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Kinda funny/odd that some of the more mainstream players may
know about/like surf, but don't want to readilly admit it to the
public. Almost like it we like Dungeons and Dragons or
something.
No offense to D&D players, just going with the flow on that as
some comedians do.
Jeff(bigtikidude)
--- In , Ferenc Dobronyi <ferencnd@...>
wrote:
>
> 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 <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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