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interesting interview. But who is "Dwaine Eddie"?
>From: "ipongrac" <>
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>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] DD and surf music pop up in the unlikeliest
>places....
>Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:56:49 -0000
>
>This is kinda funny. I was just doing some random web surfin' and
>came across this interview with Wayne Charvel, the guy that started
>all the Eddie Van Halen-style "SuperStrat" customizing in the late
>seventies (He actually sold the Charvel brand to Grover Jackson way
>before those guitars became ubiquitous, so he can't take the full
>blame). Anyway, he's back to building the heavy metal guitars that
>look like late seventies/early eighties California metal specials
>under the name of Wayne. What does any of this have to do with surf
>music? Well, check out the first paragraph of his interview:
>
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>It would be interesting if he actually did some designs intended to
>appeal to the surf music crowd.
>
>On a somewhat related topic, I was reading an interview with Roy Z,
>the leader of a band Tribe Of Gypsies. I know him better from his
>late nineties work with Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden singer) and more
>recently with Rob Halford (ex-Judas Priest singer). Roy is a
>fantastic metal guitarist, songwriter, and producer - just an awesome
>young musician (he's 34). Well, in this interview he mentioned how
>he's good friends with Richie Podolar - better known to surf music
>fans as Richie Allen!! You know, the guy who did Risin' Surf,
>Casbah, The Quiet Surf and tons more great surf stuff either solo, or
>with the Superstocks or Sandy Nelson. Technically speaking, probably
>one of surf music's best guitarists ever (he did "Voodoo Juice" by
>the Ghouls - try playing that one sometime, and prepare to experience
>pain and frustration), and a favorite of, among others, Jim Thomas
>and Rip Thrillby (and myself). In case you didn't know, in the mid-
>sixties Podolar became a producer of the hippy bands, and reached his
>greatest claim to fame by producing the big Steppenwolf albums.
>Apparently, for the last twenty years or so he only produced metal
>albums, though I don't think by anybody really well known. Anyway,
>for you SoCal surf bands, maybe you can get in contact with him and
>try to persuade him to get back to his roots - though you're running
>the danger of your recording ending up sounding like Ratt!!! Oh, the
>horror!! :)
>
>Ivan
>
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