The Trashmen • Live Bird '65-'67

Biography by Cub Koda

A Minneapolis rock & roll band, they evolved from Jim Thaxter & the Travelers, recording one single under that name ("Sally Jo"/"Cyclone"). The group comprises Tony Andreason (lead guitar), Dan Winslow (guitar/ vocals), Bob Reed (bass), and Steve Wahrer (drums/vocals). Unfairly depicted as a novelty act, the Trashmen were in actuality a top-notch rock & roll combo, enormously popular on the teen club circuit, playing primarily surf music to a landlocked Minnesota audience. Drummer Steve Wahrer combined two songs by the Rivingtons ("The Bird's the Word" and "Pa Pa Ooh Mow Mow"), added freakish vocal effects and a pounding rhythm to the mix, and, by early 1964, the group was in the Top Ten nationwide with "Surfin' Bird." Though the group continued to release great follow-up singles and an excellent album, their moment in the sun had come and gone; they disbanded by late 1967/early 1968. They re-formed in the mid-'80s and continued to play locally until Wahrer's death. The Trashmen are revered by '60s collectors as one of the great American teen band combos of all time, their lone hit exemplifying wild, unabashed rock & roll at its most demented, bare-bones-basic, lone-E-chord finest.

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Biografía de Cub Koda.

Banda de rock & roll de Minneapolis, evolucionaron de Jim Thaxter & the Travelers, grabando un single con ese nombre ("Sally Jo" / "Cyclone"). El grupo está compuesto por Tony Andreason (guitarra líder), Dan Winslow (guitarra / voz), Bob Reed (bajo) y Steve Wahrer (batería / voz). Representados injustamente como un acto de novedad, los Trashmen eran en realidad una combinación de rock & roll de primera categoría, enormemente popular en el circuito de clubes de adolescentes, tocando principalmente música de surf para un público sin salida de Minnesota. El baterista Steve Wahrer combinó dos canciones de los Rivingtons ("The Bird's the Word" y "Pa Pa Ooh Mow Mow"), añadió extraños efectos vocales y un ritmo fuerte a la mezcla, y, a principios de 1964, el grupo estaba en el Top Diez a nivel nacional con "Surfin 'Bird". Aunque el grupo continuó lanzando grandes singles de seguimiento y un excelente álbum, su momento en el sol llegó y se fue; se disolvieron a finales de 1967 / principios de 1968. Se volvieron a formar a mediados de los años 80 y continuaron jugando localmente hasta la muerte de Wahrer. Los coleccionistas de los años 60 admiran a Trashmen como uno de los mejores combos de bandas de adolescentes de todos los tiempos, su único éxito ejemplificando el rock and roll salvaje y desenfadado en su versión más simple, básica y acorde de solitario.

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The Trashmen • Tube City - The Best Of The Trashmen

 

Tube City!: The Best Of The Trashmen es un álbum recopilatorio de lo mejor del Surf Rock, de la banda estadounidense The Trashmen.

Esta recopilación contiene lo mejor de The Trashmen con varias canciones adicionales que no aparecen en ninguno de sus álbumes a excepción de una canción titulada Bad News que se publicó junto a su álbum siguiente llamado The Great Lost Trashmen Album del año 1994. Las trece primeras canciones de este trabajo recopilatorio pertenecen al álbum debut, y el mejor de la banda, el famoso Surfin' Bird (album), las otras siete son exclusivamente compuestas alrededor de los 60's por la agrupación.

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Tube City: The Best Of The Trashmen is a compilation album of the best of Surf Rock by the American band The Trashmen.

This compilation contains the best of The Trashmen with several additional songs that do not appear on any of their albums except for one song titled Bad News which was released with their follow-up album called The Great Lost Trashmen Album from 1994. The first thirteen songs of this compilation work belong to the debut album, and the best of the band, the famous Surfin' Bird (album), the other seven are exclusively composed around the 60's by the group.
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VA • Cowabunga! - The Surf Box - Set 3 Ebb Tide [1963-1967]

California may be the largest state in the Union, but it's only one state nuzzling one ocean, with only so many people living near the coastline, and a small minority of them have attempted to navigate waves on a board, much less possess the fetching physique to do so in public. Obviously, then, surf music isn't for surfers. If it were, Rhino would put out a greatest-hits EP instead of a four-disc box set. Cowabunga! is all the permanent-wave stuff most people will ever need. The discs are arranged in a curious manner: disc 1, "Ground Swells," chronicles the years from 1960 to 1963; disc 2 features nothing but recordings from '63; the third CD runs from '63 to '67; and the coda captures the postpunk renaissance that began in '77. Curious, isn't it, that there was so little going on in surf between '67 and '77? Maybe Jimi Hendrix almost killed it when he promised (in 1967!), "You'll never hear surf music again" on "Third Stone from the Sun." But Hendrix is dead, and Dick Dale lives! So, too, do the Revels, the Beach Boys, the Surfaris, Annette Funicello, the Ventures, and dozens of others. At least they do in this anthology. By the way, "cowabunga" is "a yell of excitement by a surfer." You learn that from the helpful glossary included in the excellent liner notes by John Blair, leader of Jon & the Nightriders. As to the lasting appeal of surf music, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it's mostly instrumental. People make jokes about dumb California blonds, but the ones who made most of the classic surf sides knew one thing: it's wise at times to keep your mouth shut and play! --Steven Stolder

VA • The Birth Of Surf Vol 2

 

The Trashmen • The Best Of The Trashmen

 

 

 

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VA • Surfin' The Great Lakes Kay Bank Studio Surf Sides of the 1960s

 

 

Outtasite surf & garage sounds from landlocked America!

This compilation of unreleased & rare tracks from the Twin Cities’ Kay Bank Studios features 16 rip rollin’ cuts of some of the best surf and garage rock Kay Bank had to offer. Features The Trashmen, The Vaqueros, and more!

Kay Bank Recordings in Minneapolis was certainly one of these historic studios. It was named after the wife of owner Vernon Bank. Although he had been involved in the recording business since the late 1940s, Bank’s recording studio operation got underway in 1957 when he moved into a building that was large enough to also establish a pressing plant. The studio provided a 3-track Ampex recorder, a 12-input recording console, and a live echo chamber.

According to a 1958 article in the Minneapolis Star newspaper, Kay Bank was pressing 60,000 records each week, and Vernon Bank claimed that his studio provided the most complete facility of any other studio “between Pennsylvania and California.” The sign above the building’s entrance stated, “A Complete Recording Service From Master Tape to Pressed Record.”

Sundazed Music recently acquired a large archive of the existing Kay Bank master tapes. Some of the surf, and related, recordings in that archive are included in this compilation, all recorded between June 1964 and August 1966- at a time when the British Invasion was ravaging the sales charts.

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Los mejores sonidos de surf y garaje de la América sin salida al mar.

Esta recopilación de temas inéditos y raros de los estudios Kay Bank de las Twin Cities contiene 16 cortes de lo mejor del surf y el garage rock que Kay Bank tenía para ofrecer. Incluye a The Trashmen, The Vaqueros y muchos más.

Kay Bank Recordings, en Minneapolis, fue sin duda uno de esos estudios históricos. Llevaba el nombre de la esposa del propietario, Vernon Bank. Aunque llevaba en el negocio de la grabación desde finales de la década de 1940, Bank puso en marcha su estudio de grabación en 1957, cuando se trasladó a un edificio lo suficientemente grande como para instalar también una planta de prensado. El estudio contaba con una grabadora Ampex de 3 pistas, una consola de grabación de 12 entradas y una cámara de eco en directo.

Según un artículo publicado en 1958 en el periódico Minneapolis Star, Kay Bank prensaba 60.000 discos a la semana, y Vernon Bank afirmaba que su estudio ofrecía las instalaciones más completas de cualquier otro estudio "entre Pensilvania y California". El letrero sobre la entrada del edificio decía: "Un servicio completo de grabación, desde la cinta maestra hasta el disco prensado".

Sundazed Music adquirió recientemente un gran archivo de las cintas maestras existentes de Kay Bank. Algunas de las grabaciones de surf, y otras relacionadas, de ese archivo se incluyen en esta recopilación, todas ellas grabadas entre junio de 1964 y agosto de 1966, en una época en la que la British Invasion arrasaba en las listas de ventas.


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The Trashmen • Ten Songs For You

 

 

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VA - The Best Of Instrumental 60's Guitar Vol. 3

 

VA • Surfin Hits

 

By definition and origin of the genre Surf is instrumental, everything else like Beach Boys is merely pop. Even so, this album, while not entirely Surf, is worth it.

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Por definición y origen del género el Surf es instrumental, todo lo demas como ser los Beach Boys es meramente pop. Aún así este album, si bien no es totalmente de Surf, vale la pena.

VA • Surf Music

 Beach Boys,  Dick Dale,  The Trashmen,  The Shadows,  The Surfaris...