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From the YouTube description:
"Emma Etsimässä"
- Rautalanka Musikkia
- Live From tavastia, Helsinki Finland 1989
- The Skylights
- Laika & The Cosmonauts part: One

This appears to be 2 segments of a Finnish TV show. The first bit features The Skylights, and the second Laika & The Cosmonauts. The show opener shows some clips from some other cool bands like The Quiets and The Mustangs.

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Rob_J wrote:

Brian, thanks for posting this. I just listened to an interview with Laika & The Cosmonauts from the NPR radio archives. What a great band!

Link, please? Thanks!

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Ron-Rhoades wrote:

For the most part it's known as "Rautalanka" (steel wire) but you might as well call it surf music as it is certainly a branch from that tree.

I hope you meant to say Surf and Rautalanka are two branches on the same tree, which – as we all know – is of course Rock Instrumentals.

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There is a part II,

vocals at first, mustangs later.

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Brian wrote:

I heard the origin story of "Rautalanka" was the Finns were electified by the sounds of The Shadows, and married their folk music to what they were hearing coming out of the UK. I don't know how much the Ventures and Surf music influenced the sound originally, but it certainly seeped in at some point. Whatever you want to call it, it is a glorious thing.

I hope it’s ok if I keep calling it Rautalanka. The Mustangs are pretty pure in their approach.

However Laika & The Cosnmonauts were more or less a modern/semi trad Surf band with the occasional nod to the Rautalanka heritage (with renditions and original melodies).

Similar for The Quiets and The Skylights who were more british respectively Ventures-inspired. So the show had one Rautalanka band and three typical 80s, post-modern, international, non-ignorant, man of the world amalgamations in the best sense.

The picture of a family tree for musical styles is good, but as I have already claimed elsewhere, post-fact renaming is a failure of understanding the tree concept.

The vocal Beat music was already forming thoughout europe when surf music really hit the international charts. I am not aware of the 1963 Surf hits having any recognition by scandinavian instrumental rockers until the late 80s.

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Kawentzmann wrote:

However Laika & The Cosnmonauts were more or less a modern/semi trad Surf band with the occasional nod to the Rautalanka heritage (with renditions and original melodies).

Similar for The Quiets and The Skylights who were more british respectively Ventures-inspired. So the show had one Rautalanka band and three typical 80s, post-modern, international, non-ignorant, man of the world amalgamations in the best sense.

The picture of a family tree for musical styles is good, but as I have already claimed elsewhere, post-fact renaming is a failure of understanding the tree concept.

The vocal Beat music was already forming thoughout europe when surf music really hit the international charts. I am not aware of the 1963 Surf hits having any recognition by scandinavian instrumental rockers until the late 80s.

From what I know about the history, I agree with you. Not sure why you are claiming we "fail" here.

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We've had several conversations along these lines in the past. KK is correct, of course. You can't call rautalanka 'surf' in any way shape or form. It was initially inspired by the sounds of the Shadows and the Spotnicks, emulating those echo-heavy sounds.

Anyway, here are a few old threads about it, as well as the Quiets, who were an amazing band, without a question:

http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/4870/?page=2#p65275
http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/1466/?page=1#p99451

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What I know is I like it. A lot. And a significant amount of music made today owes something of its sound and feel to these. Is there some kind of basic timeline (not a tree) that shows when what forms of rock instrumental music originated and where?

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