Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed

Posted on January 11, 2015 | 21 Comments

The very first long playing record that I owned was ‘The Shadows Greatest Hits’ and I’ve still got it in what is now my redundant vinyl collection.

Hank Marvin – simply the greatest guitar player ever – forget the rest:

The Shadows in Concert

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21 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed”

Yvonne | January 11, 2015 at 4:27 am | Reply

That’s a wonderful memory from the past!

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Rick | January 11, 2015 at 4:35 am | Reply

I know Apache but not much else. I am headed to check them out, now.

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Gunta | January 11, 2015 at 6:44 am | Reply

Why does it not surprise me that you have a vinyl collection? How are you enjoying Bryson’s Summer of 1927? I read it some time ago and rather enjoyed the eclectic representation of that year (from a US-centric point of view). I’m about to start listening to his audiobook on Shakespeare.

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- Andrew Petcher | January 11, 2015 at 8:41 am | Reply
  
  Yes, I am enjoying it, not my favourite but I like it. That Shakespeare biography is one that I have read several times!
  
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Sue Slaght | January 11, 2015 at 6:52 am | Reply

Well I have a vinyl collection of special LPs that my brother and I owned but I don’t have this one. 🙂

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- Andrew Petcher | January 11, 2015 at 8:43 am | Reply
  
  I’m not really sure why I keep them. I don’t play them. Just nostalgia I guess. I disposed of all my music cassettes but parting with the vinyl is just too big a wrench.
  
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  - Sue Slaght | January 11, 2015 at 7:36 pm |
    
    I have thinned out the collection to about 30. I don’t play them either and I’m actually a minimalist they are a bit of a unusual thing to have for me. Nostalgia I think. 🙂
    
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  - Andrew Petcher | January 11, 2015 at 7:50 pm |
    
    So if you could only keep one, which one would it be?
    
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  - Sue Slaght | January 11, 2015 at 7:55 pm |
    
    Beatles White album. You?
    
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  - Andrew Petcher | January 11, 2015 at 8:22 pm |
    
    That is a good choice, I’ve got that one. My choice – Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers! I just loved the Stones when Mick Taylor was playing with them!
    
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  - Sue Slaght | January 11, 2015 at 8:35 pm |
    
    Good one although I don’t own it. 🙂
    
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suchled | January 11, 2015 at 7:41 am | Reply

Well Thanks a lot Andrew. Just when I thought it was time to come in out of the cold you go and drop a “Shadows” video on my lap. Two hours and Twenty minutes and did you stop and think that maybe my wife might want me to kill a spider or redecorate the lounge or something? No! I guess you didn’t.

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- Andrew Petcher | January 11, 2015 at 8:45 am | Reply
  
  I sat and watched it through and Kim kept stopping by wondering if I had finally gone completely mad! Such nostalgia, I can remember trying to recreate that Shadows Walk while playing air guitar like Hank.
  
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suchled | January 11, 2015 at 7:52 am | Reply

OK I’m 15 minutes in and she wants me to do a BBQ. They really were a pretty good band. But if you don’t mind I might have to press the pause button.

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inavukic | January 11, 2015 at 9:24 am | Reply

Great link, Andrew – I can see more than 2 million think so too 🙂 Thanks – loved & love them

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maristravels | January 11, 2015 at 12:22 pm | Reply

Loved your jump from ‘shadows’ in photography to The Shadows. Like you I have a vinyl LP collection I cannot part with – love the old mellow tone they have. When I downsized I had to dispose of books, books and more books and then vinyls and shellacs. I managed to offload the shellacs to a collector (keeping my Djangos for nostalgic reasons), gave the less wanted vinyls to Oxfam but I’m still left with over 100 favorites -some are favourites for the covers. I have two of the first 10″ LPs made of my favorite artists Frank Sinatra ad Ella Fitzgerald.

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- Andrew Petcher | January 11, 2015 at 1:14 pm | Reply
  
  I guess we will just have to hang on to them. I often ask my children if they want them but they look at me as though I am a dinosaur! Thanks for the comment!
  
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Let's CUT the Crap! | January 11, 2015 at 4:44 pm | Reply

I like your thinking out of the box for this one, Andrew.
Not familiar with the LP, but good memories linger, lucky you.

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lisadorenfest | January 11, 2015 at 10:21 pm | Reply

Love this entry!

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restlessjo | January 14, 2015 at 9:22 pm | Reply

I still have vinyl in the loft, mostly Beatles 🙂 🙂

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- Andrew Petcher | January 14, 2015 at 10:11 pm | Reply
  
  Yes, mine is also in the loft!
  
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