama, an affordable instrument played by a number of Merseybeat musicians including George Harrison of The Beatles and the Shadows' Bruce Welch . The "futuristic" appeal of this guitar was evident i...

Just a small point... The litle shop in Manchester Street ("by the Mersey Tunnel") referred to by Ritchie was in fact called "Samuel's", rather than (the similar) "Stanley's". I too remember them advertising Rickenbacker guitars there; they had the "Rickenbacker - ...

Hi, For a little information on Jim Gretty, see my posts in the "Hessy's Music Store Again" thread. Best wishes, JimN PS: Country and Western was massive in Liverpool throughout the period of the Mersey Beat Boom and more or less ever since, though many of its older practitioners, includin...

I remember that show being broadcast! It's the reference to My Prayer and to Chick Graham which are the strongest reminders. Of course, for a period of about a year, all the main broadcasters were beating a hasty path to Liverpool to make semi-documentary films. Since there was no real way to video-...

Hi,

I have posted some details of "other" Liverpool music stores of the sixties in the thread topic titled "Hessy's Music Store Again".

Best wishes,

JimN

Thanks, Kira and Peter. I feel a bit of a fraud in this forum because I'm not a Rickenbacker user, though I did once have the "Rose-Morris" 330-type model with traditional F-holes, two toasters, the Ac'cent vibrato and the blend control (a 1997?). That was in London back in 1972 and I only...

Hi, As someone born, bred and educated in Liverpool, I can help with the history of this one... Frank Hessy's music store was originally situated in Manchester Street, Liverpool. This was back in the earlier part of the twentieth century, possibly before the Mersey Tunnel to Birkenhead was opened in...