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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:25 pm
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Just heard the theme form Hawaii Five O - man..........I am going to have to work on that one. Is that considered "surf music"?

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I think it qualifies as surf. The Blue Hawaiians did a slowed-down jazzy version called "Martini Five-O." I play it every night on my Jazzmaster. 8)

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Although it didn't start out as surf music, there were likely several circumstances that helped push it into that genre. First is the setting of Hawaii Five-0...considered to be the birthplace of surfing. Then The Ventures did a cover of it, and although they maintain that they're not a surf band, several of their songs are well covered within the surf music community. That they showed scenes of people surfing, during the opening credits of the show, probably also helped give the song a nudge from being simply a TV theme song, to bona fide surf song.

Here's an example of a surf band performing "Hawaii Five-O" - The Cocktail Preachers from Chicago.

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Notice the 'punk rock night' banner in the background, and their all dressed up like east bay ray of the kennedys. :shock:

Good band non the less.

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8) 8) Ride the wild surf, BABEEEE!! 8) 8)

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It doesn't get any better than this, literally gives me chills every time I watch it! Love those horns, such a fat sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRiPcZuCTg4

I had the chance to see him in 1998 and it was by far one of the best concerts I ever saw. Such high energy!

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While I have to admit that I don't know if the Hawaii Five-O theme was originally intended as "surf music", I think that it's safe to say that it has become a standard. Certainly this tune would fit in with any surf band's repertoire. One of my long time goals and dreams as a musician and guitar player has been to put together a "Beach Revival Group"...I've always been a huge fan of The Beach Boys, The Ventures, Jan & Dean, Ronny and the Daytona's, etc...personally I can't see doing that without including tunes such as "Wipeout", "Little Duece Coupe", "Walk Don't Run" and of course the theme from Hawaii Five-O.

BTW...many thanks to Surfabilly and tomk62 for providing those wonderful links! Two great examples of how this tune can be done from vastly different perspectives. Great stuff in both cases!

Anyways, whether it was intended that way or not, "dat's what it is man". Book 'em Dano!

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Great tune!

Another good tune on the guitar is the Benny Hill theme. As well as the Munster's theme. I'll play those at shows sometimes as filler stuff for certain crowds. Fun stuff...


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Agree; the Blue Hawaiians' "Martini Five-O" is in this picker's ears, much hipper than the 'theme from a cop show' traditional version.


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dgonz wrote:
Great tune!

Another good tune on the guitar is the Benny Hill theme. As well as the Munster's theme. I'll play those at shows sometimes as filler stuff for certain crowds. Fun stuff...


Chet Atkins "Yakety Axe." And the original Boots Randolph "Yakety Sax."

Los Straightjackets "Munsters Theme."

I don't even have a band, and only play to the walls, but I'll agree with your "fun stuff...for the crowds" sentiment. I've seen The Cocktail Preachers twice, and the second time they played "Hawaii Five-0" amongst their set of original surf tunes. Some surf bands will play lesser known 1st wave surf tunes, but for some weird reason it seems that most audiences are looking to hear tunes they can recognize. Who knows...maybe by the time I get a surf band together, I'll have managed to learn all of "the songs a surf guitar player must have in their repertoire." :D

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tomk62 wrote:
It doesn't get any better than this, literally gives me chills every time I watch it! Love those horns, such a fat sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRiPcZuCTg4

I had the chance to see him in 1998 and it was by far one of the best concerts I ever saw. Such high energy!



Whew - that was a great version of a great song! thanks for sharing.........

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Surfabilly wrote:
Although it didn't start out as surf music, there were likely several circumstances that helped push it into that genre. First is the setting of Hawaii Five-0...considered to be the birthplace of surfing. Then The Ventures did a cover of it, and although they maintain that they're not a surf band, several of their songs are well covered within the surf music community. That they showed scenes of people surfing, during the opening credits of the show, probably also helped give the song a nudge from being simply a TV theme song, to bona fide surf song.

Here's an example of a surf band performing "Hawaii Five-O" - The Cocktail Preachers from Chicago.

Matt


When I think of Surf music, I think of arrangements with no horn section. Still, if you play surf guitar you need to have it in your repetoire. I used to have the Ventures' single. It was just 1:58 long, short even for the golden age of AM radio.


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Steve, a bunch of traditional early surf music had / has alto sax.

And some (Chantays' "Pipeline") had piano.

And some had combo organs.


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Steve, a bunch of traditional early surf music had / has alto sax.

And some (Chantays' "Pipeline") had piano.

And some had combo organs.


I know that's absolutely true about keyboards. "Pipeline" had that electric piano part in it (I really like EP, if I didn't play guitar I think I'd tackle a Rhodes), and sax was popular back in the day and I'm sure there are surf tunes with sax, but I can't think of one at the moment.

Somewhere I have an unfinished surf tune. I need to get that done!


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The band I'm playing with now, does a lot music by the Ventures. It's done just for the fun of it. Give me a chance to really use that strat surf sound.

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