SpaceFargo
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Lake Forest, CA
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 04:24 PM
It occurred to me the other day that I know absolutely nothing about the history of the surf/instro scene in Japan. It seems that most "History of Surf" articles focus on Southern California and a few other bands from around the country until the end of the 60s. I'm working on a big ol' writeup on surf for another music forum and when I got to Japan everything I know could be summed up as:
The Ventures go to Japan
Takeshi Terauchi / Yuzo Kayama
EMBARRASSING 30 YEAR KNOWLEDGE GAP
The Surf Coasters
Does anyone have any good resources for Japanese surf/eleki/instro/whatever history or just know of any Japanese bands from the 60s onwards that I could look into? Again, people focus on the US side of things and I want to learn more about surf history from around the world.
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Brian
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 04:25 PM
Check out our Eleki Thread.
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PolloGuitar
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San Francisco
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 04:33 PM
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SpaceFargo
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Lake Forest, CA
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 04:44 PM
Brian wrote:
Check out our Eleki
Thread.
I actually remember seeing this thread and completely forgot about it, how embarrassing. Thanks!
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CaptainSpringfield
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Under the Sun
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 06:43 PM
Traditional surf bands from Japan - Jackie & the Cedrics, The Windows, The Sellcancers and The El Caminos were/are the best, IMO. The Whys, Rat Holic and Blue Horizon are both pretty good, too. (By traditional I mean not Eleki influenced ... or not that Eleki influenced.)
Then there's the heavily Eleki/GS influenced stuff - The Royal Fingers, Wild Sammy & the Royaltones, Goggle-A
For more garagey instro bands - Mad 3, Howling Guitar, Switch Trout, Mach Kung Fu
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Fady
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North Carolina
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 09:00 PM
Apologies, Brian, for not carrying over to the pre-eixsting thread!
I don't recall seeing "bIG wAvE Dave" post here lately, but he did recently share a great video of Japanese surf over on Crackbook; BCV & Kohei - doing Surf Party.
...now doing a search for BCV & Kohei here, it seems Noah / Kill, Baby... Kill also found some footage from some of the fellers not so long ago formative years.
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PolloGuitar
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San Francisco
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 09:52 PM
Onslow_Beach wrote:
BCV & Kohei - doing Surf Party.
Totally off topic, but this video cracks me up. Mel Waldorf, Johnny Hamilton and I came up with "The Typewriter" dance move for Surf Party in 2001. I taught it to The Surf Coasters when I played the song with them, and here's another Japanese band doing them. Too funny!
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Fady
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North Carolina
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 10:21 PM
"The Typewriter" ... I love it! Totally the visual.
My first reaction was it was a song appropriate take on the Shads and their choreographed turns and shuffle steps (Exhibit A), but now that you say Typewriter...
Awesome.
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IvanP
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southern Michigan
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 10:55 PM
PolloGuitar wrote:
Onslow_Beach wrote:
BCV & Kohei - doing Surf Party.
Totally off topic, but this video cracks me up. Mel
Waldorf, Johnny Hamilton and I came up with "The
Typewriter" dance move for Surf Party in 2001. I taught
it to The Surf Coasters when I played the song with
them, and here's another Japanese band doing them. Too
funny!
Ferenc, that's really awesome! Just more evidence of you being a true trendsetter! 
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PolloGuitar
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San Francisco
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 11:14 PM
IvanP wrote:
Ferenc, that's really awesome! Just more evidence of
you being a true trendsetter!
Great, my legacy as a choreographer...
(Sorry for railroading this thread)
Here's the video I think Terry Kohei got his moves from:
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IvanP
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southern Michigan
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Posted on Jul 20 2011 11:25 PM
Of course, most anybody under 25 will have NO CLUE why you named that move 'the typewriter'.  (Is it still being a trendsetter when you're inspired by obsolete technology??)
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DannySnyder
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Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Jul 21 2011 12:25 AM
IvanP wrote:
Of course, most anybody under 25 will have NO CLUE why
you named that move 'the typewriter'. (Is it still
being a trendsetter when you're inspired by obsolete
technology??)
You should see my moves to Hava Nagila, I call it "the slide projector" 
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ElMonstroPorFavor
Joined: Sep 01, 2006
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New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Jul 21 2011 12:47 AM
CaptainSpringfield wrote:
Traditional surf bands from Japan - Jackie & the
Cedrics, The Windows, The Sellcancers and The El
Caminos were/are the best, IMO. The Whys, Rat Holic and
Blue Horizon are both pretty good, too. (By traditional
I mean not Eleki influenced ... or not that Eleki
influenced.)
Then there's the heavily Eleki/GS influenced stuff -
The Royal Fingers, Wild Sammy & the Royaltones,
Goggle-A
For more garagey instro bands - Mad 3, Howling Guitar,
Switch Trout, Mach Kung Fu
Wow that's pretty much EXACTLY what I would have posted
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SpaceFargo
Joined: Feb 18, 2010
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Lake Forest, CA
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Posted on Jul 21 2011 03:40 PM
CaptainSpringfield wrote:
Traditional surf bands from Japan - Jackie & the
Cedrics, The Windows, The Sellcancers and The El
Caminos were/are the best, IMO. The Whys, Rat Holic and
Blue Horizon are both pretty good, too. (By traditional
I mean not Eleki influenced ... or not that Eleki
influenced.)
Then there's the heavily Eleki/GS influenced stuff -
The Royal Fingers, Wild Sammy & the Royaltones,
Goggle-A
For more garagey instro bands - Mad 3, Howling Guitar,
Switch Trout, Mach Kung Fu
Awesome, I've heard of a few of these but didn't know they were from Japan. This is a nice list, thanks.
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