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> I doubt that the results would have been nearly as interesting if
> your goal had been merely to reproduce "the sounds of 1963 in a
> specific part of SoCal".
> Don't get me wrong, I love that sound, it's just that I don't see
> any "trad" surf bands actually IMPROVING on the Fender IV or Jim
> Messina & the Jesters, so I'd rather listen to the real deal than
> some contemporary imitation thereof, and that goes for other kinds
of music, too. I'd rather hear someone use the 60's surf sound as a
springboard for some kind of original style (as the Cossacks did).
Hadda chime in for this, I agree whole heartedly. I'm a trad- guy
myself but I see a lot of trad bands getting stuck in the same old
covers trap- Y'know, Mr.Moto, Squad Car, Penetration. I dig these
songs but I'd like to see other covers that no one seems to do,
example- Batman (not the TV theme) by the Astronauts, Flashing Eyes
by Dick Dale, or the Surfaris rendition of Similau.
The sound I'm tryin' to strive for is a 1963 trad, so-cal but with
the Ventures knack for taking pop material and giving it an instro
arrangement. For example, I working on a surf arrangement of Nadia's
theme (I'm calling it Nadia's Surf), also I'm doing an arrangement of
A Bicycle Built for Two (A Surfboard Built for Two). Like Rip
Thrillby said on Reverborama, Go Wild and explore new territory. I'm
doing so but keeping the arrangements trad. The best TV theme I've
heard with a surf guitar arrangement is the Sintones version of the
Mary Tyler Moore theme.
Chad Cote
6 string surfer
