synchro
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Posted on Jan 08 2018 01:22 PM
IvanP wrote:
Here's one more interview where Hank mentions how they simply chose the most expensive model in the Fender catalog. Imagine if they knew about the Jazzmaster at that point, which WAS the most expensive guitar sold by Fender in the early '59, and Hank ended up with that! Possibly the music world would have been a much different place....
They caught a break, IMO. As much appeal as the offsets have, they were not the same as a Strat. I have a sentimental attachment to Jaguars; they were the top of the Fender line when I first started playing. Nonetheless, the Strat is hard to beat and Hank has gotten one heck of a sound from one. Likewise for present company.
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
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IvanP
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 10:30 AM
My dad and I were back at it this Christmas, for the fourth year in a row! Here are three new videos for your holiday listening pleasure: Some Are Lonely, Maria Elena, and Bossa Roo. We hope you enjoy them, and we wish you all a happy new year!
— Ivan
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Noel
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 11:13 AM
These warm my heart so much. All the best in the new year to your entire family, Ivan.
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Fady
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North Carolina
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 11:37 AM
YAY! One of my most very favorite threads on SG101. Thank you Ivan (and Pops!) for sharing your tradition with us all again this year! Beautiful on many levels.
To a happy and healthy 2019 for the Pongracic's! 
— Fady
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bigtikidude
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 05:56 PM
Cool! Nice to hear some deeper tracks.
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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synchro
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 07:03 PM
As always, Ivan, it is a delight to see these videos of you and your father. That is truly a blessing, to be able to make music with your dad.
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
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wfoguy
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 07:09 PM
Thank you for sharing. Tell Sr. that I'm impressed. 
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IvanP
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 09:31 PM
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Brian
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Posted on Dec 27 2018 10:04 PM
I love this yearly tradition! So cool! Happy Holidays to you and your Dad, Ivan!
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IvanP
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Posted on Dec 27 2019 03:45 PM
Hey, it's been a year already!! So, here are three new videos of my dad and me playing the Shadows again!! Hope you enjoy!
I'm using a '97 '62 US reissue Strat with an '84 '62 US reissue neck and Pure Vintage '65 pickups, through a Catalinbread Echorec pedal and a Vox AC15C1-TV amp. My dad's playing an early-2000s Epiphone EJ-300S.
Video #1: "It's Been a Blue Day" - the B-side of the Shadows '63 single "Shindig"
Video #2 - "Theme From Shane". "Shane" is an iconic 1953 western, the Shadows adapting its orchestral theme music for their first EP, released in January 1961, following up on the huge success of "Apache" just a few months before with four more western-themed songs.
Video #3 - "Wonderful Land", their biggest hit, eight weeks at No. 1 in the winter and spring of 1962 in the UK, and 19 weeks on the charts in total - one of the biggest UK hits of the '60s in general, outdone only by the Beatles and Elvis.
We wish you all a very happy new year and see you next Christmas!
— Ivan
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Fady
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Posted on Dec 27 2019 04:55 PM
Always the sweetest treat of the holidays. Thank you once again Jr. & Sr!
Merry Christmas andHappy New Year to the Pongracic’s. May y’all’s 2020 be in good health, filled with love, happiness and Shads!
— Fady
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wfoguy
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Posted on Dec 27 2019 04:59 PM
Thank you and Happy Holidays to your family!
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CaptainSensible
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Leesburg, VA
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Posted on Dec 27 2019 06:52 PM
This is one of my favorite threads.
Merry Christmas!
— Sean
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22SeaDo
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Mojave Valley, AZ.
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Posted on Dec 29 2019 08:33 PM
— "Here's to the man who drinks dark ale and goes to bed quite mellow. He lives as he ought to live and dies a jolly good fellow"
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synchro
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Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Dec 30 2019 10:33 AM
Thanks to both of you. I really enjoy these Shadows tunes. What can I say, there’s just something magic about these arrangements and Wonderful Land always has a positive impact.
Great work!
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.
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Joelman
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Redlands, CA
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Posted on Jan 11 2020 10:44 PM
I know I'm late on this.
Ivan, you are so blessed to have these videos of you and your father.
I noticed that your father has a liking for Epiphone Masterbilt acoustic guitars.
So do I. I have a DR500 mce. It sound great, but it's like holding a row boat.
I hope your Christmas was wonderful!
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IvanP
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southern Michigan
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Posted on Apr 25 2020 02:57 PM
Not my dad and I, just me this time, but here's me playing the Shadows' "National Provincial Samba" from their 1965 album (their fourth) "Sound of the Shadows". A pretty obscure track, but one I've loved since I was a kid. Hank recorded two guitar tracks on this one, doing a call-and-response kinda thing, and playing both parts at once is pretty finger-twisting!
No echo on this one, just a touch of amp reverb. The amp is my Vox AC15C1-TV. Hank used his Burns, I'm using my SG101-awarded 2012 Dakota Red '65 reissue Strat (with Eddie Bertrand's 1986 '62 reissue neck), on the middle-neck pickup position.
Hope you like!
— Ivan
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synchro
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Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Apr 25 2020 04:52 PM
Ivan, your take on the Shadows is always spot on. You have absolutely captured it.
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.
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IvanP
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southern Michigan
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Posted on Apr 26 2020 12:33 PM
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IvanP
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southern Michigan
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Posted on Apr 27 2020 12:22 PM
Here's one more I shot last night, another very quirky and highly obscure Shadows track: "Alice in Sunderland"! I'd been playing around with this track for a while, but finally fully figured it out in just the last couple of days. A bit tricky, but SO MUCH FUN to play!
This was the b-side of the "Stingray" single, released in May of '65, as the Shadows' commercial fortunes were on the wane. But their creativity certainly wasn't! And even though this isn't a groundbreaking piece of music, I always thought there was something pretty cool about it. It's another early example of Hank experimenting with the in-between pickup selection, combining the middle and neck pickups on his Burns (as on "National Provincial Samba").
Once again I used no echo, just a touch of amp reverb, and the amp is my Vox AC15C1-TV. I'm also again using my SG101-awarded 2012 Dakota Red '65 reissue Strat (with Eddie Bertrand's 1986 '62 reissue neck). Enjoy!
— Ivan
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