Wednesday, 25 April 2012

LINK: Merrell Fankhauser - The most interesting cult figure in rock history

After rock and roll erupted in the 50s, and before the British Invasion conquered America, surf music was the hippest sounds on the airwaves. It was the surf music genre that glorified reverberation and preserved the electric guitarist as the front-runner for rock music.

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