Who Here Likes Punk, Ska, Rockabilly, and Surf music?

Question

just curious....by the way I know my stuff!!! hahahaha

and yes there is surf music!!! i.e. Dick Dale, The Ventures!!! and so on!!!

Answer 1

I know my stuff too!
I'm also a Ventures fanatic. My top 4 albums by them have always been 'Flights of Fantasy', 'Guitar Freakout (aka Revolving Sound), The Ventures in Space, and 'Knock Me Out!'
Actually everything they ever did was fantastic! I still own all of their original vinyl pressings on the Dalton and Liberty record labels. All are in M- condition, and some are still sealed. I'll open them like a fine bottle of wine some day I suppose!

Dick Dale is awesome, and he's been passing on his skill to his 13(I think) year old son. I've seen Dick live twice.
Dick is in a way responsible for all modern guitar amplifiers.
Back in the early 60's, Leo Fender gave Dick so many of his amps, and Dick kept blowing the sh*t out of them. This prompted Leo to incorporate a JBL D13O speaker into the cabinet. This was fine until Dick was playing one day, and the cone of the speaker froze, twisted and would not fluctuate back and forth. Leo kept improving on his amps based on how Dick would destroy them. Eventually Leo created the 'The Dick Dale Transformer', it had an output of 100 watts, and would peak at 180 watts! This had never been done before. The amp became known as the 'Dual-Showman Piggy Back Amp'. Dick Dale has always been my hero!

I grew up listening to rockabilly music. There's just too many great artists to mention here, but a few of my favorites would be Bill Haley and the Comets, Eddie Cochran, Duane Eddy, and Gene Vincent. Some of the 70's and 80's revival stuff was pretty cool too, Nick Lowe, Stray Cats, etc.
There's a new band from Canada called the 'Black Coffee Cowboys' They are an incredible group of musicians who do the 50's rockabilly thing better than I've ever seen anyone do it before. I've seen them live many times. The highlight of the show for me is when the guitarist jumps up onto the upper bout of the double bass, and wails out a wicked solo on his Gretcsh 6120 DEO in the style of Carl Perkins and Duane Eddy!
Black Coffee Cowboys:
http://www.blackcoffeecowboys.com/
http://www.blackcoffeecowboys.com/band.php

I've always been a huge punk rock fan as well. I don't care for any of the neo-punk stuff, and find it rather redundant and boring.
70's bands like The Buzzcocks, Wire, The Members, Dead Boys, The Jam, The Damned, X-Ray Spex, The Adverts, Generation X, etc, are my favorite. There was even a very interesting crossing of genres, a sort of punk/blues/rockabilly thing that came out of the UK in the mid-late 70's, with bands like Dr. Feelgood, Eddie & the Hot Rods and Roogalator (one of my favorite bands).
Another interesting merger of genres was a 'progressive rock/punk rock' thing with groups like 'Doctors of Madness' (with Kid Strange), 'Steve Harley's Cockney Rebel', and 'Random Hold to name a few. I love all that stuff man!

As far as Ska goes, I've always enjoyed both Mento and various forms of jazz music. The two combined gave us what we know as 'Ska'. Ernest Ranglin is the godfather of Ska. One day he was trying to get the guitars in his band to make a "ska ska ska" type sound. With that, Ska was born!
I prefer the Jamaican Ska bands from the early-mid 60's like 'Clue J. and the Blues Busters', Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, Eric Morris, etc.
Some of the late 70's-early 80's UK ska music was OK also.
Bands like The Specials, Madness, The Beat, UB 40 etc.
I don't care for any of the new 'ska revival' type bands though. I've tried several, but I just can't dig 'em.

Answer 2

I like punk. But only the stuff from the 70's and 80's. Punk was great. Bands like The Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, they're all immortal bands.

I'm not much into ska. I don't think I've ever actually listened to ska before, and if I had, I probably thought it was something else.

As for rockabilly, I listen to it sometimes. Rockabilly and rock n' roll. Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc. were all some pretty good rockabilly/rock n' roll artists.

I do listen to surf music, but not much. Usually, I listen to surf rock. In that case, I only listen to the Beach Boys, but I've heard some of Dick Dale's works before, but that's only at special places, on the radio, or something else.

Answer 3

I like the old school punk (The Damned, The Ramones,etc)! As far as Ska, I liked The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness.....Rockabilly?? I like Dave Vanian's solo band (singer for The Damned) The Phantom Chords, which was an excellent Rockabilly album.....Surf music?...I like Dick Dale!!

Answer 4

I love em all...you forgot about The Ziggens in the surf category!

I love punk rock (not the faux punk on the radio, but the real stuff). Love ska. There's not enough new ska out there right now, though. Rockabilly's great...I'm getting more and more into psychobilly.

Answer 5

Old school punk - Ramones, The Clash, oi!

Ska, not so much.

Rockabilly - Rev. Horton Heat & various others, Brian Setzer

Surf - oh yeah Dick Dale, the Surfaris, the Ventures

Answer 6

Misfits! The Specials! dont care for Rockabilly. Dick Dale is the man!

Answer 7

I Like it all Clash, Desmond Decker, Horton Heat, Los Straightjackets

Answer 8

I used to like ska and punk.

Answer 9

Miss the Untouchables

Answer 10

Punk Rock is good, and some ska is ok.