iefje wrote:abstamaria wrote:There remain for me (not steeped in Shadows lore but having tried to absorb much from this very instructive forum) some questions that remain unresolved.
3. Did Hank continue to record on # 34346 after the Shadows received the rosewood-board Strats?
7. What was the first piece recorded on the Burns?
7. Who played the bongos (or other percussion instruments) in Little B? The claves or other sticks? (I think Jim Nugent recalls that the rest of the Shads played Latin American percussion while Brian Bennett played the piece at a 1962 show in Newcastle that he attended.)
I wish this forum were accessible to ChatGPT, then I may ask it what the current thinking is.
Andy
Answer to question #3: I think he stopped using that guitar and returned it to Cliff.
Answer to question #7 (the first one): One of the first must have been the Cliff Richard & The Shadows track "Don't Talk To Him", although that was the Burns Double Six. Probably the first Shadows track to feature the Burns (6-string) was the first version of "Razzmataz", recorded on November the 27th, 1963.
Answer to question #7 (the second one): the other percussion instruments on "Little 'B'" were played by Hank, Bruce and Licorice. Just after the drumsolo started, they put down their guitars and quietly walked over to those instruments.
Regarding ChatGPT, that's still a stupid computer program with a lot of algorithms, which makes it look like it has intelligence, which it has not.
In answer to
Andy's Q7 (the second Q7), the first time I ever saw The Shadows live was in 1962 in
My Home Town of
Liverpool and not Newcastle (the best part of 150 miles away as crows fly)!
As to
lefje's answer to the same question from Andy, the drill for
Little B was that the three frontline players (Hank, Licorice and Peter Carter) put down their instruments and left the stage completely. After a couple of minutes - at the appropriate moment - they walked back out and stood close together stage right and played the Latin percussion instruments (conga, cabasa and claves, I think), leaving again after that interlude, then finally back on stage for the end of the drum solo. At no point did they stand on stage listening to Brian's solo.