opps...The top 40 band were called the Rising Suns
Lee (covering my own boo boo Caused by brain damage)
--- In
Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "leetronhead" <surfbeach@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Yeah Tony...it was Jan and Dean...song was loosely based on Jan's
own
> experience in his sports car in So. Cal.
> It was Dean who sang the lead on Barbara Ann. (Wilson could't give
> him credit though...because he was not suppose to be crossing
record
> labels...he was at the party when the party lp was recorded.)
> My brother and I had a High School surf band in Vegas. We were on
of
> three real popular Friday night dance bands on the Vegas High
School
> circuit, the othere two being, the MIsty Souls (Stones Cover Band),
> and the Misty Souls (top 40 band)
> We were the Outcasts,
> To answer the other questions about brain damage or getting waqcked
> with a board... or do you need to be mentally stable to play in a
> surf band...yeah, I got hit by my own board a few times...and I
don't
> think I suffered any major brain damage,...if you will... excuse me
> for a moment,,,I need to answer some questions from those voices
> inside my head...and yeah Jonesally...it is chance there
> is "scientific correlation" and you hit the board right on the head.
> and bty...there is some tron violins on Dennis Wilson's Pacific
Ocean
> Blue.
> Well...gotta go hang 9...(Somehow, ...I lost one!!!)
> Lee '
> PS
> have one long board, and two shorter "fish" boards.
> Will probably go to Sandy beach today,,,waves are around 6-8 feet.
> Will probably listen to Al Jardine Live in Las Vegas ( with the
> Wilson Daughters, Billy Hinchie, and Jardiines Sons.
>
> Yeah...that all takes brain damage.
>
> --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "tony1" <ferrarimanatm1@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi people!
> > This is another off topic question, but that seems to be
tolerated,
> to a point.
> > Was it Jan and Dean who did "dead man's curve"?
> >
> > Tony
> > #510
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jerry Korb
> > To: MELLOTRONISTS-LIST
> > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 7:55 AM
> > Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: question/observation....Catching
the
> Wave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > jonesalley wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if there's any scientific correlation between having
> serious brain
> > damage and being successful as a performer in the surf-band
> genre...
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Greetings Gang, I too enjoyed those surf-beach-songs before
> > my Mellotronic awakening in late 1960's. Happily recalled the
> times
> > when swimming at the NJ shore or Lake Hopatcong to the music
> > of Beach Boys and Jan/Dean.
> >
> >
> > This carried-thru into 2004 when visiting San Diego.
> > I quietly hummed the tune "Surfin' USA" upon seeing the Pacific
> Ocean
> > first time ever at La Jolla beach. Thanks for the guided tour
> Frank!
> >
> >
> > Did anyone also consider (based upon Jon's statement above,
> > that some of these guys got whacked upside the head with a
> surfboard
> > when "Hanging-10 ?" Could be the reason. Lee , you're an
avid
> > surf-guy. Your thoughts on this ?
> >
> >
> > Cheers, -- JK (still looking for the itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny
> yellow
> > polka-dot bikini )
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >I grew up loving the Beach Boys and Jan&Dean.Brian Wilson
> wrote some
> > > songs for them.The music for Sidewalk Surfing was from a
> B.B.song Catch
> > > A Wave on the Surfer Girl lp.
> >
> > >
> > >> Did anyone here ever like Jan and Dean? I thought the had
> some good
> > >> lyrics. Remember "Dead Man's Curve?" Descriptive
writing...
> and
> > >> prophetic. Who could forget Little Old Lady From Pasadena?
> Or
> > >> "Sidewalk Surfin."
> >
> >
> >
> >
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