Tuck
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Posted on Jun 03 2011 07:46 PM
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Sonichris
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Posted on Jun 03 2011 07:55 PM
I REALLY like The Nobles - I always thought they were under-rated as a first wave band - Their version of Pipeline is my second favorite, next to the Chantays, of course. That "E" before the first glissando is super cool. They have a nice drive to everything they play. It's laid back, but the drummer and bass are pushing the tempo. A sense of urgency.
Heck, I even like "Mary Ann" 
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Tuck
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Posted on Jun 03 2011 08:06 PM
Sonichris wrote:
Heck, I even like "Mary Ann"
This being the one that's "Aki Aleong &."
My favorites are Earthquake and Torture.
As I was collecting these links together I definitely had a feeling like I had accidentally stumbled into the Elephants Graveyard and looked up to see "CF was here" carved into a tree trunk. I hadn't realized that the Nobles were the source for Gun & Surf that the AquaSonics did that once at the Skylark. And Hiawatha, too, I'll bet now. I was thinking that was the Surfaris. I definitely see what Phil Dirt meant about them being a big influence on the Surfaris.
What direction was the Surfaris' thing with the Catalinas? PJ Medina managed to point that out to me last night ...
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Tuck
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Denver, CO
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Posted on Jun 03 2011 08:23 PM
Surfaris
Hiawatha
Illusions
Eathquake (Not the same Earthquake.)
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CaptainSpringfield
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
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Under the Sun
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Posted on Jun 05 2011 06:47 PM
Sonichris wrote:
That "E" before the first glissando is
super cool.
It's funny how much such a small thing like that sticks out - and how many bands skip it in their covers.
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Tuck
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Posted on Jun 05 2011 07:40 PM
I should point out that (a) the videos link to
http://thenoblesband.wetpaint.com/
a site for the Nobles last maintained in 2009, sadly. They ask if anyone remembers them and give some contact information.
CONTACT US --- DO YOU REMEMBER US ? - LET US KNOW.
THENOBLESBAND@YAHOO.COM
OR
NASAMAN2004@YAHOO.COM
And (b) the commentary in the video itself is from Phil Dirt's site.
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LHR
Joined: Aug 23, 2006
Posts: 2123
The jungle
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Posted on Jun 05 2011 08:02 PM
You know, one of my oldest friends was Aki's housemate in LA for years. By all accounts he was a tad eccentric. (Aki wound up being a very successful character actor, by the way. He was typecast and gets all the "oh, look, that guy" bit parts on TV and movies) I bet I could find out lots more about him and his involvement with the Nobles, if anyone wanted info. I thought he had nothing to do with this record, though, except the cover.
— SSIV
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Sonichris
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Posted on Jun 05 2011 08:45 PM
Aki sang "Mary Ann" - a very cheesy piece of surf exploitation that would be more suited to a Disney film than a real surf album. Really bouncy, and bubbly. I love it.
Lyrics include:
'walk the board now'
'you're a boss!'
'hang of ten, now!' Yes, 'Hang, of Ten'....
"Mary Ann" Doesn't sound at all like the rest of the album. The rest of it is pretty hard hitting, a definitely driving. It's what I think live surf in '63 sounded like.
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Tuck
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Denver, CO
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Posted on Jun 07 2011 02:14 PM
Sonichris wrote:
'you're a boss!'
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5301
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Aug 06 2011 09:36 PM
Tuck wrote:
Sonichris wrote:
Heck, I even like "Mary Ann"
This being the one that's "Aki Aleong &."
My favorites are Earthquake and Torture.
As I was collecting these links together I definitely
had a feeling like I had accidentally stumbled into the
Elephants Graveyard and looked up to see "CF was here"
carved into a tree trunk. I hadn't realized that the
Nobles were the source for Gun &
Surf that
the AquaSonics did that once at the Skylark. And
Hiawatha, too, I'll bet now. I was thinking that was
the Surfaris. I definitely see what Phil Dirt meant
about them being a big influence on the Surfaris.
What direction was the Surfaris' thing with the
Catalinas? PJ Medina managed to point that out to me
last night ...
i keep hearing 'earthquake' by the esquires on pandora radio not realizing it's a cover of the tune by the nobles. it's one of those tunes that suddenly jumped out at me and it's on 'the birth of surf' which i have but i guess i wasn't paying attention  . what a cool tune and my other newly discovered favorite by them is 'torture'.
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5301
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Aug 06 2011 09:48 PM
and tuck, i did listen to all of these when you posted this and thought it was all cool but for some reason it did't register with my old brain cells until i heard the esquires cover.
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bigtikidude
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Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Aug 07 2011 03:00 AM
Outerwave covers Earthquake
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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Tuck
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Denver, CO
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Posted on Aug 08 2011 04:40 PM
bigtikidude wrote:
Outerwave covers Earthquake
Yes! They have exceedingly cool taste in material. But reflecting, I think they do the one Earthquake (in Surf City) by the Illusions that Jon & the Nightriders also do, as opposed to the one by the Nobles that the Esquires and Bomboras do.
Sorry I confused that above, too. Corrected now.
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Brian
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Posted on Jul 14 2019 06:03 PM
I just received a message from new user Scrane255:
Marty Smith from the Nobles band was my Uncle! Wish there were pics/video...
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