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Mitch, that is the only copy I've ever seen, and it's only a cover!
And I only have two instrumental tracks on mp3, our old bass player messed around with them last year and digitally enhanced them, but they're far from high fidelity, having been recorded on a 2-track machine, and a $12 mike in a church basement.
I think it was the now-legendary St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast gig bootleg.
I'll send you a CD with the album cover and the two tracks if you send me your address off list.
And I only have two instrumental tracks on mp3, our old bass player messed around with them last year and digitally enhanced them, but they're far from high fidelity, having been recorded on a 2-track machine, and a $12 mike in a church basement.
I think it was the now-legendary St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast gig bootleg.
I'll send you a CD with the album cover and the two tracks if you send me your address off list.
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Paul, cool story about Dick Dale. He is a monster "surf" player. Plus playing the guitar upside down just boggles my mind.
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Oh cool!Thanks alot!I love Surf Music.Here are some of my albums you guys might like.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/Surf.jpg
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Strangely Mitch no Ventures Surfing album on the photo. Here's a little tibit for you guys the "B"side of The Ventures Single 2The Ninth Wave" was called "Damaged Goods" and was used as the playout music to the top tv show over here in the sixties Ready Steady Go.
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As I look at all the examples of surf music here I am still trying to characterize this music. What are the key ingredients. Here are some, at least to my way of thinking.
1. For vocals three part harmonies at a minimum.
2. For instrumentals spring reverb usually on full
3. For lyrics meeting, loving and losing the love your life on a beach
4. Above all else cars rule
5. Seize the moment
1. For vocals three part harmonies at a minimum.
2. For instrumentals spring reverb usually on full
3. For lyrics meeting, loving and losing the love your life on a beach
4. Above all else cars rule
5. Seize the moment
Life, as with music, often requires one to let go of the melody and listen to the rhythm
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Mitch, don't you have a copy of "Jan and Dean Ride the Wild Surf with the Little Old Lady From Pasadena?"
And I'm not kidding, either.
The two vocal originals I penned for the Surfbards (featured on the album cover) were "The Summer Sun" (ballad) and "Makaha" (surfer's stomp). No recordings of these have surfaced, although the old bass player keeps threatening me that he is going to clean out his basement someday!
The Surfbards have a Yahoo! Group with 16 members, last time I looked. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1966surfbards
The two instrumentals are available for download from the Yahoo group.
And I'm not kidding, either.
The two vocal originals I penned for the Surfbards (featured on the album cover) were "The Summer Sun" (ballad) and "Makaha" (surfer's stomp). No recordings of these have surfaced, although the old bass player keeps threatening me that he is going to clean out his basement someday!
The Surfbards have a Yahoo! Group with 16 members, last time I looked. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1966surfbards
The two instrumentals are available for download from the Yahoo group.
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― Kurt Vonnegut
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this link will take you to the nearest we got to surf music. released in 1961 by a band called The Cougars the original version of this was by a guy called Tchaikovsky he called his version Swan lake this is the alternate version "Saturday Nite At The DuckPond" Enjoy.
this link will take you to the nearest we got to surf music. released in 1961 by a band called The Cougars the original version of this was by a guy called Tchaikovsky he called his version Swan lake this is the alternate version "Saturday Nite At The DuckPond" Enjoy.
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Roy: Thanks for this one. I really enjoyed it and find it to stand up to many of the Surf instrumentals of the day. It certaily fits the stereotype. I suspect that a different title might have got notice over here. Do you know when this second version was released?
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The track Saturday night etc was released in January 1963 though CD states 61 and made the top 40. They followed that with another Tchaikovsky adaptation his piano concerto number one they called it Red Square equally as good but no success their last single was the imaginatively titled caviare and chips
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Neither the tongue-in-cheek "Swan Lake" or "Saturday Nite At The Duck Pond" titles cut it for me Roy. With the ebb and flow of this composition and the mood of the track it sounds more to me like "In The Midnight Surf."
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