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What do you play? Instrumental classics? Originals? Beach Boy style vocal harmonies? Do you add other Island musics? Hawaiian? Reggae? Jimmy Buffett songs? Beach punk thrash? Fuzzed out '60's Biker instrumentals?

Just curious.

All opinions expressed by this poster are well thought out and based on actual experience and/or scientific experimentation, except for those which are knee-jerk reactions or good sounding fantasies.

For the Royal Aces, we take a Los Straitjackets approach, with some classic and modern surf, along with instrumental versions of recognizable rockers and ballads. It has been a successful method for many years now, in terms of securing a lot of gigs.

We are making our way towards mostly originals. We know a handful of classics in case we need something recognizable. I'm pretty adamant about keeping the sound and writing mostly trad instrumental but without limiting ourselves to much (ex: our drummer plays punk music, so we gave up on telling him to slow down). So far so good; we got a lot of gigs with different style of bands.

-Pierre
The Obsidians! (Ottawa surf)
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We predominately play originals, but the covers we do play typically weren't played as surf tunes. I think the three covers we do are My Little Runaway, Ghost Riders in the Sky, and Danger Zone (yep). We are definitely influenced by surf, reggae, and spaghetti western tunes, but we mix in a bunch of psychedelia.

I like surf music and got Eric to listen to it. He and everybody else in the band liked/likes the Beatles more and watch some Ennio Morricone scored movies and therefore you get The 'Verb.

I'd say we definitely exist in the prog-surf realm. I've always said that we have one foot planted firmly in trad surf, but the other foot stretches as far out in every other direction as possible (and as the song requires).

Straight up surf but love finding those "classic" rock songs that can be covered well with surf. One of our crowd favorites is Blondie's Dreaming for example.

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My two bandmates both have a rockabilly background and I am heavy influenced by Link Wray. So we do a Link Wray tribute of 3 songs every set, plus some classics like Pipeline and Misirlou (just to get the audience to dance). Our originals (nowadays about 70% of the set) go from traditional reverb drenched surf to fuzzed out bikermovie influenced instrumental garagepunk.
Latest edition to our set is a instrumental version of a Beatles classic. Depending on the mood of the audience we do a reverb version or a fuzz version. We wanted to do something completely different (Monty Python Quote).

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stratdancer wrote:

Straight up surf but love finding those "classic" rock songs that can be covered well with surf. One of our crowd favorites is Blondie's Dreaming for example.

Yeah, the crowd goes nuts for that one- well a lot of them go nuts for other reasons too!

Da Vinci Flinglestein,
The quest for the Tone, the tone of the Quest

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Good question for any genre. I tend towards "no limits, no boundaries, no going back" but also have commercial sensibilities that scream "It ain't gonna work!". I love the prog/punk/metal side of modern surf rock, but at some point I need the drippy 'verb, trem picking etc. that makes up trad surf music.

I don't know, I just want to do it fast, dirty, and loud.

Mostly early instrumental (i.e. Link Wray) and classic surf (Dick Dale, Ventures, etc.). I've been trying to get originals in there, but we haven't come up with anything so far.

Gabe

Our beaches here get 3 foot tall waves, but it doesn't matter. You don't need to surf to play surf.

I'm not gonna write anything that doesn't have a solid groove at it's base. People may not always dance, but when they do, I want to make it easy.

Good question. Everybody should think about where they want to go, and where they don't.

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Loosely patterned after the Ventures approach: anything popular you can do with 2 guitars, bass, and drums. Surf standards (Walk Don't Run, Perfidia), multiple tunes from the Beatles, Beach Boys, and recently Burt Bacharach. A show tune, Age of Aquarius. One hit wonders, Spirit in the Sky. Theme From a Summer Place. Our usual bass player is a pretty good vocalist and on occasion he will do some Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, of Ricky Nelson. Another vocal is "Doo Wah Diddy". If we have to use a substitute bass player and the job requires vocals we might bring in a female vocalist who does typical bar band songs. We try to be versatile and tailor our repertoir to the audience of each individual job.

None! I feel this is the joy of modern surf/instrumental. We have a heavy expect for the music that created this genre, but we are not going to limit ourselves because "it does not sound like those old tunes". I have so much fun listening to different bands under the large umbrella called "Surf/Instrumenta", because I am always pleasantly surprised to hear new things. If it sounds good, then we are playing it! Cool

The Me Gustas
https://themegustas.com

We have no boundaries at all.We like to blend and mix surf with proge, blues, rockabilly, garage, punk, psychobilly, heavy, rocknroll and even with some traditional Finnish folksongs. We know that it will be just fine after we have made it ready and final.

Twang & Bop til You Drop!

Boundaries? We don't need no stinkin boundaries!

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Da Vinci Flinglestein,
The quest for the Tone, the tone of the Quest

The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube

http://www.syndicateofsurf.com/

http://sharawaji.com/

http://surfrockradio.com/

For Agent Octopus we play about 50-60% originals, the rest is various surf from 1960 - on (Sandals, Dale, Cossacks, Straitjackets). If we do vocals, which is rare, we'll do some Sugar Ray, Weezer, Kinks, Stones and Beatles-maybe 3 vocals in a set - if we're playing to a crowd that needs a few familiar tunes.

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Practicing is our biggest musical boundary.

JakeDobner wrote:

Practicing is our biggest musical boundary.

Ditto

Surfcat

2023 SG101 Compilation - Tribute to Noel
The Journey Home - Agent Octopus (Our SG101 Comp download)

From Atlantis with Love - Released - July 2023
Agent Octopus-Spotify
Christmas on the Beach - NEW SINGLE Dec 2023!!
Reverb Galaxy - Angle of Attack CD - BANDCAMP

Surf, the most dangerous of all musical genres...

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