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- Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:56 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Liverpool's Fastest Rhythm Guitar
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8542
Re: Liverpool's Fastest Rhythm Guitar
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...
- Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:02 am
- Forum: Shadows' Forum: by Goran
- Topic: Most Challenging Shadows Instrumental Live
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10392
Re: Most Challenging Shadows Instrumental Live
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...
- Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:49 am
- Forum: Shadows' Forum: by Goran
- Topic: I'm Absolutely Hank Marvin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9924
Re: I'm Absolutely Hank Marvin
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...
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:44 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Liverpool's Fastest Rhythm Guitar
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8542
Re: Liverpool's Fastest Rhythm Guitar
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...
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:52 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Ritchie Routledge on the Liverpool Project!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15557
Re: Ritchie Routledge on the Liverpool Project!
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 - ...
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:28 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Jim Gretty
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9129
Re: Jim Gretty
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...
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:21 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Beat City 1963
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2914
Re: Beat City 1963
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-...
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:16 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Other music shops
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3596
Re: Other music shops
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
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
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:13 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Hessy's Music Store Again
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24209
Re: Hessy's Music Store Again
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...
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:53 pm
- Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
- Topic: Hessy's Music Store Again
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24209
Re: Hessy's Music Store Again
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...