Sunday 22 July 2012

You Must Be Hank Marvin - Mattessons TV Advert

guitarz.blogspot.com: Most TV adverts are extremely irritating, some even invite shouting at the television, whilst others cause me to reach for the TV control and press mute or else select a different channel. However, this ad is quite clever and jolly good fun, even if it is advertising a meat product (I'm a vegetarian). The music is, of course, "Apache" by The Shadows.

For those who don't get it, "Hank Marvin" is cockney rhyming slang for "starving".

G L Wilson

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7 comments:

  1. It's not the first time our Hank has appeared in an advert. Who else remembers the Red Rock Cider ad with Leslie Nielsen?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0yexx7e430

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    1. Nice ad, but where was Hank?

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    2. Ah, I think you mean this one: http://youtu.be/cJktt5LSaJo

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  2. A guitar seller somewhere had a good day. great advert. The things it's advertising are absolutley horrid and I'm not a vegetarian.

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  3. I love how they're all doing the Hank Marvin "shadows dance" steps!

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  4. Now it makes sense.
    Saw this on
    http://surfguitar101.com/
    and we were amused but befuddled. Not many Cockney surfers I guess.

    Now I get it and will share with the surf guitar crowd (who admire the Shads a great deal)

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    1. Especially loved the young asian kids where the boy is gentlemen enough to carry a young girl's Marvin-caster home for her! Sure way to score points w/ the ladies.

      Sadly, guitar while having as strong a cult following as ever has dropped out of sight w/ pop culture exposure. Almost non-existent really. Glad I wasn't the ad rep trying to sell the client on THIS one. It was a HUGE risk. Where's the Guitar Hero(TM) buttons who TF is Stan Martin..? Huge risk.

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