? RED? ORIG 1964 ? THE CHALLENGERS ? "SURFBEAT" TEEN SCENE REVERB GUITAR GO-GO
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REVERB DRENCHED 1965 RARE SURF GARAGE ROCK ORIGINAL!
TEEN RAVE UPS!
THE CHALLENGERS
S U R F B E A T !
\ USA - VAULT RECORDS - LP 100 - STEREO
RARE...Original 1965 first pressing produced in translucent RED WAX on the California based "Vault" Records label, the FIRST Vault label release! Most copies IF found are black vinyl, here the limited true first print as issued on colored vinyl.
The classic surf music period begins about 1958 and ends about 1966 with the emergence of the San Francisco psychedelic incarnations of surf, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother... message bands. In general, the introduction of Marijuana and LSD into the culture was a beginning of the end of innocence...
The Challengers were a surf-garage band that started in late 1962. They were located in Los Angeles. They represented a growing love for surf music and helped make the genre popular. Their debut album "Surfbeat" was the biggest selling surf album of all time and helped bring surf music from California to the rest of the world. Surf Music's biggest album, in all senses of the word. Listen to a good quality recording. It rocks from start to finish, and never lets up. Surfbeat was one of the first three surf music albums, only Dick Dale's Surfer's Choice and the Beach Boys' Surfin' Safari were earlier. It set sales records for its day, especially considering that the surf music was still a regional phenomenon. The album lives up to its title because its virtually a compendium of the early surf sound and the southern California scene. The surf music scene was young and vibrant and there weren't that many surf tunes yet so everybody did each other's tunes with no problems. There wasn't any "this is my song", everybody did their take on Miserlou or Mr. Moto .Challengers' originals include the really rockin' Kamikaze and the blues crawl of Vampire.The band was formed out of the pioneer surf band called The Bel-Airs. The Bel-Airs were still in high school at the time, but scored a hit with an instrumental song titled "Mr. Moto." Their potential was cited by many, but it was an argument about use of the then new Fender reverb unit that led to their breakup. The Bel-Airs were originally formed by two guitarists, Eddie Bertrand and Paul Johnson, both 16 years old at the time they recorded "Mr. Moto". In early 1963, Eddie Bertrand heard Dick Dale using the Fender reverb unit and wanted to start incorporating heavy reverb into The Bel-Airs songs. He felt reverb was the sound that would come to define surf music. Even at 17, Johnson was something of an independent thinker and told Bertrand that The Bel-Airs had done quite well without reverb and he didn't see any reason at all to begin using it. The argument escalated until Bertrand finally left the band which then broke up for good shortly after. Challengers guitar driven group led to the creation of four more groups with members from The Challengers. The Surfriders, The Good Guys, The Clee-Shays and The De-Fenders all produced albums for these foreign markets. In addition The Challengers produced some tracks for the car & hot rod music scene that was gaining popularity in the mid 60's USA on the heels of the surf craze.
Bulldog
Kami-Kaze
Let's Go Trippin'
Ramrod
Mr. Moto
Red River Rock
Miserlou
Latin'ia
Surfin' Safari
Movin' & Groovin'
Vampire
Torquay
CONDITION: The Cover: solid all over, front cover: M- CLEAN, fantastic for a 57 year old California surf-rock artifact ... back cover clean with some chipping at top paste-on slick (see photo #2) ... otherwise solid everywhere, flat, straight, square, 4 sharp corners ... no seam splits, no writing ...looks collectible
The Vinyl: pressed on brilliant transparent RUBY-RED-VINYL all glossy over both sides, VG+(+) grade as such for a couple of visual needle drags, but otherwise pretty clean, no doubt a great play copy, excellent enjoyable audio with no affect on the go-go music presented! ... obviously rare and very collectible
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
NOTE: All Items backed by money back guarantee! IF you have a problem PLEASE let us solve for you BEFORE leaving ANY negative feedback. Thanks! GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, no marks EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, clean VG+ a bit more scuff or markls still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
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