November 30, 2009 - 7:25 am
I decided to rent this DVD after watching the disc 1, that while there were flaws, was on the whole pleasant, especially in the early black and white images from Cliff and the shadows on stage. Unfortunately, the second album seemed to be poor in many respects, I’ve been a fan of Cliff and the shadows for many years and during that time have accumulated a fair degree of knowledge of both acts. I really do not expect the respondents ‘expert’ puryey information is actually incorrect.
Here are some examples - when it comes to reference the film Summer Holiday ‘was made with the melody Shadows’ Foot Tapper’ and then were treated to a clip from the film, however, despite the title on the screen information that the viewer is watching the number, the Shads were actually playing ‘Round and Round “I believe! An inference was made Cliff and Bruce Welch wrote the song for summer vacation, when it was actually written by Brian
Bennett and Bruce Welch, as mentioned in the credits for the title on screen. In the section on shadow race which stated that “before the Tornados” dated from the shadows, I feel this is true, no doubt the success Tornadoes first was in 1962, some time after the shadows are well established at the scene.
Before this becomes a rant I’ll move to aspects of DVD production, reviewers often repeated the same information for the viewer so the same detail that is repeated several times. A technique of dividing the screen into two windows are often used, a window that shows the reviewer and the other showing archive images.
Personally, I would have preferred more of the artists and less of the respondents! In short a very disappointing DVD, the old stuff, but very poor quality, is a great reminder of the cliffs performances in recent years, but we must weigh this against some misinformed comments from experts and the general values poor production.