SabedLeepski:
Surfin‘ Europe, for surf (related) gigs and events in Europe 
https://sunb...
296 days ago
SHADOWNIGHT5150:
I like big reverb and i cannot lie
229 days ago
SHADOWNIGHT5150:
Bank accounts are a scam created by a shadow government
229 days ago
sysmalakian:
TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!
215 days ago
dp:
dude
196 days ago
Bango_Rilla:
Shout Bananas!!
151 days ago
BillyBlastOff:
See you kiddies at the Convention!
136 days ago
GDW:
showman
87 days ago
Emilien03:
https://losg...
8 days ago
Pyronauts:
Happy Tanks-Kicking!!!
2 days ago
#ShallowEnd is empty.
No polls at this time. Check out our past polls.
No contests at this time. Check out our past contests.
November Birthdays
hearing surf music in unexpected places
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19267 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 
|
Posted on Feb 12 2013 09:23 AM
A friend of mine just told me he head Dick Dale's Surf Beat in a Walgreens last night. Doing a search for Walgreens on this site is quite amazing. They are playing all kinds of good stuff the last few years! —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
|
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19267 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
|
Posted on Feb 12 2013 09:42 AM
So why do you suppose Walgreens is playing all this cool stuff? A hip insider programming the Muzak system? Or is it just that this music is 50-60 years old, deemed inoffensive, and instrumental? —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Mar 14, 2012 Posts: 100 Huntington Beach, CA
|
Posted on Feb 12 2013 10:05 AM
If you ever watch the Fox 5 Morning News in San Diego and we are doing a surf segment you'll hear music from my personal collection, including many bands that are active on this website and the podcasts. Our audio person was always playing Beach Boys whenever we had a surfing segment on so I put a bunch of real surf music in the audio computer and told her to use those instead |
Joined: Oct 11, 2010 Posts: 152 Bainbridge Island, Washington
|
Posted on Feb 12 2013 12:24 PM
I heard the orignal Sandals version of Endless Summer at REI in Seattle the other day. There are alot of TV and radio adds with surf style music in the background. I think Nostalgic surf music is powerful stuff to get boomers to keep buying stuff. Sponge Bob also has a great soundtrack. Ween's Ocean Man plays over the credits in the Sponge Bob Movie. My kids rock out in the living room when they crank it on the cartoon. |
Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2979 Hell\'s Kitchen, NYC
|
Posted on Feb 12 2013 01:08 PM
just heard an instrumental -- kind of mix of rockabilly and surf -- with definite reverb, and twang added. No idea what the song was, or who performed it. Of all places, I heard it in a "Jack's 99 Cent Stores"!! I buy my yogurt for lunch there on work days quite often. http://jacks99world.com/ Whatever it was, it made me smile, and actually made me think of Baja Marty (thinking, he would have dug this!! UNSTEADY FREDDIE — |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25541 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
|
Posted on Feb 12 2013 11:08 PM
Freddie, Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3546 mojave desert, california
|
Posted on Feb 16 2013 01:20 PM
Just heard some EXCELLENT surf tuneage on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations: San Francisco episode... anyone out there know who's surf-inspired tunes are on that episode? Last edited: Feb 16, 2013 14:45:58 |
Joined: Nov 22, 2010 Posts: 288
|
Posted on Feb 28 2013 07:43 PM
Not really hearing surf music in unexpected places, but my GP's last name is Eddy-Bertrand. |
Joined: Apr 28, 2009 Posts: 460 Victoria 
|
Posted on Sep 12 2013 07:14 AM
In a restaurant at a table next to me there was two couples, the older couple were parents of the girl in the other couple. They got talking about drums and the boyfriend said he had just started learning. The older guy's face just lit right up and he started talking about The Atlantics and The Ventures and how the young guy needs to listen to the surf drummers and surf music as it will be a great learning ground for him! — |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5298 the outer banks of north carolina
|
Posted on Oct 27 2013 07:12 PM
i was channel surfing this evening and stopped by spongebob as there was surf music playing in the background of a halloween episode — |
Joined: Sep 06, 2012 Posts: 1299 Lawrenceville , GA
|
Posted on Oct 29 2013 03:06 PM
mom_surfing wrote:
Tom Kenny, voice of Sponge Bob and I believe one of the creators of the show, is a big fan of retro music. I lived in San Francisco back in 89 and I used to see him at all the Rockabilly shows. At the time he was just doing Stand up comedy. I thought I read that he got up for a couple songs at Deke Dickersons Guitar Geek fest a couple years ago. When my kids where younger. I went to a parent/teacher conference and the teacher looked at me strangely and said " Your son says you were friends with Sponge Bob" |
Joined: Mar 15, 2011 Posts: 8528 Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
|
Posted on Oct 29 2013 03:13 PM
Surf_Skater wrote:
Speaking of Sponge Bob... —This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. |
|
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5298 the outer banks of north carolina
|
Posted on Nov 25 2013 07:19 AM
'church key' as the background tune for sports news on a virginia talk radio station this AM — |
|
Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 188 In a sea of reverb
|
Posted on Nov 25 2013 08:40 AM
Not really an unexpected place but following the Fleshtones/Los Straitjackets killer!!! show at the Southgate House here in Newport, Ky. we were hanging around afterwords when Tom our(AmpFibians) drummer looked at me and said he thought the songs playing on the house PA sounded familiar I said "what the???".... as it turned out, the soundman was playing our Spies In Love CD we had given him a couple of years ago. Tom asked him about it and he replied... I figured you guys would be here. —http://www.reverbnation.com/theampfibians |
Joined: Oct 05, 2011 Posts: 744 France
|
Posted on Dec 14 2013 07:13 PM
The small town where I work has PA speakers playing music in the streets all day long during the holiday season. A few days ago, just as I was leaving work, they started playing Surf Rider by the Lively Ones. In these parts it's extremely uncommon to hear Surf music even on specialized radio stations so that was REALLY unexpected, and made my day. —Old punks never die... They just become surf rockers. |
Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 133 Austin TEXAS!
|
Posted on Dec 16 2013 03:00 AM
I worked at toys 'r' us circa 1989, and they had a tape on a constant 90 minute loop, and Ventures' 'walk don't run '64' was on it during x=mas time —
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 16 2013 08:46 AM
1981, Milan, Italy.... Jon & the Nightriders tour... walking next to the cathedral, ElDuomo... http://tinyurl.com/kgob6u9 in the crowded high-end shopping area adjacent.... a guy was pushing a cart selling roasted chestnuts with blair-ing car stereo speakers attached... it was "Live at the Whiskey", Nightriders album playing. |
|
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5298 the outer banks of north carolina
|
Posted on Dec 16 2013 10:22 AM
SlacktoneDave wrote:
WOW — |
Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 2682 Ventura, CA
|
Posted on Dec 16 2013 03:01 PM
Lilyhammer, Season 2, Episode 1, there is a short scene with a bar band wearing cowboy hats playing instro, the drummer is wearing a wrestling mask (never do this unless you are in Los Straitjackets). |
|
Joined: Jun 17, 2012 Posts: 132 West Central Illinois |
Posted on Dec 17 2013 12:44 AM
There was an oil down at Cordova drag strip and they played surf on the PA while the clean-up went on. |
Please visit our friends in the surf music community:
Contact Us • About Us • Terms of Service • Privacy Policy • Colophon
SurfGuitar101.com © 2004 - 2024 by Brian Neal. All comments and user contributed articles are property of the posters.
Thanks to all the surf bands, past and present. And thanks to all the fans who care about and keep surf music alive.
