British Guitarist reacts to Hank playing Apache.

[drakula63]

Worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm10RSw3eRA

[Tigerdaisy]

This is being mimed.

[Iain Purdon]

This is being mimed.

Is it?

[John Brown]

Wasn't this from the Countdown Concert with Cliff at the NIA. I remember Hank doing this and also Ghost Riders in the Sky, the setting looks very similar. I was there and he certainly did not mime, it was also 1999 - Countdown to the end of the Millennium!

[Uncle Fiesta]

I think he liked it!


PS - not mimed, surely.

[dave robinson]

He isn't miming and I think it was the Milennium concert as suggested. I noticed the late Pete May on drums at one point.

[Tigerdaisy]

No, you're all right it isn't mimed... I could only tell by the 'big night out' ending... which I hate. The performance is very faithful to the original recording playing and sound wise- the middle section where he plays the A minor chord with a aggressive waggle of the tremelo was missed out of this video and I can usually tell by that bit if it's the original.

[abstamaria]

I believe the host is right. The melody has to be good of course, but it is the simplicity of the melody and the way it is played - just enough notes, as the host explains many times - that made Apache appeal to so many. And encouraged a generation to pick up guitars. Why, I could play that, I thought.

That is true, too, I believe for the Ventures in the very early days. Their equivalent was Walk Don’t Run.

Andy