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In the current issue of Guitar Player, East Bay Ray
downplays his surf music past, though I have heard him
talk about growing up with surf music.
Ferenc
--- larry8421 <> wrote:
> I was thumbing through a pile of back issues of the
> Chicago Reader
> when this caught my eye. In an article entitled
> 'It's the Economics,
> Stupid - What could Bruce Springsteen and the Dead
> Kennedys possibly
> have in common?', by Monica Kendrick, the author
> reviews reissues of
> 'Born to Run' and 'Fresh Fruit for Rotting
> Vegetables'. At one point
> she says:
>
> "If the passing decades have been kinder to one of
> these albums, it's
> Fresh Fruit, probably because youthful bitterness
> ages better than
> youthful romanticism. The DKs' music doesn't sound
> groundbreaking or
> outre today--for Christ's sake, the guitar solo in
> "Let's Lynch the
> Landlord" is pure surf--but the tunes have the
> timelessness of great
> direct rock 'n' roll, in the tradition yet not bound
> by it. The
> political themes in the lyrics are as relevant and
> urgent as ever, and
> their snarky outrage still falls on fertile ground
> (You could make a
> good case that "California Uber Alles" just keeps
> getting more dead-on
> as the years go by.)"
>
> Boy, what a lack of vision, huh? Can you imagine,
> being so non-outre
> as to using a surf guitar solo in a song - for
> Christ's sake?!? Well,
> I guess surf is just so passe....
>
> Larry N
>
> Surf Guitar Solos Uber Alles!!!
>
>
>
>
>
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