LINKS
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BANDS AND ARTISTS
| US site of the King of the fuzz guitar | |
| Instrumental surf rock group from Brasil | |
| The Apemen Adoration site. | |
| A blend of Spaghetti Western, Psychadelia, Surf, Latin - with a tongue in cheek
dash of Lounge.
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| UK Surf Rock n Roll band | |
| Israel's only surfcore band. | |
| Nashville's finest has his own site. You can order records too. | |
| Australia's No 1 1960's surfing instrumental group |
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| Lots of pictures from last years tour, and some MP3s and real audio of the tracks from the new album, and some old tracks from heavy surf advisory | |
| Surf from Croatian band. | |
| Surf from Finland with Pekka Tiilikainen & Beatmakers |
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| Warren's Waffles Music site with RA downloads. |
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| BLACK LABELS | Surf
instrumental/rockabilly combo from Duluth, MN USA. |
| BOOKER T & THE M.G.'S | |
| THE BRADIPOS IV | Instrumental/surf band from Italy |
| THE BRAINWASHERS | The band has a site at Rainforest Records. |
| THE CHARADES | Finnish Instrumental group - site includes mp3 files |
| STEVE CROPPER | |
| DALEK BEACH PARTY | Audio downloads available here. |
| DANNY DAVIS & THE BOYS | From Belgium - cover group of Cliff & Shadows |
| DEAD MAN'S CURVE | Site of the band considered best young instrumental group in UK. |
| The site is not 100 percent complete but is proving popular - so stop by and visit the Circle. | |
DUANE
EDDY |
Visit Jim's site for more Duane info and also news about New Kommotion |
| Tony Borgosano's excellent site for Duane. | |
DUANE EDDY |
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| U.S. Surf Band who record for MuSick label. | |
| King of the Telecaster | |
| Swedish Instrumental group who play in Spotnicks style. | |
| JET HARRIS |
Dave Dixon's Jet Harris pages |
| HUSKY AND THE SANDMEN | A site for this Finnish band who appeared at PIPELINE 1999 |
| THE FALCONS |
No website yet but you can e-mail Mike from here. |
| MERRELL FANKHAUSER | Merrell Fankhauser's Official Website |
| HANK GARLAND | One of the great r'n'r session players |
| HURMIO | From Finland |
| JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES | John Panteny has put a discography for the group on this site. |
| HypnoticIV | Instro surf combo out of Sacramento, California |
| INDO ROCK | History of Indo Rock at this Dutch site |
| Kahuna Kawentzmann/Looney Tunes Band | |
| KELP | Santa Barbara Surf Music |
| THE KNIGHTS | They had their beginnings in 1961 playing traditional Southwest surf and they're at it again doing the same thing. |
| OS ARGONAUTAS | Instrumental surf music band from Brasil. |
| THE LIGHT VALLEY SHADOWS | Excellent site for this group plus lots of other info and links. |
| WILLIE LOGAN | Willie has some great albums out and budget price too! |
| LOS STRAITJACKETS | While at their site check out their links page. |
| LUMOTTU MAA | "LUMOTTU MAA" (=WONDERFUL LAND IN FINISH) SAME STYLE AS "HURMIO".. |
| THE LUNATICS | Pages in Finnish and English! |
| THE MANATEES | Seattle based mostly original surf, rock, salsa band. |
| THE MARVINGERS | Swedish band - you can download demos from their site too. |
| THE MUSTANGS | The Finnish instrumental band web site |
| THE NEPTUNES | West coast based surf band. |
| THE PAT S. SYNDICATE | Austrian
surf band. |
| THE RAIDERS | Leeds / Yorkshire instro. band in the early / mid '60s.Currently have a couple of vintage tracks out on peoplesound.com. |
| THE RAPIERS Subscribe to Mailing list |
Greg O. in the US has set up this site for this fine UK band. Join the new Rapiers Mailist too! |
| THE REFLECTIONS | Norwegian Shadows type band and regular visitors to UK. |
| LOS RELAMPAGOS | Shadows-influenced instro band from the '60's- additional influences: Johnny & the Hurricanes, Duane Eddy, and other instro bands of the early '60's - infused with Spanish melodic themes |
THE REVENTLOS |
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| ROYAL PENDELTONS | New Orleans based band - they do vocals too. |
| THE RYDERS | From Sweden |
| IAN SAMWELL | Writer of 'Move It' |
| THE SCORPIONS |
Ted Barber's been hard at work on this site - well worth a visit. |
| THE SHADOWS JOHN CAMPBELL'S |
Great new site by John (New Zealand) |
| THE SHADOWS Dave Dixon's |
Dave Dixon's site. Check out Dave's Pipeline 98 Convention pages. |
| THE
SHADOWS East Yorkshire Shadows Guitar Club |
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| THE
SHADOWS SHADDICTS |
NORTH WEST SHADOWS MUSIC CLUB |
| THE SHADOWS John Dyhouse's |
John Dyhouse's Shadows as songwriters pages. |
| THE SHADOWS Jan Flatby's |
Jan's a Norwegian fan |
| THE SHADOWS FAN SITE | Caroline Firth's excellent site |
| THE SHADOWS WEB COMMUNITY | Set up by David Martin |
| THE SHADOWS John Panteny's |
John's site is a great place for collectors to trade or swop. |
| THE SHADOWS French site |
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| THE SHADOWS TABULATURE | 'Keepin' Tabs on the Shads' |
| THE SHADOWS - THAITWANG | Site about fans of The Shadows in Thailand, and local band |
| SLACKTONE | Surf Instro - Reverb Instrumentals not for the faint of heart!? |
| THE SPACE COSSACKS | Pipeline readers voted their debut CD "Interstellar Stomp" the #3 album of 1998. |
| THE SPECIAL AGENTS | Her Majesty's Secret Surfers. |
| THE SPOTNICKS | Swedish instrumental group's official site. |
| CRAIG STERLING | The Hank Marvin Tribute artist |
| BIG JIM SULLIVAN | One of the greats of British Rock'n'Roll. |
| SURFPATROUILLE | Instrumental-Surf-Band from Germany |
| THE TORNADOS | Tom Hammond's site. |
| THE TORPEDOES | Plenty of info. on the band plus great surf music links. |
| THE TUBE SHARKS | The Tube Sharks play intense Instrumental Surf and Rockabilly in the San
Francisco Bay Area |
| URBAN SURF KINGS | Instro trio from the Atlantic Coast of Canada ( Halifax, Nova Scotia). |
| THE VENTURES | The Official site - if it's anything to do with The Ventures it's here! |
| THE VENTURES (Sandcastle site) |
Extensive fan tribute to The Ventures. Includes band history, album reviews and ratings, photo albums, links to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction campaign, and perhaps the most complete Ventures discography available anywhere. |
| VOODOO COURT | High energy original surf band for the nineties with an essence of the old surf sound |
| BERT WEEDON | His Play In A Day book taught many British guitarists |
| WIPEOUT | "THE" band for rock & Pop in Cumbria & the Borders |
| LINK WRAY | That Rumble man - Tony Borgosano's site |
| ROCK INSTRUMENTAL | |
| Duane Eddy and lots more here....... | |
| Site built by Matt Innes | |
| Dave Wood's (Washington, DC) site. Join the mail list too while you are there! | |
| Constructed by Piet Muys & Dennis Roos - the complete history from 60's
onward. Now extended enormously with lots on Dutch 60's and Revival RI groups |
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| Kirk's (Ventures Webmaster) tribute page to the greats. |
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| Surf music and clothing and lots more | |
| A whole site devoted to this one Instrumental number. | |
| Site for Surf bands | |
| Surf links? - c'mon in! | |
| Plenty of surf info. and links here. | |
| For rockabilly/rock'n'roll links | |
| Some great real audio downloads to be had here. | |
| FANZINES | |
| CALIFORNIA MUSIC Ian MacPartland has plenty of harmony and surfin' USA instro info from down under. |
2 Kentwell Avenue Concord NSW 2137 Australia |
| THE CONTINENTAL Sean Berry's new vehicle for all that's best in surf'n'trash. ('zine and record label.) this is also the link to his label Double Crown Records, formerly Continental Records) |
P.O. Box 4336 Bellingham WA 98227-4336 USA |
| THE DUANE EDDY CIRCLE (UK) Arthur Moir serves the whole world with all the news from Duane. |
P.O. Box 203 Sheffield S1 1XU UK A.J.Moir@sheffield.ac.uk
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| GUITARS & DRUMS Jean Bachelerie's monthly instrumental update from France (in French). Just launched their website! |
45 Boulevard Garibaldi F-75015 Paris, France. Jean.Bachelerie@wanadoo.fr |
| INSTRUMENTAL
NEWSLETTER Main focus is the story, discography, CD reviews of the Brazilian and Latin American instrumental bands from 1960's and 1990's. Also features International groups like Ventures & Shadows. |
You can email editors Sergio & Manoel in Brazil: insnews@hotmail.com
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| LEGEND The Jerry Goldsmith Film Music Society magazine. |
Membership secretary 102 Hordean Road Emsworth, Hants. PO10 7TL UK |
| NEW ELEKI DYNAMICA Yuzou Sasaki's the instro man in Japan, NED's the mag (in Japanese). |
#250 3-13-29 Kotobuki-Chou Odawara City Kanagawa Japan |
| NEW GANDY DANCER Davy Peckett's long running instro mag was the forum through which Alan first made contact with Dave. Davy has a lot to answer for! |
87 Napier Road Swawell Newcastle on Tyne NE16 3BT UK |
| PIPELINE | The Rock Instrumental Review Magazine |
| PIPELINE Jim Nugent's son has built an alternative site. |
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| SHADSFAX Tony Hoffman's the busy lad with the bi-monthly Shads mag. |
40 Oak Tree Lane Haxby York YO3 8YL UK
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| SPOTNEWS Reino Andersson keeps the Spotnicks news flowing (in Swedish). |
Box 2174 S-433 02 Savedalen Sweden
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| SURF MUSIC USA Bob Dalley's the man with his finger on the reverb. |
1312 W 8780 S. West Jordan Utah 84088 USA
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| THUNDERBOLT The organ of the Joe Meek Appreciation Society (which also has a monthly newsletter). |
89 Hardy Crescent Wimbourne Dorset BH21 2HR UK |
UB HANK CLUB Pat Terrett runs this club for would-be Marvins. |
Cherry Tree Cottage Boverton Park Drive Boverton, Llantwit Major S. Glam. CF61 1YN UK |
| VENTURES RESURGENCE Gerry Woodage keeps the Ventures flag flying, with official merchandise from the band too! |
13 Limetree Close Grove Wantage OX12 0BJ UK |
| RECORD LABELS | |
| UK based - Alan and Dave have contributed to their compilations | |
| Double Crown Records, formerly Continental Records |
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| Founded by Paul Selier and Dennis Roos in May 1999. Its releases are 90% based on guitar instrumentals. | |
| For Surf, Indie and pop. | |
| The CD only label for surf and rock instrumental. | |
Thank them for 'New Depths'! |
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| U.S. Based label | |
| U.S. Based label | |
| The label for TV themes and John Barry. | |
| The homepage of the RI label in Holland. | |
| Free mp3 downloads too! | |
| Dutch record company and on-line shop | |
| Great Canadian site by Matt Innes. | |
| The CD and Video catalog is there - free downloads too! Great stuff from Jet, Alan and Tangent!! |
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| WEBZINES | |
| HangNine webzine | Great surf webzine. |
| The Lance Monthly | All genre, old and new rock information. |
| MuzikMan's Sound Script | Keith Hannaleck's on-line zine has good instro coverage. |
| Shakin' Fever | Belgium based webzine by Kjell Well worth a visit |
| EQUIPMENT | |
| BURNS GUITARS | Official UK Site |
| DANELECTRO GUITARS | Plenty of pictures |
| ECHOS FROM THE PAST | Echo unit suppliers to Hank Marvin. |
| ELEKI GUITARS | Japanese Republic of Eleki site |
| FENDER GUITARS | Cast your eyes over these! |
| GRETSCH GUITARS | You can submit questions to Duane Eddy via this site. |
| JERVIS ASSOCIATES LTD | Please take a look at their new Web Site offering hand crafted
acoustic steel string and classical guitars from the finest North American luthiery workshops. For around £4000 you can have the acoustic guitar of your dreams custom built to your most exacting specifications. |
| MAGITEC | For Echo units. |
| VINTAGE ECHO UNITS | Great shots of vintage echo units - NZ site |
| MORE VINTAGE ECHO UNITS | Echo-freaks, check out this awesome webpage |
| UB HANK | Check out the goodies you can order here. |
| VOX AMPLIFICATION | Current models, but also have a vintage amps section. |
| MASTERTONE AMPLIFIERS | Guitar amplifier modifications and power scaling modification. |
| SPECIALIST
MUSIC WEBSITE DESIGN |
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| A designer who talks the same language as you - music. |
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