Jet Harris & The Innocents (NME-1964)

[kingblee1]

hey, I appreciate Jet (my collection includes quite a bit of English instrumentals)--

BUT it's still quite awesome to think that in just 3 years a certain lad, from

another galaxy, would turn the guitar world literally upside down!!

[af4k]

Aaaah but it's fun. That's what guys did back then. Loud blasts of single droning note son the baritone sax!

[TheHillbillyHermitt1]

Aint the drummer his partner in music Tony Meehan?

[BassistPaul]

Who's the drummer?

[MesieKuriaky]

The sax looks like a truck on higway

[raiphdude7]

Always a light touch of sarcasm in his remarks, all the way to the end. LONG LIVE JET.

Passed away yesterday. God Bless this Hip CAT.

[diamondog99]

shoot the sax player........ brand new shiny Jaguar....nice...

[diamondog99]

shoot the sax player

[cellistoman]

That's not Herbie Flowers on sax, is it?! (He's now double bass tutor at Ardingly College.)

[eldorado62]

That bloody saxaphone drives me up the wall.

[12347771]

lighten up on the sax mix folks. This was obviously the opener for the day. Say out there is Jet Picking a six string Fender VI bass like Jack played later w Graham Bond? Sure sounds low and I can't tell them from Jaguars actually...help me..

I'm the love child of Derek Leckenby and Tony Hicks....

[joejoe3011]

The saxophone actually made me laugh out loud

[tonycrombie]

sax player is a cunt

[tonycrombie]

sax player is a cunt

[ValeAvoca]

The Sax player is a joke!

[largalout]

Jet Harris was OK as the Shadow's bassist, but as a soloist, he is on a par with Duane Eddy.

A note by note mouth breather.

No spontaneity, just play the note and don't get distracted and make a mistake.

Just look at how he has to constantly look at the fretboard.

By the way, I remember collecting a Vox Phantom guitar from JMI in Kent during the early60's, and being shown a custom Vox amp with a horn speaker that Jet Harris used to make Diamonds.

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[oddjobjujitsu]

@largalout on par with duane eddy? shows how much you really know about eddy then....duane was an exceptional guitarist...who could play many styles .. just because he was mainly known for single string playing duane could travis pick to a very high level as well...look it up then maybe you will understand what i am talking about

[largalout]

@oddjobjujitsu

Thanks for backing me up, Duane was a better mediocre guitarist than Jet Harris.

[oddjobjujitsu]

@largalout  backing you up? lol na'hhhhh i was trying to educate you lol..guess i'm wasting my time

[stubbyguy]

was this englands version of surfer music or what? i am tryin to figure out what style this is?

[ironbuttermilk]

The sax is fine, it's just up too damn loud in the friggin' mix is all.

[redfenderguy]

@ironbuttermilk oh christ your right there mate jesus dear me lol

[buckley54]

fuck off

[shmoutsley]

I bet the sax player is an accountant now

[shmoutsley]

that sax is a laugh!!!!!!!!!!!

[slider876]

the sax spoils it

[aponcapone]

i agree.

[iangordoncraig]

That sax is unbearable. can't sit through the vid.

[gwugluud11]

The 6-string bass had no place in 60s music? 3 years later Jack Bruce's use of the instrument was termed "revolutionary".

[dpitd]

second song should be called loud bad saxophone  but its not his fault its the sound engineer

[snifferenator]

I bet Duane Eddy never knew he played a 6 string bass guitar.

[copewood333]

Furthermore, the sax is so far out of tune that he is nearly BACK in tune. He set the sax back to 1846 - just before it was invented.

[copewood333]

The sax should have been straightened out and worked up inside him.

[jbonham78]

I'd like to have seen that

[dpitd]

dont bother to straighten it

[BassistPaul]

Could that possibly be a young John Paul Jones on bass? I know he did the Jet Harris gig for a while...

[NeilThompson30]

It's the Innocents backing him.

They were a recording group in their own right and John Paul Jones wasn't their bass player.

[BassistPaul]

Yes - I've since found out that JPJ did the gig when Jet toured with Tony.

[GertKozijn]

Hi Paul. Me to found out that John Paul Jones started his carreer in this band. Also found it it could be Glen Huges on saxophone. I think you are right! Amazing isn´t it this later exceptional Led Zeppelin bassplayer

[johnpro2]

Goodness..bloody awful

[beatlefannumber1]

it's hard to hear the band with the saxaphone player

[easyTaff]

Agree he's a bloody nuisance!!!!

[iveco321]

funnily enough i was just thinking the same!

[terrymod]

Saxophonists are all the same.....

[kublerp]

On the original recording there is no saxophonist blowing his heart out. Although this video is a valuable classic it does not do justice to the songs and the drummer unfortunately is no Tony Meehan

[joemgeek]

for the first minute and a half it sounds like the band are each playing a different song

[pacobeat63]

Lastima de saxo.Apagarle ya el micro.

[fooser1]

Great guitarist, but the worst sounding thing there is is a single saxophonist blowing as hard as he can, drowning out the rest of the band. Much of that is probably the fault of whoever was in control of the volume knob, but god this sounds like hell.