Instrumental Surf Music - Origins to the Present Day

Surf from the depths - guitarist Vitaly Yakushin is a Ukrainian refugee currently living in Germany

originally posted by: underpass61

Edgy and fun at the same time. Not afraid of melody and tradition but not married to it. I like it. The song titles alone show creative promise lol.

a reply to: The GUT
One of the coolest and most fun bands of the first wave! From neighboring Long Beach CA with shaved heads and a distinctive sound

While not purely surf, Mexico City's Matorralman use very surfy-sounding guitars to spice up their swingin' tunes

A particularly messy version of "Bombora" by Dexter Romweber - I like it!

a reply to: underpass61

I disagree here. Yes, they did rely upon those harmonies and it was those harmonies that allowed them to emerge from the ''pure surf'' scene and into pop culture. And that popularity in pop culture went along way to providing space for surf music to exist at all. Without the Beach boys, it would have been complete dismissal to the dust bin for that genre. That is to say that without the Beachboys and the others that made it into the pop culture like Jan and Dean and Dick Dale there would have been no future market for any of the ensuing bands listed throughout this great thread. And that is to say that without the BEachboys this thread would never ha e existed at all.

The real problem with the Beachboys was that those harmonies did not hold up in live concerts at all. it all sounded like drunk catterewalling.

But you do have it right in your assessment of what killed the market for surf music. The Beatles. Surf music, with the Beach boys in the lead had finally swept to nationally dominating charts t. As the Beach boys were planning to take it to the world with international concerts, the Beatles landed in New York and deflated the years of growth that had gone into developing the market for surf.

Edit.

Nah, I take most of that back. There is enough good music in this tread to totally negate much of my disagreement. Again, wonderful thread.

When i was in high school we had a substitute band teacher for a week, She was the aunt of one of the members of the Surfaris and had given her a promo record to get some feed back from her students. What should be A side and what should be B side. We all agreed that Wipeout held some promise but that Surfer Joe was a complete waste. Boy we we wrong about Joe.

Thanks for "droppin' in" Terry. Yeah my comments about the Beach Boys were totally tongue-in-cheek, they had a vision (well at least Brian did) and made their mark - "Pet Sounds" often gets compared to Sgt Pepper. Still their teenage instrumentals were right in there with the rest and best of the crowd. Please add any tunes I might have missed, every contribution is appreciated