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Domenic Priore writes:

On Saturday @ 6, come by Stories Book Store, 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California (Echo Park, just South of Alvarado) to hear surf instrumental combo The Boardwalkers live and in person.

They’ll be playing between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Stories for a book event based around my new one with Brian Chidester, ‘Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom.’

Pop Surf Culture

Several television monitors around the shop will be screening a wide variety of pre-1970 surfing movies as background eye candy (and for Pop effect) as The Boardwalkers play, and we meet, greet and sign books.

For more information and a ton of groovy pics, check:
dumbangelmag.blogspot.com
Comments on the blog site, very much appreciated. No one previous has presented The Rendezvous like this. Thanks, folk, and hope to see you @ Stories…

I can’t resist any video with a 1960s style main title inspired animation like this one. Click to view the video of Doctor Legume.

quote from Facebook:

‘El Supersonico’ by Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks
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From Otto von Stroheim’s Tikievents list:

Book event for ‘Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom’ in Echo Park, L.A., Saturday, February 2st, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Stories book store.

Domenic Priore, Brian Chidester, and The Boardwalkers will appear at Stories books, cafe, goods (1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles – near the corner of Echo Park Boulevard) on Saturday, February 21st from 6 to 9 p.m. The event is to celebrate the release of the Chidester/Priore book ‘Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom’ (Santa Monica Press). The book traces surfing and Hawaiian music’s potent combo during early 20th Century Waikiki, directly to its landing on California shores, and their development into a true bohemian subculture by the late 1950s/early 1960s. Focus on Tiki, Surf instrumentals, Surf movies, Surf duds in the pre-1970 environment of Southern California is also offset by a look into Waikiki’s Lounge scene of the ’60s, and later revivals of Surf music during the punk/alt rock days as it mixed with Burlesque, Tiki culture and other things you are most likely a part of. So come down and have a ball, its FREE with live Surf instrumental music by The Boardwalkers and pre-1970 surfing movies projected throughout Stories’ book store. Again, the address is 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Phone: (213) 413-3733.

Here’s more info on the book Surf Pop Culture by Domenic Priore and Brian Chidester.

Crime

1. Lady in Cement
2. The Prisoner
3. Randall and Hopkirk Deceased
4. Duffy
5. Department S
6. The Saint
7. The Rockford files
8. La Polizia ordina: sparate a vista
9. The Avengers
10. The Baron
    
11. Columbo
12. Seven Golden Men
13. Cannon
14. Deadly Shots on Broadway
15. The Streets of San Francisco
16. Superargo

Comedy

1. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
2. My Favorite Martian
3. Pink Panther

Intermission

1. No matter what shape your stomach is in

Animation

1. Menace from the Bottom of the World
2. Stingray
3. Rod Scribner Opening for UPA shorts
4. ?????????? ED
5. Ghost A Go-Go

Exploitation

1. The Cool Ones
2. Sor Yeye
3. The Mariners
4. American Graffiti

Spy

1. Assassination
2. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
3. Gerak Kilat
4. Where the Spies Are
5. Spy Today Die Tomorrow
6. Spy in Your Eye
7. Some Girls Do
8. From the Orient with Fury
9. Master Stroke
10. Mission Bloody Mary

Adventure

1. Daktari
2. The High Chaparral
3. Der Schatz im Silbersee
4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
5. Robinson Crusoe

Romance

1. Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2. Arabesque
3. The Sandpiper

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Update:
I got it today, but could only read bits here and there so far.
My favorite quote currently is Johnny Bartlett saying:
“See, a lot of surf bands (in recent years) got it so wrong. It’s not just the guitar you use, or the sound you get, or the clothes you wear… it’s the whole package.”

I encourage anyone with an interest in Surf to buy it asap. It’s just epic.

Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom: Brian Chidester, Domenic Priore
This is going to be a must have book – just trust me. If you’ve read previous publications by the authors (like the latest Dumb Angel Magazine for example), you know they get deep into their subjects and have great sense for entertaining writing. They take you right there, with coolest people – connecting all the dots of southern california youth culture of the sixties.

link to Pop Surf Culture on Amazon for your pre-order. I am Amazon affiliated, which just means by using this link for a purchase you get a great book and support this blog at the same, for the same money. Why give it all to Amazon ;–?