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{{Useful Notes|wppage=Surf music}}
Surf Rock is what [[California]] sounds like.
Or, to be more specific: surf rock is a genre of [[Rock and Roll]] associated with [[Surfer Dude|surf culture]], which originated in [[The Sixties]] in Southern [[California]].
Surf rock comes in two flavours, instrumental and vocal. Both versions are centered around some common traits, such as electric guitars using "wet"-sounding spring reverb (''the'' central defining characteristic of surf music, arguably), vibrato and tremolo, driving rhythms, and in the case of vocal surf rock, doo-wop inspired vocal harmonies. While surf rock generally stuck to the guitar-bass-drums lineup and used some very specific guitar models (they loved the Fender, Mosrite, Teisco and Danelectro brands), there was occasional use of other instruments such as keyboards or saxophone. Notably, surf rock was one of the first genres to universally adopt the electric bass.
Dick Dale developed the surf sound from instrumental rock, where he added Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, a spring reverb, and the rapid alternate picking characteristics. His 1961 single "Let's Go Trippin'" essentially launched the genre.
Surf rock was incredibly popular between 1961-1965, the period from which originated its iconic songs such as "[[Older Than They Think|Misirlou]]", "Let's Go Trippin'", "Pipeline", "Wipe Out", "Surfin' USA", "Fun, Fun, Fun" and others. Another label applied to some of these bands, who played songs about fast cars rather than surfing, was "hot rod rock". The genre's popularity was effectively killed by [[The British Invasion]] starting in 1964, with the only group that survived being [[The Beach Boys]], who despite their association weren't really a '''Surf Rock''' band.
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* The Ziggens
* [[Sublime]] has a few surf rock songs, notably "Paddle Out"
* Meshuggah Beach Party, who have dedicated themselves to proving that traditional Jewish melodies work alarmingly well as '''Surf Rock''' -- which only makes sense, given the genre's roots in Middle-Eastern music.
* The Reverb Syndicate, whose first album was in the style of a spy movie soundtrack - bringing "spy movie music" back to its roots. Every one of their albums since then has been in the style of a different movie-genre soundtrack, while remaining surf rock.
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