'water tanks' was the most popular....I even remember reading that a dis-used grain sylo was once considered...now that would have produced REVERV !!!!.

I suppose it was all a bit primitive by todays standards thats what made it so different.

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BTW, the water tank incident is famous. Duane lived in Coolige, AZ, an agricultural area, and he and Lee Greenwood hunted down an empty water tank for reverb purposes. If you kick that tank you might break a toe.

Lee Hazelwood.

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BTW, the water tank incident is famous. Duane lived in Coolige, AZ, an agricultural area, and he and Lee Greenwood hunted down an empty water tank for reverb purposes. If you kick that tank you might break a toe.

Lee Hazelwood.

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I sure see a line of fluence that leads from Rockabilly to Duane Eddy (and contemporaries) on into Surf. While they are not strictly the same thing I find that I listen to both Surf and Instrumental Rock all but interchangably.

So very true...1960 was a watershed year
Elvis in the Army
Chuck Berry in prison
Jerry Lee in disgrace
Little Richard found religion

Buddy Holly and the great Eddie Cocheran both dead.
As Jerry Lee said it was a year of Bobby this and Bobby that all clean cut boys.

Only the instrumentals,and there were some great ones kept the spirit alive...well they did in the UK.t.

I've never thought about it in quite those terms but you're, of course, right. There were some real hiccups right about then, perhaps a big reason that instrumentals had the opportunity to come to the front of the pack.

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When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Are you saying the Ventures and Shadows developed the surf sound? I think they are as seminal as Duane, but never made a conscious decision to be 'surf'. Ventures released a 'surfing' album, but that was surely at the behest of the label trying to cash in.

And actually, others would know, was anybody in the US listening to the Shadows between 1960-Surf?

JakeDobner wrote:

And actually, others would know, was anybody in the US listening to the Shadows between 1960-Surf?

Some bands associated with Paul Johnson covered a few Shadows songs: PJ & The Galaxies did The Rise and Fall of the Flingel Bunt, and the Challengers did Dance On and Foot Tapper. I guess some people actually heard the Shadows' "Surfing" and "The Shadows Know" albums!

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Very cool, Matt.
For surf, I always thought that Mr. Rebel (Eddie and the Showmen) sounds the most like Duane Eddy in spirit---just sped up and played in the upper register. Of course, Eddie idolized him.

I think "Movin' and Groovin'" is the easiest one to spot in later surf music. Not just because it was covered by other bands, but that idea of riding the trem rhythmically while hitting the open low E shows up as one of the cliches of the genre (i.e. the intro to Surf Rider).

JakeDobner wrote:

Are you saying the Ventures and Shadows developed the surf sound? I think they are as seminal as Duane, but never made a conscious decision to be 'surf'. Ventures released a 'surfing' album, but that was surely at the behest of the label trying to cash in.

Surf is an instrumental music genre that contains different, experimental, original guitar tones and works (for example; link wray's songs are pioneers of distortion).

As y'all know here,the meaning of surf music comes from california beach culture. Additionally, in the early days of surf music there had been many music orchestras in California. Those orchestras had various instrumental guitar works. Their works and beach party concerts exactly shaped
this genre and its name.

In short; for example; The Tornados' Telstar is not surf, but due to there is heavy use of guitar in surf genre, The Ventures' Walk don't run is an example of Surf.

Early surf records'list
Duane Eddy (his "Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel" album, especially Movin' & Groovin- 1958)
Link Wray (Rumble, The Swag, Raw-Hide- 1958-1959)
Dick Dale (Let's Go Trippin', jungle fever, Surf Beat, Misirlou, Shake 'n' Stomp - 1960-1962 by the way dick dale first gave as a gift middle east music to Surf)
The Ventures (Walk, don't run - 1960)
The Shadows (Man of Mystery - 1960)
The Beach Boys (Moon Dawg, Stoked - 1962)
The Lively Ones (their "surf city", "surf drums", "surf rider" albums - 1962-1963)

also about Surf
http://classicrock.about.com/od/history/a/surf_rock.htm

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MuZZyGoesSurfing wrote:

Surf is an instrumental music genre that contains different, experimental, original guitar tones and works (for example; link wray's songs are pioneers of distortion).

All I can say is do some more reading on this website! You'll learn a lot.