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Why are surfers so bad at making music?
- Thread starter casa_mugrienta
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I always thought “butthole surfing“ was surfing naked while on acid?
What? Next you're going to tell me The Sex Pistols are referring to dongs.
Duffy is correct. Or were you joking?
Listen to the song "Butthole Surfer." It's about the gays.
I don't think the problem is surfers making bad music so much as surfers making "music for surfers." It's like it's part of the "lifestyle branding" of surfing, and the expectation is that if you surf you like this music. Feels that way anyway. I'm not a fan of Jack Johnson, Donovan F, any of that crap. Alex Knost's band was mildly interesting for a minute; mildly, and just a minute.
As mentioned, Jane's Addiction made some fantastic music back in the day. While I never really liked Incubus, there is far worse music made by surfers out there.
The Mermen ("surf music" in the rockabilly sense) didn't/don't suck either, at least one of them surfs.
Did any of the dude's in the 1980's South Bay punk scene surf? Black Flag? Circle Jerks, et. al.? Pretty sure Keith Morris surfs.
Agent Orange are/were surfers?
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cuz its not easy to make great music. most people are bad at it regardless of genre
I like how he doesn't sound 'surfy'.
Neither.
In our group, we took the name to be absurdist and/or people who sat down on skateboards. Then when we finally saw them live, the absurdist vote won
Does that mean the fuck pistols or use pistols to fuck others?
Or they have sex while in the presence of pistols?
Why are musicians so bad at surfing?
Sure, you got musicians like Tim Bluhm who can surf pretty respectably, but most musicians can't even paddle out!
There's an Agent Orange interview where they joke about being a surf band that doesn't really surf, but early on they had occasion to commute from valley to the beach, by bus with boogie boards under arm.
Sounds surfy enough to pass when placed beside the surf influencers getting that about to paddle out shot before heading back to the van for fruit bowls.
Who was it with the lyric "real surf music is dead". Jim Morrison?
Sounds surfy enough to pass when placed beside the surf influencers getting that about to paddle out shot before heading back to the van for fruit bowls.
Who was it with the lyric "real surf music is dead". Jim Morrison?
I heard they are surfers from Imperial Beach, thus the name Butthole Surfers (the T Sloughs next door)
keith morris does not surf. the sterns from youth brigade, that dude from the stitches surf, jack from tsol, a bunch of em. chris isaak does in fact charge. i sat in the channel too scared and watched him catch a few at a spot between sc and sf. heavy!
