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Hi Richard!,
if you still want to get a band together; I found that a lot of
people, esp young musicians not in a band, actually would like to
play surf music, but dont respond 'because they don't have a clue
what surf is. A bit like you might really like yabbahodila ... if you
only knew what it was!
So, it might be an idea to compile your own faves cd, or what you
want to play, and give it to people around you to listen to and then
decide..... and even apart from whether your a surf music fan, surf
is really fun and interseting to play.
Anyway, that's how I first got my band of now-converted-to-the-holy-
surf together. give it a try.
wannes
--- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...>
wrote:
> Well, here in the much overrated college-music town of
> Athens, GA I got to see a little instro surf action
> last night. The band that's been on and off around
> here for as long as I've been here reformed (right at
> the time that I was trying to put a band
> together...figures) and played a date opening for some
> overhyped indie rock band. They're called The Curl,
> and the last time I saw them was a bit of a fairwell
> show because their bass player had to go to prison for
> something silly. But, they're back now.
>
> The last time I saw them wasn't very good...they used
> distortion pedals and the sound in the place wasn't
> good at all. Last night, however, was a great
> surprise. They had added a third guitarist, a Jaguar
> through a Twin Reverb; the first rythmn guy played a
> Gibson hollow body through some unidentifiable
> amplifier and the lead guitar player has what I think
> is a Framus Jaguar copy through a Vox amp. For being
> such a small amp, the Vox sounded really, really good,
> and the overall sound of everything was nice and
> clean, a welcome change from last time.
>
> They played a few standards, and a couple of songs
> that I knew but couldn't remember the names of (more
> well known obscure songs that I've heard billions of
> times but didn't bother to remember the names of, it
> always annoys me during the show) with a couple of
> originals that weren't too shabby either. The
> highlight of the show were two pop covers they did; an
> Annie Lenox song that I think is called "Talk To Me
> Like Lovers Do" and a cover of "The Metro" by Berlin.
> The Berlin cover was awesome and made me jealous that
> I hadn't thought of doing it first. Outside of a few
> flubs that probably nobody in the club but me noticed,
> it was a nice, tight set and my drummer friend was muy
> impressed with their drummer and went to get some
> pointers after the show.
>
> Anyway, it ain't much, but it's all I get around here.
> Even though these guys don't do exactly what I would
> do if I had my own band, there's enough overlap that
> I'm canning my band efforts for the time being. My
> last efforts got me a few phone calls from older guys
> that thought I wanted to do Beach Boys covers and an
> email from the leader guitar player of The Curl asking
> me contact him for a show if I got my thing together.
> Sigh...anyway, surf on.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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Hello, i recieved this e-mail upon just joining the surf guitar site. My name is
Ryan and i am currently in the middle of reheasals with a surf band im trying to
get together. Its a three piece and i have decent players but the problem is i
dont know dick dale about the genre. excuse the poor pun. If you could recommed
some artists, cds or places i could download some good surf from i would be
grateful. Also i would be interested in what kind of songs you play.
mono_tones_1 <> wrote:Hi Richard!,
if you still want to get a band together; I found that a lot of
people, esp young musicians not in a band, actually would like to
play surf music, but dont respond 'because they don't have a clue
what surf is. A bit like you might really like yabbahodila ... if you
only knew what it was!
So, it might be an idea to compile your own faves cd, or what you
want to play, and give it to people around you to listen to and then
decide..... and even apart from whether your a surf music fan, surf
is really fun and interseting to play.
Anyway, that's how I first got my band of now-converted-to-the-holy-
surf together. give it a try.
wannes
--- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...>
wrote:
> Well, here in the much overrated college-music town of
> Athens, GA I got to see a little instro surf action
> last night. The band that's been on and off around
> here for as long as I've been here reformed (right at
> the time that I was trying to put a band
> together...figures) and played a date opening for some
> overhyped indie rock band. They're called The Curl,
> and the last time I saw them was a bit of a fairwell
> show because their bass player had to go to prison for
> something silly. But, they're back now.
>
> The last time I saw them wasn't very good...they used
> distortion pedals and the sound in the place wasn't
> good at all. Last night, however, was a great
> surprise. They had added a third guitarist, a Jaguar
> through a Twin Reverb; the first rythmn guy played a
> Gibson hollow body through some unidentifiable
> amplifier and the lead guitar player has what I think
> is a Framus Jaguar copy through a Vox amp. For being
> such a small amp, the Vox sounded really, really good,
> and the overall sound of everything was nice and
> clean, a welcome change from last time.
>
> They played a few standards, and a couple of songs
> that I knew but couldn't remember the names of (more
> well known obscure songs that I've heard billions of
> times but didn't bother to remember the names of, it
> always annoys me during the show) with a couple of
> originals that weren't too shabby either. The
> highlight of the show were two pop covers they did; an
> Annie Lenox song that I think is called "Talk To Me
> Like Lovers Do" and a cover of "The Metro" by Berlin.
> The Berlin cover was awesome and made me jealous that
> I hadn't thought of doing it first. Outside of a few
> flubs that probably nobody in the club but me noticed,
> it was a nice, tight set and my drummer friend was muy
> impressed with their drummer and went to get some
> pointers after the show.
>
> Anyway, it ain't much, but it's all I get around here.
> Even though these guys don't do exactly what I would
> do if I had my own band, there's enough overlap that
> I'm canning my band efforts for the time being. My
> last efforts got me a few phone calls from older guys
> that thought I wanted to do Beach Boys covers and an
> email from the leader guitar player of The Curl asking
> me contact him for a show if I got my thing together.
> Sigh...anyway, surf on.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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