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Seems like a decade ago or so I wanted to start up a surf-metal band that played metal in the surf style, and surf classics in a metal style.

First proof of concept I came across was Surf Report's version of Iron Maiden's "The Trooper"...


Hm that vid was posted 2011, so more like a decade-and-a-half or two when I tried to imagine how it would all sound.



Now I've found another version of "The Trooper" that may in some ways be better than Surf Report's. Maybe some of the core members of Surf Report have started anew under a different banner or its a completely different band covering the same song, but at any rate here's the new version I found along with an entire album's worth of Surf-Metal:




I had a drummer who was interested, but we couldn't find a suitable guitarist. That might seem odd to all you guitarists, but HK is a very transitory place — so often you get a line-up of like-minded musicians together and then one of them moves elsewhere, yet another takes a job that has them travelling often enough to disrupt any rehearsal schedule ... I don't know, maybe it's like that anywhere you go.

Chemistry...
 
I lived in LA for a couple of years as a young kid in the early 90's and my dad had been living there since the late 80's. Los Lobos were pretty much standard issue at that time and place, and my dad would regularly listen to Just Another Band from East L.A., Kiko, and How will the Wolf Survive.

My dad has some really good taste in music. Los Lobos are so damn good.

 
It's a Man Man kind of monring.

This live version of Van Helsing Boombox is fantastic. I like the record version, but this one takes the cake:

 

Over the last year or so my musical tastes have definitely slowed down and firmly embedded into the doom/stoner/sludge area of things, but damn.. I usually don't pay much attention to deathcore, but I am so blown away by Lorna Shore right now. Musically they're combining the intense blast beats with the orchestral so incredibly well. Typically that just sounds cheesy to me, but somehow they do it perfectly. Those breakdowns? Oh. Yeah. And then there's Will Ramos' singing. Holy crap is he ever talented. The amount of control he has is ridiculous. Especially when watching a live concert, it just seems almost effortless to him.
 

I heard Chris Speed is joining the Bad Plus so I've been hitting the Claudia Quintet pretty hard. Might be the best jazz group I've ever seen live. Are y'all gonna be mad because there's no pedals? The drummer(and composer) is doing plenty of "effects" here.
 
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