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Hey yall-
Just found out about this list, and am pretty excited going through
the archives. Most mailing lists I'm on seem to appreciate a brief
intro from new members so here goes (this is the time to delete
message if you don't care):
I've played guitar since I was 15 (now 31), though I've never become
very good. Recently I've been practicing a lot more and trying to
take it a little more seriously, learing a bit of music theory and so
on. Growing up I was just wanting to play punk/noise and so on, later
I switched to an acoustic to try to get away from all that (and the
hearing damage). Now I am thinking about going electric again.
I always wanted a fender jaguar, and was pretty disappointed to see
how popular and expensive they've become. I'm sitting on the fence
about getting a MIJ or saving for an AV re-issue.
I am really becoming obsessed with surf music recently. I don't have
a huge collection but I listen to what I have constantly, and most
days I wake up hearing it in my mind. I am especially fond of the
Fender IV and the Blazers, I like the slightly darker styles, and
really love the flamenco/gypsy/spanish/??? influences. Sorry I lack
the musical vocabulary to go into more detail. I'd love pointers
about how to find these kinds of influences... which "ethnic" or
whatever albums might help me decode some of the addictive
progressions and melodies in surf music. Seems a lot comes from what
I would call bullfighter music, though I don't know how to find it.
have you heard the butthole surfers song John E Smoke? I dont care
for the overall song and the lyrics all that much, but I love the
guitar work. I'd like to find the kind of stuff it is parodying.
Well, thats all for now, I will sit back and soak up what comes through.
Oh I guess I should mention I live in Long Beach, CA, and would love
to know of any upcoming shows in the area.
Thanks for running the list!
rob
hi, welcome aboard.
I just got a sh#tload of recommendations on vintage stuff, just check
the recent threads on 60's surf music.
as for heavy sounds, Nebulas and Infrareds are must haves. there are
plenty more but these two are my faves - a very personal and biased
recomendation. check out their websites and download the sample songs
(and then proceed to nuy the full cd's !). Most bands have sample songs
on their websites btw, good way to find out what you like, if you have
time and fast connection.
If your referring to miserlou like spanish sounding stuff, that's all
over surf music. Try to score Treble Spankers cd's (Hasheeda and
Araban) - difficult to find - and their guitarsits new band, Phantom
Four. killer! (they were about to issue their first cd a couple of
weeks ago, haven't really checked yet if it is available already.
happy hunting.
WR
Hey Rob,
It's good to have a new member joining in! Many of the members on this list are
musicians as well. Currently there's a sampling in mp3 form of some of
Surfguitar101's musicians of all levels playing at I personally play guitar in a band called The
Fabulous Planktones and drums in a band called The Boardwalkers.
For the darker style of surf look for a CD titled "Bombora" by a group called
The Original Surfaries. It's on the Sundazed label. They're one of the first
wave bands from the early '60's.
My vote is that you go with the AV Jag.
-Marty
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Subject: [SurfGuitar101] new member intro
Hey yall-
Just found out about this list, and am pretty excited going through
the archives. Most mailing lists I'm on seem to appreciate a brief
intro from new members so here goes (this is the time to delete
message if you don't care):
I've played guitar since I was 15 (now 31), though I've never become
very good. Recently I've been practicing a lot more and trying to
take it a little more seriously, learing a bit of music theory and so
on. Growing up I was just wanting to play punk/noise and so on, later
I switched to an acoustic to try to get away from all that (and the
hearing damage). Now I am thinking about going electric again.
I always wanted a fender jaguar, and was pretty disappointed to see
how popular and expensive they've become. I'm sitting on the fence
about getting a MIJ or saving for an AV re-issue.
I am really becoming obsessed with surf music recently. I don't have
a huge collection but I listen to what I have constantly, and most
days I wake up hearing it in my mind. I am especially fond of the
Fender IV and the Blazers, I like the slightly darker styles, and
really love the flamenco/gypsy/spanish/??? influences. Sorry I lack
the musical vocabulary to go into more detail. I'd love pointers
about how to find these kinds of influences... which "ethnic" or
whatever albums might help me decode some of the addictive
progressions and melodies in surf music. Seems a lot comes from what
I would call bullfighter music, though I don't know how to find it.
have you heard the butthole surfers song John E Smoke? I dont care
for the overall song and the lyrics all that much, but I love the
guitar work. I'd like to find the kind of stuff it is parodying.
Well, thats all for now, I will sit back and soak up what comes through.
Oh I guess I should mention I live in Long Beach, CA, and would love
to know of any upcoming shows in the area.
Thanks for running the list!
rob
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Hi Rob, like you I also have a limited knowledge of surf bands, I first got into
the scene by listening to bands like The Bomboras and Los Straitjackets and my
musical knowledge isn't that great either but there are some great Links and
Files in this group for everyone to go through. I only joined about a week ago
and looking through them I feel I've already trippeled what I knew before.
robmantid <> wrote:Hey yall-
Just found out about this list, and am pretty excited going through
the archives. Most mailing lists I'm on seem to appreciate a brief
intro from new members so here goes (this is the time to delete
message if you don't care):
I've played guitar since I was 15 (now 31), though I've never become
very good. Recently I've been practicing a lot more and trying to
take it a little more seriously, learing a bit of music theory and so
on. Growing up I was just wanting to play punk/noise and so on, later
I switched to an acoustic to try to get away from all that (and the
hearing damage). Now I am thinking about going electric again.
I always wanted a fender jaguar, and was pretty disappointed to see
how popular and expensive they've become. I'm sitting on the fence
about getting a MIJ or saving for an AV re-issue.
I am really becoming obsessed with surf music recently. I don't have
a huge collection but I listen to what I have constantly, and most
days I wake up hearing it in my mind. I am especially fond of the
Fender IV and the Blazers, I like the slightly darker styles, and
really love the flamenco/gypsy/spanish/??? influences. Sorry I lack
the musical vocabulary to go into more detail. I'd love pointers
about how to find these kinds of influences... which "ethnic" or
whatever albums might help me decode some of the addictive
progressions and melodies in surf music. Seems a lot comes from what
I would call bullfighter music, though I don't know how to find it.
have you heard the butthole surfers song John E Smoke? I dont care
for the overall song and the lyrics all that much, but I love the
guitar work. I'd like to find the kind of stuff it is parodying.
Well, thats all for now, I will sit back and soak up what comes through.
Oh I guess I should mention I live in Long Beach, CA, and would love
to know of any upcoming shows in the area.
Thanks for running the list!
rob
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Rob,
you are definetly inthe right area for live surf music shows.
So. Cal. Nor. Cal. and the North East seem to really be going off
surf show wise lately.
The Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach is a good place to Start.
Just keep an eye on this list, Cowabunga, and Reverborama yahoo
groups.
and this link for some bands shows in Calif.
But there is much more going on than what she posts on there.
Hope to see ya out in the Sound waves
Jeff(bigtikidude)
--- In , "robmantid" <mantid@g...> wrote:
> Hey yall-
>
> Just found out about this list, and am pretty excited going through
> the archives. Most mailing lists I'm on seem to appreciate a brief
> intro from new members so here goes (this is the time to delete
> message if you don't care):
>
> I've played guitar since I was 15 (now 31), though I've never become
> very good. Recently I've been practicing a lot more and trying to
> take it a little more seriously, learing a bit of music theory and
so
> on. Growing up I was just wanting to play punk/noise and so on,
later
> I switched to an acoustic to try to get away from all that (and the
> hearing damage). Now I am thinking about going electric again.
>
> I always wanted a fender jaguar, and was pretty disappointed to see
> how popular and expensive they've become. I'm sitting on the fence
> about getting a MIJ or saving for an AV re-issue.
>
> I am really becoming obsessed with surf music recently. I don't
have
> a huge collection but I listen to what I have constantly, and most
> days I wake up hearing it in my mind. I am especially fond of the
> Fender IV and the Blazers, I like the slightly darker styles, and
> really love the flamenco/gypsy/spanish/??? influences. Sorry I lack
> the musical vocabulary to go into more detail. I'd love pointers
> about how to find these kinds of influences... which "ethnic" or
> whatever albums might help me decode some of the addictive
> progressions and melodies in surf music. Seems a lot comes from
what
> I would call bullfighter music, though I don't know how to find it.
> have you heard the butthole surfers song John E Smoke? I dont care
> for the overall song and the lyrics all that much, but I love the
> guitar work. I'd like to find the kind of stuff it is parodying.
>
> Well, thats all for now, I will sit back and soak up what comes
through.
>
> Oh I guess I should mention I live in Long Beach, CA, and would love
> to know of any upcoming shows in the area.
>
>
> Thanks for running the list!
>
> rob
rod:
welcome to sg101, your reverberated web-home.
in the music theory department, I offer a few leads:
check out some scales: Byzantine (aka Gypsy) scale, Spanish
8-tone scale, Hungarian Minor scale, Egyptian scale,
Oriental scale, Melodic Minor scale, Balinese scale,
Hawaiian scale, Arabian scale. You can likely locate tabs
for these scales with a quick google search, or you can
find them in "Scales & Modes: In the Begining by Ron
Middlebrook"
chords: for the above scales, you'll have to work out the
intervals and tri-tones to build some chords. Some handy
chords to learn for surf instrumentals are the barre (bar)
minor chords, the open position minor chords, the barre
major chords and the open major chords. Also the minor
seventh chords (min7) and major seventh (Maj7) chords come
in handy sometimes.
as far as learning some cool tunes by ear, I've found The
Ventures to be a cool place to start. They have a bunch of
familiar tunes, and a cool approach to instrumental music,
and for the beginer, their stuff is relatively easy to
decipher. Dick Dale's stuff is also fun to learn, but his
technical abilities are quite intimidating, even for the
seasoned surf guitarist. The Lively Ones and the
Challengers and the Chantays all have some excellent fun to
learn tunes, and the Shadows have a bunch of classic
instrumental tunes that are within the grasp of begining
surf guitarists. Lastly, I'd like to reccomend good old
Agent Orange: their distortion/punk sound and cool surf
cover tunes are a great place to begin learning a bunch of
cool scales, chords and song structures...and they freakin'
rock like crazy. Agent Orange, of course is not "purist"
surf...but, they are a fun "punk surf" style crossover
band.
i hope this helps get you started...
again welcome and may the reverberator be with you,
-dp
--- robmantid <> wrote:
> Hey yall-
>
> Just found out about this list, and am pretty excited
> going through
> the archives. Most mailing lists I'm on seem to
> appreciate a brief
> intro from new members so here goes (this is the time to
> delete
> message if you don't care):
>
> I've played guitar since I was 15 (now 31), though I've
> never become
> very good. Recently I've been practicing a lot more and
> trying to
> take it a little more seriously, learing a bit of music
> theory and so
> on. Growing up I was just wanting to play punk/noise and
> so on, later
> I switched to an acoustic to try to get away from all
> that (and the
> hearing damage). Now I am thinking about going electric
> again.
>
> I always wanted a fender jaguar, and was pretty
> disappointed to see
> how popular and expensive they've become. I'm sitting on
> the fence
> about getting a MIJ or saving for an AV re-issue.
>
> I am really becoming obsessed with surf music recently.
> I don't have
> a huge collection but I listen to what I have constantly,
> and most
> days I wake up hearing it in my mind. I am especially
> fond of the
> Fender IV and the Blazers, I like the slightly darker
> styles, and
> really love the flamenco/gypsy/spanish/??? influences.
> Sorry I lack
> the musical vocabulary to go into more detail. I'd love
> pointers
> about how to find these kinds of influences... which
> "ethnic" or
> whatever albums might help me decode some of the
> addictive
> progressions and melodies in surf music. Seems a lot
> comes from what
> I would call bullfighter music, though I don't know how
> to find it.
> have you heard the butthole surfers song John E Smoke? I
> dont care
> for the overall song and the lyrics all that much, but I
> love the
> guitar work. I'd like to find the kind of stuff it is
> parodying.
>
> Well, thats all for now, I will sit back and soak up what
> comes through.
>
> Oh I guess I should mention I live in Long Beach, CA, and
> would love
> to know of any upcoming shows in the area.
>
>
> Thanks for running the list!
>
> rob
>
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