grayn wrote:

ncgalt1984 wrote:

So I can wear funny costumes in public.

How do those guys wear full face masks, on stage?
I get hot with just jeans and a t-shirt.

I only wore the mask once. After that, I just went to the helmet. Once was all it took to realize it was a bad idea. It was an outdoor show. And it was hot.

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Cause that's what Dick Dale plays!

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shivers13 wrote:

I ask myself this all the time! What the hell am I doing??? I blame an unnatural obsession with the 60's, and a desire to escape to a place that's not like today in anyway, and the delusional thought that others like it too for the same reason. Basically stubbornness! Is there a pill I can take to knock this shit off?

+100. Surf, especially the classics from the past are an escape from the horrors of the present and trepidations of the future. Almost a safe place to go to away from it all! And the way those songs in the 60s were recorded, and just sound, just have a special element to them that can't be fully replicated. A time capsule. Same reason why I like history books and old clothes. They bring me to a place away from reality.

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As a casual player, it all started with "Walk, Don't Run"..."hey, I can do this!"

Then I moved onto "Perfidia/Lullaby of the Leaves"..."hey, I have the Medley down"...soon it was Mr. Moto. Also Dick Dale's tough because you need to get the fast picking down. "Take It Off" and a half ***ed "Surf Beat" is all I can really do at this point. Oh and I'm trying to do "Rik a Tik", but even that one requires some pretty frantic picking. 2/3 through "Slaughter On Tenth Ave"...I'm promising myself a beer if I can get that one down.

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Because 60's surf rock gives me goosebumps. I love the sound, the feel, everything about it gives me goosebumps. It's a music genre like no other, that's why I love/play surf music.

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Yes, surf music offers an artificial paradise that is at once homely and exotic, perilous and comforting.
What gets me is how nobody, but nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about when I mention it. It's becoming embarrassing. At best they think Beach Boys.
On a tangent, and maybe there's another thread for the topic, what the hell do young musicians mean by "surf" when they mention Best Coast in their ads?

nick123 wrote:

shivers13 wrote:

I ask myself this all the time! What the hell am I doing??? I blame an unnatural obsession with the 60's, and a desire to escape to a place that's not like today in anyway, and the delusional thought that others like it too for the same reason. Basically stubbornness! Is there a pill I can take to knock this shit off?

+100. Surf, especially the classics from the past are an escape from the horrors of the present and trepidations of the future. Almost a safe place to go to away from it all! And the way those songs in the 60s were recorded, and just sound, just have a special element to them that can't be fully replicated. A time capsule. Same reason why I like history books and old clothes. They bring me to a place away from reality.

Squink Out!

JObeast wrote:

On a tangent, and maybe there's another thread for the topic, what the hell do young musicians mean by "surf" when they mention Best Coast in their ads?

The guitars have reverb, the vocals are soaked in reverb and sound like it could have been recorded in a 60s vocal booth with an old microphone, and the drums have a similar sound to 60s drums. There are also double picked instrumental sections/interludes.

It is also a cultural thing, there is a real West Coast sensibility of young people who like to hang out, listen to music, and just chill. LA being a focal point, the beach is a classic place to hang out. Surf really referring this this type of lifestyle.

Best Coast isn't really my thing, but worthy of respect. Best Coast and other bands of the ilk, the zeitgeist has spoken and it is surf music.

And it certainly isn't Best Coast and other bands fault. We think of Surf Music as instrumental surf and some of us include the Beach Boys and some of us include Jan and Dean(whom I feel were an artless corporate construct who pleasantly and competently sang songs adapting to the zeitgeist). Look at all of the Surf Bands who transitioned out of instro surf and all of the albums they left behind with vocals. Astronauts are a surf band right? So somebody hears that and goes to pick up a record of theirs and it is full of vocals. That is still surf to that person because they are told it was.

I guess the reverby mix has some relation to 60s pop sounds but so did Shimmy Disc records out of Kramer's Noise New York studios. I never heard Bongwater called surf.
To me surf has to do with a kind of punky energy coupled with technical flair that laid back lifestylers like Best Coast (singer from my neighborhood of Eagle Rock) just do not even gesture towards. They are maybe beach music.

Squink Out!

wow, somehow i missed this thread.
'Cause it's what's in my soul and it's what comes out when i play guitar!
Marc Ribot had a quote in Guitar Player magazine a few years ago (can't find it), but it was to the effect of " that the very shape and structure of an electric guitar is naturally built to play surf on"...!

We (3rd Wave) usually plays several outdoor family friendly venues each year. Often there will be someone with a child or two around 4-5 years old, and the kids will just spontaneously start dancing to something we're playing, usually an older tune like "Pipeline" or "Secret Agent". I doubt that they have heard it before, there is something in the simplicity and appeal of the music that is universal.