Surf Music

Do you like it? AND What makes it 'surf' music?

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Surf Music?? I LOVE it! What makes it "surf music"? Well, like any category of music, there isn't a strict definition measurable to four decimal places, but... Lots of reverb, heavy reverb is common. Staccato guitar riffs. Lyrics, not so much. Dick Dale is the King of Surf Guitar--if he's playing it, it's Surf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Stone_from_the_Sun

Discussion of the line "Then you'll never hear surf music again."

Dick Dale, Hellecasters, Ventures, SURF!!!

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This is my favorite surf music track, Mr Moto by the Belairs. My roommate in college, Eej, he played surf music. He had a some friends who played with him, it would be an overstatement to call them a band, but we listened to a LOT of surf music.

great modern surf music by Tyler Walker http://tylerwalkermusic.com/
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Junior Brown rocks the surf music too. I especially like that acoustic stuff, thanks Jim.

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Am I really lame and uninformed if I say: hello? Beach Boys?

To me, that was what started it all. But then comes along Pet Sounds and everyone takes notice. Sir Paul McCartney said he thought "God Only Knows" was one of the best songs ever written, and there was an album rivalry between the beaches and the beatles at the time, albeit one of mutual respect.

But I'm rambling.

Id post vid but I'm on my phone and it is too hard! Anyone?

footfootfoot;826999 wrote:

great modern surf music by Tyler Walker http://tylerwalkermusic.com/
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Excellent!

Flash mob?? More like Splash Mob!

regular.joe;827001 wrote:

Junior Brown rocks the surf music too. I especially like that acoustic stuff, thanks Jim.

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Junior Brown is awesome. On the end of Sugar Foot Rag he goes into a few Hendrix riffs,

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“I used to play colleges and these kids would laugh at me,” he says, his tone colored with disgust. “And it used to really piss me off, so I would just reach over and crank [my amp] up to 11.” What followed would be a retaliatory strike of Hendrix riffage that wiped the smirks off his tormentors’ faces and proved Brown was no one-trick hick. Now, with his sixth album, Down Home Chrome, he not only continues with his stylistic grab-bag of cars, country and characteristic humor, but also covers his idol with a note-perfect rendition of the Hendrix classic, “Foxy Lady.” “No one really should do Jimi songs … except Jimi,” he admits. “But I thought I was justified in doing just this one.”

regular.joe;827001 wrote:

Junior Brown rocks the surf music too. I especially like that acoustic stuff, thanks Jim.

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Pipeline by the Chantays 0:00 to 2:50 (CLASSIC.)
Walk, Don't Run by the Ventures 2:51 to 5:03 (Classic. Come on.)
Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers 5:04 to 7:04 (That's the not the only one but the one I remember the most.)

Excellent!

Oh I see now. Like that one on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Plucky and clicky. Nice. :)

infinite monkey;827009 wrote:

Oh I see now. Like that one on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Plucky and clicky. Nice. :)

Yes. Most definitely yes.

This is Miserlou, probably Dick Dale's most famous track. God bless Quentin Tarentino.

and by the way, the Beach Boys are legitimate Surf Music artists. Less in the instrumental way, but legit nonetheless.

I see what you're saying. And I'm on board with tarentino. More perfect tracks for that movie? Non-existent.

:)

More surf guitar, with a side of words.

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why they play it twice I don't know.