today in our store we're playing name that tune for a 10% discount on a purchase using my ipod set on shuffle. it's amazing how people have gotten into it. one guy in his early 50's got 'pipeline' and couldn't come up with it even though he said he's heard it hundreds of times. and then after finding out the title said he felt like a dumbass because he's surfed there. a guy in his late teens pipes in and says he doesn't know the name of it but he knows it's by the beach boys. 
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5298 the outer banks of north carolina 
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Posted on Jun 25 2007 04:08 PM
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25541 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A. 
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Posted on Jun 25 2007 04:12 PM
too funny, dumbasses all of them. Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Jun 25 2007 07:28 PM
The other night I was listening to the Invaders play in a city park down in Lone Pine, south of Denver. They announced, I thought, Journey to the Stars and then proceeded to play something else, followed by JTTS. Expecting one thing and hearing another threw me for a loop - and my Ventures/Shadows song-naming skills have always put me in the dumbass league there anyway. I was trying to place the song when an old dude - correction, an even older dude - came up and said something about 2001. We got to talking and it developed that he wanted to know if the song I was puzzling over was the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey." I assured him it was not, and then admitted that I was puzzled by it, too. He was warmed up by then, and proceded to tell me several amusing stories about his early musical experiences, including knowing Jan & Dean, and then wandered off. It finally came to me that the Invaders had played Out of Limits, and he had crossed up Outer Limits and 2001 ASO in his memory. (I've done worse.) Lest anyone think he, too, was a dumbass, he correctly identified Caravan and Ghost Riders in the Sky in asides while he was telling me about Jan & Dean. Playing name that song is kind of fun, I think! I'm getting to the point where I can name some of the local groups' material after hearing either the introductory joke or a few random musing chords in a certain style. On the other hand, there are a few numbers that have only just had their names announced after two or three years of presentation. And some that for some reason I can't name after hearing them named every month or so over that period. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5298 the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Jun 25 2007 08:02 PM
well, i just closed and i've been in my store for 13 hours today, that's a lot of name that tune. i just had about 20 teens in here with a surf camp group and 'pipeline' happened to rotate through again. one kid guessed dick dale (it was the duo-tones) and then he said it was 'miser-something' and then another kid said it was the ventures but he didn't know the name of the song and then another guessed it was 'hawaii 5-0'. whew, at least they were in the right ballpark. there's hope for the youth of america yet |
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Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 08:05 AM
I hear a really shocking number of them can't point to Dick Dale on a map. |
Joined: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 1342 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 11:06 AM
Did the 10% off apply to surfboards too? — |
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 01:40 PM
I teach guitar to Jr. High school age kids. I have two that want me to teach them surf. That is encouraging. No real suprize though, we all know Surf Music will live forever. —Is that too much reverb? |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5298 the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 01:48 PM
nope. but then again i could have reserved an insect surfer tune for surfboards and be assured of having no winner. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5298 the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 01:49 PM
is that somewhere in the US? |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3546 mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 02:04 PM
One year, at my school, I taught a little 5-piece student band : drums, bass, three guitars...no singer! After our first meeting, I told the students "Look, we have no singer, so how's about we do 'Surf Band' this year?" They all looked at me sort of confused, and I added "...you know, 'Pipeline', 'Miserlou', 'Wipe Out', ...that sort of thing..." And then I played them a little lick from 'Miserlou'...they got it immediately and were totally stoked. That group of kids learned a ton of surf songs and played 3 'gigs' for their peers on campus. The drummer and the guitarists reported that they learned more about music in that year then they had during any other of their practice put together... great fun for me, too... -dp |
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Joined: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 1342 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 02:14 PM
mom_surfing, next promo do 10% if they name the tune, 20% if they know the words. |
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19267 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 02:21 PM
That's awesome DP! —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3546 mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 02:25 PM
They did killer "surf" instrumental versions of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' and Nirvanna's 'Teen Spirit'...I harnessed the metal beast within! |
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Posted on Jun 27 2007 04:03 PM
Thanks DP Mom_surfing...They know the surf guitar licks but still need to ask what song it is from. —Is that too much reverb? |
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Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Jun 28 2007 08:36 PM
You know, I've noticed that the local rec center advertises a summer pop band class. You have to play an instrument - they group you if you don't sign up as a group - and they basically claim to teach you to be a band. I'm not sure who teaches the course or what they actually teach. I don't know if anyone ever even signs up. However, it seems to me like a good way to teach music. Made me wish I was 15 again for the first time, and there are sound, universally relevant reasons why I've never wished that before. I always wished my kids were more into playing as opposed to "just" dancing and singing. (Hey, who needs a vocalist?!) I did insidiously plot for my older daughter to learn sax, but it didn't work out. She got sick of it at the start of the clarinet stage. And the younger one dropped out of piano. They never knew, I think, where my little scheme was leading ... I'm kidding, of course. I enjoy my kids' dancing and singing. I just thought they ought to have a chance to learn to play an instrument. Violin way back when may not have taken hold with me, but I think it helped me a lot. |
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Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Jun 29 2007 06:25 PM
Two answers, Mom!
* I've heard home base is somewhere in Montana.
Of course, I have to admit that I was just having fun with the standard press tag about kids' problems with geography. It just came over me at the time. Hmm. In the context, what we need is a little gadget which when held near a sound source would recite the name of the song being played. "Attention! This is an unlicensed variation on the Wedge, with a piece of Malaguena stuck in the middle. Plase notify Dick Dale at once!" Of course, with present technology the best we can hope for is something like "Um, is it Pipe Down? Wait, I mean Wipe Off? It has drums." |
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