Surf Punks
Surf Punks | |
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Origin | pop punk |
Years active | 1976โ1988 |
Labels | Epic, Engima, Shelter, Day-Glo, Restless |
Past members | Dennis Dragon Drew Steele Mark "The Shark" Miller Andrew Jackson Jerry Weber Kevin Roberts Tony "Hulk" Creed John Hunt John Heussenstamm Scott Goddard Jeff "Ray Ban" Eyrich |
The Surf Punks were a
Scott Goddard (1952โ2006) later joined as lead vocalist on a few songs.
Background
Record producer and then Malibu resident Denny Cordell saw merit in the group and released their first recordings on a single, "My Beach" b/w "My Wave", in Australia on Shelter Records. Their subsequent first album, an independent release on their own label, Day Glo Records, garnered them enough airplay on the then fledgling L.A. alternative radio station KROQ-FM to lead to a re-release of the album on Epic Records in 1980, and the release of two further albums, Locals Only and Oh No, Not Them Again on Enigma Records, with Mark Miller, keyboard player Jerry Weber and lifeguard/guitarist Andy Jackson.
Dragon and Hulk also provided the theme song to KLOS disc jockey Frazer Smith's signature show bumper, "Cool Patrol". Heavy rotation on KROQ-FM was largely responsible for the band selling out their first live performance ever at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The Surf Punks were road managed from 1980 to 1983 by Michael Parenti (the artist, not the political writer),[4] who also provided many of the T-shirt designs for the band. At one time, rock legend Johnny Rivers showed interest in the band by co-producing with Dragon a single titled "Surfs Up Medley", released on his own Soul City label. TV producer Chris Bearde also managed the band for a short time and tried with movie producer Brian Grazer and Rivers to procure a Hollywood movie deal for the band.
The live shows of the Surf Punks, in the heyday of the punk explosion in L.A., were full of wild abandon. High points of the show were "I Can't Get a Tan" and "Big Top".
The lyrics of the band centered primarily on the in-group/out-group experiences of "locals" (surfers living on the beach in Malibu) and "vals" (commuters from the
The band made at least five music videos: "My Beach",
Discography
- Surf Punks (1979)
- My Beach (1980) distributed by CBS Records, contains a cover of The Sunrays' I Live for the Sun retitled "We All Live For The Sun", featuring a dulcimer solo. Mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders by Greg Fulginiti
- Locals Only (1982; reissued with bonus tracks 2013)
- Oh No! Not Them Again (1988; reissued 2007)
- Party Bomb (1988; reissued 2007)
- My Beach, My Wave (compilation 1988)
References
- ^ "Surf Punks" – via IMdB.
- ^ https://skateandannoy.com/blog/2021/10/drew-steele-r-i-p/
- ^ Stafford, James (January 18, 2019). "From The Stacks: Surf Punks, 'My Beach'". Why It Matters. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
- ^ "About". artificialeyes.tv. Archived from the original on November 19, 2006. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
- ^ "Surf Punks โ "My Beach" music video". youtube.com. Retrieved January 23, 2010.