Mellotronists

opps...The top 40 band were called the Rising Suns

Lee (covering my own boo boo Caused by brain damage)

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "leetronhead" <surfbeach@...> 
wrote:
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> 
> Yeah Tony...it was Jan and Dean...song was loosely based on Jan's 
own 
> experience in his sports car in So. Cal.
> It was Dean who sang the lead on Barbara Ann. (Wilson could't give 
> him credit though...because he was not suppose to be crossing 
record 
> labels...he was at the party when the party lp was recorded.)
> My brother and I had a High School surf band in Vegas.  We were on 
of 
> three real popular Friday night dance bands on the Vegas High 
School 
> circuit, the othere two being, the MIsty Souls (Stones Cover Band), 
> and the Misty Souls (top 40 band)
> We were the Outcasts,  
> To answer the other questions about brain damage or getting waqcked 
> with a board... or do you need to be mentally stable to play in a 
> surf band...yeah, I got hit by my own board a few times...and I 
don't 
> think I suffered any major brain damage,...if you will... excuse me 
> for a moment,,,I need to answer some questions from those voices 
> inside my head...and yeah Jonesally...it is chance  there 
> is "scientific correlation" and you hit the board right on the head.
> and bty...there is some tron violins on Dennis Wilson's Pacific 
Ocean 
> Blue.
> Well...gotta go hang 9...(Somehow, ...I lost one!!!)
> Lee '
> PS
> have one long board, and two shorter "fish" boards.
> Will probably go to Sandy beach today,,,waves are around 6-8 feet.
> Will probably listen to Al Jardine Live in Las Vegas ( with the 
> Wilson Daughters, Billy Hinchie, and Jardiines Sons.
> 
> Yeah...that all takes brain damage.
> 
> --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "tony1" <ferrarimanatm1@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi people!
> > This is another off topic question, but that seems to be 
tolerated, 
> to a point.
> > Was it Jan and Dean who did "dead man's curve"?
> > 
> > Tony
> > #510
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Jerry Korb 
> >   To: MELLOTRONISTS-LIST 
> >   Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 7:55 AM
> >   Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: question/observation....Catching 
the 
> Wave
> > 
> > 
> >     
> > 
> >   jonesalley wrote: 
> > 
> >     I wonder if there's any scientific correlation between having 
> serious brain 
> >     damage and being successful as a performer in the surf-band 
> genre...
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> >   Greetings Gang,  I too enjoyed those surf-beach-songs before 
> >   my Mellotronic awakening in late 1960's.  Happily recalled the 
> times 
> >   when swimming at the NJ shore or Lake Hopatcong to the music 
> >   of Beach Boys and Jan/Dean. 
> >     
> > 
> >   This carried-thru into 2004 when visiting San Diego. 
> >   I quietly hummed the tune "Surfin' USA" upon seeing the Pacific 
> Ocean 
> >   first time ever at La Jolla beach.   Thanks for the guided tour 
> Frank! 
> >     
> > 
> >   Did anyone also consider  (based upon Jon's statement above, 
> >   that some of these guys got whacked upside the head with a 
> surfboard 
> >   when "Hanging-10 ?"  Could be the reason.   Lee , you're an 
avid 
> >   surf-guy.  Your thoughts on this ? 
> >     
> > 
> >   Cheers, -- JK (still looking for the itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny 
> yellow 
> >   polka-dot bikini ) 
> >     
> > 
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> >       
> >     >I grew up loving the Beach Boys and Jan&Dean.Brian Wilson 
> wrote some 
> >     > songs for them.The music for Sidewalk Surfing was from a 
> B.B.song Catch 
> >     > A Wave on the Surfer Girl lp. 
> > 
> >     > 
> >     >> Did anyone here ever like Jan and Dean? I thought the had 
> some good 
> >     >> lyrics. Remember "Dead Man's Curve?" Descriptive 
writing... 
> and 
> >     >> prophetic. Who could forget Little Old Lady From Pasadena? 
> Or 
> >     >> "Sidewalk Surfin."
> > 
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