I just realized, tomorrow is the first day of summer. So, here's some surf stuff. The first are a couple by Dave Myers and the Surftones, a band that were big in Southern California, but pretty much Joe Blows everywhere else. Myers was a folkie hanging out at the Café Frankenstein in Laguna Beach, before ditching the sandals and daddy-o schtick and going electric. He embedded himself deep enough in the surf circuit to take over the prime slot at the Harmony Park Ballroom when the house band, Dick Dale and the Deltones, had a night off. You wouldn't know it by the two below, which are slow burns, but he was a bit of a showman, picking with his teeth and playing behind his head, you know the typical stuff that doesn't add a thing to the music, but makes people think you're hot shit.
The bonus here today is something I just ran into, the fruits of an unproductive Dave Myers search, one of those "just one more click" things when you're about ready to throw in the towel. (And, yes, I know you want to read about some asshole doing a web search.) I ran into a slew of great surf instrumental stuff at Big O. There's about forty in all, along with a couple period radio spots. There are a few things cool about this. It's all from vinyl, so you get your requisite pops, it's all individual mp3s so you can pick and choose, and most of it is pretty obscure. It's good, varied stuff, low on the hokum. Even you surf fiends should find something you haven't heard.
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Listen:Dave Myers and the Surftones - Aquavelva mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Dave Myers and the Surftones - Driftin' mp3 at Shark Thang
The mother lode:
Surfer's Mood - Forty plus songs, all at Big O Archive (Roio) Go there to get 'em.
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