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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:38 pm
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I got the music for the Munsters theme in like my second-ever guitar lesson, and discovered that it sounds really good using the G-Dec setting "The Fifties". I had no idea it had so much cred!

And then Walk Don't Run was the first whole song I learned. I'm well on my way to fronting my own surf band, and didn't even realize...

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We had a Surf music thread on here not long ago. I was surprised at how many guitarists on here were in to Surf music. Even I was young when it disappeared from AM radio . . . and that's saying something.

Does anyone remember when AM radio played popular music? :roll:


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Yup.

WLS 890 in Chicago, Top 40, news, weather and sports.


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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:04 pm
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JSJH wrote:
Yup.

WLS 890 in Chicago, Top 40, news, weather and sports.


As a boy growing up in southern New England I would listen to my radio late at night especially during summer vacations to see how many far away stations I could pick up. I heard quite a few from the Midwest including WLS, WOWO, and CKLW.


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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:28 pm
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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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Geez, check out that rhythm Player. Effortlessly Barres a C chord on the middle of those fast changes..

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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...


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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Chet Atkins!!! Sometimes we gotta be reminded the best guitar player in the world was a soft spoken Country Boy.

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FirstMeasure wrote:
Surfabilly wrote:
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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Chet Atkins!!! Sometimes we gotta be reminded the best guitar player in the world was a soft spoken Country Boy.
The thing i hate(love) about Chet was the way he would play these ridiculously slick laser quick riffs, perfectly clean and he looked so darn effortless.

Clapton was a demigod at best compared to the magnificence of Chet.

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JSJH wrote:
Yup.

WLS 890 in Chicago, Top 40, news, weather and sports.


Yeah, I grew up with WLS in the 70's, listening to John 'Records' Landecker's evening show practically every weekday night. Even my local 'Top 40' FM station at the time couldn't touch it, and this was back in the day of AOR (Album Oriented Rock). It figures that it's Talk Radio now. Same thing happened to KVOO 1170 out of Tulsa, BIG AM station for country for decades (ask any trucker), now it's nothing but talk since 2002.

AM used to have a place for music. So did FM, but I think that's slipping away as well, now FM only seems to be background noise to drive from Point A to Point B to. Satellite radio is all well and good, but I think it's very difficult to get attached to something (satellite radio) that you have to subscribe to, but that you only listen to when you're bored and/or driving. And being spoilt for choice with modern satellite radio doesn't always help, either.


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my first actual ( actual meaning we got paid money and not sandwiches or pizza for playing) band, two guitars and drummer, played all instrumental surf with ventures material dominating the set '62-'63. by late '63 the beatles were here and vocals bumped the surf songs off the set also changed drummers and replaced a guitar player with keyboards.

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