
1978, pour combler l'ennui sur leur île, les Australiens pratiquent le surf. Et si l'on en croit Johnny Kannis , il en est le roi... Son morceau "King of surf" est une tuerie, un massacre... tendance attaque de requin. Une track faite pour les amoureux de la planche, des kangourous, du bikini échancré et des koalas. Et ne soyez pas etonnés si ce morceau ne vous semble pas inconnu puisque nos petits surfeurs Français, les Cavaliers (Born Bad Records), l'ont réadapté dans la langue de Molière. [MP3] [...]

Happy Halloween everybody! Here's a fantastic Halloween mix by the Rev. Frost. Head over to http://bloodymixes.blogspot.co m/ for LOADS more... Rev. Frost Pesents... A Bloody Halloween Mix (Part 6) Tracklist: 1. Dick Dale – Death Tube (Halloween 2006 Mix) 2. The Duponts - Screamin' Ball (At Dracula Hall) 3. Tyrone 'A' Saurus And His Cro Magnons - The Monster Twist 4. The Copycats - The Abominable Snowman 5. Johnny Fulller - Haunted House 6. Carl Stalling - The Skeleton Dance [...]

Primus: The Devil Went Down To Georgia [ purchase ] Danny Barnes: Sympathy For the Devil [ purchase ] Dick Dale and his Del-Tones : Ring of Fire [ purchase ] Hayseed Dixie: Hells Bells Hayseed Dixie: Highway to Hell [...]
Apologies for not posting this sooner. My two-year-old daughter went into daycare two weeks ago and apparently the first lesson they teach the youngins is how to turn into a human petri dish. Ye gods. From Sunday evening through Friday morning I had trouble forming coherent sentences. Damn punk kids, stay outta my immune system! Anyway, in Part 1 I discussed the origins of Bo Diddley, placing him on the sanctified church > R&B > rock 'n' roll continuum. For Part 2, I want to focus on his influence, but in [...]

I guess I should have posted this last Monday, since The Duchess had just flown home from said city. But then, The Vikings did play them yesterday , even if they only played the first half. Okkervil River ~ Kanasa City Pinetop Perkins ~ Kansas City Bonus: Dick Dale ~ Kansas City Which song do you dig best? Or did I leave out your favorite "Kansas City" song? Leave a hullabaloo. Use some of you 25 FREE [...]

Yes, I could have picked a more sensible picture to use for this post, but why would I want to? Since the 1960s and to this day, Dick Dale has been the pretty much undisputed "King Of The Surf Guitar", a title which he wears with some pride. One of the first electric guitarists to experiment with reverb and to expand its use in rock music, he would combine this with an extremely fast style of staccato picking and much heavier strings than most guitarists ever use to become one of the pioneers of Surf music and one of the [...]

Most people today know " Misirlou " (often spelled "Miserlou") as Dick Dale 's signature piece, extremely popular back when issued in 1961 and then again when used to great effect in Pulp Fiction in 1994. (Whippersnappers might know it better from The Black Eyed Peas sampling Dale's version in a song last year.) But "Misirlou" is an old folk song, its origins obscure. We can guess where it came from by the range of people who know it today: it can be heard at celebrations of Greeks, Turks, Arabs, or Jews. The [...]