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I think this is simply not the case. Many sounds were
dubbed "surf" outside the US to get on the bandwagon,
or in the same John Q. Public thinks Ventures when you
say surf, the but the real McCoy bears little
resemblance to Hank Marvin or anything else Shadows
related.
Reverb, not tape echo, diferent beats altogether,
entirely different use of rhythm guitar, melody
structures also very different. Maybe I've been asleep
for all these years, but where's the similarity, other
than guitar based instrumental? Aside from one
Challengers album, it's just not there.
Phil
--- Shawn Martin <> wrote:
> ...Hank and Bruce probably had a bigger effect
> through osmosis than did the Ventures. If you
> listen to a cross-section of surf from the early
> 60s to now, there is an ungodly amount of it that
> is blatantly influenced by Hank Marvin. Not only
> his tone, but his melodic writing style.
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