IT’S THE END OF THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!!!
DAAAAAAANG! NOT QUITE LIVE BUT STILL ALIVE, I’M BRINGING THE LAST EPISODE OF THE MONTH AND MAYBE… FOREVER?? JUDGMENT DAY IS NIGH but that doesn’t mean the Surfphony is gonna stop coming to ya every single full moon!
PLAYLIST OK
The Astronauts – Firewater
The Nobles – Hiawartha
The Surfaris – Storm Surf
Long Boards – Tour De France
The Swanks – Ghost Train
Emanons – Stomper
The Pyramids – Contact (ya know, i’m not really sure if this is right…)
The Bel-Airs – Three Blind Mice Make it to Santa’s Village
Eddie & The Showmen – Far Away Places
The Ventures – Diamondhead
Takeshi Terauchi – Guitar in Tears
New Dimensions – Phantom Skiier
Nation Rockin’ Shadows – Anesthesia
ONE HELLUVA PLAYLIST FOR THE END OF THE WORLD if i do say so myself… ALRIGHT I FEEL LIKE.. talkin’ about The Ventures’ Diamond Head!
woooo I gotta say, Diamond Head has to be one of my favorite surf songs. If you were to ask me “DERK what is YOUR quintessential surf song?!” I would say Diamond Head. I’m not too keen on my music terminology but the riff is too wild and has a really chilly vibe what with all the REVERB WOOOOOOO!
Where does the name Diamond Head come from? It is the name of a volcano on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu! The name was given to the mighty volcano by 19th British Sailors who thought the calcite crystals were diamonds.
Diamond Head is also the name of a sweet HEAVY METAL band!
The Ventures got wicked big in Japan back in the early 1960’s. They even inspired the teenagers of Japan to form their own surf bands. The Surf genre went by another name, that being Eleki Boom. Two of Japan’s biggest Eleki Boom artists were Yuzo Kayama and Takeshi Terauchi. I brought some Yuzo Kayama trax to the Big Surf last month and you should def take a listen. I played some Takeshi on this show but ya know what, I play Takeshi Terauchi a lot haha… He has to be one of my favorite surf guitarists. He plays a real fast style ala Dick Dale and makes hella use of his whammy bar but also plays real clean riffs like the Ventures. SO HOW ABOUT THIS HOW ABOUT Yuzo Kayama… AND Takeshi Terauchi!! NO WAY
UH YEAH WAY!!! If ya feel like reading a bit more about the Eleki Boom era, dig this article on The Video Beat!