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Surf music.

Postby Paul Childs » Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:22 pm

I have just played my Surfaris CD called Hurley Sessions, it is a live in studio recording. Not available here in Britain to my knowledge so I ordered it from their website from the States. https://www.thesurfaris.com/ It is a great album and includes their version of Apache.
The main difference with surf music and Shadows is Hank used a tape echo while surf guitarists used a spring reverb, both sound great.
Is it just a coincidence that The Shadows in Britain and surf music in the USA came out around the same time?
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Re: Surf music.

Postby Derek Mowbray » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:27 pm

Surf music must have been the in thing about 1962/63 there was an album called Surfing with The Shadows released in the States although The Shadows said that had never heard of Surf music when the recorded the tracks.Also The Dakotas Cruel Sea was altered to The Cruel Surf, I have a Sufaris LP somewhere in the attic which I haven`t heard in years. Another good example of Surf Music is by The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean.
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Re: Surf music.

Postby Paul Childs » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:38 pm

I have just about everything by The Beach Boys. They only did songs about surfing in the early days. It was their name that relates to it.
They were originally called The Pendletones (named after the Pendleton shirts they wore at the time) but the Candix record company they were on at the time put them out on their first single called Surfin' as The Beach Boys without them knowing anything about it.
Instrumental wise, their second album Surfing USA has a lot of surf instrumentals making about 50% of the album.
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Re: Surf music.

Postby John Boyd » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:31 pm

Good morning from the colonies!
Another US instrumental surf band worth checking out is The Challengers.
Their many albums released on the Vault label ( and re-released on CD by Sundazed)
contain several tracks originally recorded by The Shadows. I'm sure they won't be to
everyone's taste, but I enjoy listening to them from time to time.
Cheers,
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Re: Surf music.

Postby JimN » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:56 pm

I have been in touch with some of the south California surf people for a few years.

They would distinguish the Beach Boys' music from real surf music for a start. They refer to the BBs as "beach music" and insist that very little surf music is vocal. It isn't unknown, but the genre is predominantly instrumental.

And really, surf music and the European guitar rock instrumental are two different things. European guitar music is melodic and invested with significant variation in its internal harmony. Surf music is less melodic, more rhythmic and has more in common with punk rock.
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Re: Surf music.

Postby Paul Childs » Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:24 pm

The Surfaris are still going today with guitarist Bob Berryhill the only original member with his wife on Bass and ther two sons on guitar and drums. They still sound great, it's all on here. https://www.thesurfaris.com/
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Re: Surf music.

Postby Uncle Fiesta » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:27 pm

JimN wrote:I have been in touch with some of the south California surf people for a few years.

They would distinguish the Beach Boys' music from real surf music for a start. They refer to the BBs as "beach music" and insist that very little surf music is vocal. It isn't unknown, but the genre is predominantly instrumental.

And really, surf music and the European guitar rock instrumental are two different things. European guitar music is melodic and invested with significant variation in its internal harmony. Surf music is less melodic, more rhythmic and has more in common with punk rock.


I'd agree with that. I can listen to surf music in small doses; some of the instrumentals aren't bad although would probably sound better if done in the Shadows' style, but there are too many predictable 12-bars for my liking.
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