stevel
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Hampton Roads, Virginia
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Posted on Oct 16 2012 06:08 PM
I'm looking for some good tunes - hopefully also popular to fairly popular - from the 60s that are instrumentals with organ. They don't have to be "surf" necessarily, so thus far I have:
Green Onions - Booker T
Telstar - Tornados
Pipeline - Chantays
We've added keys to other songs - like we do Wipeout and do a keyboard solo in addition to the stock guitar solo but in stuff like Walk, Don't Run we just have the keys playing backing chords along with the rhythm guitar.
In other words, we try do stay "true" to the original recording (usually by the original artist or at least the most popular version that everyone is most familiar with). If the original didn't have keys, we don't add them in any way other than doubling the rhythm guitar unless it's more of a "jam" type song where we can add a solo, etc.
I know there's a tune called "The Savage" by both the Shadows and Venutures - don't know which came first but the Ventures added keys.
So for those I'm ok with doing the Ventures version even if the Shadows version was more popular (I don't know that it was or if either version was very popular).
I've basically got this really great keyboard player in my band who can cover all kinds of stuff and I want to find things that will include him - like Out of Limits by the Marketts, etc.
Steve
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Oct 16 2012 06:12 PM
Time Bomb - Avengers VI
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Tuck
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Denver, CO
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 02:56 AM
The Creeper - Ventures
Satan's Theme - Challengers
Burnin' Rubber aka Batmobile - Gene Moles
Balboa Island - Usher/Super Stocks Ventura (can't find Balboa Island)
Hearse - Al Casey
Cemetary Stomp - Essex
Boss Soul - Rumblers
Deuces & Eights - New Dimensions
Psyche Out - Orginal Surfaris (piano of course)
Confined to one example per artist. There's actually a lot of stuff in this range. And it gets even better in later waves.
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surfaholic
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The sun kissed beeches of Nottingham, UK.
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 07:48 AM
Possibly my favourite organ solo of all time....
Shockwave - Zorba and the Greeks.
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supertonesurf
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n.y.c.
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 08:49 AM
my favorite keyboard Surf tune is "Ghost wave" can't remember the band but what great Surf tune .......
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caddady
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N.E. Ohio
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 08:57 AM
Here are two from a local combo, just right for the season.
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DannySnyder
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Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 08:57 AM
supertonesurf wrote:
my favorite keyboard Surf tune is "Ghost wave" can't remember the band but what great Surf tune .......
I believe that's the Vistas
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caddady
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N.E. Ohio
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 08:58 AM
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MadScientist
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Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Oct 17 2012 09:00 AM
These are all great selections. I would also say pretty much anything by Laika & The Cosmonauts. Some of my favorite keys/organ work in this genre exists in their music.
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Tuck
Joined: Sep 02, 2006
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Denver, CO
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Posted on Oct 18 2012 05:36 PM
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Tuck
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Denver, CO
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Posted on Oct 18 2012 05:43 PM
Speed International - Dave Myers Effect (omitting this was criminal negligence on my part)
Nite Shuffle - Sentinals
Agunus (Agnus?) Night - Sandals
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casey
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Posts: 521
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Posted on Oct 19 2012 02:12 AM
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jonfender
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Melbourne FL USA
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Posted on Oct 19 2012 09:26 AM
Everything posted here is Great ! I know they're not a "surf" band per se but the Rivieras "H.B. Goose Step" & "Battle Line" are pretty good & both feature "Farfisa slides" thru a (Fender ?) reverb amp. Thier CD's "Greatest Hits" (w/Buick in field) has instrumentals while "Let's Stomp" (w/Buick in showroom) does not. They are on Norton Records (& ya' may remember their hit from 1964 "California Sun").
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GuitarBob
Joined: Jul 31, 2009
Posts: 139
Monterey, CA
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Posted on Oct 19 2012 12:09 PM
Here's another. I uploaded this from the 45 I bought way back then.
Night Surfin'
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djrmgb
Joined: Jan 04, 2008
Posts: 18
CT
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Posted on Oct 19 2012 08:30 PM
Again, not "surf" per se, but check out Johnny and the Hurricanes for some great keyboard/guitar instro rave=ups
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stevel
Joined: Oct 12, 2012
Posts: 219
Hampton Roads, Virginia
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Posted on Oct 20 2012 01:15 PM
jonfender wrote:
(& ya' may remember their hit from 1964 "California Sun").
Oh, I remember it well (though I wasn't yet born when it came out  and in fact this was one of the songs that caused me to start this whole band project.
Thanks for the suggestion jon, and everyone. Am checking them all out.
Steve
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TuneFan
Joined: Jul 21, 2009
Posts: 211
U.S. East Coast
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Posted on Oct 20 2012 02:13 PM
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Tuck
Joined: Sep 02, 2006
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Denver, CO
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Posted on Oct 20 2012 07:55 PM
I've added links above where I could. More recent bands.
Mile Zero - Bomboras (more or less at random)
Hangar Party Stomp - Boss Martians (more or less at random)
Movin' - Fifty Foot Combo (picked a cover of an early piece)
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