:oops: I was just surfing some guitar instrumental music links and found one nice Japanese guitar music site, great pic of old Yamaha SG guitar there :wink:
I´m just wondering if readers of this forum know some terms or words in different languages that would be "nice to know" when finding info bout old bands and records and music. :oops: So here is the question about instrumental guitar music style (some pioneers of this style you can name are bands like The Ventures, The Chantays, The Shadows, The Astronauts, The Spotnicks and so on, there are hundreds of bands):
In english this music style is named "surf" or "instrumental", in japan it is "eleki" music, in finnish language it is called "rautalanka" ("steel wire" or thereabouts). Do you know any more keywords in different languages???
:D surf is it bro,
i grew up surfing, skateboarding, bmx'n ,and listening to a lot of music.
get dick dales greatest hits. i've met and party'd w/ a lot of cool famous musicians and surfers. a few punk bands also use this style of playing.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH,
don't forget....the mermen !!!!!
http://www.mermen.net/reviews.shtml
they kill.
peace,
- tom
:D :D :D
I used to do psychedelic lightshows for the Mermen!
WHAT AN AWESOME BAND!
Anybody who likes psychedelic surf rock, even just a little, should run (not walk) out and get some of their stuff. A great one is "Food for Other Fish". One track in particular "The Pull of the Moon" is nothing short of epic in my eyes. It's the perfect tune to test your new 5,000 watt amp at full tilt boogie :twisted: . I never saw SRV live, but Jim's tone on pull of the moon just absolutely devistated any guitar tone I had heard previously. SRV sounds flat and lifeless in comparison.
Another cool instrumental band I would urge folks to check out is the Japanese girl group "Angel 'in Heavy Syrup"; esp. the first two albums! I heard them and I was instantly in love! Not surf, but jaw-dropping in any case. 8)
Take care,
-Peter
Quote from: Peter Snowberg:D :D :D
I used to do psychedelic lightshows for the Mermen!
WHAT AN AWESOME BAND!
Anybody who likes psychedelic surf rock, even just a little, should run (not walk) out and get some of their stuff. A great one is "Food for Other Fish". One track in particular "The Pull of the Moon" is nothing short of epic in my eyes. It's the perfect tune to test your new 5,000 watt amp at full tilt boogie :twisted: . I never saw SRV live, but Jim's tone on pull of the moon just absolutely devistated any guitar tone I had heard previously. SRV sounds flat and lifeless in comparison.
Another cool instrumental band I would urge folks to check out is the Japanese girl group "Angel 'in Heavy Syrup"; esp. the first two albums! I heard them and I was instantly in love! Not surf, but jaw-dropping in any case. 8)
Take care,
-Peter
i've seen SRV open for jeff beck. after srv played i was blown away, then i turned to my wife and said" i don't know how but jeff beck would be better and make it so. well, jeff killed and so did srv . the croud was amazed by both masters.
but , yes the mermen kill.
peace,
- tom
Sorry for that hijacking Nasse. :)
Another term that you might find useful although not specifically for guitar music would be "ambient", from the French word for environment.
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno did two albums that fall into this category, with heavily processed guitar. I would recommend either or both.
Take care,
-Peter
Ahhhhhhhh! The Yammy SG! I'm telling you from experience. The Yammy SG is a much better product than the Gibby SG!!!!!!! I took note from the fact that Santana had a big fondness of Yammy SGs in the 70s and hunted down a Yammy SG. I found a solid black 1979 Yamaha SGB200(the lawsuit model). The better quality blew me away. And well hell you can't beat the price. Shopping for an SG? Just buy the Yammy SG! Then use the money you saved to buy some killer after market PUPS say Fralins or whoever. The double cutaway horns on the Yammy are alot less obstructive than the Gibby SG. Depends on how you play. I like the little bit more openess of the Yammy horns. The body is thicker also which I like. It feels more like a guitar than the hardwood flooring feel I get from an Gibby SG. Apparently good enough to piss Gibson off! :D
Of course though you have the Gibby crowd that will scoff and get angry at the thought of Yammy SG being better. You know that if you throw a Gibson guitar out on water it won't sink! If you hold it and walk out on a lake you can actually walk on water. I'll never buy a Gibby! And yes I've seen and played a many Gibby SGs in stores. The Yam just seems to be put together better and nicer price. The neck is thinner! I like that! :D
(http://www.msato.net/Guitars/img/sg57.gif)
:lol: Not the sg later model, which is great short scale humbucker equipped nice playing and sounding that Carlos S used to use, nice Les Paul type gtr. But the pic is from late sixties, I wonder if it has "short scale" like gibson, but mics are single coils and weak. I once had some kind of semi-acoustic Yammy SG short scale like gibsons and mustang but it had bolt-on neck and was nothing like those newer SG:s. Actually I butchered it, used the body for a rockabilly axe for a guy who is dead now (too much rock and roll life), but I have the neck and tuning machine gear left. :lol:
Thanks everybody, I totally have missed that Mermen band (and II and III invasion of instrumental guitar music, maybe buy some records some day, must follow the links. But I agree Jimi, SRV and great surf/eleki instrumentalists have much common, like thick strings and five springs in their strat tremolo, and big tone. And some tape echo, excluded Ventures, they never use echo.
(http://www.msato.net/Guitars/img/sg57.gif)
Over here this guitar is known as the "flying samurai"
These lunatics are surf inspired:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/ram/wmixilegendry.ram
(legendary stardust cowboy)
Aren't Laika and the Cosmonauts supposed to be a surf band?
And who could forget everyone's favourite Lucha Libre theme band: Los Straitjackets!