I read the Spectro Pop site is recommending this highly. And the author, Stephen J. McParland, has been a prolific historian of the subject of Surf-, hotrod-, Skateboard-, Motorbike and related early to mid 60s musical styles since 1979, when he started his California Music magazine, from Australia.
read more about this book here.
Check out CMusic books while we’re at it!
stolen telecaster style guitar, photo by Chuck Kelley
A guitar belonging to David Nowlen was stolen from his son’s apartment in Los Angeles on July 29. The guitar is a Jonathan Rose Tele with serial #57 stamped on the neckplate and “Rose” on the headstock. It’s been signed by James Burton, Duane Eddy and many others.
Nowlen, pictured here with the guitar, is a longtime friend of Brian Wilson and was a member of “The Survivors” – a group produced by Brian consisting of himself, his roommate Bob Norberg, their next door neighbor Nowlen, and Rich Alarian. Their single “Pamela Jean/After The Game” was released by Capitol Records in January of 1964.The person suspected of taking the guitar lives in Alabama, so the hot guitar is probably somewhere between here (L.A.) and there. If you have a message for Dave about the whereabouts of the guitar, email me at chuck@luxuriamusic.com and I’ll forward your message to him.
From Tiki Events mailing list:
Will The Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess to Host
World’s Largest B-Movie Beach Party
The town of Franklin approved using an entire parking lot for my show with THE MOON-RAYS that Saturday night – they will fill it with sand, put up a screen and we’ll have a Drive-In Beach Party smack in the middle of Indiana!
And get the double thrill-bill I chose: Elvis’s 1965 romp Girl Happy and Roger Corman’s 1957 creature feature Attack of The Crab Monsters! What links these 2 films, besides the obvious VD inference? They’re both set on the beach! Monica and I will finally be able to dance to the “Thrillville” theme as performed live by the Moon-Rays, too! Complete details below…cheers, Will
Franklin Indiana will be hosting the Second Annual B Movie Celebration September 26th thru 28th, 2008. We are asking for your help to get the word out. The Celebration will feature screenings of over 50 classic B movies, 20 Educational seminars and the World’s Largest Beach Party, featuring the music of The Moon-Rays. And we really need your help getting the word out.
visit bmoviecelebration.com
Otto von Stroheim writes:
There is a HUGE Surf weekend event happening this weekend
All the details are listed below but if you don’t want to read all that boring text you can just check out the poster here:
https://surfguitar101.com/hosted/SG101convention2.jpg
If you have questions please contact Jeff at:
bigtikidude (at) yahoo (dot) comSurf Guitar 101 Convention
Suzy’s Bar and Grill
1141 Aviation Blvd. (at Prospect)
Hermosa Beach, California
Noon to 5 or 7 pm, separate night show is 8 pm to midnight
a Swap Meet of surf music (cds, lp’s 45s -new used), and instrument/gear
shirts, posters, hats etc. if you have surf swag/merch to sell bring it, grab a free table and sell away.
Major Vendors will be.
Double Crown Records,
Dionysus Records,
Golly Gee Records
Gomez Amplification
Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum
John Blair with his re-issue of The 80’s album Stampede on CDw bonus trx
Machturtle Productions, and many surf bands cds.
plus many other bands members will be there selling their cds.
and there will be 1 table with Tiki magazine and other tiki related stuff
if you get tired of the Surf stuff.**but Please save enough Money for the Night show, and their Merch. they need money too, as some of them are coming from The Mid West and
Nor. Cal.and multi media presentations,
Dominic Priore’s Assistant Brian from the Dumb Angel Gazette and Surf Pop Culture Books, will have some of their books and mags.showing surf music clips from the 60’s and a slide show of historic pictures.
and Possibly have the Original Surfaris Sufari LP for sale.(Lmited qtys)
There will be a short trailer of the ‘Sound of Surf’ music documentary that is in production now, and they may be doing interviews at this event for the film.
Paul Johnson will be having the premier of the Pounding Surf! DVD
plus historic stories and footage from the 60’s surf scene.
plus all of the different cds he has for sale.and Surf Show
4 Bands
The Boardwalkers, (LA)
Outterwave, (LA)
The Aquasonics, (Colorado)
Secret Samurai, (San Diego)ALSO just added a short 4 song Eliminators set,
4 songs of Eddie Bertrand with the Eliminators,
and a 30 min Slacktone set.
Surf Jam/ (sign up list to join will be posted soon)many songs,
you play a Standard along with a Live backing band
here is the Link to the Tread with the list of songs to choose to play with Outterwave.
this list will be close soon, so join in now.
https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/6038/?page=1#81631and get together/meet and greet
I am still talking to people about coming to it, and being involved.
But I wanted to Officially announce when it will be.Later that night.
The Madeira from Mid west, Pollo Del Mar from Nor. Cal., Insect Surfers and Detonators are playing 8 pm till Midnight.
also
On Sun. Aug 3rd at the Huntington Beach Pier, 11 am to 5 pm will be.
The Fabulous Nomads, The Relix, Aquasonics from Colorado, Pollo Del Mar,
The Madeira , and The Surftones, Feat. Matt Q from Reventlos, and Kerry Chester ex of DD’s 80s band.I Figured it would be best to announce it asap, as I know the sooner the better, for arranging for airfare and sleeping and car accommodations.
There is also a San Diego show with Pollo Del Mar,Madeira,Secret Samurai, and Zombie Surf Camp, on the Fri. nite. Aug 1st. If anybody would like to go down there to get an early st
Von der Pressestelle des DWV:
Unter der Schirmherrschaft der beiden deutschen Top-Surferinnen und ROXYRiderinnen Sonni Hönscheid und Carla Twelkemeier und in Kooperation mit dem DWV findet in diesem Sommer am 16. August der Girls Go Surfing Day in Hossegor statt. Der Event wird ein Tag von Girlz für Girlz sein.
Alle urlaubenden, deutschen Girlz zwischen Bordeaux und Biarritz sind herzlich eingeladen, einen Tag am Meer zu verleben:
Los geht´s morgens um 10 Uhr. Geladen werden die Girls ins Roxy / Quiksilver-Haus nach Hossegor, wo neben Surfers Breakfast und Kennenlern-Runde ein prall gefülltes Goodybag auf jede wartet!Nach dem Surfers Breakfast geht es weiter mit entspannendem Yoga, um sich geschmeidig und gut aufgewärmt von Sonni und Carla coachen zu lassen. Surfclinics,erste Mannöver und eine kurze Einführung ins Wettkampfsurfen bieten die Grundlage für den späteren ausgefahrenen kleinen Funcontest. In lockerer Atmosphäre wollen wir versuchen mehr Mädchen für’s Wettkampfsurfen zu gewinnen und zu begeistern.
Wer Lust hat, kann sich beim Beachvolleyball austoben oder an einem professionellen Fotoshooting teilnehmen.
Nach ausgiebiger Beachaction mit Fotoshooting geht es dann gegen frühen Abend zurück zum Roxy-Haus, wo ein BBQ die müden Mädels wieder munter macht. Ob der Abend mit chilligen Tunes oder animierenden Beats ausklingt, bleibt den Mädels bei der Ladies Night selbst überlassen.
Sicherlich werden nicht nur viele nette Bekanntschaften, sondern auch unvergleichbare Momente zurückbleiben.
Anmelden könnt Ihr Euch unter jan.groenendijk@surf-dwv.de.
Fotos: Roxy Europe / Michael Ison / Meike Reijerman
Weitere Informationen gibt es im Internet unter .
Eure Ansprechpartner sind
Stefan Schieb, Mobil: +49 178 524 37 88, und
Birgit Axler, Mobil: +49 163 252 63 45,
Mail: pr@surf-dwv.com, die Pressesprecher des DWV.
Lushy at Wassermusik 08, Berlin, Germany
Yesterday was a little calmer, starting with Coconami (I somehow missed snapping a picture of them, sorry!) who used to be in the Tiki Tiki Bambooos, a Surf band from Munich, they now are a Ukulele duo, with mostly female vocals. This has to remind me of Petty Booka, if just by the sound of two ukes and japanese ladies singing. Maybe a smaller venue would benefit their delicate presentation more, but on the other hand Wassermusik successfully aims at presenting a wide range of music styles.
Lushy – the most contemporary sounding act in the Tiki series of events at least, if not the entire set of Wassermusik events. It’s hard to compare Seattle and Berlin for me. However I can say that there is an artificial element, not unlike in the B-52s for example. Like a yellow plastic Tiki mask at Trader Vic’s, they stuck out of the set of Wassermusik performers by having said cartoonish lounge approach coupled with some electronics. I think this could be a really groovy thing, but probably working best with a dancing party crowd in a small club.
I had written a nice text about how I was introduced to The New Dimensions in the 80s. But I lost it trying out the new “Press This” feature of this blog software. It boiled down to the essence that any surf music fan worth his salt has to know this great teenage band from 1962.
Michael Lloyd, lead guitar; Jimmy Greenspoon, piano; Art Guy, drums, Danny Belsky, saxes; David Doud, bass; and Craig Nuttycombe, rhythm guitar.
The band never had any singles released. We worked with these hustler types by the name of Robert Hafner and Tony Hilder. They had a deal with a tiny budget label called Sutton to issue the New Dimension albums as ‘rack jobs.’ Essentially that meant their records would be pressed on cheap vinyl normally reserved for placemats, packaged in fairly generic sleeves, and shipped directly to the cut out bins with no hope of promotion, airplay, or royalties. We had three studio albums, ‘Surf ‘N Bongos’, ‘Soul’, and ‘Deuces & Eights’. We were part of a live album from the Santa Monica surf fair titled ‘Shake! Shout and Soul!’
Read the interview here.
I really enjoyed Boom Pam. The Klezmer influence has been displayed by Meshugga Beach Party from San Francisco, but they don’t have a tuba like Boom Pam has! A very enjoyable set, really, really good players, too.
I’ve seen the Bambi Molesters a couple of years ago when they still toured and had the other bassplayer. You can’t escape the dense atmosphere they create and have a really great guitar sound while doing so. They choose fitting covers and have written many beautiful originals. I don’t recall them playing so much on the edge of distortion like yesterday. The albums sure sounded cleaner, but it worked well with the audience the way they did it now.
Messer Chups from St. Petersburg had great melodies and were a sight to see. Notice the Betty Page lookalike bassplayer! I don’t think I heard them play one major chord, which is radical, while lacking the concept of contrast to keep things interesting… BUT they had a collection of snippets from b-movie videos as a stage backdrop, which put those sexploitation and horror flicks to good use.
La Popuna from Brazil mixed very varied influences, from latin american and caribbean dance music to punk, some surf and what not. Very entertaining, but demanding on several visitors of this event.
I recently became aware of this blog through a plug-in Jon developed, and was amazed by a similarly huge Doo-Wop playlist. When I left a comment there, he mentioned the possibility of a Surf playlist and here it is. You will find the player to listen to it right on his blog article and all the tracks are listed. Awesome!
Back To The Beach: The Surf PlaylistThe Dyers.org fake surf album It’s summertime, and all the surfers and hodads are once again sharing that sandy divide between land and sea. No matter which side of the divide you’re on, there’s nothing like some reverb soaked surf-strumentals to make that grey cubicle feel more like a day at the beach.
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Back To The Beach: The Surf Playlist – Jon Dyer’s Blog