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One big difference between surf and rockabilly: lots more improvising in rockabilly than surf. Surf is mostly...memorized. That's why surf is more challenging for me than rockabilly.

That was also the opinion of Frankie Blandino, who besides fronting the Fathoms also fronted a great rockabilly band the Cranktones. Frankie is an amazing guitarist and musician (also a really good steel guitar player). I talked to him about this sometime in the nineties, and he said that rockabilly is much easier cause he can just improvise, and he's a good improviser. But with surf, if he gets one note wrong in the pattern it throws off his entire muscle memory and he'll botch the entire line! I think we've all been there....

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dan
One big difference between surf and rockabilly: lots more improvising in rockabilly than surf. Surf is mostly...memorized. That's why surf is more challenging for me than rockabilly.

That was also the opinion of Frankie Blandino, who besides fronting the Fathoms also fronted a great rockabilly band the Cranktones. Frankie is an amazing guitarist and musician (also a really good steel guitar player). I talked to him about this sometime in the nineties, and he said that rockabilly is much easier cause he can just improvise, and he's a good improviser. But with surf, if he gets one note wrong in the pattern it throws off his entire muscle memory and he'll botch the entire line! I think we've all been there....

Ivan

I always thought really good traditional rockabilly/country guitar was much harder than really traditional surf guitar. I can rip through Squad Car and 100 other traditional surf songs, and I can pick them out by ear from a record within about 10 mins. On the other hand I could spend all day trying to figure out some Jimmy Bryant runs or some of Cliff Gallups breaks and make no head way. Some rockabilly "rhythm" guitar, if the guitarist is playing travis style or any other conglomeration of 2 or more fingers I think is more difficult than doing any sort of "astronauts" rhythms, but this is all IMO.

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Sorry. No mean to offend.

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hey, no offence taken. i know i'm one of a very small group of females that is interested in the gear talk, etc. plus i've participated in a male dominated sport for years so i'm used to being a little 'different'.

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kanekila
but from talking to a lot of people there, by the end of the day, many said they were surfed out.

TJW

Yet another reason for a surf band to play on non-surf bills. It happens in all genres (ever been to a bluegrass festival?).

As awesome as a wet 'verbed out guitar tone sounds, after 3-4 surf bands in a row, it looses it's novelty. Same with rockabilly (as much as I love slap bass, I don't think I would enjoy a whole weekend of it).

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kanekila
but from talking to a lot of people there, by the end of the day, many said they were surfed out.

TJW

Yet another reason for a surf band to play on non-surf bills. It happens in all genres (ever been to a bluegrass festival?).

As awesome as a wet 'verbed out guitar tone sounds, after 3-4 surf bands in a row, it looses it's novelty. Same with rockabilly (as much as I love slap bass, I don't think I would enjoy a whole weekend of it).

Oh yeah -- bluegrass is another one. LOVE great BG pickin' 'n grinnin', but an entire day of it is just too much (as with all-surf, all-RAB, all-any-genre). I

've always equated musical genres with food. I love pretty much all of them (to which my rapidly expanding waistline will attest ), but I don't want to eat just Italian, or Thai, or BBQ, or Greek, or Mexican, or Indian, etc., all the time.

As an example, we find that when people hear our hapa-haole Hawaiian stuff, and want to hire us for their poolside luau party playing just that, we always tell them "You may think you want Hawaiian for the whole party, but we guarantee you -- YOU DON'T! Doing some of it each set, and mixing in some jump-blues, rockabilly, swing and surf really keeps things from getting stale, and they (and their guests) always appreciate that.

TJW

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I felt the need to post this photo from one of our recent shows. Still waiting to get the video back from this night.

Good golly, was anyone injured?

Don

Dan
I actually bought a CD of your band's from Hepcat records a few years ago..maybe 4 years ago.

You guys kick ass. great sound!

I played guitar with the Silverjets and with Dulcie Younger and The Silencers, both local L.A. Rockabilly bands (second band had John Carlucci from the Fuzztones playing bass).

I later started playing instro music with John, both of us more interested in that type of sound over vocal driven rockabilly. forming The Flowmasters along with Marty Tippens on drums about 2 years ago. John moved on to work on music for commercials and now the Flowmasters has Doug Forbes on guitar and keybaords and Matt Teachout on base.