In this early period many bands were heavily influenced by surf rock and there was a cross-pollination between garage rock and frat rock, sometimes viewed as merely a subgenre of garage rock.
Nos seus primeiros tempos moitos grupos estiveron fortemente influenciados polo surf rock e houbo unha polinización cruzada entre o garage rock e o frat rock, que ás veces é visto como un subxénero do garage rock.