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surf music

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(Pop Music) a US West Coast style of pop music of the early 1960s, characterized by high harmony vocals and strong trebly guitar riffs
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Sunday had a matinee show on the beach with surf music and pina coladas.
But in doing Misirlou his way, Dale -- who died last Saturday at age 81 -- helped birth a new American sound: surf music, which with its hurtling grooves and overdriven tremolo brought listeners around the world into the psychic landscape of Dale's adopted home of Southern California.
Eventually the music bug bit him, and Adoro returned with Markus Highway that combines rock and surf music. 'A soundtrack to my life at that time.'
Show is open Saturday March 3rd from 10:00 am till 6:00 pm, and followed by the Mutant Monstah Indoor Beach AfterParty with instru-mental surf music by The Waveriders including Monstah Costume contests from 7:00 till 10:00 pm included in Weekend admission and for Hotel guests.
Although some may question whether a real and meaningful relationship between the two activities is simply a myth propagated by the ever-resurfacing influence of the surf music genre, Cooley claims that the relationship not only exists, but that it is highly complex.
At around 7pm as the sun sets, the evening will come to life with the sounds of the talented live bands including The Truly Love Trio (US), The Roommates (UK), Danny & the Chicks (GER), The Nymonics (GER), Freddy Velas & the Silvertones (I), The Velvet Candles (Spain), Frankie Dean (UK), C-Sides (Surf music) and Cyprus' very own The Xiles.
Heald wrote the show's music, inspired by the surf music that was popular while the show was on television and that inspired the original soundtrack, Allaback said.
Equipped with intuitive operations, customers can surf music in pen-drive from far away and enjoy their favourite songs through Songpal
But brothers Carl, Dennis and Brian Wilson, cousin Mike Love and pal Al Jardine went far beyond creating surf music. In 1966, five years after forming in Hawthorne, California, the band cut the single Good Vibrations and their iconic album Pet Sounds, which Paul McCartney cites as an inspiration for Sgt Pepper's.
Firmly in the latter camp is the Sea Sessions Surf Music Festival, three days of fine music in a roster of midsized international bands and some of the more interesting Irish acts.
Chapter 2, " 'Surf Music' and the California Surfing Boom: New Surfing Gets a New Sound," focuses on the genre of surf music and its emergence during the 1960s.