A Shadows type instrumental I wrote

Danny1969 · October 2020

I've tried to write this piece called West Bound in the style of The Shadows. If you like that kind of thing you might like this

phil_b · October 2020

I enjoyed that. now where did I leave my surf board

rlw · November 2020

nice

Jimbro66 · November 2020

A nice tribute to Hank but lacks the essential footwork

McSwaggerty · November 2020

Great!!!

munckee · November 2020

Danny1969 said:

I've tried to write this piece called West Bound in the style of The Shadows. If you like that kind of thing you might like this

I do and I do!

Danny1969 · November 2020

Thanks guys. I got a chance to play it live at a Shadows club meet a couple of weeks back which was nice.

Arfashandi · November 2020

thats bloody good. great tone

jaymenon · December 2020

Very very nice...!

Danny1969 · December 2020

Thanks guys ... doing more recording is at least one positive aspect of 2020

hollywoodrox · December 2020

That’s superb ,very well done

guitartango · December 2020

@Danny1969 ; Nice work, which delay did you use ?

artiebear · December 2020

Loved that.

The piece takes me more towards early 60's cross Atlantic surf, with a respectful nod to Hank. A harder technique and tone to achieve than all the perceived "clever stuff" many players aspire to. Having played guitar for Sir Cliff in the past, the place I occupied on the stage made me feel very very small indeed ( as well as proud ) considering my younger self listening to Apache over and over through a Dansette valve record player.

Thanks again, you capture it well.

tone1 · December 2020

Bloody hell.... That would have been number 1in the 60’s....

Danny1969 · December 2020

guitartango said:

@Danny1969 ; Nice work, which delay did you use ?

Thanks man, it was a Carl Martin Red Repeat Delay and a Mosky Silver Horse into a Fender HRD.

Cheers @tone1 appreciate it

@artiebear ; Tell me more about playing for Cliff, that's quite something ?

artiebear · December 2020

Danny1969 said:

guitartango said:

@Danny1969 ;;; Nice work, which delay did you use ?

Thanks man, it was a Carl Martin Red Repeat Delay and a Mosky Silver Horse into a Fender HRD.

Cheers @tone1 appreciate it

@artiebear ;;; Tell me more about playing for Cliff, that's quite something ?

early to mid 80's off and on @Danny1969, Was never part of the retained core band "Sons of Thunder" but filled in. ( there were all sorts of weird links over the years for me, from touring with Labi Siffre as support act, Labi being managed by Pete Gormley, also Cliff's as well the The Shadows' manager at the time to working with on songwriter demo tracks for CR. A great memory to have and also enough to make anyone give up playing who has had to watch the great John Clark warm up at soundcheck. I will always maintain that the easy stuff in that context has lots of rubato and gain, the scary stuff involved twang and echo where there was nowhere to hide, hence my appreciation of your track.

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