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.
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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.
Prog Rock? Fusion? The jangle on this tune sounds like early REM.
I should have said, "The angle of the jangle".
PJ is still playing, watch himn here:
http://youtu.be/xuEVLHA4mHw
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