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Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11077 Berkeley, CA 
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Posted on Mar 30 2009 08:22 PM
Polka? Danny Snyder I am now playing trumpet with Prince Buster tribute band 'Balzac' Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2979 Hell\'s Kitchen, NYC
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Posted on Mar 30 2009 08:57 PM
POLKA has <u>keyboards</u>!! The accordian..... Hey what about the accordian in surf? I know the RED ELVISES use it in their music........ Oh yeah, that's vocals, not really surf sorry <u>but then there's THE SERFS!!!</u> http://www.myspace.com/theserfs check out 'SOME OTHER TIME PLACE' on their MySpace page..... UNSTEADY FREDDIE — |
Joined: Dec 16, 2006 Posts: 892 Macomb Mich |
Posted on Mar 30 2009 09:10 PM
wow... that first song can make you drift away real quick... — |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1070 Ventura County, Calif.
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Posted on Mar 30 2009 09:57 PM
What? Me? Stir the pot? Never! Ok. That's it. I'm gonna give the bands with organ players a good ole' listen, but if it starts to sound like I just walked into Dodger Stadium, or better yet, I suddenly start seeing visions of midgets on crystal myth selling tickets for amusement rides at the local carnival, well, I just might have to cut a trail.......... —Be careful following the masses. Sometimes the "M" is silent........................... |
Joined: Oct 28, 2008 Posts: 671 Winnipeg, Canada 
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Posted on Mar 30 2009 11:16 PM
Nope, looks like only surf hasn't evolved...check it out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihOMa92KEcg
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25699 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Mar 31 2009 03:08 PM
Billy watch this video, this is how and why keys can be cool for some surf bands. —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Oct 06, 2008 Posts: 550 So Cal
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Posted on Mar 31 2009 04:14 PM
Hey Billy, "Hello Girls!" |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1070 Ventura County, Calif.
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Posted on Mar 31 2009 07:37 PM
P.S. I forgot to mention to everybody that I hate spinach too. It tastes really crappy and just doesn't seem to fit in with Surf music at all. —Be careful following the masses. Sometimes the "M" is silent........................... |
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Joined: Dec 16, 2006 Posts: 892 Macomb Mich |
Posted on Mar 31 2009 07:45 PM
Spinach is great.. its the people that cook it that ruin it:) — |
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Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2979 Hell\'s Kitchen, NYC
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Posted on Mar 31 2009 08:05 PM
OK, I know I know, NOT SURF..... but somehow, I find that this incredibly unsteady cool video fits nicely into this discussion thread see what U think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKRFZQIkeA UNSTEADY FREDDIE p.s. MR. BLAST-OFF - come on, U gotta dig this!! — |
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Posted on Mar 31 2009 08:11 PM
i love bikinis..... — |
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Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2979 Hell\'s Kitchen, NYC
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Posted on Mar 31 2009 08:23 PM
hey ICETECH then dig this!! I am planning on bringing a LIVE INSTRUMENTAL SURF BAND into, how shall I say this....., A "GENTLEMAN'S" CLUB in NYC it will be in June to help celebrate the start of SUMMER instead of the girls in their usual 'gowns', they will be wearing bikinis!!!!; we'll bring in beach umbrellas, tacky blow-up palm trees, beach balls, etc think it'll work? UNSTEADY FREDDIE p.s. it is NOT MY FAULT if some of the bikini-clad women decide to take off their bathing suits, for, as we know, live instro surf does have that affect on the unsuspecting few..... — |
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Joined: Dec 16, 2006 Posts: 892 Macomb Mich |
Posted on Mar 31 2009 08:44 PM
that sounds awesome:) I think its more the dancing than the binkins... something bout that 60's gogo dancing:) same effect with miniskirts and nancy sinatra style boots... in white of course:) — |
Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 815 Athens, Greece |
Posted on Apr 01 2009 02:16 PM
....and thinking to add an organ player in my "surf" emmm instrumental band! By the way, who's the organ player of the early Ventures recordings? Always wondering... but never found out. He is amazing.... Every word is like an unecessary stain on silence and nothingness. |
Joined: May 14, 2007 Posts: 1753
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Posted on Apr 01 2009 02:36 PM
Do it, spy! I have to say that the first time I really GOT the full power of what the organ could be was at that last SP concert. The Vox sat there unused for the first tunes, and then when Dave put the guitar aside and cranked it up for (Grave Up, I think) I was blown away by its force and what it suddenly added to the sound. |
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Joined: Oct 06, 2008 Posts: 550 So Cal
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Posted on Apr 01 2009 02:43 PM
Leon Russell was the keybourdista on much of the '60's Ventures recordings that had keyboards. "Hello Girls!" |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1070 Ventura County, Calif.
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Posted on Apr 01 2009 11:08 PM
Ah..... yeah Jeff. I'm well aware of this band, especially since we just drove together to check them out at the Deke Dickerson show recently. Be careful following the masses. Sometimes the "M" is silent........................... |
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Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 815 Athens, Greece |
Posted on Apr 02 2009 03:28 AM
Thanks Nokie! Every word is like an unecessary stain on silence and nothingness. |
Joined: Mar 15, 2011 Posts: 8528 Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on May 11 2012 08:45 AM
I found this thread looking for something else. One of the great things about joining is getting to find stuff like this that lurkers never get to see, and then to bump them by adding a new post. My how time changes. Keyboards can alternate lead and rhythm with guitar, almost like a second guitarist. I have a mix of original surf and contemporary surf in my collection these days, not too much from the middle period (I have to work on that. Keyboards must have made a comeback. Keys are so integral to lots of tunes by the Bambi Molesters, though to a greater extent the trumpet and sax. I've heard the same tunes where only the quartet plays and it just isn't the same. The most interesting part of this discussion to me was the distinction between instro music before surf and after the surf music term was coined, and the music went in a different direction. A classic early tune right at that point in time is Telstar. The recordings with organ seem to fit the melody and mood of the period perfectly, while later recordings with guitar playing all the leads seem forced somehow. Maybe it's cultural, just a matter of what I was first exposed to compared to listeners from later generations. And, I wish there was a way to read all Zak's posts. They must have been interesting, just like him. —This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. |
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Posted on May 11 2012 08:53 AM
BillyBlastOff wrote:
Well I guess you won't like my band then. —https://www.facebook.com/coffindagger |
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