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Topic: Gutterball by the Goldtones 1963 surf with lap steel |
Scott Thomas
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Posted 14 Oct 2017 11:10 am |
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"Instrumental by The Goldtones from Oct. 1963. This and flipside "Strike" was cut for a local TV bowling show called "Bowling For Money". All bandmembers 15 y.o."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx_U3Jf5COE
For all intents and purposes, this could be classified as surf music in structure (or maybe a new type called bowling music?  I know of no other "surf" from this era featuring lap steel. I thought it would be of interest with the surf on steel being posted here.
btw, here is the flipside "Stirke":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyL0S44QhI |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2017 11:42 am
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| Is that a young Glen Ross Campbell on steel? |
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 14 Oct 2017 12:02 pm
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I just looked it up, and yes it is! Glenn Ross Campbell best known as a member of The Misunderstood.
Something else I found funny. He was used to being physically beaten up for bringing his steel to rock auditions, and so for his audition for The Misunderstood he brought eight friends with him just in case! |
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Jack Hanson
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Posted 14 Oct 2017 12:22 pm
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Not familiar with the Misunderstood. But I do remember Juicy Lucy:
 
Some of the most bizarro stuff one could imagine in their wildest dreams coming out of a Stringmaster. |
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 14 Oct 2017 12:27 pm
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| Well I'm glad this is coming out, because in his hands the steel was such a potent force in Psychedelic and Blues Rock, yet except for him (and perhaps others I don't know about) was surprisingly underutilized. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 14 Oct 2017 1:16 pm
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My thoughts exactly...the energy and the Pipeline bridge.
Also, I have a theory that Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" released in '59 had a big impact on the surf to come a couple of years later. Besides the middle eastern tonalities, there are also a lot of simple blues based progressions and that riff (or variations) also shows up frequently as on this tune. |
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