I heard i small bit of surf music today being played at my dads music store.... i thought it was pretty cool and now i want to learn some of it (yes im aware it can be very simple).... so i was wondering, what are some songs and such i should check out?

Thanks in advance.

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Wipeout by The Ventures

thanks for replies.... also, what are effects (if any) that i should be using? obviously i wont need flangers and things like that but what about delay and echoes and things like that?

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Dick Dale! Nothing simple about his playing though...

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that was quite odd

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Lots of reverb (for that "wet" sound) and hit the strings hard. Some nice and easy stuff to learn would be Apache by the Shadows and of course Pipeline.

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MIM Std Tele, MIM HSS Strat, Homemade Mongrel Tele, Blues Jr, Champ600, coupla pedals...sweeeet!

Drench it in reverb, and then as an option some slapback delay. One repeat right on the heels of the attack


Dick Dale and the Ventures are a given. then there are a ton of options. a lot of people seem to love the Beach Boys (I am not one of them,) then there is Jan and Dean.

But some essential tracks are :
Wipeout by the Surfaris
Pipeline by the Chantays
Miserlou by Dick Dale

Any beach boys tune will give you what they were about.

jan and Dean Surf City and Deadman's Curve.

more into the modern era look for groups like The Halibuts, the Penetrators, Man or Astroman, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Shadowy Men From a shadowy Planet. For surf punk see if you can find The Forbidden Dimension, Their album 'The Sin Gallery' is a great starting point.

There's many other acts but these should help get your feet wet.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

i dont care for the beach boys either.... i like the reverb and trem drenched, dark-ish sounding stuff

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

The tone is simple enough. Reverb to 10 and a Strat. The bridge pickup works well most of the time. A lot of surf is easy once you get the hang of it, but as someone already mentioned there's nothing simple about Dick Dale. It'll make your fingers have nightmares.

Check out Walk Don't Run (the song and the album) by the Ventures and Peter Gunn by Dick Dale.

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Girl drink drunk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_H_sVNgvf4

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The best example of a modern band who does
"Surf Music" style is Los Straitjackets.
http://www.straitjackets.com/index.html
These guys are very cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IScIQsfO ... re=related

...oh, and Floyd The Barber, this one's for you, kid-o...enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Q4GhoW ... re=related

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Pete Curry was the bassist of the Halibuts (who I mentioned earleir,) before he joined Los Straitjackets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25vLgTbQ ... re=related

also check out Tiesco Del Ray playing a Guit-organ here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmgjiUTFs3w

The Penetrators:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_AZ1iFp ... re=channel

The Forbidden Dimension:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gjEQUU2QC8

If you can get ahold of a copy on ebay or somewhere try find the compilation called Secret Agent S.O.U.N.D.S. It's like a gateway album for surf rock.

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here you go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYdRz-EOFk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRe1Qeyb ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6 ... re=related

these are all covered by the Ventures for a better guitar sound check those out

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Nice subject you brought up because I feel surf music is all but forgotten, I was watching Pulp Fiction the other night for the 50th time and the soundtrack is just slamming. Well most of the forum has pointed you in the direction to go. I would just say make sure you work on your right hand tremolo picking as those picks will be melting fast especially going into Dick Dale waters.

Ah, Grasshopper, you come to find true guitar-holiness in learning surf guitar. Welcome, Seeker.

If you can find it, "The Surf Box" is an outstanding 4-disc history of surf music and some surfing songs (with lyrics) from '60 to the late 90s.

Go to Starbuck's and get their own label CD of surf guitar, not bad at all for a collection, and "Unto The Resplendant" on the disc is absolutely amazing modern outer-space-surf.

"Surf Monsters and Legends" is a fine collection which includes some cacaophonous modern slam-surf.

Mesuggah Beach Party does Jewish folks songs and some others to surf beat and style (Miserlou is middle-eastern) and are a true gas to listen to.

Of course, the Ventures' "Surfing" album, it's an immortal.

If you can find it, "The Endless Summer" 1965 Sandals soundtrack album is magnificent. The reunion album of the same title is not awful, considering the band is near 40 years older.

Cowabunga, Hodads and Honeys.