BoardwalkerJeff
My gig is cars 24-7...

I don't swoon over cars...lol.

i don't swoon over women

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tdsurf
Here's an album of scans from "Sound Of The Surf's" Facebook page. This barely scratches the surface. Adding more every week.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=32773&l=f0f41351a8&id=154437154587237

enjoy,
td

Very cool. Love that shot of The Blazers! The Pyramids shots were quite funny and um, a bit strange. Looks like those guys went out of their way to put on a wild show. Love this appearance by The Pyramids in BIKINI BEACH....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0y_hz1AYs

It's too bad their isn't more footage like this from the early sixties. The vintage clips in the trailer for "The Surf Of Surf" look amazing. I hope there's lots more! Can't wait to see it! Thanks TD

Whorehay, couldn't view your links because it required a Facebook log-in. The other's didn't for some reason. But thanks for posting!

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Without trying to steal merit from the sadly late Richard Delvy, I think that Hal Blaine played drums in nearly all the Challengers´ recordings since K-39.

But, returning to the main topic, what a bunch of GREAT PICTURES! Love these Challenger´s Ivy League blazers.

Klas
The Ace comp also has a very interesting track of Dee Dee Sharp singing "opera" over the exact same backing track (here called "Riding The Waves") that was used for The Woofers' great "Ridin' The Rails" (couldn't find a clip of that one on the net but below is a pic of their album).

We also recorded it with the Daytonas for our Quarter Mile album.

Love that Woofers tune. Have that LP in my collection. And your band The Daytonas version is awesome too. In fact, I listen to the Quarter Miile album constantly!

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shivers13
You can tell the tracks Hal plays on because he tends to roll through the whole song like K-39 and their version of Pipeline like Klas mentioned. Hal is the king!

Cool! I wondered which one did that. It is so recognizable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine
"Hal Blaine Strikes Again"
Hal Blaine Strikes Again is a famous rubber stamp used by Blaine to stamp scores that he plays and also places where he played. Drummer and author Max Weinberg, in his introduction to the chapter on Blaine in his book writes:

Eleven years later our band played Wembley Arena, near London. After the show, while we were relaxing backstage, Bruce asked me to come into his dressing room. I went in, he pointed to the wall and said, "Look at that." I looked at the wall but didn't see anything except peeling wallpaper. "Look closer," he said. Finally, I got right down on the spot he was pointing to. and right there, in a crack in the paper, rubber stamped to the wall, it said HAL BLAINE STRIKES AGAIN.

When asked to explain about the stamp Blaine replied, "I always stamp my charts. And there's a reason why I started that; it wasn't all ego." He went on to describe that occasionally he would need to find a particular chart amidst "five hundred pieces of music in a pile" and he needed some mark to do so. "Eventually I had a rubber stamp made up, and from that day on I've always stamped every piece of music I play, whether it's a demo or something I play at a friend's house."

Another drummer, Mike Botts, then with the band Bread, recalls: “Every studio I went to in the late sixties, there was a rubber stamp imprint on the wall of the drum booth that said, ‘Hal Blaine strikes again.’ Hal was getting so many studio dates he actually had a rubber stamp made. He was everywhere!”

Anyone got a picture of one of the stampings? That would make a great album title and cover.

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I enjoyed reading "Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the Worlds Most Recorded Musician" back in the early 90's. It was well-written with attention to detail. Many of the anecdotes involved Tommy Tedesco-the worlds most recorded guitarist and one of the funniest human beings I've ever encountered. I wish Tommy had written a similar book before he died and hope his son Denny can overcome the problems preventing the general release of his documentary "The Wrecking Crew".

I have heard, the rumor is, that Hal played the drums on this tasty little Beatles tune from Abbey Road. Listening to the finesse, I can easily believe it.

Here is the isolated drum track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paWcAUQXHrU

I have been drooling over all the tracks on this guys site. Enjoy!

td

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They should do a documentary on that guy...

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spskins
Here's Hal and Mel Taylor rockin' out. We all know that Mel sat in for Hal on "The Lonely Bull", but many Ventures tracks you may have assumed were Mel were actually Hal.

Indeed! The Ventures have session guys on many recordings. Even guitar.

Hal also played drums on Dick Dale's stuff on Capitol, which leads me to my next post...

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Yeah, the session guys definitely played an important role during those years.

Posted on the forum before but well worth seeing again; Hal Blaine in action with Jan & Dean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3pRBF8c17E

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