Thursday, July 26, 2012

Have Guitar, Will Travel (An Occasional Series): The Present Day HoDad Refuses to Die

From 1964, and recorded in a home studio in their garage (which is pretty damned amazing for 1964) please enjoy obscure West Coast surf gods P.J. & The Galaxies and the sublimely catchy "Tally Ho."

This first came out on a really great anthology of obscure surf stuff in 1995; I bring it up now because of that Ventures album I posted yesterday.

The point being that the guys making this music didn't particularly think of what they were doing as surf -- what they thought (with reason) they were doing was (for want of a better phrase) instro-rock.

And it's worth pondering how bands like this might have developed and how rock history might have been changed if the British Invasion hadn't come along and rendered them obsolete.

4 comments:

steve simels said...

A Mea Culpa:

I may have posted this song here a couple of years ago, along with similar musings.

Although a Google search has been unavailing, and the blog search engine is pretty much hopeless.

Anyway, it's a great song, so it's not a big deal. Just full disclosure, etc blah blah.

buzzbabyjesus said...

Prog Rock? Fusion? The jangle on this tune sounds like early REM.

buzzbabyjesus said...

I should have said, "The angle of the jangle".

MJConroy said...

PJ is still playing, watch himn here:

http://youtu.be/xuEVLHA4mHw