Jet Harris - The Searchers (From There To Here) 

Apache by The Shadows is undoubtably one of the classics of pop music. What an incredible sound. It will never date.

An absolute legend in British Pop history 🎸🎹👍

The Shadows were a wonderful group and was the best British group around in the late 1950's and well before the Beatles and the Mersey beat groups that followed in the early 1960's. Each of the Shadows were composers also and were behind the success of Cliff Richard and individually as a group. Before the Beatles the group had made three films with Cliff Richard and had composed the music in them and composed all the music themselves for the stage with Cliff with Cinderella which became big hits. The work of the Shadows covered three decades and had many changes over that period and had the sad loss of John Rostill on bass guitar. Jet Harris was an amazing bass guitar player and I was fortunate to meet him back in the 1980's when he played at a theatre in Telford in a 1960's concert. On one of the songs he played which happened to be Apache he broke one of the strings on his guitar but he carried on anyway. A wonderful man.

Jet played 'Diamonds' on a Fender Jaguar tuned down to 'D'. He confirmed it when I met him a few years ago, when he was touring with Marty Wilde. He was a great player and a great man.

R.I.P. --- JET HARRIS HE WAS VERY GOOD !!SHAME HE WAS LEFT OUT !!! "THE SHADOWS " WERE EXCELLENT INDEED !!FROM (U.K.).

Great Era.

If you really want to hear the power of Jet's playing on the Fender Precision Bass, listen to 'Nivram!' Careful you don't blow the cones out of your speakers!!!

I first had a Vox bass then I saw a guy in Italy playing a Burns Vista Sonic bass which was a budget version of the Burns bison bass wow! I got one but later ended up playing lead on a Burns bison lead guitar. I still have five Burns guitars including a Marvin.

Hank's First Stratocaster had Gold plated parts, When Vox gave Hank and Bruce the Rosewood necked Strats they were nickel plated.

Shadows were instrumental band mostly, Searchers were about vocal harmony.

You only need to listen to Nivram To realise what a good player jet was

So very pleased I found this, loved the Shadows and watching Jet play bass was something I always wanted to do but never did. He is a legend in bass playing and also as one of the Shadows, amazing man and part of UK rock history. RIP Jet, we are still listening and loving the sound!

I agree so true 💘

Listen to his bass on 'Nivram'.

My first bass was a Framus Star bass. I played it for five or six years but it was awful. I was forever breaking strings on it and had to have the neck reset. Eventually I part exchanged it for a second hand Fender Precision which was night and day compared to the Framus.

THE SHADOWS sono stati uno dei più grandi complessi degli anni 60/90….quando poi c’era JET HARRIS erano gli anni d’oro.

Great stuff!

so many stories about drugs etc ..i loved the Shadows , saw them live with Billy Fury ..did not hear a word ....screaming..i heard that this guy had gone through a car crash that caused his problems , about 2o or so years ago i put my arm around him ..on the isle - of wight Uk he had just done a show with Mike ...sorry can't remember...

Featuring contributions from a host of stars and musicians including Marty Wilde, Wee Willie Harris, Mike Berry, Frank Allen, Mo Foster and Colin Pryce Jones, we meet the first musician in the UK to play the electric bass guitar.

Budapesten volt 2000.aug. 19.Kisstadionban volt ott láttam.

The late 50's early 60's Jet says he was making £30 per week. When the average skilled tradesman was earning £12-£15 per week after stoppages he really was earning good money. At that time I think Micky Most and Larry Ponds were the two biggest managers in the business.

I have backed Jet in Fleetwood Southport and Leyland and he turned up after heavy drinking and swore at the audience, it was all his manager could do to keep him under control. I refused to work with him anymore, very embarrassing

Jet Harris Budapesten volt 2000 aug.19.Kisstadionban .szerencsém volt látni.

Fine guitarist and bass guitarist.

I'm assuming that That's Chas McDevitt talking about the Strat; he claims that Hank's Strat didn't have gold plated hardware, but I've heard many times over the years in interviews with Hank and Bruce that Hank's was definitely gold plated.

The Searchers?

He was very good when he was with the shadows. But I didn’t know why he quit playing with the shadows.

Pity about Jet Harris. He had his future assured had he stayed with the Shadows. A great bass player when that guy was the poor cousin of lead and rhythm. The Shadows was the NEW sound, and Jet is responsible for two landmarks. The name Shadows was his suggestion, and his bass playing was absolutely ground breaking...

RIP Terence.

The Shads DID have the gold plated Strats.

HMMMM !! FRANK ALLEN WAS PART OF THE " SEARCHERS" GROUP !!WHO WENT ON TO DO EXTREMELY WELL !!FROM (U.K.)

THE SEARCHERS......??????

I thought Jet was in the Shadows.

Abbey rd i think.

jet had nothing to do with the searchers

Shame we have to endure "Lord Kipper" Mike Read on this otherwise interesting clip.

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I doubt that the shadows got any better with age, they were always very pedestrian and bland imo 😏