Re: [bomp] How Surf died the second time around

[J Harris <jsounds_h@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- ItsBoss9@aol.com wrote:
Surf is alive and well thank you more than ever! Check
out NESMA if you would like to know more. There are
over 50 bands on the East coast making waves. Surf
will die when there are no more oceans. Jimmy 
> 
> sat through about 45 minutes of funky
> grilled-cheese-stink, ugly chicks
> with BO and hairy armpits, noodle-dancing douchebags
> and shitty
> doodly-doo-doo-doo guitar playing, 
> 
> Yeh, and... this is the same thing I experienced
> when I tried to give the 
> Mermen a chance.  That dope Phil Dirt has been
> bashing me on his radio show and 
> on line for years now because I don't like the
> Mermen.  Well, the above 
> description perfectly suits what the Mermen tried to
> pass off as Surf... and the 
> stupid Rock mags just ate it up.  Even the Weeklies
> in the big cities did big 
> stories on the Mermen, and fucked the real thing.  I
> think the whole Mermen hype, 
> and the ignorance of the Rock mags who chose them as
> the Poster Boys for Surf, 
> is what killed the Surf thing in the '90s.... that,
> as well as over-exposure 
> of all bands who formed after PULP FICTION. 
> Meanwhile, the good stuff like 
> the Untamed Youth and Jackie & the Cedrics, well,
> what Rock mag would write 
> about them?  I did a huge piece in Tower Records'
> PULSE! about the real stuff in 
> 1996, but was outnumbered by Rolling Stone and other
> publications who got it 
> way the fuck wrong.
> 
> Surf music is like the antidote to smelly hippie
> stuff.  That, the press 
> didn't understand.
> 
> Domenic Priore
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