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It' not relly too surprising when you think that surf music was a
very brief trend, 3 years tops. Most surf bands were playing vocal
R&B before they ever even heard of surf music; Al Casey didn't even
know what surf music was when he recorded 'Surfin Hootnany'. The
Astronauts as well had no clue about surf when their record company
'sugessted' they record some surf tunes. In fact The Chantays
Pipeline was originally meant to be a cowboy song! And as for the
landlocked Trashmen... This is all perfectly evidenced by the
Ventures constant musical shifts, ie; The Twist album, In Space,
Mashed Potatos, etc... This 'flavor of the month' way of making music
is still very prevalent today. The Cool thing is that Surf took on a
life of it's own and far outlasted it's original 'trendy'
existence.
> > Sorry, Brian - that one was NOT by the Pyramids, but rather by >
It is surprising to me how all over the map the Pyramids were. A very
> few surf-ish tunes, but lots of pseudo-R&B Frat rock vocal tunes...
