Most surf music bands in California knew about The Shadows!

[Paul Childs]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h01gr

[wstagner]

Ya, we're not as ignrant stateside as you mite think.
Thanx to the inet, the Shad's/Cliffs popularity has grown further.

Too bad it didn't happn 10 years ago. Maybe we'd have had the chance to see them perform here.

Closest we can is a cupla Shadmanias in Canada a few yeears back.