Phil Dirt - Reverb Central
PO Box 7240, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-7240 USA
 Various Artists Fury-Mental [20 Hot Instrumentals] 
Label: Fury FCD 3051
This is a great collection of surf, surfabilly, and rockabilly instros, spanning quite a time span, all from the last decade. the artwork would lead you to believe it was all rockabilly twang bop, but there is a surprising amount of surf and surfable music here. A good buy, and it's pretty cheap to! Picks: Hot Boogie Chillun 'Dinosaur', Iain Terry 'Haunted Highway', Jeff Potter 'Rhythm Riot', Ray Condo and his Hardrock Goners 'Bronco Loco', The Atomic Spuds 'Roswell Crash', The Flames 'Gypsy Beat', The Muskrats 'Mooncrest', The Rapiers 'Green Jeans', The Razorbacks 'Fury', The Roadrunners 'Lockjaw', The Rough Diamonds 'Warpath', The Surfin' Gorillas 'The Surfin' Gorilla' |
THE SURFIN' GORILLAS "The Surfin' Gorilla" 
Hot Dick Dale-ish guitar and lots of glissandoes, plus a trumpet way in the back. Very cool. The gentle break adds deluxity to an already great track.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE AROUSERS "Friction" 
A sax dominated fifties instro squank.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
JEFF POTTER "Rhythm Riot" Chord progression rockabilly with a slow vibrato lead riff. Infectious and super simple.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE RAZORBACKS "Fury" 
Tom toms and whammy shimmer on the low-E, surfy twang and glissandoes. The tom toms suck you in. It is rhythmic and pristine.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE MUSKRATS "Mooncrest" Glissandoes and a basic surf progression. It's surfy, though pretty darn dry.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE ROUGH DIAMONDS "Warpath" Fifties whammy with that pre-surf feel and a grodie guitar.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
RAY CONDO AND HIS HARDROCK GONERS "Bronco Loco" This lies somewhere between John Barry, the Shadows, and surf lap steel. The fiddles are too cool!
Surf Instrumental Stereo
DARREL HIGHAM "Strollin' Guitar" A standard fifties slow guitar boogie instro.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE JACKALS "Mohawk Twist" Out of print for a millennium, it's a cool super simple grinder with mid-eighties surfisms.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE RAPIERS "Green Jeans" Atlantics twang on green slowness with added (?). Fast and inspired, with demented guitar echo. "Green Jeans" is a rockabilly translation of "Green Sleeves." Infectious twango.
Shadows Instrumental Stereo
BOP SHACK STOMPERS "Stampede" Raw basic fifties version. Thin sound.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE BLUE DEVILS "Stiletto" Basic progression and honky sax. A fifties number than has no direction.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
HOT BOOGIE CHILLUN "Dinosaur" Big slow grindy Link Wray cow bell cool fifties instro.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE ROADRUNNERS "Lockjaw" A cool upright bass and twangy lead guitar. Chicken bop chops, simple, and almost melody free. Chunky, quite fun, and intense.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
HAYWIRE "Rattlesnake" Link Wray with super simple melody free chunk.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE ATOMIC SPUDS "Roswell Crash" Whammy and twang and surprisingly cool cardboard drum sound. A very simple progression accented with whammy stingers.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE FLAMES "Gypsy Beat" Cool melody/progression and pregnant guitar tones. A mystic and haunting mid tempo instro.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
THE PLAYBOYS "Invitation To Death" Sax and fifties guitar, and way too much tape echo. Just an R&B jam.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
IAIN TERRY "Haunted Highway" Slow vibrato and stinging whammy create a haunted magic. Very nifty! It sports a simple melody, but has a certain magic.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK "Run Chicken Run" Chicken bop and chunka chunka rockabilly magic. Nice, but not remarkable.
Surf Instrumental Stereo
