re: the impending BitchBoys breakup:

according to their website, they are looking for replacement players...

I was sort of intrigued, even though it seems like it would mean moving to Slovenia...

-dp

it's amazing , turning songs in surf songs
where can i find this tab!!!!!11
peer gynt by edward grieg?
one more question, why are the main tips to turn a classical or rock or whatever in a surf song?

thanks

greetings

uiso
it's amazing , turning songs in surf songs
where can i find this tab!!!!!11
peer gynt by edward grieg?
one more question, why are the main tips to turn a classical or rock or whatever in a surf song?

thanks

greetings

Welcome out of lurker land Uiso.

For classical, I'd say the first thing to do is buy yourself The Baronics' Get Bach, let it's greatness envelope you. Then, start practicing until you're at a level where you can do a piece of classical music justice (I know I'm not there). Seriously, it's a tough thing. I've been working on Au Claire de Lune for a looooong time.

For rock, just start picking out the melodies of the tunes you like, try humming them or whistling while imagining a surf beat and arrangement. You'll feel it when it works, trust me. Then learn the melody on the guitar, and start creating variations so as not to be too repetitive. From there it's a matter of arranging the rest of the instruments. Good luck.

Danny Snyder

"With great reverb comes great responsibility" - Uncle Leo

Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta

Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party

Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF

Lemme Take You To The Beach, with the Zappa stuff was great fun...
And the Jesus Christ Surferstar album was weird.

Laika & The Cosmonauts did some good non surf tunes:
Caravan / A Night In Tunesia / The Ipress File / The Avangers

Husky & The Sandmen - Sukiyaki Stomp
Treble Spankers - Popcorn / Das Model
El Caminos - Exodus
Vivisectors - House of the Rising Sun
Beloved Invaders - Besame Mucho
Metalunas - Scooby Doo
Los Coronas - Secret Agent Man
Spy vs Spy - Tatort
Dead Rocks - El Condor Pasa
On that last one, I think there are some great latin indian flute & harp melodies waiting to get the Jazzmaster treatment...

Arpeggiator -Fugazi>this song if just waiting to be surfed over!
Albatross - Fleetwood Mac>drown that old sea bird.
Thaw Out - Albert Collins(Truckin' with Albert Collins)>this instro
has such cool drums and organ it's hypnotising!!

PS....Goldfinger version by The Blue Stingwrays is pretty cool
PSS....I read somewhere once that Walk Don't Run was by Chet Atkins ?

all the best
adam

A few other tunes that I surprisingly haven't mentioned that The Lava Rats cover:

I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
Runaway - Del Shannon
I Can't Surf - The Reverend Horton Heat
Complete Control - The Clash

I swear there are more, but at this time, my mind is a little blank...

~B~

Jimi hendrix- pali gap.. its amazinggggggg

-Fly on little wing-

Couldn't Stand The Weather...

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We cover Thin Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar

IvanP
Actually, "In The Hall Of the Mountain King" was recorded several times by British sixties bands, and it goes back to one of the first instrumental rock bands in the UK - Nero & the Gladiators. They released the 'original' version of this back in June of '61. Ritchie Blackmore (at that time playing in a rock instro band the Outlaws, Joe Meek's answer to the Shadows) said that this song's combination of rock & roll and classical music was a major inspiration to him, and set him down the lifelong path of incorporating classical music into rock, thus making Deep Purple and Rainbow (and indirectly Yngwie, Spinal Tap, etc.) possible. Blackmore recorded his own version of it (titled "Satan's Holiday") circa '64 or '64 under the name the Lancasters. The Lancasters' single was actually released exclusively for the US market (I think) by the famous American impresario Kim Fowley, and can be found on the recent CD compilation "West Coast Instrumentals". Finally, Blackmore rerecorded the song again in '95 on Rainbow's final album, but this time with lyrics. So, yeah, it has a long history in rock instro music...

Ivan

"In The Hall Of the Mountain King" was also recorded by lead guitarist Galen Niles and the Texas psychedelic rock group Homer on their album back in the late 60s.

It was very heavy and very cool sounding.

It should make an excellent surf recording.

For whatever it is worth, Galen was my first guitar teacher and was definitely the best guitar teacher I ever had, truly a gentleman.

SurfCat

butchdelux
I...that and The Nebulas "Swan Lake."

Also covered by the Looney Tunes. Actually, I think this has a longish history deriving from Rockabilly versions titled Saturday Night at the Duck Pond.

Another in the vein with a long history before and after is the Ventures' Bumble Bee Boogie, from Flight of the Bumble Bee. See the somewhat weak article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee, which doesn't get much into the pop history.

Don't forget Misirlou, for which see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou. Or the ever popular Malaguena. The Theme from Exodus is popular.

The Supertones, Susan and the Surftones, and Colorado's Beloved Invaders do a lot of non-surf material. On CDs from the B-Invaders I can think of Besame Mucho, Harlem Nocturne, Sway, Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Respeto a La Tierra, and Rockman Enough (Rachmaninoff's ???). They do a lot of other things at shows.

I guess we shouldn't overlook the Baronics' Get Bach or Mel Waldorff & Co.'s Meshugga Beach Party, concept albums designed to show that classical and Jewish music, respectively, can both be nicely inducted into the surf genre.

Davie Allan has pretty catholic taste. How about I Had Too Much to Dream (admittedly with vocal) and Shape Of Things to Come? Or Baby Elephant Walk and Our Favorite Martian? (I guess TV show themes might be considered "part of the genre"!)

Rock and pop songs that are almost nativized include Heart Full of Soul and Secret Agent Man.

Less certain: Teisco del Rey's Seville (from Carmen by way of Mary Had a Little Lamb, right?). And there's something familiar about the Looney Tunes' Little Old Lady from Paddington. I kind of think it must be The Old Gray Mare, but souped up.

What I've always liked about surf music (or instrumental rock generally) is that it seems to have no preconceptions about what is fair game. For every band that sticks pretty close to some sort of canon there are two that figure anything goes. Even the canon seems to include obligatory categories like Mexican music, Spanish-Mediterranean-Balkan music, Spy music, Space music, etc.