So what are some of you guys' non-surf cover songs that you rework and/or reverb-up into surf tunes?
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 250 Port Fierce, Florida 
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Posted on May 04 2006 03:41 PM
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Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 796 Oakland |
Posted on May 04 2006 03:54 PM
I immediately thought of Satan's Pilgrims - The Godfather I'm stuck thinking about movie themes I guess. edit: Shit, didn't really read the question. I haven't personally re-worked any non-surf songs —Science friction burns my fingers. |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 250 Port Fierce, Florida
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Posted on May 04 2006 03:57 PM
I had "The Godfather" in mind when I started the post...that and The Nebulas "Swan Lake." — |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on May 04 2006 04:19 PM
We do: Chris Isaak's Somebody's Crying, We don't often play those live. |
Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 1076 Columbus, OH 
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Posted on May 05 2006 10:12 AM
Well, like Los Straitjackets and The Ventures, I have a few Christmas songs that I "surf up" and play around the holidays. I also got turned on to playing surf versions of Misfits songs when I first heard The Crimson Ghosts. I tried it with a few Ramones songs, too, and then I found that Ramonetures album. That was quite a while ago, though. |
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Posted on May 05 2006 11:11 AM
Baby Elephant Walk |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 2293 Stockholm, Sweden 
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Posted on May 07 2006 04:48 AM
We recorded Gene Pitney's (R.I.P.) great "Fool Killer" for an Italian Burt Bacharach instro compilation that should had been out by far now. — |
Joined: Apr 21, 2006 Posts: 852 Connersville, Indiana, USA 
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Posted on May 07 2006 06:24 AM
Aside from Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk," as MikeG has named, another Mancini tune I plan to surf guitarize is "Pink Panther Theme." Other instrumentals I plan to arrange as surf guitar tunes... "A Swingin' Safari" - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra Matt in Indiana —Fast Cars & Loud Guitars! |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 60 southern ontario |
Posted on May 07 2006 05:16 PM
I heard "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" on the radio the other day and thought it would make a great surf instro song. Apart from that, my trio does "Beat Girl", which may already be considered surf and "Call Me." There are alot of old standards that I think sound great when drenched in reverb. I don't think I'd play them at a surf show, but I do enjoy playing them at home with reverb tank splashing away. Songs like Ebb Tide, Moonlight Seranade, Shangrila etc. A good melody loves reverb and vise versa. |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3546 mojave desert, california
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Posted on May 07 2006 07:36 PM
i like the instrumental on Devo's "Gut Feeling"... I also dig all the different Neil Young surf-style covers out there, as well as the surf-style cover of BOC's "Don't Fear the Reaper"... I think a few Clash tunes would make real nice reverberated instrumentals... -dp |
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Posted on May 07 2006 09:29 PM
Hey - where can I hear that surf version of Don't Fear The Reaper??? |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 5097 San Francisco
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Posted on May 07 2006 10:45 PM
http://www.pollodelmar.com/songs/PepsiTrilogy.mp3 Other songs never intended to be surfed up that we cover: We also do a bunch of TV themes --Ferenc Buy Speed of Dark @ Bandcamp |
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Posted on May 08 2006 12:31 AM
Ferenc, Jeff(bigtikidude) —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on May 08 2006 12:50 AM
Girl Talk and Peaches en Regalia are two of my favorite Pollo songs. They sound so great. |
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Posted on May 08 2006 10:12 AM
The Mariners recorded "Searchin' My Soul", which is the theme from the old Ally McBeal TV show. Shakira's "Objection Tango" and The Go-Go's "Vacation" will be on our upcoming CD which we hope to release early this Fall. Since the late 90's we closed our live show with Billy Idol's "White Wedding" HulaHounds also play "White Wedding" (it's on the CD), The Cars' "My Best Friend's Girl", and Audioslave's "Like a Stone". Both bands cover several Ventures instro versions of vocal tunes. —Jack Booth The Mariners (1964-68, 1996-2005) Last edited: May 08, 2006 12:22:40 |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 2063 Virginia, USA
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Posted on May 08 2006 10:38 AM
We currently do: We have done: -Paul —Paul |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 5097 San Francisco
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Posted on May 08 2006 10:53 AM
The songs reminded us of Pepsi Generation commercials from the late 60s/early 70s. I think only "Music to Watch girls By" was actually used by Pepsi. fd —Buy Speed of Dark @ Bandcamp |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25568 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on May 08 2006 10:57 AM
Gottcha, makes total sense now that you mention it. Jeff(bigtikidude) —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Posted on May 08 2006 10:57 AM
Paul, Buy Speed of Dark @ Bandcamp |
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Posted on May 08 2006 11:06 AM
Not familiar with the Dave Edmunds arrangement, but ours is fairly traditional with a pumped up pipeline-type rhythm. Paul |
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