Talk:Surf music
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See Talk:Surf rock. That article also needs some work IMO, it's not clear to me exactly what the authors mean by surf rock.
Which is fine, if that's the actual situation, as I suspect it might be! My hunch is that surf rock tends to mean the sort of surf-influenced music I particularly like at the moment, with the I meaning whoever happens to be speaking at the time! Probably Midnight Oil's awesome instrumental Wedding Cake Isle (1975) would be an example.
But, whatever surf rock might be, I guess it's a sort of surf music! The other two types I know about. (And personally, I like it all.) Andrewa 19:19, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
OK, almost done. I think I'm now understanding what surf rock is. I still doubt that anyone aware of the history of surf music and rock and roll would be very quick to use the term, but many people obviously do use it, so it must be covered.
I'm almost ready to take the stub notice off. Some wikilinks to examples of each style, a few more external links, then I might think about it. Andrewa 03:25, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Unstubified! Andrewa 21:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Why is "Fun Fun Fun" listed as a surf song when it's about cars?
As far as I can see, the subgenres of surf don't really deserve totally separate pages. Why not group them all under Surf Music? They are, by the article's own confessions, pretty damn similar. Stratpod 22:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Dick Dale
It surprises me that there's not a single mention about Dick Dale in this article.
[edit] Strange But Surf / All Star Surf Band / Howlin' Thurstons
Someone has been switching around links to these three bands in a short paragraph about surf revival bands. I'm going to remove them, and link to Man or Astro-Man and Los Straitjackets instead, because 1) this looks awfully like a case of self-promotion as in WP:AUTO and 2) the surf revival bands I've mentioned are currently notable enough to warrant a Wikipedia article each.
If someone can justify that the Howlin' Thurstons, Strange But Surf, or All Star Surf band are notable enough to warrant a Wikipedia article -- per WP:BIO -- then I'd say it's appropriate to mention them here. As it stands, though, they just seem to be attracting self-promotional edits. --G0zer 23:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- Drosenbe aka Blacktooth aka Drosenbe626 has continued to escalate the external link spamming. I can certainly no longer keep up without running afoul of the 3RR. Is it too soon to just report these accounts as vandals? (Maybe someone already has?) I have already reported them for sockpuppetry and tagged their user talk pages with {{spam}}. None of them have responded to my notes or others' notes on their user talk pages. --G0zer 17:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Strange Dave Radio
One of the more persistent external link spams is with the URL of "strange dave radio", a low-bitrate web stream hosted by Dave Rosenberg. Even without WP:AUTO, WP:VAIN, and WP:SPAM concerns, it is my opinion that this is only a minimally relevant link at best. I have been connected and listening to Strange Dave's Radio for a couple of hours now. The vast majority of the show consists of the host exchanging telephone banter with former fraternity brothers, regarding concerts and parties in their local town, as well as a large number of homophobic jokes. Although some surf and hot rod music is played, it seems to be stuffed quite heavily with the music of Dave Rosenberg's All Star Surfers. As best I can tell, the addition of the link is an attempt at self-promotion.
The link to Strange Dave Radio at Live365 may be removed on sight. --G0zer 02:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Strange But Surf / Angelo Liguori / Marbles Mahoney
I am Angelo Liguori, Me and my band are the victim of harrasment by the Sock Puppet mentioned above as Drosenbe aka Blacktooth. He quit Strange But Surf in April 2006 and has nothing to do with me or my band. I am not Blacktooth and only go by the names above and have been defending this and other pages that have been vandalized repeatly by this attention seeker. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marbles Mahoney (talk • contribs) .
