Brian May talks about how he started by listening to HANK MARVIN..

Brian May talks about how he started by listening to HANK MARVIN..

[@Sally190747]

Omg,how can Brian be so flawless? I ♥ him!*-*

[@fredeagle8766]

Hank's playing seems simple but is actually quite hard to play. no mistakes allowed! a clean sound shows up the smallest mistake in technique....

[@Squeaky1423]

The most beautiful man in the world, oh goodness!!

[@thedesertroseband]

The most intelligent prof guitar player around.... with amazing hair.

[@JohannesYtterstrom]

For me Hank Marvin and the Shadows is about tone and melody. While it perhaps is "guitar-nerd music" anyone can appreciate a The Shadows or Hank Marvin track. It is direct and memorable. Efter after all these decades it doesn't sound dated. Dated doesn't mean, to me, that something is bad but being timeless is better!

[@consul1957]

There would be no Zep, Purple, Queen, (the list goes on) without the mighty Shadows!!!

[@huguettemarquet4675]

And they inspired so many teenagers playing guitar all over the world.

[@vincentl.9469]

@@huguettemarquet4675 for someone starting out , those tunes were easy to learn. Easier than trying to emulate the rock players from that time.. Ritchie Blackmore , Jeff Beck , Eric etc. That's where many give up !

[@bernhardnizynski4403]

Hank Marvin was my biggest influence when I started - every guitar player around tried to copy Hank!

[@massimomaxmajorana]

Hank Marvin is totally underestimated. Especially in the US.

[@vincentl.9469]

In the US they had the Ventures ..the American Shadows

[@rhodsullivan7773]

​@@vincentl.9469Listen to Hank on Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes Going Home. You can't mistake the man unlike many others on there. Ventures were absolutely great but didn't have a distinctive sound .

[@easyTaff]

Yes a lot of guitarists have now come out of the woodwork including Peter Green whose guitar hero is Hank. Albert Lee in playing Apache and Wonderful Land with Bruce and Brian at is 70th bash admitted he was most nervous playing these tunes. Nice to see Bruce getting a mention. His rhythm guitar was crucial and Hank's solo stuff lacks that completeness as when he is playing with Bruce.

[@raphaelkavanagh6950]

Big Hank fan but the first guy who attracted me to the guitar was Merle Travis when he played Re-enlistment Blues in the movie From Here To Eternity.

[@terrymanton5237]

I agree with these comments

[@KNJGSY]

Ha! You obviously typed that with out listening to what Brian May says in the video. The Shadows set the format for all bands that followed and, in addition to what Brian is saying here, they were musically TOGETHER. Which was rare in the late 50s & 60s charts. They DID inspire everyone else on their side of the Atlantic Ocean (all the way to Australia and Japan) because they raised the bar, set the standard. They were the top band before the Beatles. But not in America, too parochial a country.

[@rallful]

The Americans thought Apache was a Ventures original

[@bernhardnizynski4403]

Spot on!

[@mjk3mjk3]

I became a Hank Marvin fan when Bri introduced him to us early in the pandemic. I think I can copy this link to Brian's 3-28-20 Soapbox posting without a problem kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnWplnd4jb5kb5I but I have had links removed before. Someplace out there on youtube are actual performances of Brian doing FBI for an audience, and a hilarious version of Hank Marvin and the Shadows doing "The Shadows version of Brian May's version of the Shadows version of FBI." That link didn't fly last time I tried to post it here. If you watch Cliff Richards 75th birthday party in the middle of it someplace Brian pops up on the screen to wish Cliff a happy birthday! I see someone pointed out that Bri always gives credit where credit is due, I'd add to that that he is always humble and caring, the complete opposite of a guy across the "pond" from him.

[@mikeyhall6091]

It's a pity Clapton isn't so honest. Eric emulated Hank right up to joining John Mayalls Bluesbreakers but likes to keep it quiet.

[@rallful]

On the liner notes to the 'Hank Plays Holly' album Eric credits Hank with achieving his clean sound while he, Eric, 'Was still thrashing around on the acoustic guitar'

[@musik102]

Eric would have played The Shadow's material because that's what the public wanted BUT that doesn't mean he LIKED The Shadows! Singers, pre- The Beatles - used to cover Cliff Richard material but, again, that doesn't mean that they were fans of his music.

[@CAVERN1234]

I think Hank's sound came from the bass drum it hangs on to it in a style of an African tribal dance move were I think the three steps came in.

[@leonardkantumoya5693]

Ain't no guitar peer to Hank Marvin: none back then, now, or ever!

[@massimomaxmajorana]

Played before the Queen... I don't think the Beatles did.

[@musik102]

Well, of course, that's all we had back in the day! I remember when Focus brought out "Sylvia" and thinking to myself that I wished The Shadows could have produced something like that but, of course, Jan Ackerman was on a much higher plane than Hank.

[@yakacm]

to say there would be no Zeppelin without the Shadows is a total insult to all the blues musicians that were the real influence on most of the British bands that came up during the 60's and 70's, most of them are just playing rocked up blues, i'd agree that they maybe prompted Brits to take up the guitar but I don't hear any influence on their music, R&R is an American art form anyway. Marvin may have been technically good but his music leaves me cold, give me attitude over technique any day.

[@richardsyoutubechannel995]

I totally disagree with you .

[@rebeccaslaney]

that's just your opinion masquerading as a fact