Agreed, I was relying upon hazy memory!Geronimo and Atlantis were recorded on 13th November 1962
Agreed, as mentioned by Hank in his column in the October 25th, 1963 edition of the New Musical Express that he had started playing it but it needed a few adjustments.I don't know what you mean about "conspiracy theories", but The Shadows were testing Burns prototypes as early as the second half of 1962 (though the instruments weren't seen in public until spring 1964, which is an entirely different thing).
Agreed, also verified by documented comments from Jim Burns.The group's intention to have a change from Fenders was actually announced as early as the first week of May 1962, in the Associated-Rediffusion TV programme "Dan Farson Meets The Shadows" (which I think included Jet, so must have been recorded at least some weeks earlier than that).
Here we get into conspiracy territory, a but like Bruce saying that he never used a Tele. And was Locking's recollection more accurate than Hank who claims that it was recorded on a Strat ?Licorice Locking himself stated on several occasions that some tunes recorded in late 1962 (including both Atlantis and Geronimo) were played on a Burns guitar.
The difficulty is there are two conflicting recollections, one from the person who actually played the tune and says it was a Strat. As far as I know there is no other documented evidence.What's the difficulty with any of that?
Paul.