Get me started with surf music
- mcalllisterra
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Get me started with surf music
So I have a Jazzmaster and a Deluxe Reverb. I've been in a band for a long time, playing more poppy stuff, but lately I've heard a bit of surf music that I never really paid attention to before, and it's kinda got me wanting to get into it. The problem is, the majority of it has no lyrics so is very hard to identify.
Can you guys point me in the right direction with some awesome surf music? It can be new or old, just anything to get me started or some names to look out for.
Thanks!
Can you guys point me in the right direction with some awesome surf music? It can be new or old, just anything to get me started or some names to look out for.
Thanks!
- Ursa Minor
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Re: Get me started with surf music
The Fathoms.
Only 3 records worth and sorta hard to find, but some of my fav surf albums.
Slacktone.
Great ripping Jag tons and some incredible playing all around.
Only 3 records worth and sorta hard to find, but some of my fav surf albums.
Slacktone.
Great ripping Jag tons and some incredible playing all around.
The artist formerly known as kosmonautmayhem.
- selectomatic
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Re: Get me started with surf music
This should get you going! http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/7799/
- noisepunk
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Re: Get me started with surf music
Dick Dale should certainly be checked out, as should The Ventures.
Man? or Astroman? are a kind of punk infused modern surf act that are pretty awesome.
That's all I've got, I personally find surf more interesting as an influence than a full blown genre.
Man? or Astroman? are a kind of punk infused modern surf act that are pretty awesome.
That's all I've got, I personally find surf more interesting as an influence than a full blown genre.
- frelonvert
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Re: Get me started with surf music
http://www.surfguitar101.com/ and http://www.northseasurfradio.com/ made a Classsic Surf Top 101 and a Surf revival top 101
You can find them on the radio site.
the first 10 of the Classsic Surf Top 101:
1.The Chantays - "Pipeline"
2.Dick Dale & his Del-Tones - "Misirlou"
3.The Fender IV - "Mar Gaya"
4.The Sentinels - "Latinia"
5.The Belairs - "Mr. Moto"
6.The Lively Ones - "Surf Rider"
7.The Pyramids - "Penetratrion"
8.Eddie & The Showmen - "Squad Car"
9.The Trashmen - "Malagueña"
10.The Astronauts - "Baja"
...
You can find them on the radio site.
the first 10 of the Classsic Surf Top 101:
1.The Chantays - "Pipeline"
2.Dick Dale & his Del-Tones - "Misirlou"
3.The Fender IV - "Mar Gaya"
4.The Sentinels - "Latinia"
5.The Belairs - "Mr. Moto"
6.The Lively Ones - "Surf Rider"
7.The Pyramids - "Penetratrion"
8.Eddie & The Showmen - "Squad Car"
9.The Trashmen - "Malagueña"
10.The Astronauts - "Baja"
...
Take care the skons is evrywhere !
- therizzla
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Re: Get me started with surf music
Some of these aren't strictly "surf" but they all have the vibe for sure:
The Ghastly Ones
Satan's Pilgrims
Messer Chups
Laika and the Cosmonauts
Bambi Molesters
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Pollo Del Mar
The Ghastly Ones
Satan's Pilgrims
Messer Chups
Laika and the Cosmonauts
Bambi Molesters
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Pollo Del Mar
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reverb.
- shadowplay
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Re: Get me started with surf music
Omar Khorshid ' The king of Arabic guitarists.'
Rakset el Fadaa nearly makes me pee my pants with excitement when they let loose the percussion half way through.
It's a homage and a bit of apastiche but I love Trentemøller: Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!
Weatherall remix is boss too but it's more a twangy slo mo glam hokeycokey twist
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Rakset el Fadaa nearly makes me pee my pants with excitement when they let loose the percussion half way through.
It's a homage and a bit of apastiche but I love Trentemøller: Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!
Weatherall remix is boss too but it's more a twangy slo mo glam hokeycokey twist
D
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Re: Get me started with surf music
Saw Dick Dale in 99 one of the best shows I've ever seen. MOAM is a great band as well, seen them at least a half a dozen times. The ventures are the most popular instrumental surf band, I have some of their early records, they are best on vinyl.noisepunk wrote:Dick Dale should certainly be checked out, as should The Ventures.
Man? or Astroman? are a kind of punk infused modern surf act that are pretty awesome.
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- Suspicious Angora
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Re: Get me started with surf music
I just saw this all girl band open for of Montreal last Halloween called La Luz. They have that surf thing going and sounded pretty damn sweet. As far as old school The Ventures are the bees knees.
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Re: Get me started with surf music
Slacktone is amazing.....one of my fav bands for years..
Insect Surfers......
Insect Surfers......
- blacktiger
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Re: Get me started with surf music
Required listening:
The Surf Teens
Eddie & The Showmen
The Surf Teens
Eddie & The Showmen
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- scottT
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Re: Get me started with surf music
I also like my surf with a Middle Eastern flavor.
From "Hasheeda" by the great Treble Spankers (Amsterdam)
Jaa-Rabbi
Here's another of theirs as covered by the Maderia (a great band to check out in their own right)
Dilmohammed
I like this one by Dick Dale even more than Miserlou:
The Victor
The amazing Surf Coasters from Japan. It gets a little more shreddy than I like, but a modern classic.
Intruder
The Space Cossacks.
The Apes of Wrath
From "Hasheeda" by the great Treble Spankers (Amsterdam)
Jaa-Rabbi
Here's another of theirs as covered by the Maderia (a great band to check out in their own right)
Dilmohammed
I like this one by Dick Dale even more than Miserlou:
The Victor
The amazing Surf Coasters from Japan. It gets a little more shreddy than I like, but a modern classic.
Intruder
The Space Cossacks.
The Apes of Wrath
- antisymmetric
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Re: Get me started with surf music
Lots of good suggestions already. I was just about to mention Space Cossacks and The Madeira, but scottT has beaten me to it. Another good modern band is Los Twang! Marvels. Surf- Age Nuggets is a great 4-disc sampling of some of the more under-the-radar instrumental stuff from1959-66, well worth picking up.
Watching the corners turn corners
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Re: Get me started with surf music
The "Best of 60s Instrumental Guitar" series is a pretty good primer. Here's vol 1.
http://www.israbox.com/1146458882-va-th ... -2008.html
http://www.israbox.com/1146458882-va-th ... -2008.html