Posted 2012-03-13 11:25 AM (#451834) Subject: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains
About once every two or three months, when SWMBO is out doing something on her own and I'm home alone, I hook up one of the Jaguars to a vintage Bandmaster stack through a '63 Reverb Unit, crank up the dwell, then spend about three hours laying down the rhythm tracks on the loop to maybe a dozen surf songs I used to play in a surf band many years ago and blast away on the leads. To get the right sound, you just have to use the right gear, and this does it for me. Last night was one of those nights. Interestingly, the noticeably shorter scale Jaguar takes a few minutes to really connect with. But once there, its like magic. Now its out of my system for a few more months and I can return to my normal programming.
Posted 2012-03-13 11:39 AM (#451835 - in reply to #451834) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307
Location: Tennessee
Surf music never gets out of my system ... I've got surf music going almost every day in one way or another. There's a lot of surf music is still getting made these days by some really good bands. And there is definitely something special about the Fender sound.
Posted 2012-03-13 5:53 PM (#451860 - in reply to #451834) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: November 2005 Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia
That was just marketing spoo, I'm sure.
The 70's were everything the 60's CLAIMED they were, in that regard.
That lovely sweet spot between The Pill and HIV.
Posted 2012-03-13 8:10 PM (#451873 - in reply to #451834) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307
Location: Tennessee
Check out some of the newer bands out there ... there's still a lot of new surf music being made by a lot of really great bands.
One of my favorite contemporary surf bands is The Aqua Velvets ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFLW7rJgZVw ... check them out, along with the solo work of guitarist Miles Corbin.
My other favorite is the Blue Stingrays ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bshZN8AQGM0 ... but they only made one album. The secret behind this one is that it is The Heartbreakers, who did the album while Tom Petty was doing his own thing (hence the tongue in cheek "story" behind the band in the same vein as the Wilbury story). Mike Campbell is a very talented guitarist who doesn't get the credit/kudos he deserves.
Posted 2012-03-14 1:05 AM (#451888 - in reply to #451834) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: August 2005 Posts: 3736
Location: Sunshine State, Australia
I'm still surfin after all these years (REAL surfin, not digital) and apart from the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean and a few others from that era, I'm really not sure what 'surf music' is supposed to sound like these days.
While I'm on it, WHY do they cal it 'surfing' the Internet?
Posted 2012-03-14 8:20 AM (#451900 - in reply to #451834) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains
Thanks for those links, Bobbo. In creating original surf music, I remember how hard it was to keep it all from sounding the same. Growing up in Azusa, California, I was also fortunate to have lived only a few doors down from a sometimes manager/engineer of a group from Glendora, the next town over, who played a lot of surf music. They were high schoolers and a few years older than me, but they had all this great gear and they let me hang out with them when they practiced on my neighbor's back porch. They goofed off a lot, as high school boys will do, but they also made some fun music. They were the Surfaris and hit it big with "Wipe Out."
Posted 2012-03-14 9:05 AM (#451901 - in reply to #451900) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6994
Location: Jet City
Professor, that's too cool! The Surfaris!
Bobbo, I thought of your song Carmello the other day when I was having a look at a Deke Dickerson video. Deke's not really surf, but a combo of that whole early 60's SoCal scene. Kind of a Surf/Bakersfield Country pickin/rockabilly thing.
Posted 2012-03-14 5:39 PM (#451927 - in reply to #451834) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains
Yep, Highway 39 to Beach Boulevard. You were then facing Huntington (City) Beach on the right and Newport (State) Beach on the left. Before 1967 or thereabouts, we could just pull over in the dirt and park along Beach Boulevard. Thereafter, Huntington Beach (the city) paved a parking lot and started charging everybody for parking, just like the Newport Beach side. Then they imposed surfing hour regulations so you could only surf something like before 9:00 a.m and after 4:00 p.m. I have no idea what it is like anymore. Times sure change.
I grew up in Whittier, so the Comet made a lot of trips down Beach Blvd. and up 39 into the mountains. I wasn't a very good surfer, but I've kept the kneeboard because it's so pretty. Bought it at the Infinity shop when it was in Huntington Beach.
"A to Z in the USA" sounds like a good title for a surf song. You should write it!
Posted 2012-03-14 6:18 PM (#451937 - in reply to #451834) Subject: Re: Let's go surfing . . .
Joined: November 2005 Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia
The big surf is around Tofino/Ucluelet (Locally 'Uclueless) Bring a wetsuit, it's seldom all that warm,
even after you calculate the farenheit/celcius difference.
Let's go surfing . . .
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