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What ia a stomp? Is it a dance, a surf beat, an event? Why is the
song "Surfers Stomp" a "stomp". Does it involve shoes, or do
you "stomp" on the beach?
Just a part of surf culture I an curious about.
- Bill M.
> What ia a stomp? Is it a dance, a surf beat, an event? Why is the
> song "Surfers Stomp" a "stomp". Does it involve shoes, or do
> you "stomp" on the beach?
>
> Just a part of surf culture I an curious about.
>
> - Bill M.
That's a good question Bill. It seems like you weren't a real 60's surf band
unless you had a song called <Insert Your Band Name Here>'s Stomp. The
Atlantics, in particular, had about 1000 stomp songs :) My favorite is
called SOS (Stomp on Stomp). And then there is Stompede, Tequilla Stomp,
Stomping Time, and lets not forget The Teddy Bear's Picnic Stomp (okay
lets). This is just the Atlantics, mind you. Other bands had a lot of "stomp
songs" too.
I'd love to hear the answer to this as well. I'll shoot Paul Johnson an
email on this one.
BN
(future composer of Surf Guitar 101 Stomp)
I always heard that it came from the peculiar dance performed by
surfers with a towel around their waste trying to take off a wet suit
at the beach and hopping up and down on one foot.
ferenc wrote:
> > What ia a stomp? Is it a dance, a surf beat, an event? Why is the
> > song "Surfers Stomp" a "stomp". Does it involve shoes, or do
> > you "stomp" on the beach?
> >
> > Just a part of surf culture I an curious about.
> >
> > - Bill M.
>
> That's a good question Bill. It seems like you weren't a real 60's surf band
> unless you had a song called <Insert Your Band Name Here>'s Stomp. The
> Atlantics, in particular, had about 1000 stomp songs :) My favorite is
> called SOS (Stomp on Stomp). And then there is Stompede, Tequilla Stomp,
> Stomping Time, and lets not forget The Teddy Bear's Picnic Stomp (okay
> lets). This is just the Atlantics, mind you. Other bands had a lot of "stomp
> songs" too.
>
> I'd love to hear the answer to this as well. I'll shoot Paul Johnson an
> email on this one.
>
> BN
> (future composer of Surf Guitar 101 Stomp)
>
>
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The late-50s/early 1960s were rife with dance crazes the
Monkey, the Frug, the Sway, The Stroll. The Stomp.
I looked up "60s Dance Crazes" and came up with some pretty
interesting dance titles the Lonestar Stomp (watch the cow
pies!), the Molecule A--Go-Go, the Bad Baboon. There was a Big
City Stomp, a Beatle Stomp (naturally), and The Surfer Stomp.
The Markett's had an album named "Surfer's Stomp," and if you
want to learn the dance, it's actually printed in the Torquay's tab
book "Surf Guitar."
The Cherokee Indians perform a Stomp dance, presumably the
earliest of Stomp-steps. In the Surfer's Stomp, you basically
alternate left and right, punctuating each turn with a stomp.
Wild! (Okay, it all sounds pretty lame now, but the kids at the
Balboa Ballroom musta loved it!)
Gavin
What ia a stomp? Is it a dance, a surf beat, an event? Why is the
> > song "Surfers Stomp" a "stomp". Does it involve shoes, or do
> > you "stomp" on the beach?
> >
> > Just a part of surf culture I an curious about.
> >
> > - Bill M.
Yeah, those were the days, my friend (but that's another song). The
twist, the monkey, the frug, the jerk, and lots of others I can't
even remember. Everybody tried to invent a new "dance craze". The
Ventures recorded one called the "Twomp", a mix of twist and stomp.
Never heard of it? Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, not many people
did. It was a rare vocal by the V-guys, and it wasn't real good.
Except as an example of why they made it as an instrumental band.
Greg
Hi,
This reminds me of a song recorded by the Belgain instro band "Fifty
Foot Combo" called "Hully Gully Stomp"
The song starts with an obscure movie fragment that goes like this;
"Now Attention everybody, we are gonna roll back the carpet and have and
old fashined monster shidney, so all you card garried monsters grab a
ghoulfriend and get ready do a twist, a surf, a wild one tuisi a fruit
or a swinging hully gully"
-Jerry S.
My guess...
shidney = shindig
card garried = card-carryin'
one tuisi = watusi
fruit = frug
--
Malcolm (by another name)
with the Witness Protection Program
Jon Blair of Jon & The Nightriders wrote the following for the
Rhino Surf Box Collection:
"The first record to be nationally identified with the Southern
California surf culture was "Surfer's Stomp" by the Mar-Kets.
Much like Dick Dale's "Let's Go Trippin'," it capitalized on a dance
step that began with audiences at the Rendezvous
Ballroom...The sound and style of the tune were a far cry from
what Dick Dale & The Deltones were doing...(Producer) Joe
Saraceno recalled, "I was in a bar where everyone was doing a
dance I had never seen before. One of the girls said it was
called the surfer stomp. So, I wrote the song with that pattern in
mind."
--- In , "Jerry" <jerry.soetewey@b...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This reminds me of a song recorded by the Belgain instro
band "Fifty
> Foot Combo" called "Hully Gully Stomp"
> The song starts with an obscure movie fragment that goes like
this;
>
> "Now Attention everybody, we are gonna roll back the carpet and
have and
> old fashined monster shidney, so all you card garried monsters
grab a
> ghoulfriend and get ready do a twist, a surf, a wild one tuisi a
fruit
> or a swinging hully gully"
>
> -Jerry S.
I also believe the Sir Finks from Austin, Tx. sampled that clip
on "Instumentals in the Key of Boss." an awesome CD-P}}*
the same audio clip is on The Sir Finks CD
----- Original Message -----
From: Landlocked44
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Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Stomp?
--- In , "Jerry" <jerry.soetewey@b...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This reminds me of a song recorded by the Belgain instro
band "Fifty
> Foot Combo" called "Hully Gully Stomp"
> The song starts with an obscure movie fragment that goes like
this;
>
> "Now Attention everybody, we are gonna roll back the carpet and
have and
> old fashined monster shidney, so all you card garried monsters
grab a
> ghoulfriend and get ready do a twist, a surf, a wild one tuisi a
fruit
> or a swinging hully gully"
>
> -Jerry S.
I also believe the Sir Finks from Austin, Tx. sampled that clip
on "Instumentals in the Key of Boss." an awesome CD-P}}*
.
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I was very excited to get this from Paul Johnson (Belairs, et al) on the
origins of "The Stomp":
-----Original Message-----
Hi Brian -
At the earliest surf dances (summer of '61), not too many of the new young
surfers were very sophisticated when it came to dancing. I don't know just
how it got started, but somehow they took (en masse) to simply stomping
their feet heel-first on the floor - and the louder the better. Since most
of them wore huarachi sandals with big horseshoe taps, and since the dance
floors were usually wooden (and thus very resonant), a big part of the
appeal was to see how much noise they could make collectively. The pattern
was generally to stomp on every count of the measure (on one and two with
the right foot, then on three and four with the left); the cool look was to
do this slightly bent with hands joined behind the back. The dance floor
thus looked like a barnyard full of roosters strutting about. And the noise
all but drowned out the band.
The "stomp" fad peaked during that summer, and was succeeded by that other
noteworthy dance-style of the surfers, "Trippin'" (which may have been a
variation of the stomp, as it was similar). This dance required a bit more
skill: it entailed pulling one's feet backward and "scraping" (rather than
stompimng on) the floor. (Same pattern - right foot on one and two, left
foot on three and four...) When trippin', the cool look was to hold hands
together up in the air, from side to side opposite where the feet were doing
the scraping.
Hope that helps...
- pj
Paul Johnson
rock instrumentals
e-mail:
website:
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Thanks for tracking that down, Brian. Very cool of Paul to reply
and give us all the "I was there" perspective. Now, maybe you
could ask Dick Dale if he was the one who first did The Stomp
and Trippin' ;)
Gavin
--- In , "Brian Neal" <
bneal@i...> wrote:
> I was very excited to get this from Paul Johnson (Belairs, et al)
on the
> origins of "The Stomp":
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi Brian -
>
> At the earliest surf dances (summer of '61), not too many of the
new young
> surfers were very sophisticated when it came to dancing. I
don't know just
> how it got started, but somehow they took (en masse) to
simply stomping
> their feet heel-first on the floor - and the louder the better. Since
most
> of them wore huarachi sandals with big horseshoe taps, and
since the dance
> floors were usually wooden (and thus very resonant), a big part
of the
> appeal was to see how much noise they could make
collectively. The pattern
> was generally to stomp on every count of the measure (on one
and two with
> the right foot, then on three and four with the left); the cool look
was to
> do this slightly bent with hands joined behind the back. The
dance floor
> thus looked like a barnyard full of roosters strutting about. And
the noise
> all but drowned out the band.
>
> The "stomp" fad peaked during that summer, and was
succeeded by that other
> noteworthy dance-style of the surfers, "Trippin'" (which may
have been a
> variation of the stomp, as it was similar). This dance required
a bit more
> skill: it entailed pulling one's feet backward and "scraping"
(rather than
> stompimng on) the floor. (Same pattern - right foot on one and
two, left
> foot on three and four...) When trippin', the cool look was to
hold hands
> together up in the air, from side to side opposite where the feet
were doing
> the scraping.
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> - pj
>
> Paul Johnson
> rock instrumentals
>
> e-mail: paul@p...
> website:
> event calendar:
