I can relate to this as I played in the 2is and my god it was so hot in there. The only ventilation there was a grilling the front ceiling going up to the pavement. Good old days No! but what a learning curve.
A very honest Jet, I actually agree with his comments on bass players and Paul McCartney is a superb bass player, his playing enhances the tune rather than showing off a technique that does little for the actual music. A great interview of two fascinating musicians.
Yes, I remember Charles Foote's shop in London, and that in the early 1970s it was still the place to go if you played the double bass . I think there is still a Charles Foote shop in London now.
I visited the 2i's in the mid 1960's, it was interesting to visit a British Icon of British music; my brother was part of a North Wales pop group who drove 250 miles from Conwy North Wales just to take up the oppertunity of playing at the 2i's. Will we see the same again. Jet Harris was amazing.
I was in a South Wales group and we played the 2 I's in the mid sixties. The cellar was a fantastic place: looked about as big as my living room, but we had our amps turned up as if we were in the Cardiff Capitol. Despite this, some guy fell asleep leaning on my bass amp!
@@Gynra Hello Brian, fun days. At least you can play an instrument; my brother was the singer, and when the band broke up he packed it in. I still laugh at the time his band kept driving around the block where the Llandudno Winter Gardens used to be, at the same time another local band who Lemme was a member of were also booked to play, they were doing the same thing. In there mind whoever was on last was the main attraction. This went on until the manager came out and stopped the band my brother was in, and threatened them if they didn't get on the stage they wouldn't get another booking. All the best.
J'ai toujours considéré Jet Harris comme étant le premier bassiste électrique en Europe...Il a ouvert la voie pour de nombreux musicien qui se sont mis à la guitare basse, surtout avec ce fameux solo de basse dans Nivram qui reste toujours d'actualité...Fender a beaucoup vendu des "Precision bass" grâce à Jet harris, "The Survivor" After The Shadows...C'était un vrai rockeur dans l'âme...Il est resté la figure attachée à l'histoire des Shadows qu'il a quitté un peu tôt à mon avis...je n'ai pas eu la chance de le rencontrer contrairement à Brian Locking grâce au Fan club France...Brian "Licorice" Locking nous a quitté récemment et il était également quelqu'un de très sympathique et simple à la fois... La British Rock and roll est un peu orpheline de ces deux pionniers initiateurs et inspirateurs du Rock et de la musique pop, et pas seulement en Grande Bretagne mais sans doute pour beaucoup de personnes dans le monde...
Do you notice how Jet and Licorice mention Skiffle all the time as their beginning .Skiffle and Lonnie Donegan started every young kid in the Middle 1950's ,playing .After that record "Rock Island Line " came out , within a year ,about 8 million kids started to buy ,make,steal,fabricate,infact cobble together anything that resemble that instrument - a guitar.Before Lonnie there was nothing for the kids ,then the British popular music scene exploded onto society .
I can relate to this as I played in the 2is and my god it was so hot in there. The only ventilation there was a grilling the front ceiling going up to the pavement. Good old days No! but what a learning curve.
A very honest Jet, I actually agree with his comments on bass players and Paul McCartney is a superb bass player, his playing enhances the tune rather than showing off a technique that does little for the actual music. A great interview of two fascinating musicians.
Two Bass players talk about the past,Very interesting, A good way of spending a lunch break!
Yes, I remember Charles Foote's shop in London, and that in the early 1970s it was still the place to go if you played the double bass . I think there is still a Charles Foote shop in London now.
Jet is a great storyteller, very humorous
These two guys will never know how much they influenced me.
I visited the 2i's in the mid 1960's, it was interesting to visit a British Icon of British music; my brother was part of a North Wales pop group who drove 250 miles from Conwy North Wales just to take up the oppertunity of playing at the 2i's. Will we see the same again. Jet Harris was amazing.
I was in a South Wales group and we played the 2 I's in the mid sixties. The cellar was a fantastic place: looked about as big as my living room, but we had our amps turned up as if we were in the Cardiff Capitol. Despite this, some guy fell asleep leaning on my bass amp!
@@Gynra Hello Brian, fun days. At least you can play an instrument; my brother was the singer, and when the band broke up he packed it in. I still laugh at the time his band kept driving around the block where the Llandudno Winter Gardens used to be, at the same time another local band who Lemme was a member of were also booked to play, they were doing the same thing. In there mind whoever was on last was the main attraction. This went on until the manager came out and stopped the band my brother was in, and threatened them if they didn't get on the stage they wouldn't get another booking. All the best.
J'ai toujours considéré Jet Harris comme étant le premier bassiste électrique en Europe...Il a ouvert la voie pour de nombreux musicien qui se sont mis à la guitare basse, surtout avec ce fameux solo de basse dans Nivram qui reste toujours d'actualité...Fender a beaucoup vendu des "Precision bass" grâce à Jet harris, "The Survivor" After The Shadows...C'était un vrai rockeur dans l'âme...Il est resté la figure attachée à l'histoire des Shadows qu'il a quitté un peu tôt à mon avis...je n'ai pas eu la chance de le rencontrer contrairement à Brian Locking grâce au Fan club France...Brian "Licorice" Locking nous a quitté récemment et il était également quelqu'un de très sympathique et simple à la fois... La British Rock and roll est un peu orpheline de ces deux pionniers initiateurs et inspirateurs du Rock et de la musique pop, et pas seulement en Grande Bretagne mais sans doute pour beaucoup de personnes dans le monde...
Do you notice how Jet and Licorice mention Skiffle all the time as their beginning .Skiffle and Lonnie Donegan started every young kid in the Middle 1950's ,playing .After that record "Rock Island Line " came out , within a year ,about 8 million kids started to buy ,make,steal,fabricate,infact cobble together anything that resemble that instrument - a guitar.Before Lonnie there was nothing for the kids ,then the British popular music scene exploded onto society .
A Gretsch.... D-TUNED??? Sounds VERY interesting and familiar to me. I tune most my guitars in open-D
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