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Lost Legends of Surf Guitar

by The Impressions

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    • The Lost Legends of Surf Guitar series returns! This time with a volume solely dedicated to Richard and David Frost's Impressions!

    • LP cut by Kevin Gray and pressed in the USA at Citizen Vinyl!

    • Taken from a reel in Richard Martin Frost's personal collection, it's a rip roaring surf bananza of unissued tracks!

    Includes digital pre-order of Lost Legends of Surf Guitar. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 14, 2024
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      $26.99 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Lost Legends of Surf Guitar. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 14, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $16.99 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Lost Legends of Surf Guitar. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases June 14, 2024

      $12.99 USD  or more

     

1.
Rock The Surf 02:28
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2.
The Fugitive
3.
Home
4.
Opus Twist
5.
Wipe Out 02:37
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6.
Sleep Walk
7.
Just Pickin'
8.
Sen-Say-Shun
9.
San-Ho-Say 02:19
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10.
The Last Date
11.
The Fight (live)
12.
Night Train (live)
13.
Miserlous (live)
14.
Green Fields
15.
Let The Good Times Roll

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15 sizzlin’ surf guitar cuts recorded at the crest of the genre! Brothers Richard and Thomas Frost, more known for their work as Powder, shred through these surf-rockin’ standards – all tucked away until now!

Turning in a smoking rendition of studio guitarist Jan Davis’ “The Fugitive,” later covered by the Ventures (and much later, Laika & the Cosmonauts), they also lay down a hot version of “Opus Twist” – also by way of the Ventures, written by Tommy Allsup and J.I. Allison of the Crickets. Three other instrumentals came from the Let’s Hide Away & Dance Away With Freddy King album: “San-Ho-Zay,” “Just Pickin’,” and “Sen-Sa-Shun.” He delivers a lovely “Sleep Walk” sans Santo & Johnny’s steel guitar, and converts pianist Floyd Cramer’s “Last Date” to guitar.

Balancing out the program are live tracks from Big Al’s Gas House in neighboring Belmont, showing the emergence of British Invasion along with credible renditions of R&B warhorses “Linda Lu” and “Come On.” “Route 66” is obviously the Stones version, with Rich playing the Keith Richards guitar solo – “and ‘Roll Over Beethoven,’ you could tell it was the Beatles’ version because my guitar licks are George Harrison.”

Vividly illustrating the band’s meld of R&B and surf are the two versions of “San-Ho-Zay” – the relaxed groove in the bedroom versus the furious live rave. Lord knows what’s going on in “The Fight” – a typical set-opening/closing riff breaking up a brawl?

Though they never released even a 45, these live cuts and “Bedroom Tapes” prove without a doubt that they’d have been up to the task had the opportunity presented itself. Moreover, they’re a window into a more innocent time, when teenagers played rock & roll for fellow teens, and major-label contracts and national tours were as inconceivable as landing on the moon.

– Dan Forte

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releases June 14, 2024

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