MikeAB wrote:I saw them twice and have no recollection of them being advertised as 'The Shadows featuring--' at all. Nor do I recall anyone shouting for Apache or anything else by the Shads. I remember being quite excited when it was John who played the guitar solo in Black Eyes as it seemed to suggest some excellent dual lead recordings were in the offing later on.
A shame they did not make it, but peer group pressure amongst any new group of young listeners would not have allowed it anyway. Shads fans should have been interested and appreciative - I was, and I suspect all proper 'die-hards' were as well.
Mike
I expect that the "calls for Apache" happened a couple of times but have been magnified by the passage of time. Likewise the tale of walking off to the sound of their own footsteps. It might have happened a time or two, but even in a social club, the compére would have whipped up some applause at the end of a spot. It isn't likely to have happened many times.
I never saw Marvin, Welch & Farrar. Not even in the summer of 1972 when I was working in a band in London and could easily have accompanied our girl singer (besotted with John Farrar, and, as it happened, with me) on one of her many night-off trips to see them at the London Palladium (it was a summer season). I'll always regret that.
But I did see Marvin & Farrar (with Mo Foster, Pat Carroll and a drummer whose name always escapes me) in chicken-in-the-basket cabaret in Liverpool in 1974. They certainly didn't get shouted requests for Apache or FBI (though they played both of them) and definitely didn't walk off unapplauded.