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Gavin:
I agree with your assessment of the links between Kennedy
assasination/Vietnam and the shift in popular culture. I
was born in 1965, so I got to watch Neil Armstrong land on
the moon...but by then it was all over. My Dad was just a
kid who grew up in Orange County CA...graduated in 1961,
rode his 10ft. Hobie down at Huntington, and watched a
crapload DDs Rendevous shows. In our house, our little
turntable spun Ventures records and Surfers Choice and
early Beach Boys and Chubby Checker and all that kind of
stuff...
...that's why I am stuck for life in a reverberated
memory-dream that sounds eerily like Santo and Johnie's
Sleepwalk played with more twang inside the rushing body
surf tube at The Wedge.
I waited my whole life for SurfGuitar 101...it's my
calling...even if I'm just the neighborhood goober twanging
away in the garage on a Saturday afternoon.
reverberatedly-
DP
--- Gavin Ehringer <> wrote:
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> Well, I feel pretty proud to have started this lively
> discussion, somewhere in the middle of
> the Hendrix rant. Anyway, now that we are on the subject
> of age...I am probably one of the
> only guys to be born during the first wave of surf
> 1962! Kennedy's death may have not
> made my radar in the crib, but I think it profoundly
> changed the psyche of the country.
> Surf, with it's relatively happy, bright sounds and
> carefree youthfulness wouldn't have
> survived long after Kennedy...with or without the British
> Invasion and the dawn of
> psychedelia and hard rock.
>
> That said, I think that is one aspect of the early first
> wave music that appeals to me. It has
> an innocence that comes of hanging out with high school
> friends, playing guitar and
> drums in a garage, and trying to score a six-pack and get
> some girls to go along to the
> beach. It's hard to be angry when that's your take on
> life. Vietnam put a stop to all that, as
> anyone who has seen "Big Wednesday" can attest.
>
> That said, I do appreciate the sophistication and
> complexity of later surf. I am a huge fan
> of The Mermen, and I really am glad this site turned me
> on to bands like Slacktone, The
> Bambi Molesters, Agent Orange, The Surf Coasters, Satan's
> Pilgrims, Laika & The
> Cosmonauts, and on and on. Getting older doesn't mean you
> can't keep growin', and I will
> be damned if I will stop listening to new music and turn
> into one of those middle-aged
> farts who listens to the same bands that were No. 1 in
> high school (Van Halen anyone?)
>
> I just started playing guitar seriously three years
> ago...I've started two bands and watched
> them both crash (why are so many musicians such flakes?)
> And I stand in front of my big
> ol' Fender amps everyday, stoked to play surf music.
>
> Thanks, guys and gals, for keeping this thing we all love
> alive and vital. Bend a few chords
> with your whammy bars for me!
>
> G
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