Reply To: Your Picks for the Most Underrated Rock Guitarists

[MagicRuss]

Aside from being one of the people Paul McCartney dressed up as in his “Coming Up” video, Hank Marvin played for the Shadows.  Not only were they the backing band for UK pop star Cliff Richard, but they had some success as an instrumental/surf band in the early 60s.  Their best known song is “Apache”.  Oddly that is one of Tony Iommi’s favorite songs.

Apparently they were much more popular in the UK than in America.  I’ll admit I was only aware of Hank Marvin because one of the British guitar magazines published a transcription of “Apache”.

 

 

He’s done a number of solo albums.  Most of those are trash because they come across as a guy who is playing guitar over karaoke CDs.  There are a couple of good tracks here and there, such as his cover of Jean Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene”.

He also has done some credible gypsy jazz playing from time to time.

 

 

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