I’m calling it, surf guitar music is gonna make a comeback! Jack Johnson can take a seat and relax. It’s time to turn up the volume and party hard to some serious surf guitar sounds.
Since Dick Dale ‘The King of Surf Guitar’ sadly passed away in March 2019, there’s been an uprising of great surf guitar bands ready to fill the void.
Surf guitar music is up-tempo, instrumental, electric guitar led, with waves of ‘wet’ reverb and lots of vibrato arm pulling. Remember the opening credits to Pulp Fiction? That’s surf guitar music.
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In the early 1960s, bands like The Venturas, The Chantays and The Bel Airs pioneered an instrumental rock and roll sound that mimicked the waves and fueled a growing surf culture. But Dick Dale and the Del-tones are perhaps the most enduring, due in no small part to Dick Dale’s version of ‘Misirlou’ from 1962 being introduced to a new generation through Pulp Fiction.
In fact he was born Richard Anthony Monsour in 1937. His father’s parents were immigrants from Lebanon and Dale’s uncle taught him how to play the derbakkeh (a middle-eastern hour-glass shaped hand drum). They played together at an annual Lebanese festival in Boston, which is probably where they came across Anton “Tony” Abdelahad’s rendition of the traditional mediterranean song Misirlou.
Another unique factor of surf guitar music was the volume. Dale blew up over 50 amps, used 60 gauge guitar strings and made people’s ears bleed (Kerrang). He became an official tester for Leo Fender and helped create the first-ever 100-watt guitar amp. Leo Fender was quoted as saying “
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Today just about every surf guitar kit includes Fender style guitars with single coil pickups, huge Fender amps and a tube-driven Fender reverb unit.
Surfquake are East Anglia’s original and finest Surf Guitar band. This fun & upbeat 4-piece Surf Rock Band, will get you shakin’ around to the infectious surf beat before you can say WIPE OUT! Together now for over 9 years Surfquake perform familiar hit tunes and songs from the halcyon days of surf-guitar and well known classic TV & film themes, plus some original retro style numbers. Read all about these psychedelic surf rockers on their Surfquake website.
The Secret Spot surf band is a three-piece band from Bournemouth, South England consisting of Uri, Mike and Howard. When they’re not surfing the south coast’s swells, you’ll find them belting out sixties surf sounds in beach bars and other good music venues. Pay them a visit and you can expect reverb, pounding drums and surfing guitar solos with the backdrop of cult surf movies. Get to know the band better and check out their next event on Facebook.
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Pointbreak is a Dublin surf rock band, born in the autumn of 2014. Their live show is a raucous blend of soaking wet, twangy Fender guitars, screaming sax and a pulsating rhythm on the drums that gets everybody up and dancing. Playing a mix of sixties surf rock tunes, more contemporary surf tunes, original tunes and a bit of nonsense means you’ll never get bored watching these guys playing live. Find out more on Pointbreak’s Facebook pages.
This four piece superjazz band have teamed up with well respected jazz musician Anton Goudsmit to create a new album Go Surfing, out now! Whilst the waves are far from guaranteed in this part of Europe, you can guarantee up tempo, high energy, surf sounds if you listen to their album or go to a gig. Currently on tour across The Netherlands, Germany and beyond. Find out dates, venues and more on the BRUUT! Facebook page.
Agent Octopus are a group of seasoned Surf/Instro lovers who live, tour and record on the Atlantic coast of America. The band is a merry collection of former members from Maryland’s Reverb Galaxy, Mojito and Commander Nitro, with current Atom Bumz drummer Lew Bobbit. They also have a new album out ‘Blue Eyed Surf’ available on Bandcamp.
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Outerwave is one of the hottest instrumental surf rock bands in Southern California. They’ve been playing reverb drenched surf rock and classic sixties surf tunes since 2004. OuterWave plays surf music the way it was meant to be played, without digital effects and with plenty of wet dripping reverb, staying true to the original surf music. Find out where Outerwave are playing next on Facebook.
Not strictly a surf guitar band, in fact they’re not even loosely a surf band, but this is too good to miss:
If you know and love a local surf guitar band that’s not mentioned above, please give them a shout out in the comments below.
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In all seriousness, I’m also a Jack Johnson fan. In fact there’s a whole load of awesome surfers creating amazing music, you can find a few in my ‘music by surfers for surfers‘ collection.The best surf music is high-octane rock ‘n’ roll, full of energy and invention. With bright, lead guitars, big stomping rhythms, and (often) a healthy dose of stunning harmonies, surf music became a highly visible genre in the late 50s and early 60s. Composed largely of California-based groups, the great surf music songs of this period came to cement an image of California in the world’s mind: Big surfboards, endless sun, and endless fun. It’s also a genre of music that you instantly know when you hear it, courtesy of spring reverb. Once The Beatles landed in New York, the original wave of surf music that we’re focusing on here began to decline in popularity, but the classics that were created back then are still beloved today.
One note before we begin: We’ve chosen one track per artist, just so that we could include as many different artists as possible! So, without further ado, dive into our list of the best surf rock of all-time. The water’s fine!
Richie Polodor was the session guitarist on Sandy Nelson’s “Let There Be Drums, ” and enjoyed a successful career as producer of Three Dog Night, The Monkees, Steppenwolf, and Alice Cooper. But in the early sixties, Richie dropped his surname, using his middle name Allen in its place, and recorded two surf-themed albums (
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There are many candidates that lay a claim to being the first surf rock record – and “Moon Dawg!” by California’s The Gamblers has as strong a claim as any. Featuring Bruce Johnston on guitar and Sandy Nelson on drums, the track soon became a staple of every surf band’s set, with cover version by The Ventures, Tornadoes, and The Beach Boys, among many others.
This English quartet were largely responsible for bringing the surf rock sound to the UK, with this 1960 hit becoming their signature song. After hearing The Shadows’ single, drenched in atmospheric echo, Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann took it to #2 on the Hot 100 in the States, stealing the UK band’s thunder.
Hailing from San Luis Obispo, roughly equidistant from San Francisco and Los Angeles, The Revels scored a surf rock classic in 1960 with the instro “Church Key.” But there’s nothing religious about the inspiration for this number. A ‘church key’ was a gadget used to open beer cans – you can hear one in action on this single, which was an early staple of many surf groups.
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A Woodie was a station wagon with wooden body work – and you could get a lot of surf boards in the back, as many surf and hot rod songs testify. Hot Rod was surf music’s twin brother – stylistically almost identical, but with titles or lyrics about cars rather than boards. This Gary Usher-produced 1963 single bridges both camps.
Beach Boy Carl Wilson introduced The Sunrays to his father and erstwhile Beach Boys manager, Murry Wilson. The sun-drenched ode to the California lifestyle “I Live For The Sun” suggested that Murry could fulfill his dream of repeating the success of his sons’ band, as it broke the Hot 100. Their success may have ultimately been fleeting, but this remains a vintage piece of West Coast sunshine pop.
With so many musicians, so many recordings and so many bands being formed and disbanded all the time, it’s impossible to keep track of all the great early surf rock records. A group of students at the University of Southern California, little is known about The Fabulous Playboys, although we do know that the Cheaters referred to in the title of this 1962 single were a South Bay car club. It’s a great example of what made this period so exciting.
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While surf music unsurprisingly celebrated the sport popularized in southern California, it also reflected other characteristics of life for young Americans at the dawn of the 60s, which naturally included songs about cars and bikes – such as the latest offering from the Honda company. So enamored with the Honda was producer Gary Usher, who created The Hondells, that the band’s first album was called
By 1963, surf music’s popularity saw artists and labels far and wide looking to hitch a ride on its wave. Chicago’s Checker Records may have been a long way from the surf, but they saw legendary blues guitarist Bo Diddley’s influence on
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