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What Are the Musical Boundries of Your Band?
Joined: Mar 23, 2017 Posts: 85 Fort Collins, CO/Moonstone Beach, CA 
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Posted on Jul 20 2017 05:27 AM
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. |
Joined: Jul 13, 2008 Posts: 782 
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Posted on Jul 20 2017 07:01 AM
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. |
Joined: Jul 04, 2010 Posts: 369 Ottawa 
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Posted on Jul 20 2017 08:14 AM
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. — |
Joined: Feb 20, 2017 Posts: 70 Gilbertsville, NY
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Posted on Jul 20 2017 11:52 AM
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. |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Jul 20 2017 03:52 PM
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. |
Joined: Jan 17, 2008 Posts: 2188 Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Jul 20 2017 04:27 PM
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). —
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Joined: Dec 11, 2013 Posts: 2537 Akron, Ohio
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Posted on Jul 20 2017 04:33 PM
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. —The Kahuna Kings https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kahuna-Kings/459752090818447 |
Joined: Aug 22, 2010 Posts: 614 Netherlands, Europe 
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Posted on Jul 21 2017 01:57 AM
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. www.alohasluts.com |
Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Jul 21 2017 09:28 AM
stratdancer wrote:
Yeah, the crowd goes nuts for that one- well a lot of them go nuts for other reasons too! —Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube |
Joined: Jan 18, 2010 Posts: 672 Delaware
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Posted on Jul 22 2017 06:41 AM
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. |
Joined: Mar 11, 2011 Posts: 819 Semass
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Posted on Jul 23 2017 06:57 PM
I don't know, I just want to do it fast, dirty, and loud. |
Joined: Jun 07, 2017 Posts: 48 University Place, WA
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Posted on Jul 23 2017 08:12 PM
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. |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 5105 San Francisco
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Posted on Jul 24 2017 12:03 AM
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. —Buy Endless Drummer @ Bandcamp Last edited: Jul 24, 2017 00:04:45 |
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 521
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Posted on Jul 24 2017 09:52 PM
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. |
Joined: Jul 17, 2016 Posts: 103 Sacramento
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Posted on Jul 25 2017 10:27 AM
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! The Me Gustas |
Joined: Dec 25, 2012 Posts: 101 Mänttä-Vilppula, Finland, Europe 
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Posted on Jul 25 2017 10:29 AM
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! |
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Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Jul 25 2017 10:44 AM
Boundaries? We don't need no stinkin boundaries!
Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube |
Joined: May 09, 2008 Posts: 1399 Isle of Kent, MD
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Posted on Jul 25 2017 02:32 PM
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. —Surf.The most dangerous of genres... Surfcat MARCH OF THE DEAD SURFERS! (2024) - Agent Octopus BANDCAMP - Agent Octopus |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Jul 25 2017 02:45 PM
Practicing is our biggest musical boundary. |
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Joined: May 09, 2008 Posts: 1399 Isle of Kent, MD
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Posted on Jul 25 2017 02:52 PM
JakeDobner wrote:
Ditto —Surf.The most dangerous of genres... Surfcat MARCH OF THE DEAD SURFERS! (2024) - Agent Octopus BANDCAMP - Agent Octopus |
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