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I need to know: is it okay to sit in a chair and play surf music?
Q: What town do surf musicians live in?
A: Dickdale.
Ha! Get it?
Q: What town do surf musicians live in?
A: Dickdale.
Ha! Get it?
So let me get this straight, you, a random internet guy did some research to conclude that one style of music is better than the other. When can we expect your thesis?????
Historically, it would be a Jazz Bass, preferably a 1960 model. A Precision, Mosrite, or Dano Long Horn will do in a pinch, but NO GIBSONS!(before the arguing starts, The Ventures were not strictly a 'surf' band, used Fenders on their earliest recordings and did not take possession of their namesake Mosrites until sometime in 1963. Add to that the fact that, while they were accomplished players and not a bunch of teenage garage band hacks, they were constantly on the road, but their record label managed to crank out a lot of product, so what you might be hearing on some of their albums/singles is Tommy Tedesco playing a Telecaster, but Joe Osborn thumping a J or Carol with a P).
After carefully analyzing and studying the two for quite awhile now...there is absolutely no doubt that crunchy peanut butter is better than creamy in any form....
Agree with your second point, but my exhaustive facebook and reddit research on peanut butter and PB-related topics leaves me 100% certain that crunchy is the way to go.
Try to stay on topic.
This is serious.
This is serious.
I'd go more for a surfboard bass:
Same skewed humbucker neck p'up as the Mosrite, but the proper look.
I agree completely.
But which came first...crunchy or creamy?
Is peanut butter the Godfather of Nutella?
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SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
If you look in the Wiki definition of Punk Rock (and people seem to use Wiki as THE reference around here) at one point it claims that punk/garage was formed and played by people who had very little actual music talent but wanted to make some noise.
So of course there were no rules in Punk because they weren't doing anything that required rules or musical knowledge. It seems they were simply channeling their aggressive tendencies into
a pretentious pseudo musical entity.
I had a drum set when I was ten. At that time I knew nothing about drumming. But I'd get in there and trash-thump away on it in some kind of heavenly nirvana.
To me it was awesome. To everybody else it was shyte and annoying.
I now realize I was playing Punk without even knowing it. And know there's also the genre known as "Noise"...which categorizes my ten year old drumplaying perfectly.
However you couldn't say the same about Dick Dale's surf music. There is structure and rules in his music galore.
So of course there were no rules in Punk because they weren't doing anything that required rules or musical knowledge. It seems they were simply channeling their aggressive tendencies into
a pretentious pseudo musical entity.
I had a drum set when I was ten. At that time I knew nothing about drumming. But I'd get in there and trash-thump away on it in some kind of heavenly nirvana.
To me it was awesome. To everybody else it was shyte and annoying.
I now realize I was playing Punk without even knowing it. And know there's also the genre known as "Noise"...which categorizes my ten year old drumplaying perfectly.
However you couldn't say the same about Dick Dale's surf music. There is structure and rules in his music galore.
