by cockroach » Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:49 pm
Tonight I've just been watching a DVD including quite a few clips from Cliff's live TV shows (1960, 1961) - I don't know about the recordings, but from early 1960 the Shads are using the two tone AC15's, then the early cream AC30's, the early twin speaker cream AC30's, and on the Eamonn Andrews show Crackerjack, the all red Fenders with the black AC 30's. You can hear how Hank's sound changed with each amp, and unlike the Final Shads Tour, he makes quite a few mistakes! Jet often really turns it up and is very prominent, as is Bruce at times, both sometimes being even louder than Hank! By Crackerjack time, doing Frightened City and FBI, April 1961, they are sounding pretty close to the recorded sounds ...
(Guitar wise, in 1960 Bruce uses the 'first EP cover' Jazzmaster mostly and also the Gretsch 6120 on one clip late in 1960, and the 'first album cover' Telecaster (which he later forgot he actually played!) and the Jazzmaster in early 1961.
Hank is using the original maple neck 'old number 1' with HBM letters stuck on it throughout 1960-1961, and Jet uses his sunburst Precision with his initials stuck on it. Cliff plays Apache on the Strat - (which was fair enough seeing as he paid for it!) and also uses his sunburst Gibson J200 -which Bruce used on the records.)