If you haven't seen it, I recommend the video of "Surfing' Bird"; it can be found on YouTube. As you say, it is the Midwest so there are no waves and so no there is no surfing, (not even sidewalk surfing), to be seen - only a cool-looking guy in a suit(!) doing a wild and crazy dance. And what a trip! Since you mention it, I think that "I Get Around" b/w "Don't Worry Baby" may be the best two-sided hit 45. And I'll throw out a sentimental nod to "Little Sidewalk Surfer Girl" by the Hondells, which didn't make the Top 100 but, boy, she was every Vancouver teen surfer-wannabe's dream. And Jack Nitzsche's "The Lonely Surfer": where you went when someone else stole away the LSSGirl. Different jams than the MC5.
Wow. I did not expect to see the Forgotten Rebels on this list. I worked road crew for a conference for all the staff who booked bands for Canadian universities and colleges in 1985. The Forgotten Rebels were one of the bands (i believe bands paid to be there). Mickey De Sadist warned his audience, he might be the person to pull a fun on them and shoot. I believe they closed their 30 minute set with "Surfing On Heroin".
It's a little too long and a little too slow - or maybe that's on purpose, since both reflect winters in northeast Ohio - but "There's No Surf in Cleveland" by the Euclid Beach Band expressed a Nowheresville Midwesterner's take on surf music as well as anything. "No surf, no surf - we don't care" is defiant, or disgusted, or both. This was a source of local pride back when Cleveland was the butt of every lazy comedian's jokes.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend the video of "Surfing' Bird"; it can be found on YouTube. As you say, it is the Midwest so there are no waves and so no there is no surfing, (not even sidewalk surfing), to be seen - only a cool-looking guy in a suit(!) doing a wild and crazy dance. And what a trip! Since you mention it, I think that "I Get Around" b/w "Don't Worry Baby" may be the best two-sided hit 45. And I'll throw out a sentimental nod to "Little Sidewalk Surfer Girl" by the Hondells, which didn't make the Top 100 but, boy, she was every Vancouver teen surfer-wannabe's dream. And Jack Nitzsche's "The Lonely Surfer": where you went when someone else stole away the LSSGirl. Different jams than the MC5.
Wow. I did not expect to see the Forgotten Rebels on this list. I worked road crew for a conference for all the staff who booked bands for Canadian universities and colleges in 1985. The Forgotten Rebels were one of the bands (i believe bands paid to be there). Mickey De Sadist warned his audience, he might be the person to pull a fun on them and shoot. I believe they closed their 30 minute set with "Surfing On Heroin".
So good! Thanks for this. Here some of mine.https://open.substack.com/pub/professormikey/p/os66-monsters-of-the-surf-guitar?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It's a little too long and a little too slow - or maybe that's on purpose, since both reflect winters in northeast Ohio - but "There's No Surf in Cleveland" by the Euclid Beach Band expressed a Nowheresville Midwesterner's take on surf music as well as anything. "No surf, no surf - we don't care" is defiant, or disgusted, or both. This was a source of local pride back when Cleveland was the butt of every lazy comedian's jokes.
"Pipeline" belongs at #1
Can't argue. There's a magical moment when they shift to the end and you can hear the lightest tap on the snare to say, "This is it."
Don't forget "Surfer Angel," a great surf tune by Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps in the Eighties.
I didn't know it, but I guess if you look you'll find Peter everywhere. I love the way they quote "Pipeline" at the end.