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You are correct, Bill, the scars run deep.
Rick Griffin, who illustrated the Challengers album covers, did a cartoon in the
early '60's that reflected the mind of many surf music and pre-Beatles rock
fans. I think it's reprinted in John Blair's book and/or the Dumb Angel Gazette.
A surfer kid comes upon a long hair with ruffled shirt and Beatle boots and
asks, "What are you?" and the hipster replies with something such as, "Ya gotta
have long hair to be cool" and it goes on from there. Griffin's attitude is
clearly that the long hairs are a bunch a phonies. I know some older folks on
the Ventures list who still carry that anti-long hair attitude.
The Boss Martians do a very clever homage to this circa '64 attitude on their
"13 Evil Tales" CD in a song called, "Long Hair Lenny". It's a 1997 tune but
sounds as if it could very well have been a cut on a Trashmen album. "Long Hair
Lenny took my girl away"..."Looked like a chick from head to socks". Very well
done.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: supertwangreverb
To:
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 6:34 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Eddie Bertrand (was: strings and strats)
I'm pretty sure Hendrix, Clapton and the British bands played a role
in this. Not only did those guys end surf music but they screwed up
alot of the firstwavers. Put yourself in a surf band 1965 (which
was pretty late for surf bands)and your competition is some long
haired guys that the girls are screming for. Psychologically these
guys have scars that run pretty deep :).
Bill
--- In , Dan Bartley <bigtwangguy@y...>
wrote:
> I wonder if that's because when Hendrix and Clapton came along the
Chantays felt like they got left behind in the dust and are still to
this day trying to show everybody that they can keep up with the
Jones?
> Dan
>
> Marty Tippens <mctippens@e...> wrote:
> The Chantays play with a lot of energy and a three-guitar line up,
plus bass. They always get a great crowd response BUT theirs is more
a modern guitar god distortion lead guitar sound than a high energy
trad surf sound.
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: DP
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Eddie Bertrand (was: strings
and strats)
>
>
> RE: "It's sad to hear that some of our favorite bands from
> the 1st wave don't play with much enthusiasm anymore..."
>
> Yeah, it is sad that many lose energy as they get older...
>
> but,then again, I did see the Tornadoes play a rippin' 2
> hour set in San Bernardino a couple of years ago, and Dick
> Dale (whether you like him or not) always seems to be High
> Energy...Paul Johnson still rips it up too!...
>
> so...like anything in this world, it all depends upon who
> you are watching or hearing...some actually get better as
> they age...
>
> regards,
> DP
>
>
>
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