Jet Harris DVD

[drakula63]

Just got this. Haven't even opened it yet. Hope it's good. Shall watch it later...

[Mikey]

We look forward to seeing your review.

[RayL]

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[drakula63]

I watched the first disc of the two.

I enjoyed it. OK, not a big budget production, but the fly on the wall type approach seems to work.

Jet comes across as a decent bloke, who accepts that he made some 'unwise' lifestyle choices, but also had his fair share of bad luck. He doesn't seem bitter, rather he seems philosophical about it all. The programme is quite revealing and quite moving here and there - he seems genuinely delighted and bemused at getting his MBE and you can sense that he is nervous about going into the palace to receive it.

And dare I say that the music, mostly, is a lot better than the stuff Hank was churning out in the 90s and beyond. 'The Fourth Man', also a Shadows title, sounded exceptional - very haunting. Likewise 'Song for Tony'. I am tempted to buy 'The Journey' on the strength of what I have heard here.

I also came away from it with the perfect image to open any Shadows / Jet Harris movie...

Jet walking along Old Compton Street with a monkey on his shoulder.

Nothing could beat that. In black and white, real film noir.

So, yes, some great anecdotes, some nice moments and what seemed to be a truthful portrait of Jet during the later years of his life.

P.S. The ?uess (Guess) incident (where a modern track is released with no reference to Jet and gets airplay on Radio 1) seems to echo the almost identical incident where his erstwhile lead singer (what was his name...?) released a single as 'Black Knight' and, again, got huge radio airplay which would have been denied him otherwise. It just goes to prove that music is only 'good' enough to play on the radio if they like you. Fall out of favour or style and no matter how good the music is, they won't play it. Unless they don't know who it's by!

[Hank2k]

I found the DVD very good when i got it a few years back. Will have to watch it again.

Incidentally on the subject of a documentary film of the shadows i went to see Dunkirk a few weeks back and was amazed how much one character looked just like Jet in the early days even down to the blonde quiff!