Aaahhhh! Who Remembers Wipeout The good old days! I remember them well. School dances, sock hops, after-game dances. Featuring the 3 Stooges, doesnt get any better! Originally released in 1963 by the Surfaris, the term wipeout refers to a hard fall from the high waves on a surfboard. Sha-Na-Na played this at the Woodstock festival in 1969. The Surfaris version as well as cover versions has been featured in over 20 films & television series. including Back To The Beach, The Wanderers , Meet The Parents, Runaway Bride & Waynes World 2. Notable bands who have covered the song include The Beach Boys, The Ventures & Johnny Thunders. In 1987, the comedy Rap trio The Fat Boys & The Beach Boys recorded it. This is a popular instrumental track with a continuous surf rhythm. The only vocal is the occasional phrase Wipe Out. The Surfaris were a band of teenagers, as young as 15 with less than enough pocket money to record their work. The group gathered money from their parents while scouting for a place to carry out their rehearsals and came across Dale Smallin. Owner of a small studio in Cucamonga, California, Smallin who later became the Surfaris manager. At Samllins studio, they record a song called Surfer Joe. When the engineer reminded the group that it takes two songs to make a single, the Surfaris recorded Wipe Out, which they considered the throwaway B-side - they certainly didnt consider themselves an instrumental band. Smallin pressed 100 copies of the single, which are rare collectors items today and about 10 seconds longer than the commercially released version. The group was actually composed of the following young artists: Jim Fuller (lead guitar), Robert Berryhill (rhythm guitar), Ron Wilson (drums), Jim Pash (saxophone) and Pat Connolly (bass). Pash, however, did not take part in the initial recording. The breakthrough belongs to Wilson, who did such an excellent job on the long drum solos that it became one of the most famous drum solo breaks played and recorded. Jim Pash told Dan Forte of Vintage Guitar magazine that the format of Wipe Out was inspired by Preston Epps Bongo Rock, as suggested by Bob Berryhill. In fact, Drummer Ron Wilson was the head drummer in the Charter High School Marching Band at the time and, according to Pash, the Wipe Out solo is actually a drum cadence theyd use to march the band onto the football field at halftime. Wilson would later set the world record for continuous drum soloing at 104 1/2 hours! He died of a brain aneurysm in 1989. via_ MUSIC Lovers DEPOT
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:42:13 +0000
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