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Surf Music Is Better Than Punk..

#101
I'm confused OP, are you talking about this kind of punk?

Or this?

Maybe this?

Or surely this...

Or maybe this, by arguably the most quintessential of punk bands:

Or this track off one of the most important punk albums of all time?!

Or if you're talking about this, I completely agree with you, but the sound of a fart echoing in a toilet is better than this, sooooo...
 
#102
I like a hybrid of the two myself. We once played with a band named, "Tsunami"...or something like that and they had an awesome Dick Dale meets the Ramones sound. I've been wanting to form a band with that vibe and heavy shot of rockabilly ever since.
 
#105
FerK said:
i don't care about a word in this entire thread until my question is answered: what is the best bass for Surf Music?
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That would be a Yamaha SBV Bass:

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#106
Jazz Ad said:
Here's your missing link.



Now imagine this with a full Marshall stack, double kick and Lemmy's voice over it.
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You can use that for any blues and rock n roll influenced genre. That's where Lemmy took his inspiration.

I think the x is the father/mother of genre, because lick z, sound a, structure b or whatever is used there is overused. Is Bob Dylan another father of heavy metal? I mean Hendrix, when he hit the US in Monterey covered "Like a Rolling Stone" and everybody knows Hendrix was harder in '67 than everybody else(I doubt that but, well..). Talking about Rolling Stone. Muddy Waters at New Port was already heavy hitting. It irritated people. He was there before Dylan. Is Muddy Waters responsible for brutal death metal? Imagine him with a Marshall full stack, same Riffs, but downtuned and played at 50bpm while the bassplayer uses a chapman stick playing weird progressive lines at 200bpm 32th notes and a growler, don't forget the growler. I can hear it.

Surf used what was there and added some extra flavour, as did genres before and after that.
 
#113
Lo-E said:
Both Link Wray and the Stooges were "punk" before anyone was calling it that, IMO. Categories get painted with such broad strokes and there's so much cross-pollination it's pretty hard to draw any clear lines of delineation, especially between any of the myriad tendrils of rock'n'roll. "Punk" has been used to describe dozens of genres of music, some only barely related. Rock'n'roll has also been countless different styles of music over time, as has R&B. They're just words.

"Punk was whatever we made it to be." -D. Boone
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This about sums it up for me. If Cobain called Nirvana punk, who am I to disagree? It took me a long time to learn he was right, and to just accept it. I used to "hate all" punk, but loved metal, rock, grunge, punk-rock etc like the Stooges, Minutemen, Fugazi, Nomeansno, fIREHOSE, and so on. Once I got over the words, I came to realize I don't hate all punk, I hate pop; especially the pop masquerading as radio punk.

Ever notice the "metal" band Melvins cover a lot of punk songs but next to no metal songs? /shrug

"Categories get painted with such broad strokes and there's so much cross-pollination it's pretty hard to draw any clear lines of delineation, especially between any of the myriad tendrils of rock'n'roll." <- Sig worthy my friend.

To OP: I think "better" is too subjective a term. I hate surfer music, except all sorts of it I do like; and I hate punk too, except all of the punk I like. I'll let you sort it out and label it if you need to. ;)
 

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