Mine was Dick Dale's Hava Nagila. I knew the song since I was raised Jewish. I knew Misirlou but hadn't hear his Hava Nagila until I went to party in high school (1983) and it was blasting out of the stereo. Surprisingly, a huge room full of kids were jumping up and down and dancing like it was the coolest thing ever . My mind was blown and I've been chasing it ever since.

Danny Snyder

"With great reverb comes great responsibility" - Uncle Leo

I am now playing trumpet with Prince Buster tribute band 'Balzac'

Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta

Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party

Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF

Jack Nitzsche - The Lonely Surfer. The whole album actually.

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probably The Raybeats "Holiday Inn Spain," ...heard while listening to WHFS, in the DC area.

a cool album I also liked at the time was The Milkshakes "The Men With The Golden Guitars." this is a not too well known instrumental album. still vinyl only, with only some of the songs online.

a question that's tougher to answer for me is: what songs and bands got me into Third Wave, and when? I think it was some combination of The Space Cossacks, 3 Balls of Fire, The Supertones, and Planet Seven. awesome websites like zptdudamusic, Golly Gee, and Ferenc's old Pop Mart contributed to my delinquency. probably somewhere during the period from 1998 and 2002.

OH! another very bad third wave influence : "For a Few Guitars More" !!!! after hearing that awesome v/a album, I went out and found records by a bunch of the bands, 3BF, The Hellbenders, The Penetrators, Slacktone......

remnants of zptduda on the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030410014608/http://www.zptdudamusic.com/index.shtml

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I already digged (surf) instrumentals a lot.
Until I saw the Fifty Foot Combo live... OMG!
What you can do with instrumental music, amazing.. From then on, I started my own band.
From Harley and the Revtones that evolved to Los Venturas. Miss those days, just music and fun, no worries.
Cheers,
Andy

www.LosVenturas.be

ElMonstroPorFavor wrote:

jakewis10 wrote:

For me, it was For Surfers Only by The Surfites. That was my first encounter with reverb, and I've been hooked ever since!

Where did you hear it? I wouldn't think you'd dig up The Surfites if you weren't already into surf.

I found them through Spotify, of all places. I was listening to the Tiki Tones (who I had found through Shag) and that point I wasn't even into surf, I just listened to that band, and the Surfites came up on some recommended list. I played Big Pounder and I was amazed by their sounds!

Jake

I'm with Bob. The opposite end of the country but the same time period, early 60's. "Pipeline" "Walk, Don't Run" "Wipeout" and "Telstar" were my introduction to surf. My intro to 3rd Wave: "Snake Eyes" by Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides.

Patrick

There was no one song. I’d say Joey Santiago from the Pixies introduced my ears to the surf guitar sound then I saw the Endless Summer then Pulp Fiction then I forgot about it for a decade then I found surf guitar 101…

Paul

The Dead Planet Surfers

When I was probably 12 I wanted to know who played Wipe Out and an uncle told me it was The Ventures. Although not the original artist, it was serendipity! I got hooked on the whole album, especially Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and Secret Agent Man. Surfier bands came later, but it started there.

Neptune Trojans

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“Wipeout”, by the Surfaris. As a 10-year old aspiring drummer in the mid-1960’s, precisly playing the 7-accents tom beat for Wipeout was required for street credibility. It was the one 45 I owned. I played along with it endlessly, on a small suitcase-style record player, with that one tiny speaker. I practiced beats like that on every possibly surface I encountered. All of this caused some reduction in my popularity among my family and neighbors, but I persevered. Still one of my favorite tunes to play. Usually by request only, though. Fun stuff!

*Dick B.
The Aquatudes
http://www.aquatudes.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aquatudes/107419619521

I'll go with Pipeline . I had heard surf music since the mid 60s as a kid ; I lived in New England and radio stations would still use surf songs as commercial read over backing music or PSA type things . Late 70s I was into 'New Wave' and caught hard on Link Wray with Robert Gordon and got way into him and naturally looked at surf as one of the music types that was being /or ought to be resurrected ( even more than Rockabilly ). I started to learn guitar esrly 80s and got a Ventures 'play along with ' album and learned Pipeline by following the instructions ...I guess that was my first surf song I learned to play . I noticed that some hardcore punk type bands were touching on surf music as an influence and that suited me just fine but Pipeline was the first I learned to play ...even though I didnt consider playing in a surf band myself until my first DD live experience very late 80s . I thought 'someday I should give that a try ' .