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by Michellis » 14 Feb 2018, 19:07
Thanks all for your responses re this question.
And as I thought calling The Shadows 'Surf' music is nonsense!
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by abstamaria » 12 Mar 2018, 17:48
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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by Didier » 12 Mar 2018, 19:09
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 !
I still have this album on vinyl.
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by abstamaria » 12 Mar 2018, 23:24
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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