Surf Rider!/Surf Drums

Lively Ones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B0002LO7AG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,682 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #77 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Percussion
  • #95 in Music > Rock > Rock Guitarists > Surf Guitar

Track Listings

1. Surf Beat

2. Let's Go Trippin’

3. Misirlou

4. Guitar Man

5. Caterpillar Crawl

6. Walkin' The Board

7. Paradise Cove

8. Goofy Foot

9. Surf Rider

10. Happy Gremmie

11. Hotdoggen'

12. Surfer's Lament

13. 40 Miles Bad Road

14. Surfer Boogie

15. Wild Weekend

16. Stoked

17. Surf Drums

18. Shootin' The Pier

19. Rumble

20. Hillbillie Surf

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an instrumental surf music fan, February 12, 2011

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Nancy C. Sorbella - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surf Rider!/Surf Drums (Audio CD)

This is a great release from one of the better original surf bands. The Lively Ones were one of Del-Fi's best.

"Surf Rider" is a great surf album. Every track is different from the last and is a prime example of surf music in the early 60's. Surf Rider, Misirlou and Caterpillar Crawl are classics. Paradise Cove is a very good atmospheric number. "Surf Drums" is good as well, Mr. Moto and Rumble likely being the best tracks. The only complant i have, and it is a minor one, is that the songs based on a 12 bar blues progression get a slightly repetitive by the end of the second album. Other than that, two great albums!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid instrumental surf from band's 1963 debut LP, February 12, 2011

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surf Rider (MP3 Download)

The Lively Ones' debut album remained their best effort, and a great example of `50s instrumentals morphing into `60s surf rock. Joel Willenbring supplies the fat-toned sax, and Jim Masoner and Ed Chiaverini the reverbed guitars. The quintet's first full length pulled together previously released singles - notably the title track's reworking of the Ventures' "Spudnik" - with a handful of covers and a few memorable originals. The album opens with Tom Fitzpatrick's crisp drumming kicking off Dick Dale's "Surf Beat," smoothly integrating Willenbring's growling sax with the low twanging guitars. A take on the classic "Miserlou" hasn't the manic staccato virtuosity of Dale's version, but the drums once again cut sharp lines behind the energetic guitars. The more obscure covers are even better: a moody take on the Strangers' "Caterpillar Crawl" and an upbeat romp through "Walkin' the Board" each sound like something Thee Swank Bastards would use to get Szandora LaVey's hula-hoop up to speed. The two originals, "Goofy Foot" and "Happy Gremmie" are quite fine, the latter with a bluesy edge to its combination of surf and Vegas grind. Great sound (stereo except track 2, 4, 5 and 6) - this is a must have for any surfer stomp; available as an album of MP3's or a two-fer (with their second album, Surf Drums) as a CD. [©2011 hyperbolium dot com]