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I was playing Misirlou for the umpteenth time and wondering how others
got around to playing surf instro music. So, for those who like
surveys, the following:
1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
did you imagine yourself playing?
2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
players, etc..?
4. What turned you on to surf music?
5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
My answers:
1. Oddly, surf. I only started playing 16 months ago!
2. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog (Elvis 45 in a vintage music store).
3. Jimmy Page, Ted Nugent, Eddie Van Halen, Johnny Winter, Roger Waters.
4. 1970s surf movies, esp. Endless Summer & an obsure skateboard film
called Skater Dater. Also, Pulp Fiction.
5. The Mermen.
Gavin Ehringer wrote:
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
Surf Guitar, definately. But I've got a lot of interest in punk, too.
Some Ramones-style rock guitar was always a goal, for me.
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
ELO - Balance of Power. Casette tape, purchased at a Jamesway department
store, which these days has been converted into bank offices.
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
> players, etc..?
Johnny Ramone. In an interview, he stated that when he started
performing onstage with the Ramones, he didn't know how to play - which
is why those early songs were so simple. He gradually learned to play,
due to just having a guitar in his hands all the time.
For a total beginner, that sounded like as a good a reason as any to
plunk down the money and get a guitar.
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
I'm a beach bum at heart? Heh.. dunno, really... I grew up listening to
a stack of old 45's belonging to my dad. When most kids were playing
woody woodpecker and Mickey Mouse records, I was listening to Elvis,
Booker T & The MG's, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs....
I like the reverb sound, too. Plus it's a kind of music you can play,
even if you're not sure you have a decent enough voice to do vocals.
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
Nothing. My CD player broke several years ago, and I haven't bothered to
replace it. These days, I rip my CDs to mp3 files.
I have such a massive collection of mp3s, that picking any one song or
musical style would be hard to do.
At the moment, I'm listening to old british comedy shows. I'm Sorry,
I'll Read That Again, Son of Cliche', Million Pound Radio, Radio Active....
-c*
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
Punk, all rhythm and absolutely no lead guitar whatsoever. Then,
after about a year, I decided to try and learn pentatonic scales, and
that sort of changed the "no lead" whole mission statement thing.
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
I listened to stuff from my dad's collection until middle school or
so, and I think the first thing I bought was a cassette of either
Green Day's Dookie or Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire.
I'm 100% certain the thing I bought most recently was Satan's
Pilgrims' "At Home With" CD.
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers,
bass
> players, etc..?
a.) Warren Fitzgerald of The Vandals: Watching him on their "Sweatin'
to the Oldies" concert video was what inspired me to buy a guitar.
b.) Johnny Ramone: I would've given up for sure without him.
c/d.) Bruce of the Subhumans (the British ones) / East Bay Ray (Dead
Kennedys): Both had completely original styles that were not only
cool, but fairly easy to learn.
e.) Angus Young: Just because. "Shoot to Thrill" was the first solo I
actually learned note for note. (Not the one at the end, the little
tiny one in the middle. I'm well aware it's retardedly easy.)
f.) Bob 1 (Devo): The break on "Smart Patrol" is all the reason
needed.
g/h.) Mark Arm / Steve Turner (Mudhoney): Because I like fuzz and
pentatonics.
I've never been a fan of "guitar gods:" I can't stand Yngwie,
Satriani, Vai or Eric Johnson, and I especially loathe Gary Hoey. As
far as virtuosos go, I do dig Primus, because rather than just
wanking, there's some creativity going on in addition to the wanking.
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
I listened to the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean a lot when I was
little, and that sort of carried over into, high school when two
things happened:
a.) I bought the Playstation game Felony 11-79, which features a
soundtrack by The Surf Coasters.
b.) I saw Pulp Fiction, which led me to Dick Dale, who led me to the
Ventures (don't ask how that works, I don't even know) who led me to
MoAM to ...
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
-Turbonegro's Apocalypse Dudes (Best album of the 90's, hands down.)
-The Pixies' Trompe Le Monde
-The Stooges' Raw Power
-Surf Coasters' Surf is Dead
-Warren
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument,
> what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
I imagined myself playing classical piano like a big
maestro, my mum had suggested that I would have great
luck with ladies later in life if I did. Unfortunately
I switched over to the guitar when I saw Elvis on TV,
I was like 12 years old by then.
>
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you
> remember buying?
>
Elvis first LP (reissue)
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar
> gods, drummers, bass
> players, etc..?
>
Scotty Moore, Brian Setzer
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
>
I saw a german band performing a cover of Fun, Fun,
Fun and got into early Beach Boys, in 1983 I baught my
first instro surf LP Wipe Out by the Surfaris (filled
up with Challengers recordings).
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
>
It varies to much to say, the most recent album i
listened to is Husky & The Sandmen 2nd album.
KK
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> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
>
I imagined myslef playing retro guitar instrumentals as well as
Beach Boys vocals. If I haven't heard Dick Dale's Miserlou in Pulp
Fiction I never would have picked up a guitar
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
I was 11 years old when I bought Van Halen's 1984. I got the money
from my folks as an Easter gift. I bought that cassette 'cause I
thought the video for Hot For Teacher was really funny.
>
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers,
bass
> players, etc..?
Chuck Berry (I got into him by watching Back To The Future. The
Marty McFly version I thought was kinda cool, I asked for a Chuck
Berry tape for xmas '85.)
The Ventures-I played my folks greatest hits comp (The one with the
chick in the gold bikini on the cover.) till the grooves were white
cause Wipeout and Pipeline where on it. I loved those songs as a kid.
Pete Townshend- All the Who's pre-Tommy stuff is the best! My
Generation is one of the easiest songs you'll ever learn-it's all
power chords baby!
The Beach Boys-I know if you're into instro surf music you're
supposed to dump on these guys but all their stuff from Surfin'
Safari to Pet Sounds is the best. For me the band has been pretty
much been a living joke for the past 23 years. Rap version of
Wipeout!?!?
Ron Wilson of the Surfaris-Hands down the best surf drummer ever!
Keith Moon-The best drummer of all time!
John Entwhistle-The Ox was best bassist ever too!
Vic Flick-The guys who played the guitar on the James Bond Theme.
The James Bond theme is one of my favorite all-time instrumentals!
Ray Ellis & Bob Harris-More specifically the incidental music heard
on the classic 1960's Spider-Man cartoon. There's some great guitar
music heard on that show!
Link Wray-Jack The Ripper from Desperado, Rumble & Ace Of Spades
from Pulp Fiction also fuelled my desire to take the guitar.
>
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
One movie-Pulp Fiction
>
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
Right now it's Ray Daytona & Googoobombos-Space Traffic Jam, The
Hypnotic IV-Go Baby Go, Movers & Shakers(a garage CD-R mixed by
Shakey Von Gasser, Paul Vandervort!), Supertones Surf Modern Surf
Band Spotlight and The Delmonas-Dangerous Charms.
Chad Cote
6 string surfer
1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
did you imagine yourself playing?
Punk , it was 1977
2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
Mott the Hoople
3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
players, etc..?
Roger mc Guinn
4. What turned you on to surf music?
In the early 90's I played in a garage rock band called Hawaii city five
wich allready had some surf influences. But I always liked instumental rock,
so I think it was just an natural evolution.
5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
Slacktone, Spacecossacks, Nebulas
Roland Bettenville
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From:
Date: woensdag 04 juni 2003 06:42:30
To:
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Amuse Me...5 Questions for the List
I was playing Misirlou for the umpteenth time and wondering how others
got around to playing surf instro music. So, for those who like
surveys, the following:
1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
did you imagine yourself playing?
2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
players, etc..?
4. What turned you on to surf music?
5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
My answers:
1. Oddly, surf. I only started playing 16 months ago!
2. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog (Elvis 45 in a vintage music store).
3. Jimmy Page, Ted Nugent, Eddie Van Halen, Johnny Winter, Roger Waters.
4. 1970s surf movies, esp. Endless Summer & an obsure skateboard film
called Skater Dater. Also, Pulp Fiction.
5. The Mermen.
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>1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
>did you imagine yourself playing?
I was supposed to be the replacement drummer for The Blues Brothers, but
relinquished my talents to playing slow russian polkas due to the fact that
I couldnt seem to get past quarter notes standing behind my single snare
drum in front of my music teacher.
>
>2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
The soundtrack to Miami Vice. That was my first tape. My first CD was the
soundtrack to Top Gun.
>
>3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
>players, etc..?
Buddy Rich, and Billy Cobham. They both had drums on the album cover and
since I didn't know shite about music, I just saw "DRUMS!"
>
>4. What turned you on to surf music?
Good question. My first surf music experience was hearing "Walk, Don't
Run" on an oldies station in my parents car way back when...it always
appealled to me so much more than Frankie Valley and The Four Seasons. Since
I must HATE making money, surf music was the obvious choice to pursue!
>
>5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
My CD player...hmmm...a live recording I made of The Infrareds in San
Diego. THEY'RE THE BALLS! Uhh, Slacktone gets played like a mofo, and
there's a rockabilly band from Grand Rapids called Dangerville which I've
been plaing a lot. The Ghastly Ones are in there...as well as Satan's
Pilgrims and The Fathoms and The Space Cossacks (that's my "MuSick Records
Playlist")..oh, and the first Rage Against The Machine album. That about
covers it.
-Dano
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> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
The Shadows. And now I am playing the Shadows! Life's good. (I
picked up the guitar at age 13 b/c of the Shadows, I was in love with
them from the age of 10 or 11 after hearing them around the house all
my life.)
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
First one I remember owning: Blondie-Parallel Lines (still kicks ass)
First one I remember buying: AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (still
kicks MAJOR ass!!)
By that point, I had most of the Shads records from my dad or tape
recordings of them from my dad's friends. The same goes for Beatles
records, with whom I was also obsessed.
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers,
bass
> players, etc..?
Hank Marvin; the Beatles as a self-contained musical unit.
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
It was a gradual evolution. Picking up a Rhino comp of the
Challengers at age of 17, so in 1986 (there were two Shadows songs on
there!); a few Beach Boys instros around the same time (I LOVED their
vocals stuff, too, still do). That's when I first started
fantasizing about having a surf/Shadows band! Next, picking up
Rhino/Guitar Player Legends Of Surf Guitar, Vol. 1 in 1991, and soon
after Rhino's DD comp. Then finally, seeing Laika & the Cosmonauts
live in '94 and '95. After that I was a full-blown addict.
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
For the last few days:
Bruce Dickinson: Accident of Birth (Iron Maiden vocalist)
Iron Maiden: Brave New World
U2: Best of 1990-2000 Limited Edition (my wife got it for me last
week)
For a Few Guitars More
Guitar Ace (Link Wray tribute)
Halford: Resurrection
John Jorgenson: After You've Gone (gypsy jazz)
various Keely Smith CDs, Julie London, Yma Sumac
Ivan
> > 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of
music did you imagine yourself playing?
Good ol' All-American Rock 'n Roll -- I actually started at the ripe
age of nine, so I didn't really know what I wanted to play, nor did
I have any influences as it were, all I knew was that I wanted to
play guitar and be really good at it.
> > 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember
buying?
First Record: The La Bamba soundtrack
First Tape: Pearl Jam - Ten
First CD: Cream - Disraeli Gears
> > 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers,
bass players, etc..?
Richie Valens, Brian Setzer, Most any early punk players, Scotty
Moore, and (even back in grade school) Dick Dale
> > 4. What turned you on to surf music?
Well, I suppose in many ways I turned myself on to surf music. I
grew up on my Dad's 45s of the Chantays, the Ventures, The Beach
Boys, Jan and Dean, etc. Then when I started playing I actually
went out and bought a few surf comps, and D. Dale's Tribal Thunder.
But right about the same time I saw Six String Samurai (featuring
the Red Elvises' music), I happened to see The Blue Hawaiians open
for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. I was absolutely FLOORED. Shortly
thereafter I ditched the suits for hawaiian shirts and officially
declared swing to be dead, purchased a '64 Twin Reverb and dusted
off the Jag I bought in back in high school. The rest, as they say,
is history.
> > 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
I recently came into a little extra cash, so I put it to my favorite
cause --- buying surf CDs. Here's the list I'm working on at the
moment:
The Hypnotic IV - Go Baby Go
Gein and the Graverobbers - Songs in the key of Evil
Rockin' Enocky and his Guitar
Fifty Foot Combo - Strike!
Fifty Foot Combo - Caffeine
Guitar Ace (Link Wray Tribute)
Celebration of Life
Atomic Mosquitos (the new one... name's escaping me now)
The Neptunes - People of Earth, We Are....
The Pyronauts - Surf Motel
I know there are more, but they escape me at the moment. Also, you
can always count on a steady mix of Slacktone, The Nebulas, MoAM,
and any number of others. Let's just say that I listen to CDs like
BigTiki goes to shows.
~Bill~
Okay, this is fun, I'll bite (thanks Gavin):
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
I remember getting back from "walking rows" (similiar to detassling...its a
Midwest ritual that all teenagers here go through as their first job), just
being exhausted and lying in a bean bag chair watching MTV. This was when
MTV played music back in the day (early 80's). I was always into music. An
Aldo Nova video came on, the one with the cheesy helicopter/rescue mission
thing (Life is Just a Fantasy?). I remember watching him play his Les Paul
doing power chords and I thought that just perhaps I could do that too. It
looked like fun. So I wanted to RAWK baby!!!
>
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
I think it was probably a Kiss record. Maybe Destroyer. I had a bunch of
Kiss stuff, an Alice Cooper 45, and AC/DC's Dirty Deeds (Hey Ivan...another
eerie similiarity!) on tape.
>
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
> players, etc..?
The first real musical epiphany for me was Led Zeppelin II. My best friend
at the time enrolled in one of those "ensnare the unwitting teenager" record
clubs and got a bunch of Zeppelin and Who stuff. Led Zeppelin was it for me.
My early favorites were Zeppelin, The Who, and Rush. Later, Pink Floyd, Blue
Oyster Cult, and Black Sabbath. Later I went into my metal phase in late
high school: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, The Scorpions, Dio, Rainbow, Deep
Purple, etc. In college I got into metal deeper: Slayer, Anthrax, Metallica,
etc. Heros: Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Alex & Geddy & Neil (We almost named
our first born Alex Geddy Neal - lucky for him we didn't), John Entwistle.
>
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
>
Hearing The Raybeats cover Link Wray's "Jack The Ripper" late one night on
college radio while delivering pizzas had a profound impact on me. I still
haven't recovered from that one. Man or Astro-Man? was the real killer
though. I became obsessed and then starting collecting bands they covered
which led to Dick Dale, The Ventures, etc. I also bought some Los
Straitjackets early on, and I think I even bought The Space Cossacks first
one on a lark based upon Ferenc's review at his Pop Mart.
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
Right now its the For a Few Guitars More comp, Satan's Pilgrims, the first
Fathoms CD (MAN-O-MAN does that kick ASS), The Nebulas, The Penetrators, The
Volcanos (they don't get enough mention on the lists), The Woodies (thanks
again Ferenc), and The Ghastly Ones.
BN
1. Chris Isaak & Fleetwood Mac tunes.
2. I believe it was that "get six cassettes for only a penny!" thing
and it was Styx, Queen, ABBA and someothers I don't remember.
3. Lindsey Buckingham and Jimmy Wilsey.
4. Chris Isaak early on and then it was The Mermen.
5. The Mermen - Liva At The Haunted House. My first Mermen CD and
what a record! Thanks Phil Dirt and KFJC!
--- In , "Gavin Ehringer"
<gavinehringer@e...> wrote:
> I was playing Misirlou for the umpteenth time and wondering how
others
> got around to playing surf instro music. So, for those who like
> surveys, the following:
>
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
>
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
>
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers,
bass
> players, etc..?
>
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
>
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
>
> My answers:
> 1. Oddly, surf. I only started playing 16 months ago!
> 2. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog (Elvis 45 in a vintage music
store).
> 3. Jimmy Page, Ted Nugent, Eddie Van Halen, Johnny Winter, Roger
Waters.
> 4. 1970s surf movies, esp. Endless Summer & an obsure skateboard
film
> called Skater Dater. Also, Pulp Fiction.
> 5. The Mermen.
1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music did you
imagine yourself playing?
Rock and Roll fuhever!!!
2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
Black Sabbath's Paranoid, Led Zeppelin III & Deep Purple's Machine Head - on
cassette
3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass players,
etc..? Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Bill Bruford, Phil Collins (pre-'83)
4. What turned you on to surf music? my college radio show cohost who got me
started on MOAM, The Phantom Surfers, Untamed Youth & Laika & The Cosmonauts as
an extension of the Rev Horton Heat & SCOTS, Blasters, Beat Farmers & whatever
else I was already into but can't remember playing for various reasons
5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player? why the latest mix of the
new The Nebulas studio album of course, with occasional encore performances by
Slacktone Live in Prague, The Tuberider compilation on Anubis, The Bambi
Molesters first album, The Dynotones Super Six (Dblcrown Music Club) and The
Penetrators Locked and Loaded.
My answers:
1. Oddly, surf. I only started playing 16 months ago!
2. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog (Elvis 45 in a vintage music store).
3. Jimmy Page, Ted Nugent, Eddie Van Halen, Johnny Winter, Roger Waters.
4. 1970s surf movies, esp. Endless Summer & an obsure skateboard film
called Skater Dater. Also, Pulp Fiction.
5. The Mermen.
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5a. What's on your turntable??
Satan's Pilgrims s/t on red vinyl; Fathoms Overboard on light blue vinyl; Space
Cossacks Interstellar Stomp on clear vinyl (with bonus track!!)
For 45s, The Hypnotic IV's new one (purple vinyl), The Krontjong Devils
Sizzlin' Saipan (gold vinyl) and the Swedish pressing of "Underwater" by The
Frogmen on green vinyl. Also getting recent spins were Hit the Jet Stream with
The Penetrators, Intoxicating Sounds of The Boss Martians, Slacktone's Daytona
Mona, and of course The Fathoms/Space Cossacks split 7." is never far away.
tfbnafadj
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Neal
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: RE: [SurfGuitar101] Amuse Me...5 Questions for the List
Okay, this is fun, I'll bite (thanks Gavin):
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
I remember getting back from "walking rows" (similiar to detassling...its a
Midwest ritual that all teenagers here go through as their first job), just
being exhausted and lying in a bean bag chair watching MTV. This was when
MTV played music back in the day (early 80's). I was always into music. An
Aldo Nova video came on, the one with the cheesy helicopter/rescue mission
thing (Life is Just a Fantasy?). I remember watching him play his Les Paul
doing power chords and I thought that just perhaps I could do that too. It
looked like fun. So I wanted to RAWK baby!!!
>
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
I think it was probably a Kiss record. Maybe Destroyer. I had a bunch of
Kiss stuff, an Alice Cooper 45, and AC/DC's Dirty Deeds (Hey Ivan...another
eerie similiarity!) on tape.
>
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
> players, etc..?
The first real musical epiphany for me was Led Zeppelin II. My best friend
at the time enrolled in one of those "ensnare the unwitting teenager" record
clubs and got a bunch of Zeppelin and Who stuff. Led Zeppelin was it for me.
My early favorites were Zeppelin, The Who, and Rush. Later, Pink Floyd, Blue
Oyster Cult, and Black Sabbath. Later I went into my metal phase in late
high school: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, The Scorpions, Dio, Rainbow, Deep
Purple, etc. In college I got into metal deeper: Slayer, Anthrax, Metallica,
etc. Heros: Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Alex & Geddy & Neil (We almost named
our first born Alex Geddy Neal - lucky for him we didn't), John Entwistle.
>
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
>
Hearing The Raybeats cover Link Wray's "Jack The Ripper" late one night on
college radio while delivering pizzas had a profound impact on me. I still
haven't recovered from that one. Man or Astro-Man? was the real killer
though. I became obsessed and then starting collecting bands they covered
which led to Dick Dale, The Ventures, etc. I also bought some Los
Straitjackets early on, and I think I even bought The Space Cossacks first
one on a lark based upon Ferenc's review at his Pop Mart.
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
Right now its the For a Few Guitars More comp, Satan's Pilgrims, the first
Fathoms CD (MAN-O-MAN does that kick ASS), The Nebulas, The Penetrators, The
Volcanos (they don't get enough mention on the lists), The Woodies (thanks
again Ferenc), and The Ghastly Ones.
BN
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Hi,
Okay, I roll in aswell ;)
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
Haha, a good one. I was 17 and totally into the Sex pistols, the
Exploited and ofcourse the Dead Kennedys!
So a broke, bended sqaused my fingers until I could play this stuff on
my real bad all black Square Fat strat.
( I never, ever listened to the Exploited again after I turned 18, I
wonder why?)
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
>
Must be something really bad from the eighties I guess, I think it was
a Simple Minds album...(I wish It was something better)
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers,
bass
> players, etc..?
Jimi Hendrix for sure, all my guitar playing friends were into Henderix,
except a friend who played bass was totally devoted to Zappa.
> I still get a good laugh thinking how we tried to do things like
Voodoo Child and never ever succeeded...
Later on the guy's from Slayer,Anthrax, DRI, Suicidal Tendencies and
other heavy stuff....
Nowadays I mostly try to figure out how Dave Wronski does that amazing
guitar playing.
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
That must be East Bay Ray's guitar playing with the dead Kennedys, much
more melodic then all the other Punk Bands I knew.
So a friend of mine gave me a Man Or Astro Man? album, I think it was
"Project Infinity" So I immediately went to the store and bought more of
their stuff. And as Brain wrote already they were also the key for me
into The Ventures, and all other Surf and Instro Bands
>
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
>
Tough one, It must be an execo between "Nebula One" from the Nebulas and
"Go bay go" from the Hypnotic IV.
And also "Journey to the Stars" from the Ventures (a French? Ventures
Compulation) Aslo "Surf 'n' Burn" from the Blue Stingrays, "Let there be
Surf" from the Incredible Sucking Spungees ( a great Belgian Surf Insto
band with a superb drummer, Oh I like the way he plays the drums like
the early surf drummers influenced by Swing Jazz, such a sweet drum
rolls, so not loud as hell)
And a various artist compulation with lots of The Surfaris, Belairs,and
other great surf bands.
1. When you first started playing an instrument, what
type of musicdid you imagine yourself playing?
I was born in 1965. My Dad had tons of Duane Eddy,
Ventures, Dick Dale records. When I got my first guitar (a
Hohner Japan model Telecaster-copy and a 70's silverface
fender champ) I think the first two songs I learned were
the "Batman Theme" and "Surf Beat" by Dick Dale. That was
in 1979. I learned a Ramones song "Teenage Lobotomy" about
then and Devo's "Mongoloid" about that time ,too.
2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you
remember buying?
I bought Wire's first record, the Clash "London Calling",
and the Who's "Odds and Sods", and "Who's Next". They were
all LPs. I bought Jimi Hendix "Are You Experienced" and ZZ
top's "Duguello" on 8-track at the swap meet for about 25
cents.
3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods,
drummers, bass players, etc..?
As a teen: I liked the Who (Keith Moon, Pete Townshend,
John Enwistle). I thought they were the epitome as far as
musicians go!
I always liked Dick Dale's music.
Wire and the Clash were both cool.
As a little kid (like 6,7,8,9,10), I really liked the
Ventures and I totally dug my Grandma's Desi Arnaz 78's.
The first song I remember listening to on the radio was
"Pipeline" by the Chantays. I totally dug that song.
Also "Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs. I would freak
out if I heard those tunes on KRLA or K-EARTH 101. I was
like 3 or 4 years old...that was before they landed on the
moon!
I remember the B-52s "Rock Lobster" changed my life! Cool
surfing Mosrite guitar line.
4. What turned you on to surf music?
Dude, I was born into it. Went to Huntington beach as a
little tyke. My Dad sang Beach Boys crap, and totally
listened to surf. Dad talked a lot about the Rendevous
Ballroom days.
5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
Slacktone: Dave Wronski is my new guitar god!
The Blue Hawaiians: dude, they broke up :(
Desi Arnaz: yeah, I'm obsessed with Babalu.
Shadowy Men From a Shadowy Planet
Space Cossacks
The Cowabunga Box Set
The Minutemen, Double Nickles on the Dime: I miss d. boone
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A little late responding to this one, but it's been one of those weeks . . .
anyway, here we go:
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> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
Hmmmm . . . I'm really not sure about that one - like Dano, I stared at the
back legs of the music teacher behind my snare drum at the age of 8. That
really didn't go anywhere, although my Dad had a set of bongos (this was the
mid-'60's) which were pretty cool to play . . . I didn't pick up a guitar
until I was 16, put it down right before college, and only picked it up
again in earnest about three or four years ago.
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
The first record I bought was "Hawaii 5-0" ("book 'em, Dano!) by the
Ventures - I think it was actually the album cover that attracted me (if
you've seen it, you know what I mean). The tunes were cool, too.
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers, bass
> players, etc..?
At the time I started playing, I was mostly listening to the late '60's
stuff - Hendrix, Cream, etc. Also had an odd penchant for some Ritchie
Blackmore stuff, with a lot of Ted Nugent thrown in (yes, I actually saw him
swing on a rope on stage in his loincloth . . .). In the late '70's - early
'80's, along came that punk stuff (hey, who remembers "New Wave" music?),
and I dug a lot of that. Listened to a lot of X - I got into Billy Zoom's
playing, and took a detour into his rockabilly stuff, and then other
original rockabillys. Scotty Moore was always a favorite.
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
As the Ventures LP attests, I've always liked surf stuff, or anything with a
hint of twang to it. As a kid I would listen to that 50kW Top 40 powerhouse
in Philadelphia, WFIL. Every now and then you would hear Pipeline, Wipeout,
or some other surf tune of the day during the Summer. In college I picked a
two record set of the Ventures "Greatest Hits" . . . the surf bug didn't
bite again until many years later, when I was in a record store and heard
The Ghastly Ones CD. I stopped dead in my tracks and asked the clerk "Who
is THAT???!!!!??". I picked that CD up, and later followed with "Surf n'
Burn" by The Blue Stingrays, some Huevos Rancheros stuff, Phono-Comb's
release, and anything else I could get my hands on locally. This was
pre-Internet days, so finding stuff out here in Western MA was a bit tricky
. . . after Internet access began, the floodgates let loose! It took almost
30 years, but I finally found the music I had been searching for - surf just
feels right! Interesting parallel story: after we saw "Skater Dater" in
5th grade at school (it was a little dated by that point), I was so stoked
that I started skateboarding - immediately! This which ultimately led to
wakeboarding . . . and then snowboarding . . . and some day, (I hope)
surfing.
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
These days, it's been "Go Boy Go!" by the Hypnotic IV, the "Toes on the
Nose" comp, the Fathoms "Overboard", a generous dose of Satan's Pilgrim's,
and as it's been for almost a year, "Nebula One" (that darn CD must be stuck
in the CD player, or something).
-Dick
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OK - now that I know Dave Wronski is listening, I'll chime in...
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
Ventures - we lusted after the Strat and Jazzmaster on the cover of
"The Colorful Ventures"
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
I was born in 1953. The first record I ever actually bought (went up
to the man behind the counter and handed him money) was Telstar by the
Tornados. I think the second was Pipeline by the Chantays or it could
have been Wipe Out. These were 45's and cost between 79 and 98 cents.
I still have them. Albums were between 3.49 and 3.98 with stereo
costing a buck more. I know I got a few Ventures albums for birthday
presents and such in the early 60's.(We had the 45 of Walk, Don't Run
in the house and that was the one that REALLY did it to me, but my
older sister bought it.)
> 3. Who were your earliest influences i.e. guitar gods, drummers,
bass
> players, etc..?
Nokie Edwards and whoever else might have been playing lead for The
Ventures in 1960-63, Chet Atkins, Howard Roberts, Thelonius Monk,
James Burton with Ricky Nelson, Duane Eddy, Ray Charles, Johnny and
The Hurricanes (they sound pretty lame now), Joey Dee and the
Starlighters (was that Jimi on "Peppermint Twist"?) and The Beach Boys
(heard Carl play Miserlou way before I even heard of Dick Dale)
my current Guitar God (and composer) is Dave Wronski
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
The Ventures
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
Mambo Sinuendo - the Ry Cooder project with Manuel Galban
> 1. When you first started playing an instrument, what type of music
> did you imagine yourself playing?
Why, rock'n'roll of course. Short, fast and to the point.
> 2. What was the first record (CD, Tape, Etc.) you remember buying?
Who's Next I believe.
> 3. Who were your earliest influences?
The Who, Queen at the beginning and the Clash.
> 4. What turned you on to surf music?
The Shadows. They were a bit before my time but I had heard them on
the radio in Europe. When I moved to L.A. in the early 80's I heard
Jim Dunfrund's Surfwave radio show and thought "What is this? All
these bands are trying to sound like the Shadows..." ;-)
> 5. What's getting the most play in your CD Player?
System of A Down/Toxicity, Bad Religion/All Ages, Slacktone/Into The
Blue Sparkle, Nebula One, Blink182/Take Off, a French Morricone
compilation, The SumpPumpMonkeys/Destroy The Waves, Penetrators/Locked
and Loaded and The Essential Johnny Cash.
Bo
