I randomly clicked a track on the Spreeblick blog’s newest music review. And it was Doves Circle the Sky by Bodies of Water. And I must say once in a while there’s new music that I really like for some reason or other. This track was playing during one of these very rare moments. Maybe I should listen there more often, since this was the first time I did that!
Brian Chidester, co-author of Dumb Angel Magazine 4 and the upcoming Pop Surf Culture book (among other things) has a short film about the Waikiki Beachboys on YouTube currently.
Quote from Tiki central:
It’s a short documentary that I directed four years ago, as a teaser to a larger project about the Waikiki Beachboys… native Hawaiian surf instructors and nightclub entertainers from the jazz age up through the ’60s. There were two great generations of Beachboys, and even though there are still beachboy concessions on Waikiki Beach today, the music and scene is nowhere near what it was back in the day.
I hope you enjoy the clip. I have tons of interview footage ‘in the can.’
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Wild Water Days zum dritten Mal auf Sylt
Für Naturschutz und Umwelt die Schulbank drücken und einen einwöchigen Aufenthalt auf Sylt als Projektwoche für die ganze Klasse gewinnen! Alle Infos dazu findet Ihr hier.Wild Water Days 2008. Ihr seid zwischen 9 und 14 Jahre alt und Pink Floyd haben mit ihrem Song “We Don’t Need No Education” euren Zuspruch gefunden? Na, dann haben wir hier genau das Richtige für euch! Denn ein bisschen Bildung hat noch niemandem geschadet, insbesondere, wenn es sich um Umweltschutz und das Wellenreiten handelt. Und genau aus diesem Grund veranstaltet die Quiksilver Foundation vom 2. bis 6. Juni 2008 zum dritten Mal die Wild Water Days auf Sylt. Dass die Quiksilver Foundation weiß, wovon sie spricht, beweist ihr Engagement beim Thema Naturschutz: Neben der Überwachung von Korallenriffen, der Kontrolle der Wasserqualität in bekannten Surf-Revieren und Strandsäuberungsaktionen investiert die Quiksilver Foundation all ihre Energie, damit wir weiterhin in sauberem Wasser surfen können.
Wild Water Days zum dritten Mal auf Sylt
One of the most unique personalities and biggest inspirations in Rock’n’Roll.
According to Spreeblick Bo Diddley left this world today due to a heart problem.
Bo Diddley, R.I.P.
They already know they are going to edit 300 days into 52 minutes…! Doesn’t the island look gorgeous from above?
Quote from Private Islands blog:
French explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300 day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. His adventures will be filmed and used for a 52 minute documentary.
Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete video camera and a solar panel for charging the camera. He will spend 10 months alone on an island to develop another way of life through an exciting adventure, a return to the elemental sources. Xavier will survive alone on an island without human interference and without polluting emissions.
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via Boing Boing
Xavier Rosset, 300 days alone on an island
from Jerry Cole’s MySpace profile:
Our dear friend Jerry Cole died Wednesday night at his home in Corona, California. Funeral services are still pending but a public memorial is also being planned for the near future. Jerry’s wife Gale was with him when he suffered a massive heart attack. Jerry was 68 years old and is survived by Gale and their daughters, Monique and Katrina, and son, Cane. Jerry’s other son, Keith, died just a year earlier at the age of 28.
from Answers.com
Throughout the ’60s and , guitarist/songwriter Jerry Cole worked with some of the most prominent talents in rock’n’roll, including Them, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, and as a session man in Phil Spector’s ‘Wrecking Crew.’ With his own group the Spacemen, Cole released four albums of space-age surf music in just over two years, beginning with 1963’s Outer Limits. As the ’60s progressed, Cole worked on sessions for the Byrds’ ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’/’I Knew I’d Want You’ single and Them’s 1965 self-titled album. He teamed up with Roger McGuinn again in 1972 for McGuinn’s debut solo record, and session work with Roger Miller, Chuck Howard and Susie Allanson sent him in a country-rock direction. Cole’s work with the Spacemen was collected in the 1999 Sundazed compilation Power Surf! The Best of Jerry Cole & His Spacemen. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
Whether it’s about Aussie Atlantics type, Jack Johnson mode, California instro, Beach Boys style or all of them was not specified yet.
Volume 7 Number 4
80 pages plus coverFace Moves: Twelve Longboard Apostles
The Kingdom of Tonga
Surf Music Lives
Once Were Groms
Profiles: Beau Young & Manly Malibu Club
Pacificlongboarder.com
Great thorough article on Jet Set Planet Radio Show.
Quote from Rake Magzine:
Higher than Fi
Spinning the sounds of thrift store vinyl, Jet Set Planet sends radio into a new orbit.by John ErvinDecember 12, 2007The European sun shines on James Coburn, his lean frame in a white Mod jacket with red turtleneck. Putting on enormous sunglasses and flashing his classic chops, he sidles out of the palm-tree fringed villa, where he has just spent the night with Monica Vitti, and slips into his silver Ferrari. Bound for another criminal adventure involving diamonds, art, or cold hard cash, he speeds onto a cliff-side road, which just happens to overlook an endless body of crashing blue water.
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Read all at Higher than Fi | The Rake Magazine
These quotes are from a recent interview Evolution of Media made with Chico Hamilton, who happens to be one of my favorite drummers.
…I hear many drummers today, who have amazing chops, but who ultimately leave me cold because they never settle down long enough to get a pocket going, to keep some time. Some consider it old fashioned, but for my own listening pleasure, I enjoy hearing a band that swings. I think you will enjoy it too.
I’m told that people still dance to my music in nightclubs. There’s no greater compliment than that!
…But I can tell you one thing that I do know, which is that if this ‘so called’ industry becomes more about the format, than it is about the music, then it’s a dead end industry.
Some of these look good to me, of course they’re impracticle as surfboards, more like ritual paddles, spears and guaras.
*HUA Sculptured Surfboards
WHAT ARE THEY?
HUA (Polynesian Soul) SCULPTURES are the work of Aaron Kereopa – a young Maori surfer and artist.
Aaron designs and then carves these characters into stripped back, old – dis-used surfboards. Each of them represents a part of a Maori warrior tree.
Aaron’s works are now only available by commission.
Surfa.com.au – the Art, the Sport and the Lifestyle of Surfing