Hello and a question re: "Surf" Music ??

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Re: Hello and a question re: "Surf" Music ??

Postby Michellis » Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:07 pm

Thanks all for your responses re this question.
And as I thought calling The Shadows 'Surf' music is nonsense!
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Re: Hello and a question re: "Surf" Music ??

Postby Paul Childs » Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:50 am

If you have an hour to spare, watch this. Real surf music with that classic Fender sound. A band I would like to see if they ever come to the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCROjDB ... be&t=3m29s
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Re: Hello and a question re: "Surf" Music ??

Postby abstamaria » Mon Mar 12, 2018 5:48 pm

I think that all early 1960s guitar band music tended to be classified (mistakenly) as “surf.” Dick Dale was probably true surf, but even the Ventures were chagrined to learn they were so classified too. I suppose it was the association in the US with the California teenage lifestyle so in vogue then. Heavy strings, deep reverb probably were characteristic of the genre, as well as the themes (“Pipeline”).
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Re: Hello and a question re: "Surf" Music ??

Postby Didier » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:09 pm

abstamaria wrote:I think that all early 1960s guitar band music tended to be classified (mistakenly) as “surf.” Dick Dale was probably true surf, but even the Ventures were chagrined to learn they were so classified too.

Obviously they coped with it !

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I still have this album on vinyl.

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Re: Hello and a question re: "Surf" Music ??

Postby abstamaria » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:24 pm

Yes, they did, didn’t they, Didier. The Ventures, from the Pacific Nottheast rather than California, were very commercially oriented. Good you still have your LP.

By the way, I heard Nokie Edwards died this morning.

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