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You know, if Dick and his buds out there in California
had high gain amps and obnoxious pedals, we'd be in a
world of hurt......long live clear, clean guitar. To
me, those early Ventures albums had the ultimate
guitar sound......it's just not appreciated anymore.
And we all know it's MUCH less demanding to play with
artifical comp and sustain.....Play it clean and play
in loud........eddie katcher (on the soapbox again)
--- Marty Tippens <> wrote:
> Yeah, the Stringrays are the only young group I can
> think of as well and they haven't played in a long
> time. It's hard to win kids around here over to
> surf. The kids are so impressed with distortion
> guitar. I'll bring a guitar into a classroom of 18 -
> 21 year olds and play Miserlou and that gets a good
> response but when I hit the distortion and do a
> wanna-be EVH lick, the eyes really light up and
> everyone wants to sign up for the Guitar Club. I
> actually do run a Guitar Club and I'll get the room
> to play Baja, Miserlou, Pipeline etc..The beginners
> doing the rhythm and the intermediates playing the
> melody but before I walk in the room, the
> intermediates are all playing Metalica or some such
> with heavy distortion. So now and then I'll let them
> teach me one of their fav's and we'll work it up for
> the group.
>
> The only new surf band of any age in So Cal that is
> really active is Outer Wave. There are other new
> bands that spring up but most are mixes of the usual
> cast of characters that do a gig or two.
>
> -Marty
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> surf music
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>
> Stingrays come to mind. "Don't Fear The Reverb"
> Cd. Those guys were right out of highschool. I'm not
> sure if they're together anymore.
> Billy
> ---- ipongrac <> wrote:
> > I was wondering how surf music is doing in its
> birthplace of Southern
> > California. In particular, I am curious to hear
> whether there are any
> > NEW bands (forming since, say, '02) consisting
> of younger guys,
> > meaning in their twenties and thirties. If
> there are bands like
> > these, have they released anything?
> >
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