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Try Agent Orange...cool ripping punk surf tone. Also
Slacktone tears it up. Don't forget the old school
Pyramids...those guys are the ultimate surf garage band.
good luck,
dp
--- Brian Neal <> wrote:
> Hi JC...see below:
>
> > What I'm after is some advice on that classic surf
> sound, I've got a
> > Strat going through an Orange AD30 head and a home-made
> cab with 2
> > 12" Celestions. I'm not big on effects and would rather
> just pick up
> > a reverb pedal rather that some sort of multi-effects
> thing (and I
> > hate digital stuff).
>
> Reverb unit!!
>
> >
> > Also could anyone give me the names of some of those
> classic surf
> > chords that sound cracking with the whammy going. Even
> though I can
> > pick up a solo in minutes I've always had a duff ear
> for chords.
>
> Uh, lets see...Em, Am, Dm, you get the picture... :)
>
> >
> > The stuff I've been listening to is The Astronauts,
> Ventures, Los
> > Straightjackets, Avantis, Laika & The Cosmonauts,
> Man...Or Astro-
> > man?, The Weisstronauts, Chantays, The Penetrators and
> Shadowy Men on
> > a Shadowy Planet. Any other suggestions for some good
> stuff?
>
> Old school: Dick Dale (duh!), The Lively Ones, The
> (Original) Surfaris,
> Eddie & The Showmen
> New school: Jon & The Nightriders, Slacktone, The
> Volcanos, The
> Treblemakers, The Fathoms, The Halibuts, The Woodies, The
> Nebulas, The Space
> Cossacks....
>
> I'm leaving a bunch out...all the above are favorites of
> mine.
>
> BN
>
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